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The What is an IBU really? brewcast with John Palmer Brew Your Own: The How-To Homebrew Beer Magazine - BrewCast has been mentioned numerous times on this board. The message that seems to be taken away from the brewcast is that the quantity of IBUs in the final beer is not related to the...

1.049 is the pre-boil gravity at 6 gallons after the boil down to 5 gallons this will give you a pre-fermentation gravity at 1.059 1.049 = 49 points per gallon * 6 gallons = 294 points 294 points in 5 gallons = ~59 points per gallon = 1.059

Addendum, Of course this is assuming adding the extract from the beginning of the boil. If you are doing late extract additions (as many here would recommend), your hop utilization would be better and you'd have to recalculate.

I'm guessing this is already set up for doing full boils. If I plug your grains/extract/13% AA Galena/4.5% AA Tettnang into beersmith and set your boil volume to 6 gallons (5 gallon final volume), I get 56.1 IBUs which is within the 40-65 IBU range for American IPA. If I plug your grains and...

Absent your process details we're really just guessing, but that's probably the only reason I'm comfortable offering an opinion. Are you doing a mashout or starting the 1st runnings in the boil pot soon after collection? If the wort is sitting at 140-150 F for an extended period (e.g., while...

If you don't want to make a starter, you want the activator smack pack not the propagator smack pack. The activator packs (in the kit Pivzavod linked to) are supposed to have ~100 billion cells and are intended to be used directly on 5 gallon batches with an OG under ~1.050 (your mileage and...