bobeer
Fermentation Specalist
Hey all. I was wondering if there is a "rule of thumb" for making an imperial version from a regular beer? I'm using the brewers friend calculator to help but I'm having trouble with the ratios. Any thoughts?
I don't know how Brewer's Friend works, but if I were pumping up the ABV of a recipe in BeerSmith, I would just do a normal scaling of the recipe up to about a 7-9 gallon batch of the original recipe to keep all of the ratios the same, then just change the batch size variable downward until I hit the ABV I was looking for. Might take a bit of fiddling, but it'd be pretty simple, and would keep everything in the same balance as the original recipe, just with more malt to contribute to ABV.
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