Sorghum LME and water profiles

[traetox]

I am having a hell of a time dialing in a water profile for GF extract brewing. I typically brew with sorghum LME and a small amount of home roasted grain to add flavor and/or head retention. Basically only ever add oats, unmalted buckwheat, and maybe unmalted roasted millet with the typical high powered enzymes. I also almost exclusively brew with RO or distilled water, so its always a blank slate.

None of of the calculators I have found seem to know what to do with Sorghum LME, does anyone have this dialed in?

I would greatly appreciate any water salt amounts that anyone has had sucess with on sorghum for:

Juicy hazy
West coast IPA
Belgian Whit

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

None of of the calculators I have found seem to know what to do with Sorghum LME, does anyone have this dialed in?

Morebeer's webpage for Sorghum LME say it is a 100% replacement for regular LME, so I think you should just lie to your recipe software that you are using regular LME.

 

[BrewnWKopperKat]

a water profile for GF extract brewing

Generalized water profiles probably do not exist - as there is noticeable variation in mineral content between some of the product brands (Briess, Muntons)

However, some experienced brewers are doing, with extract, what you want to do with Sorghum LME.

None of of the calculators I have found seem to know what to do with Sorghum LME, does anyone have this dialed in?

Given what @Hoochin'Fool mentioned, the help text in the Bru'n Water spreadsheet will provide additional insights to get you started on adjustments.

This reply in "AHA homebrewer of the year (used extract; 2021)" has links to posts that should include recipes with flavor salt additions.

There are also a couple of long running threads in the "extract brewing" forum. I won't recommend any of them as it's quicker for you and me to answer any questions you might have.

BTW, if you're temped to use an AI to summarize the topic, the prompt(s) I tried left out key pieces of information (Am I surprised? No).