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   1. Confused over volumes

      by tractorboy, 14 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      I'm getting ready for my first BIAB and have been fiddling around with the calculator spreadsheet and Brewsmith. What I can't get my head around is where all the water goes... What accounts for the 3 or 4 litres difference between the post boil voulme and the volume into the FV? I can understand some water being retained by the hops, but I'm obviously missing something here.
      
      Bob

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      Nice going Bob :champ:
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      PistolPatch
      14 years ago
   2. Confused over scaling recipes

      by tractorboy, 14 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      I'm just about to brew Graham Wheeler's Gales Festival Mild (my 2nd BIAB). I've been playing with the calculator but am getting confused over the grain bill entries. I assumed that I should enter the quantities from the original recipe into the original recipe section (obvious I suppose), but what are the scaled figures that are calculated? Are these the quantities I should actually use, and are they scaled to take account of the differences between traditional AG and BIAB methods? I suppose my...

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      Thanks yeasty! I reckon my next one could be spot on :)
      
      Bob
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      tractorboy
      14 years ago

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