Beersmith 2

[GeorgiaMead]

Am trying to use beer smith but it doesn't seem to be useful for 1 gallon batches of BIAB.... What am i doing wrong or is just not that advanced?

 

[enkamania]

How big is your pot? I'll see if I can scale down my profile to see if it works for you.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I use it for one gallon biab batches all the time. What are you having problems with?

 

[Oginme]

You need to customize the equipment set-up and brewing steps to match your system and methods to get the best results from BeerSmith. It is a commonly underestimated part of getting the program to work correctly for the way you brew.

 

[aiptasia]

^ This. Go over to the beersmith site and search for equipment profile. There are several articles and examples on how to set up a custom profile. Once you have that set up, the rest should fall into place.

 

[GeorgiaMead]

Ok I have a 12qt pot, maybe I'm just confused on the size of the grain bill it's saying like 8lbs is that right? I thought 1 gallon batches require 2-4 lbs... I was lookin at a blue moon clone to help get my woman interested in brewing...

 

[Oginme]

It might help to post your recipe and basic equipment/process steps for us and we can give some more specific advice.

 

[enkamania]

I found this recipe on the interwebs http://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/blue-moon-clone-of-a-clone-1-gall.

For the equipment profile, play with boil off rates and fermenter loss. Once you think you have it, you can use the Calculate Boil volume automatically.