Recent content by whenithitsyourlips

I've stopped mashing out with 001 and have noticed better attenuation. 1.008 is standard fg for most of my pale ales/IPAs now.

I've found that the "Trub Loss" in Beersmith caused the same issue with me. After the boil I would normally have about a gallon of trub that didn't make it into the carboy. I assumed this was the volume I was supposed to put in Beersmith to account for this loss. After accounting for a 1...

Agreed. To me this is a more relevant efficiency number to have. If you are basing your grain bill off of Beersmith's definition of "Brew House Efficiency", I feel like there are too many fluctuating variables for that to be a consistent value from brew to brew. It's almost like the only way...

Thanks for the input. I basically have started doing what you mentioned... Fly Sparging with a "0" value for trub loss and increased batch size. This seems to give me accurate preboil/OG numbers, which really is what I need from the software.

Hey guys, new user here. I actually posted this over at Beersmith but I though I would also post here to, since homebrewtalk is my go-to forum. I noticed that maybe some of the other threads reference this, but as I feel somewhat strongly about it I will not hesitate to re-post and bring...