Good deal, Oldgit!
Just reviewed your BIABacus. I have some thoughts you might find helpful as you move forward in your beer making journey...
I have a confession. I did not know to fill out the rest of the BIABacus worksheet my first couple brews (was too confusing at the start), but have been doing it since. It might be a help to you. Certainly has been and continues to be hugely helpful to me!
BIABacus Additional Areas:
Section L - Your Actual Volumes
Section M - Your Pre-Pitching Gravities
Section N - Your Pre-Pitching Corrections
Section O - At Pitching...
When I was all new to this it was a bit too confusing, but after 2-3 brews I started to get a better handle on it. After doing this - discovered some curious things... Such as, one of my propane tanks burns hotter than the other; one ends up having more evaporation than forecast, the other less than forecast - ALWAYS... Would not have discovered this without the "Check Points" in Section L. So now I only use the tank that burns hot for brewing beer.
If given those options, always better to finish with more evaporation / less water remaining than supposed to because of too much evaporation / too high of an OG. Best for this option because you can easily fix it, with a little math. Too much evaporation you can easily correct and end up with the proper amount of beer at the right OG - which increases likelihood of having beer at proper ABV when done. (Or you end up with extra beer, if your setup is super efficient!)
More likely to end up with the beer you had planned to brew.
Math Example:
Let's say you were shooting for a beer with 1.055 OG and ended up with 1.060 (which happened to you, in this case). Also as a given let's say your VIF (Volume Into Fermenter; don't know what yours was) was 20 liters VIF. You need to Add Water to lower wort gravity to target level.
20 x 60 = 1,200 'Metric' Gravity Points
1,200 / 55 = 21.82 liters
21.82 - 20.0 = 1.82 liters (Water - Add to Fermenter)
This 1.82 liters of Water would be Added to the Fermenter and noted in Section N. You would have noted the 1.060 OG in Section M for what you actually measured, and after remeasuring and adding more water - would note the final / corrected OG down in Section O (should be 1.055 after math and water addition, and gravity recheck).
If Volume is in Gallons, that's fine...math works out identical.
Anyhow, these additional measurements and adjustments should be added to our BIABacus files (noted above) and provide "check points", and help redirect us if we are steering in the wrong direction (which happens to all of us...). And this helps us get headed back down the proper road, once again...
Hope this helps. And hope I wasn't too confusing in my explanation...
