Beersmith Tips Cheats and Questions

[BigDanny84]

I am trying to enter a recipe from Gordon Strong's 'Modern Homebrew Recipes' into Beersmith and I've come across a problem. He has two types of grain that he uses at the vorlauf stage and I am wondering how to enter these in the programme?

I was hoping to enter the recipe as is and then scale it to my equipment profile, but perhaps that is wrong?

[Pheeel]

I am trying to enter a recipe from Gordon Strong's 'Modern Homebrew Recipes' into Beersmith and I've come across a problem. He has two types of grain that he uses at the vorlauf stage and I am wondering how to enter these in the programme?

Vorlauf is circulating the initial runnings off back over the grain bed. I don't get what you mean he has two types of grains. There are two types in the mash or two different mashes?

[GlasbrewInc]

Gordon strong recommends if I remember correctly adding dark grains to mash at vorluff after either a cold or hot steep, I'll check it out tonight when I get home

[BigDanny84]

Vorlauf is circulating the initial runnings off back over the grain bed. I don't get what you mean he has two types of grains. There are two types in the mash or two different mashes?

Sorry i didn't explain myself too well. The recipe is for a BIPA, all the pale malts are mashed and then the dark malts are added when you are ready to vorlauf.

On Beersmith there is no option to add grains to a recipe at that stage. If I add all the grains from the recipe to Beersmith my OG will be off and then when I scale the recipe my quantities would be off, I think?

Maybe I'm just over thinking it all.

[molc]

I did that once from his book. Haven't done it sense as I found the resulting beer (a stout) a little too smooth. However, when I was entering in Beersmith, I just renamed each grain in the recipe with Vorlauf at the start, so I knew which ones to do it with on the brewday.

[dcalnan]

Well dark malts have less fermentable sugars than base or medium malts so it won't affect the og as much. You're only steeping them for the colour.

[Pheeel]

Oh right. Yeh molc's suggestion of renaming is fine. I wouldn't mess with anything else in Beersmith

The idea AFAIK is to make the beer less astringent/harsh by adding the dark malts later

[BigDanny84]

Thanks guys.