Beersmith and Honey

[zoxygen]

In Beersmith under "Dry Yield Fine Grain" for honey it says 75%.

From what I understand dry yield fine grain input is the percentage of how fermentable an ingredient is. Which makes sense because table sugar is 100%.

Under Honey, dry yield fine grain is 75% but from what I understand Honey is about 95% fermentable.

What say you?

 

[weirdboy]

I say it depends on the honey.


For what it's worth, I used 75% in a batch of mead and it was pretty much dead on for OG.

 

[Beezer94]

It appears to be saying that it's 25% water, so by weight 75% of it is fermentables. So the sugar content is near 100% fermentable, but we all know that unfortunately water isn't fermentable :-(

 

[zoxygen]

Alright, seems like the problem I was trying to solve comes from Beersmiths calculations.

Apparently if you make a recipe with 100% table sugar and put in a yeast it will only ferment to the yeasts attenuation level not 100%