Grain % to lbs/oz conversion in beersmith

[iparks81]

Ive got a recipe For a Nut Brown by My home town Brewery (Kenai River Brewing company) in Alaska when I was back visiting last week. What a Beer!
Beeing that the Brewmaster has never had any reason to scale down his recipes to 5 gal batches he gave me a list of Percentages of grain.
My qestion is. Using Beersmith, is there any way to punch in % data and have it convert it to lbs/oz for a 5 gal batch?
any help would be apreciated!

 

[Hammy71]

I end up changing the weights til the percentages come up where I want them. Would be nice if Beersmith would do it for ya though. .....

 

[Revvy]

One way to do it is to start with a 10 # grainbill in your head. If the base malt is x percent (let's say 55%), then your first grain would be 5.5# whatever base malt you are using. Then start filling in the rest of the grain bill in similar fashion in beersmith.

Hopefully they gave you the original gravity and the IBUs. So if the OG of YOUR beersmith recipe is to low, then start raising the grain bill in the same proportions until you hit it. If it's too high, then scale back the grain bill.

Then start playing with the hops til you match the ibus.

I don't have my beersmith with me, or else I could give you more detail, I think there's a way when you have figured your grainbill out in percentages like I said, to then have it automatically recalculate according to your intended OG. I remember doing it once and it was quite cool. Just like the scaling feature for batch size.

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

Yeah, like Hammy I just enter my entire grain bill first starting with your typical weights then start adjust from there. Shouldn't take but a few clicks.