i ordered a recipe kit for a La Chouffe clone and just got it today. i began entering it in Beersmith and the OG numbers are way off. here's the ingredients:
GRAIN
8lb belgian pale ale malt
.5lb crystal 20L malt
.5lb flaked barley
.25lb aromatic malt
SUGARS
2lb honey
1lb clear candi sugar
HOPS
1.5oz styrian golding @ 60min
1oz hallertau @ 15min
2g seeds of paradise + .25oz coriander @ 5min
and i'll be using some WLP550 that i washed from my last batch.
so, the recipe notes that the OG should be 1.082. after entering the recipe into beersmith, it says that my OG will be 1.068. i have triple checked to make sure i entered everything into beersmith and the only thing i've come up with is that there is no "belgian pale ale malt" in the software; i assumed this was belgian pale malt (2 row). the only other thing i noticed is that i have my "brewhouse efficiency" set at 75%, which is what i was told the recipe is designed around. when i change it to 100%, i get the 1.082OG. am i really supposed to get 100% brewhouse efficiency, or is there something else wrong here?
i'm pretty sure that the last time i entered a recipe with brewhouse efficieny set at 75%, the numbers matched up perfectly.
GRAIN
8lb belgian pale ale malt
.5lb crystal 20L malt
.5lb flaked barley
.25lb aromatic malt
SUGARS
2lb honey
1lb clear candi sugar
HOPS
1.5oz styrian golding @ 60min
1oz hallertau @ 15min
2g seeds of paradise + .25oz coriander @ 5min
and i'll be using some WLP550 that i washed from my last batch.
so, the recipe notes that the OG should be 1.082. after entering the recipe into beersmith, it says that my OG will be 1.068. i have triple checked to make sure i entered everything into beersmith and the only thing i've come up with is that there is no "belgian pale ale malt" in the software; i assumed this was belgian pale malt (2 row). the only other thing i noticed is that i have my "brewhouse efficiency" set at 75%, which is what i was told the recipe is designed around. when i change it to 100%, i get the 1.082OG. am i really supposed to get 100% brewhouse efficiency, or is there something else wrong here?
i'm pretty sure that the last time i entered a recipe with brewhouse efficieny set at 75%, the numbers matched up perfectly.