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Raising or lowering the "Lost to Boil Trub and Chiller" does not effect the Gravity Estimate number, but increasing the Batch Size does. Since you are in effect throwing out potential beer, loosing wort to "Boil Trub and Chiller" should effect efficiency, but also change the estimated gravity. The loss is the same as making a larger Batch Size and tossing some.
Some of it is break and hop material that wouldn’t effect gravity, but a lot of it is fermentable wort. Brewers who pour everything from their boil into the fermenter could set the number low, but if you are trying to leave most of this material behind Beersmiths calculations are effected.
What settings are you using to compensate for the loss? My thought is to set the loss number low, but increase the batch size and not expect to get that volume.
Some of it is break and hop material that wouldn’t effect gravity, but a lot of it is fermentable wort. Brewers who pour everything from their boil into the fermenter could set the number low, but if you are trying to leave most of this material behind Beersmiths calculations are effected.
What settings are you using to compensate for the loss? My thought is to set the loss number low, but increase the batch size and not expect to get that volume.