Tell me why i cant get my efficiency up

[TheMadKing]

I do still wish BS would add in conversion efficiency. Would be nice to have automatic estimate of gravity in mash before sparge/lauter that indicated 100% conversion.

Agreed, it's a good check during the mash to see if you're grossly under your gravity mark for whatever reason, before sparging so that you can make an adjustment on the fly if needed.

That was one benefit of doing BIAB, the no sparge method meant you knew what your gravity should be before pulling the bag out.

You can look it up as a function of mash thickness, but it would be nice to see a box for "Est. Mash Gravity" or something on the session tab

 

[eric19312]

I created a post on the BS suggestions forum about the issue. Maybe if we can get lots of comments on the idea it will get added.

http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,21051.0.html

 

[ba-brewer]

BS sent me an email once asking for comments and I ask for the mash target gravity. I also put a post in the feature request before that. I think the way he works things backwards from BHE it might be hard to isolate.

Getting close to 100% conversion was my first step to consistent efficiency. I used to get abut 75% BHE(beersmith) doing two sparge batch sparge, now I get about 70 to 72% BHE with a 3 vessel fly sparge.

I started using braukaiser's partigyle batch sparge calculator to estimate my mash target gravity. I then used the information in table 27 of Palmer "how to brew book" to make a spreadsheet to get my target mash gravity. I think Braukaiser's calculator works well enough though.
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[dwhite60]

75 percent to 85 percent is a twelve percent (0.12) increase (75 / 85 = 0.88).

On a ten pound grain bill this means adding 1.2 extra pounds of grain. At $1.35 per pound (high but about the local price per pound at LHBS) this is $1.62. Ten batches a year is 12 pounds extra for $16.20.

If you're buying grain by the bag ($40 / 50#) you're at $0.80 per pound. This is and addition $0.96 per batch, $9.60 for ten batches.

I'd pay the extra before I'd worry about it.

No one wins a prize for highest efficiency.

All the Best,
D. White