North American Clone Brews by Scott Russell

[Tobor_8thMan]

Anyone know the brewhouse efficiency for the all grain recipes in the book?

Thanks.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

Try 75%.

Publishers tend to be consistent with recipes and one of my older (1995) Storey Publishing books mentions 27 "gravity points" from a pound of base malt.

As a double check, I was able to preview portions of the book. The Alaskan Amber recipe is 5 gal, OG 54 with 3.5 lbs DME and 4.25 lbs base malt:

So, assuming no typos and no math errors, 75% is a good starting.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

OK. Great. I was thinking after I posted "maybe 70% or 75%. I guess I can play around with the recipe."

Thanks!

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Monday evening I use 75% when entering one of the recipes into BeerSmith. Everything matches the recipe. It's then easy to scale to my equipment.

Thanks as 75% worked perfect.