Have done two "simple" brews with the Biabacus and loved the conversions and everything went well and I hit my target gravity spot on.....
Now trying a Belgian Tripel and in the original recipe it calls for 2 lbs of Belgian candi sugar...not sure where to enter it into the spreadsheet....do I treat it like grain and enter it there and let the calculations occur? When I do it bumps it up to 2.6 lbs which seems wrong and it looks like its treating it like grain and not pure sugar.....but if I enter it into the other ingredients area it treats it like an adjunct that doesn't add fermentables so it seriously jacks up the grain bill since the spreadsheet is all of a sudden missing a ton of fermentable sugars and compensates.... and it doesn't look right that way either.
I am going to hold off until I get some more info....but I really want to try this beer so please if anyone has any suggestions please reply.
Post #2 made 11 years ago
Hey there.
You need to add the candi sugar to where you put the grain in section C and also add the weight or % like you would with a grain.
You then need to look at section Y on the far right of the BIABacus.
here you will notice a list of your grains and the candi sugar. Now alongside the candi sugar enter in the FGDB (Fine Grind Dry Basis) field '91' and in the MC (Moisture content) field '0'. The PPG field should then read 42.1PPG.
From a quick google I found that candi sugar will give 42PPG so its a matter of changing the FGDB until the correct PPG shows.
typing 100 into the FGDB will give you 46PPG which is pure sugar like corn sugar.
Hope this helps
Balli.
You need to add the candi sugar to where you put the grain in section C and also add the weight or % like you would with a grain.
You then need to look at section Y on the far right of the BIABacus.
here you will notice a list of your grains and the candi sugar. Now alongside the candi sugar enter in the FGDB (Fine Grind Dry Basis) field '91' and in the MC (Moisture content) field '0'. The PPG field should then read 42.1PPG.
From a quick google I found that candi sugar will give 42PPG so its a matter of changing the FGDB until the correct PPG shows.
typing 100 into the FGDB will give you 46PPG which is pure sugar like corn sugar.
Hope this helps
Balli.
Post #3 made 11 years ago
Thanks so much for the quick reply Balli. I did some googling with the info you provided and I now see what the Biabacus is doing....and have some good reference sites bookmarked!!!
Wish me luck
KeyLargoJeff
Wish me luck
KeyLargoJeff
