relatively new to brewing and still doing extract (mostly with local kits w/ specialty grain steep prior to boil). I've got Beersmith 2, and have read thru most of the pages on this thread to find more details about extract brewing this beer. obviously the consensus is to use the prescribed yeast and hops, so that's in the works (I can source both hops and the yeast locally).
I put the original recipe in beersmith and it gave me different numbers than what was listed on the first post (OG, IBU, color mainly). but since I don't do all-grain yet, I may have put in the figures wrong. I used the conversion part of BS2 but since I was off on the original numbers I tossed that recipe out.
so next I put in the extract information provided in the first post, but again, the numbers seemed different between Beersmith and the info posted. OG about the same (1.051), but IBU was around 14 and color was about 7.5.
so now onto my question *(you did know there would be questions, right??):
1) in beersmith, I "made" a recipe with DME instead of LME (@80% weight). that got me in the ballpark. then I had it adjust the values for a 5 gallon batch as I would keg it, and my kegs are 5 gallons. so now i'm at about 5.5lbs of wheat DME and 7 oz of extra light DME. That gets me (with 5 gallons) to 1.051, 13IBU and 6SRM. pretty close. But that's also dropping the hops down to .16oz per instead of .25 per addition. normally I would leave the hops at .25oz as I really like hoppy beers, but I would like to keep it as "originally" designed at least for the first batch. This will be my 5th batch of beer, so sorry for the long winded post.
so is my fuzzy logic sound (converting from LME to DME and 6 to 5 gallon batch) or have I missed something? according to Beersmith, it should be right there, but maybe I've missed something here or there? I know it doesn't take into account the lime zest and the 1.75l added after the first wave of yeast explosion. lol.
other than that, I'll probably use the raspberry/lemonade (picked up 1.75l tonight) as I really like rasberry (even thought most say it's not nearly as pronounced as the lime flavor).