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   1. Extract Brew Calculations with Biabacus

      by Am33106, 5 years ago in The Boil (Sweet Liquor to Wort)

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      Full disclosure, in my haste of ordering ingredients for an upcoming brew I picked up a kit recipe, Palmer Premium Beer Kits - Harold is Weizen - Hefeweizen, not realizing it was an extract recipe. Not wanting to discard the kit and waste more money I dug around looking for posts that might shed some insight on what to do if you wanted to plan an extract brew using BIABacus. I did find one that mentioned changing the Kettle to Fermenter Losses (KFL) in Section X. to 0. Although I don't agree...

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      Scott Thanks for the reply. I ended up going with my initial assumptions and brewing this based on the file I attached to my original post but couldn't take gravity measurements due to my hydrometer breaking on me. Depending on the sensory outcome of this beer, I may brew this one again to try to nail down some changes for anyone wanting to use BIABacus to calculate DME/LME recipes for a quick brew day. I will say that Lallemand Munich Classic is very active. I allowed for 2 gallons of head...
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      Am33106
      5 years ago
   2. Moving to E-BIAB

      by Am33106, 6 years ago in Electric BIAB

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      All,
      
      I've grown tired of having to fill propane tanks and being limited by weather. I'm looking at a custom Spike 15 gallon kettle with triclamp ports for the element, 5500w ripple, and a Blichmann Brewcommander for the controller and paying for a NEMA 14-30 conversion to avoid an the need for an adapter to fit my receptacle. I'm planning to pick up a false bottom with adjustable legs from Brewers hardware to keep my bag away from the heat source. I'll also be wiring in a GFCI breaker with 10...

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      Alright well I needed to use some grain and couldn't wait to test drive the induction burner with the kettle insulated. From mash temp to a boil to exactly 30 minutes with almost 3.5g/13.2l of wort. Not exactly matching theoretical times based on pure math but there are environmental factors to consider. The boil doesn't appear any stronger than my water test but it is maintaining it without the lid now so I'll take it. Without getting a bigger bag I also don't think a fourth layer is possible...
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      Am33106
      6 years ago
   3. Kegerator Conversion

      by Am33106, 6 years ago in Kegging

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      After a lot of thought and planning I have decided to convert a 4.4 cu ft dorm fridge to a kegerator. My question to those that have done this is what did you use to protect your gas line if you feed it to your co2 tank outside the fridge? I'm guessing there are grommets big enough as you see them on commercial kegerators frequently, I'm just not sure if they're available on there own.
      
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      Tony

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      That sounds like a good system. I see that it's a new product in the Catalog. I will have to check it out on my next visit to Morebeer.
      Cheers!
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      robertz64
      6 years ago
   4. Russian River Consecration Clone

      by Am33106, 6 years ago in BIAB Recipes

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      Happy New Year's everyone. I'm looking for some help double checking my work on a clone recipe. The kit is from MoreBeer ( but lacks any real useful information about the recipe itself. The majority of what I learned was actually in the description of the recipe itself where they quote Vinnie's advice. After some searching around the internet I found an actual recipe with ingredients listed on a BeerSmith forum post ( Again we don't learn much about critical factors that give a recipe...

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      Thanks for the vote of confidence. It definitely does look like a challenging recipe and will be both my first sour and my first oaked beer. Good catch on the mash volume :clap: , I did intend to maximize the yield so I'll adjust that before I brew it. I do feel like I'm more comfortable with BIABacus after having used it quit a bit since being a member. The one that I haven't come across yet is fermentables in the fermenter and how/whether BIABacus accounts for this in some way. With this...
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      Am33106
      6 years ago
   5. More BIABacus function

      by Am33106, 7 years ago in BIABrewer Old Hands

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      I've had some time off to play around with BIABacus and I started programming a bit of automation into areas you previously had to copy from other sections. Specifically, the checklist section. Mine now pulls the data from the recipe entered in sections C & D. The only issue I have to troubleshoot is why hop timing shows up as 0:00 on the print checklist page even though the timings are in the checklist section. If you guys feel like it's useful to you I will try send a BIABacus to PistolPatch...

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      Pat,
      
      I've made the mistake of not doing a save before making changes to files in the past when I first started trying to learn to code in Python so I'll definitely do that before playing with the reports. I hadn't really done much with Excel formulas until recently when I started looking at pulling info into the checklist. I quickly learned how complicated formulas can get. I have a whole new appreciation for how long it must have taken to get the calculator and now BIABacus up and going....
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      Am33106
      7 years ago
   6. Biabacus recipe development

      by Am33106, 8 years ago in Creating Your Own Recipes

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      I'm hoping someone can help explain how to develop your own recipe using Biabacus. I have used it to scale recipes very successfully so far but can't seem to figure out how to make it work for designing my own. I saw somewhere on the site to try using % rather than entering weights for the grain bill but I can't alter the percent column on the left hand side. I'm sure I'm missing something in the software but can't nail it down. Any advice is appreciated.
      
      Tony

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      Yo yo yo, guys! Long time, no write :thumbs:
      
      I am doing well and so are my beers, thanks to all of you. I've decided it's time to focus on creating my own beers so I just bought a copy of Designing Great Beers. Thanks Pat and ShorePoints for collecting this information here.
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      shetc
      8 years ago

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