Beersmith - Scale DOWN

[ontum]

Hello,

I just purchased Beersmith and I am trying to figure out how to scale DOWN a recipe from a microbrew recipe. I've found several topics of scaling UP to a microbrew recipe, but not in reverse.

From what I gather, to scale in Beersmith you enter a recipe under a certain equipment profile and then change that equipment to fit your system and the recipe scales.

How do I enter a recipe from a microbrewery without knowing their equipment?


Here is the recipe I am trying to scale from Widmir, here in Portland. It is the KGB W11' Russian Imperial Stout. I made this 7 months ago and love it, but my efficiency was way down and I didn't have beersmith.

Batch Size: 8.0 Bbl

MALT BILL:
Pale Malt: 750 lbs.
Caramel 60L: 100 lbs.
Chocolate Malt: 50 lbs.
Roast Malt: 60 lbs.
Midnight Wheat: 20 lbs.

HOPS:
Alchemy: 3.0 lbs. - 90 minutes (15.4% alpha)
Willamette: 2.0 lbs. - 0 minutes (5.5%)
T-45 Cascade: 2.0 lbs. - 0 minutes (10.0%)
Zeus: 1.0 lbs. - 0 minutes (14.2%)

ADDITIVES:
Mash Salts: .125 lbs. CaSO4
Kettle Salts: .125 lbs. CaCl2
Irish Moss: .16 lbs

TARGET PARAMETERS:
Mash-In: 131-133 F
Rest Time: 15 minutes
Conversion Temp: 152-153 F
Rest Time: 30 minutes
Kettle Full Plato: 21.0 P

Fermentation Temp: 66 F
Original Gravity: 21.5 P
Terminal Gravity: 5.0 P
Bitterness Target: 65 IBUs
ABV Target: 9.3%

Yeast: American Ale 1056
Pitching Rate: 21 Million/ml

 

[iaefebs]

You just need to know your system. Start a new recipe, enter the amounts of the recipe you have. Then at the top toolbar select adjust gravity, and change it to 1.088 or whatever you think it should be. Then adjust bitterness to 65 IBU

 

[geoffm33]

You just need to know your system. Start a new recipe, enter the amounts of the recipe you have. Then at the top toolbar select adjust gravity, and change it to 1.088 or whatever you think it should be. Then adjust bitterness to 65 IBU

Wow, never thought of it that way. Good tip.

 

[geoffm33]

You just need to know your system. Start a new recipe, enter the amounts of the recipe you have. Then at the top toolbar select adjust gravity, and change it to 1.088 or whatever you think it should be. Then adjust bitterness to 65 IBU

I thought this deserved a little more love, so I made a post about how to scale in Beersmith using the iaefebs method:

Scaling a Published Recipe in Beersmith - The Easy Way

 

[ontum]

Wow. That sounds like a perfectly simply solution. I can not wait to attempt this and brew it this weekend. Thank you very much for the insightful advice.