Hello fellow brewers. I just made a beer that used about 9 ounces of hops in the boil, all late addition hops, and I am wondering what everyone does to account for beer loss. It seems that the logical thing to do is add more water to account for that. I use Beersmith and I didn't even think about it until I looked at my carboy today (fermentation is over and everything has pretty much settled out). Is there a way you can adjust a setting on Beersmith to account for the hops so you still end up with 5 gal. in the keg after fermentation or do you just have to add more water and play around with the amounts?
Large Hop additions and beer loss
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Ramitt
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Not just water, batch size.
(I'm a squeezer 
heckels
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I don't know about Beersmith but the iBrewMaster app has a setting to account for trub. I'd think Beersmith would have something similar.
kingwood-kid
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Squeezing the crap out of the hop bag helps, but when I weighed it out, I still lost 6oz wort to every oz hops. If you have the kettle capacity to make an extra fraction of a gallon, you can do that. Given that hoppy beers are usually better fresh, a slightly smaller batch size may not be such a curse.
