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Granulated sugar is supposed to be 200g per cup, so 0.5 cups ~= 0.220462 lbs (~3.5274 ounces) Added to 1 gallon of water, you should have a solution of ~1.01006. Note the two approximations 1) You're measuring by volume, which will vary depending on packing the cup, and how fine the...

Technically, the SG is the density ratio of 1 Gallon of the resultant solution when you add 1 lb of the ingredient to a volume of water slightly less than 1 gallon. To 1 gallon of water. The ingredient is going to increase the volume of the solution, and potentially absorb some of it, as...

All the citra!

Looks like you have a few choices, there's the PALE group in plainfield, and JBG in juliet, and there's one in lisle, some in naperville, and aurora. For a full AHA registered list, https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/community/clubs/find-a-homebrew-club/.

Welcome. I lived in hydepark last year. Not sure how far SW you are, but there's a number of clubs in the area that you might be interested in joining. I know the guys at CHBG (chicago homebrew group), and CHAOS (near west loop IIRC) are pretty awesome. There's a few more that are more south...

Mash and sparge techniques have nothing to do with the bag. You can sparge and mash as thin or thick as you would like, the bag isn't going to go "oh man IDK if you can do that, I only work if you don't sparge." You can, for example, do a rest at 130F, then direct fire up to 148 (stir and...

Only thing I disagree with @Oginme is that boil off is cold. You can check that yourself easily. Set boil off to zero, then set it to 1 gallon. Your total water needed increases by exactly 1 gallon. If you want variable automated thermal expansion coefficients, you'll need to switch software...

My long term plan is to do this as well once I get a house, and put it in the kitchen in a blind corner base cabinet. Mini fridge in the corner, with a fan to dissipate heat, a drip tray, and taps in the wall above it.

Just to complicate things further, beersmith does use room temp calculations to determine the total necessary water, and boil off rate I believe is a cold volume as well. The only things adjusted to temperature is wort volume/gravity @ mash, preboil, and postboil, (but lauter tun, and kettle...

When using that trick, use batch size and OG. You could also use preboil volume and preboil gravity, but you will then need to adjust for the thermal expansion coefficient and you will lose some accuracy due to that adjustment. The fact that we're on page 15 is a testament on how much...

Alternatively, set the heat capacity of the mashtun to zero in the equipment editor. As far as separate software calculations go, I would suggest my own pricelessbrewing.github.io/BiabCalc

Unfortunately, tagging people isn't working right now. (Unless it got fixed recently) If your having issues hitting final gravity, it's likely not due to old grains. I wouldn't trust the glass thermometer. If you don't have a high quality thermometer to double check the mash temp, that would...

This looks pretty awesome, especially with the 30% off. Couple questions, is this 120v or 240v? (US) I see multiple references for 110, 120, 220, and 240, and the pic looks like a 120v. This can be used for hands off fermentation temp schedules as well, which is really cool!

Trub loss will vary with recipe, as it's tied to the protein content of the grain, how much grain there is, how big the wort volume was (more wort = longer heating time), and how much hops you used. Beersmith ignores this, and treats it as a constant. Other than that, the rest are pretty...

Since beersmith does not account for hop absorption or displacement, you only need to know the aa and weight.

Agreed with above. Take the mashout volume out of the sparge volume. Mashouts are not necessary unless you're fly sparging

I'm so glad to see so many people using my calculator online and recommending it to new brewers! You can always message or email me if you have any issues, comments, or suggestions on my software.

Sorry, I missed where you said you hit postboil volume. In general: If you preboil is higher than predicted, and your postboil is lower than predicted, then the only two possibilities are kettle losses (boil/trub/loss) are higher than expected, or one of your measurements are wrong. If you...

Then you boiled off more, or left more trub/volume in the kettle than you input into the software

Sparging well will always increase lauter efficiency (and therefore mash/brewhouse, assuming conversion efficiency is unaffected). My predictions of 16.5 gallons, and sparging with 1.5 gallons, you would've gained ~5-6% mash efficiency.