metanoia
Well-Known Member
This question mostly pertains to using different calculation tools, but also because I'm into keeping really detailed notes to help improve my beers down the road.
So when do you guys typically measure what your "batch size" is? Post-boil in the kettle? What's poured into the fermenter (if straining this reduces from the post-boil volume)? What you rack to secondary/bottling bucket?
I've noticed that there's often quite a bit of trub loss from one brewing stage to the next. So for example, if I'm calculating IBUs and there is 5.5 gallons in the brew kettle, 5.0 gallons after straining into fermenter, and 4.75 gallons in the bottling bucket, which measurement do you use?
So when do you guys typically measure what your "batch size" is? Post-boil in the kettle? What's poured into the fermenter (if straining this reduces from the post-boil volume)? What you rack to secondary/bottling bucket?
I've noticed that there's often quite a bit of trub loss from one brewing stage to the next. So for example, if I'm calculating IBUs and there is 5.5 gallons in the brew kettle, 5.0 gallons after straining into fermenter, and 4.75 gallons in the bottling bucket, which measurement do you use?