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The OP asked about efficiency values in Grainfather, then people started comparing to efficiency values in other platforms they were more familiar with, such as brewfather Well, they have to choose something for the efficiency value. Presumably they are picking some sort of common or average...

back around the start of the century we used to have a saying that the windows version was the bug count. Win 3 & NT 4, pretty good Win 95 & 98, a bit more unstable but not too bad Windows 2000. Uhoh. Millenium Edition. Nuke the drive from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. (and to be fair, it...

We still use imperial in quite a few cases. distances are in miles, height is most usually measured in feet and inches, weight is mostly kilos but you still see pounds/ounces sometimes (plus stones which I think never made it to the US?). Beer was forced into metric in cans/bottles but poured in...

where do you think the US got the imperial measurement system from lol.

never mind. I did a sanity check and went and actually measured the headspace in my bottles, and I guess it is about 2.5 inches after all. I'm just not used to working in inches I guess and can't visualise that properly.

I was confused why people were saying the amount left by removing the bottling wand was too much, because for me that really doesn't leave very much.. but then Whoah, the amount of space I leave by filling to the top and removing the wand is WAY less than 2.5 inches. Just over an inch I would...

I too bought a cheap chinese pH meter, knew I should probably calibrate it but assumed it would be close out of the box and I'd save the calibration solutions to do it 'later'. had massive pH problems with my first grain brew, got crazy numbers all over the place, tried to correct, thought it...

I'm fairly sure the grain basket is the same between the gen 4 and gen 4.1? if so then I say dump the bag, I don't use one with my 4.1 and I had no problems with grain escaping the basket, even with a very fine mill, even when I'm pressing doughballs against the side/bottom of the basket to...

Would be interested to hear about your experiences with getting the necessary licenses and permits, getting the hygiene rating etc etc and all that. Not because I plan on doing it, I only produce for myself and my friends and don't sell, but I'm curious to hear the experience of someone who...

I did my first grain brew just yesterday on my brand new Brewzilla 35. Brewfather, when I selected brewzilla as the equipment profile, set the efficiency to 78%, and expected me to get 24L of post-boil wort @ 1.046. I actually got 23L @ 1.054. In order for brewfather to show 1.054 SG, I have to...

You're kind to say so, because it seems I was mislead and the opinion is very much one-sided in this case, and google is wrong. I hate misinformation and I hate it even more when it makes me look stupid.

Having re-checked my sources on this (as I said, I hadn't cold crashed myself because this is what I had read, so I have no personal experience) I now see opinions on this is very divided. When I researched it originally I ended up at an article that absolutely said do not do this. And...

Which it does by dropping all the particles out of the beer, which includes the yeast. And what little yeast does remain in suspension is chilled so low that it will deactivate. Bottle conditioning works by the yeast remaining in the beer consuming the bottling sugar. if you remove/deactivate...

Oof! Sorry to hear, that sucks.

I thought cold-crashing was a no-no if you were bottling with sugar, anyway? I'm a newbie here but I've not cold-crashed any of my beers specifically for that reason.

I'm in the exact same place as you, about to start my first grain brew after learning with extract, but I've done a lot of studying so I think I can answer Correct, that's normal. Extract brewing needs an extra amount of fermentables on top of the main extract. Some grain recipes will call for...

Working on the label for my next brew, maybe getting ahead of myself, but I was pun-inspired. It's a Cali Common made from an Anchor Steam clone recipe but with UK substitutions of the grain I'm sure I'll tweak it more in the upcoming weeks but I know you guys love a good beer pun so thought...

Interesting chart on page 21 of the fermentation rate of fresh vs aged 34/70 - the graph isn't 0-indexed (one of my pet peeves, and they only do it on this one slide for some reason which makes it worse), so the change isn't as high as the chart visual would make you think, but it's still pretty...

I'm so jealous. here in the UK we have good mains water compared to many countries, but where I am in the center of London, TDS is high, about 400. I'd kill for 29, let alone 8! my Ca alone is 100.

brewday for my first grain brew is this sunday. I'm very excited :) Will be trying to make a California common, as I've posted about in another thread so I'm sure you're sick of hearing about it :D