Recent content by JonnyO

I haven't worked with a lot of softwares. I recently put Brew Mate on my PC and I've played with Beercalculus as well. A curious thing I noticed with Beercalculus is the big differences in calculated IBU's depending on the hop fourmula used (the two formula's I compared were Tenseth and...

Ah, now I'm starting to get it. By adding half of the extract late, you keep the gravity down and the hops can do their thing. Thanks for clearing that up!!!

But the hop schedule is for a 2 gal boil, right? I know that's what the recipe says, I just want to make sure. I'm excited about this beer and want to make sure I've got it right. Thanks.

So I answered my own question regarding the Beercalculus software. I didn't have the settings on the same IBU formula. It was on Tinseth instead of Rager. Interesting that the final IBU's for the recipe (for a 2.5 gal boil) was 20.9 with the Rager formula and about 9.7 with the Tinseth...

I'm an extract brewer at this point and spend a good bit of time looking for my "next" recipes. I've also been playing around with a couple of softwares. I don't have BeerSmith which seems to be everyone's favorite, but I've been looking at Beer Mate and Beercalculus. I've noticed the...

Yooper, I'm an extract brewer at this time and really appreciate the fact that you always add an extract alternative to your recipes. I've been doing some research about hop utilization and the idea that you get less attenuation in a more concentrated 2.5 gal. boil than in a full boil. I...

I'm planning on brewing this one up as my next beer. My LHBS only sells the 3.3 lb cans of extract so I was doing a little tinkering on Beercalculus to make sure things wouldn't get too out of whack if I used 6.6 lbs of LME instead of just 6. Looks fine, just a little more ABV, but while I was...

Great link, man. I didn't read the whole thread, but along with the ALC%, and volume, it would be cool to be able to specify a "bottled on" date. Just and idea. As for labels, you've probably gotten a lot of feedback, but I print one sheet of labels with a laser jet, then make photocopies...

I'm planning some future beers and don't currently use a secondary. So I was doing some research on past theads concerning dry hopping in a primary. A couple of interesting topics came up in those threads and I'd like to see some discussion on them: 1. While it seems like dry hopping in a...

Thanks. I put the recipe into Beercalculus (pretty cool site, by the way), and it seems like the extra LME won't change things very much (as everyone already said). The calculations did raise a question for me, however. There's a spot in the worksheet to edit the boil size (batch size set at...

True on all counts. I really do appreciate all the advice

Thanks everyone

A little too much IT info. Funny that it all started over an extra 0.6 lb of extract that would probably be fine if I just added it in.

Brewmate that is

Sorry, just figured out brewpal isn't an app