Brewcipher 5

Hey @VikeMan, I'm using hop extract for the first time since you updated Brewcipher to include it. What should I input for the weight? I thought I had read somewhere that I could put it in ml, but that's not right and now can't find where I might have read that (probably because I didn't). In any case, does anybody have an idea what 3ml of extract weighs? Not sure how to get an accurate value with it in the syringe and don't have an empty syringe to weigh. Thanks for all you do vike.

 

Greetings Vikeman, as previously stated, thanks for the tool, it's a pretty neat little piece of work. I think I have been using version, I dunno, 2 or 3 for a long time now, it's build date is June, 2013. Looks like the newer version has quite a few new features that are fun to explore. The water salts tab in particular I will need to spend some time on and evaluate.

One comment I'd like to discuss, is about the carbonation sheet, particularly the line length calculator. I am curious how you are performing the Colebrook iterative analysis, kinematic viscosity evaluation, and temperature density adjustment (this all assumes you are following an energy balance approach...). I ask because I worked out a solution last year, and my values vary quite a bit from yours. In general, I am calculating more length of beer line required than what your sheet is suggesting.

 

I have to disagree with you here. Trustworthy sourcing of beer line friction factor is fairly easy to come across. Even if you don't have an exact value, all you need to do is use a value in the rough order of magnitude. Why? Because for 10' of line, the line resistance doesn't play a very large part of the calculation. Minor losses due to fittings play just as significant of a role, but they seem to go missed more often than not.

 

Sent you a PM.

 

Hey @VikeMan, I use BIAB but I also do a small sparge, so the biab indicator doesn’t exactly work for my situation. I have an “HLT” with only a 3 gallon capacity, but sometimes brewcipher will will say something like, 5 gallon mash and 4 gallon sparge... is there a way to tell it what my max sparge is? Or should I just take those 2 numbers, add them together and then subtract say 2 gallons for a sparge? Thanks!

 

This is exactly what I do.

 

Awesome, thank you!

 

When adding this malt to the GRAINLOOKUP there are descriptions that I’m not sure how (or if) they relate to the column headers:

Extract FG: 78.6%
Protein: 11.6%
S/T Ratio: 52.1
Alpha Amylase: 30.2
DP: 82
Color: 6.8 SRM

Is that enough info to fill all, or at least the most important, fields? Should I contact Riverbend for more spec's?

Riverbend Malt House (Heritage Malt is about half-way down the web page)
"Notes of caramel and toasted bread are prominently featured in this product. We've developed the color and aroma of this malt to perform like a light Munich/Vienna style malt. This versatile malt packs enough diastatic power to perform as a base malt in a Belgian Dubbel recipe or can be used at lower percentages in an Ordinary Bitter."

 

Thanks.
I hit them all except the lovibond. The few online conversion tools I found come in at around 5.5 (+/- 0.1), and one returned 6.0.

 

@VikeMan I have a question as this came up when talking about homebrew con with a buddy.

I was talking about how I was cold crashing my beers to keg them and was worried that one of my fridges was too cold and might freeze the beer. My buddy thought it was kind of funny and was picturing beer slushies. I said it would have sucked because I wouldn't know how to keg it, and I would have no way of knowing the true ABV of it, or so I think. Then we started to talk about Eisbocks which made it more of a question...

So the question is: If one freezes a beer and removes the ice or just kegs what is liquid, what is the best way to determine ABV?

I would think just using SG for the reduced volume, but how would you account for that when making a recipe? Is it something that can be predicted in Brewcipher? Perhaps I am making this too complicated....

 

I've been using Brewcipher for a while (very much still new to brewing though) and I have to say it is pretty awesome. Thank you @VikeMan. It's like when the iPad came out, capable of so much yet so simple, it just works. I was wondering about the same button issue. I and running 5.0 on google docs but I have tried it on excel and I can't get a button to work. I have always just followed what the recipe said but I have a lot of stuff sitting around and I wanted to play with some number and noticed this either wasn't working on my set up or I didn't know how to use it correctly. Thanks once again!