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• Posted in thread: Can someone familiar with Beersmith help me setup my equipment or link me to a guide? on 08-29-2012 at 03:51 AM
  There is a guide that states you can switch to using trub loss in 2.0, but nothing has changed
  as far as I can tell, and a lot of hard core users still recommend against using trub loss in
  BeerSmith. ...

• Posted in thread: Can someone familiar with Beersmith help me setup my equipment or link me to a guide? on 08-29-2012 at 02:18 AM
  If you want to make your life easier, leave trub losses at 0. Some even advocate leaving lauter
  dead space at 0. There is a major design flaw in BeerSmith in that is uses 'to the fermenter'
  efficiency...

• Posted in thread: Are these fermenters suitable for beer? on 08-28-2012 at 08:27 PM
  If you are doing 10 gallon batches, I'd say you at least want a 12 gallon vessel for krausen
  and foam.I thought I linked to the 12 gallon one, my bad.

• Posted in thread: Are these fermenters suitable for beer? on 08-28-2012 at 08:20 PM
  upgraded to 10 gallon batches, so if not what are some better options?

• Posted in thread: I'm moving on to fly sparging and need some clarification on 08-28-2012 at 06:02 PM
  You're going to heat your strike water and dough in like normal. let that recirculate if you
  want for the length of your mash. Once you hit your mash length, you set the flow of the sparge
  to be the s...

• Posted in thread: I'm moving on to fly sparging and need some clarification on 08-28-2012 at 05:50 PM
  I'm using this calculator for the sake of example: I will heat up all of my strike water.
  Then I put the mash water volume amount in my mash tun with my grain. I then drain off and
  recirculate until...

• Posted in thread: Will these totes hold 55 lbs of grain each? on 08-27-2012 at 08:12 AM
  

• Posted in thread: I'm trying to create my inventory in Beersmith and need help adding grains on 08-27-2012 at 05:47 AM
  Please tell me if this looks like I input it properly.

• Posted in thread: I'm trying to create my inventory in Beersmith and need help adding grains on 08-26-2012 at 09:45 PM
  The British Institute of Brewing (IOB) and the European Brewing Convention (EBC) use different
  methods for quantifying the color of beer and malt. ASBC is the Ameican standard.To find the
  potential an...

• Posted in thread: Northern Brewer on 08-26-2012 at 06:16 PM
  Maybe I missed this on here, but NB has raised their prices and got rid of flat-rate shipping.
  From their site: "So we’ve decided to simplify things. By separating out the shipping charges
  we’ve been ...