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Newbibrewbi

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I’ve got a recipe where the hops are written out as grams alpha acid per hl and I need to convert it to IBUs for beersmith.
Does anyone have a formula for this?

Recipe says:
Boil 70 mins
Hercules 7,5g aa /hl at boil start
Saaz 0,8 g after 60 mins.

I interpret this as 0,8 g aa/hl for the saaz as well but how much should I put?

Any ideas on how this math maths is welcome.
 
I'd get the AA content by taking the AA percentage of the hops and multiplying it by the weight.

So if the Hercules was 10%AA, 100g would be 10g of AA.

Use the actual AA of your hops and figure out how much to use in a hl. Then scale from 1hl to your batch size.
 

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