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First, stop doing secondary unless you have a really good reason. A really good reason would be if you are adding a lot of fruit or plan on leaving the beer in the fermenter longer than 3 to 4 weeks. You run more of a risk in oxidation or contamination than any benefit you get from...

I have the 6.5 gal unit and my the bag I used for my kettle was pretty close to the same size as the pipe for depth. A little wider than the malt pipe, but it fits pretty well. One of the issues with the early machines is that the distribution plate which sits on top was cut straight out of a...

I have both a brew bag and Wilser bag. Both work very well. I have a first heneration Anvil and the top plate fits really tight, so my preferred bag is the Wilser made bag whish does not have the support ribs.

Which is a decrease in extraction...

You need to change the efficiency yourself. Unless you have sound data, you can do what IslandLizard suggested above or just brew it and input your numbers into BeerSmith to get your actual efficiency to update your profiles for next time. Much depends upon your system and how you operate it...

Open up your recipe. Go to the 'mash' tab. Click on the check mark icon next to your mash profile. Click on the box next to 'BIAB mash with full boil'. Click on 'OK' and you are now doing a full volume BIAB. If you need to top off water to get the volume of the grains and water to fit into...

The book you don't want to find on your parent's bookshelf...

^^ This ^^ Measured fields are for user notes. They mean nothing before you brew and you can zero them out, or reset them to match the expected results. Once you brew the recipe and fill out the fields, the program will calculate your actual efficiency versus the estimated efficiency in your...

The way Brad has always operated with BeerSmith since the beginning is that if you buy BS2, any updates in the BS2 series are free. Mostly because they were bug fixes, but often there were additional features added. There is no more support being offered for the BS2 series since he has moved...

I am doing full volume BIAB. Adding in all my water in the mash and my mash thckness is usually around 7 to 7.5 l/kg (3.35 to 3.7 qts/lb).

If you have the calendar options to show all recipes it will show recipes regardless of which folder they are in. If you limit the calendar to show only those recipes in the brew log, then only those recipes will be shown. See my first response in this thread.

If you highlight the recipe and then in the ribbon bar click on 'copy to log', BeerSmith will set up the Brew log folder for you. It will then appear on your folder list. BeerSmith does not actually know if you have brewed a recipe or not. One of the reasons for using the Brew Log option is...

Go to 'Options' > 'Brewing' > Calendar options. You can select the parameters which you want the recipes to appear on the calendar. By default, all recipes will appear, but you can set it to show only those in the brew log folder and I would also recommend setting it so that only recipes with...

IMHO, the place to focus on is your fermentation. It is easy to make wort, harder to make sure the yeast behave properly to give you the quality beer the wort will deliver. I have had a number of excellent extract beers and the one thing they all had in common was brewers who managed the...

The isomerization efficiency of hop alpha acids are affected by the length of time in the boil, the boil vigor, and the gravity of the wort. If you do a partial boil and then water it down in the fermenter, you reduce the amount of hop oils which get isomerized thus lowering the IBU. One...

Yes, you can add the extract in two separate additions and then mark one for 'late boil addition' and put in the number of minutes before the end of the boil you want it to be added.

Yes, Tinseth is the most widely used model, probably followed by Rager. In the end all the models are good for the system they were developed on and better than a guess for your system. I use the IBU numbers for benchmarking only and relate that to my perception of bitterness. My last beer...

First, I would recommend doing a trial of BS3, being as it is the latest and does offer some more support for building your equipment profile. There is an equipment wizard which will walk you through the steps of making a profile which takes some of the guesswork out. The equipment profile...

I can only speak for the calculations in BeerSmith. There is an error related to the thermal expansion of water (shrinkage factor) which has yet to be addressed. This error will cause the mash efficiency to be off by exactly the value of the shrinkage factor. The program calculations for brew...

Yeah, it was a quickie! He was happy, the doe was happy, the owner was happy. No marriage, no 'a will call you in the morning' bits. I am in the middle of no where in NH. I tell people that if they find my town on the map, they have wasted too much of their lives looking.