mtate75: Glad to see you found your way here. I've just written all of the below so will have to take a break

. Any one of the following guys should be able to help you out in some way, if not fully so fingers crossed

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Hold on...couldn't help myself and had a look. You have done a great job mtate

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I'll let the other guys fine tooth comb it and give you any suggestions. The only critical one I can see is that you need to change the EOBV-A in Section C from 22.08 to 20.83 L. (That's the best guess we have been able to make of Northern Brewer's EOBV-A figure.)
cazadoro: I still haven't responded to your last post sorry. I remember there were a few important things there. Sort of thing I'd like to reply to when focused so apologies for the delay. (Also trying to think of yet another way to spell your name

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dauthi: Sorry dauthi, I know there are still a few questions of yours I have left unanswered. First though can you let me know if my last post made sense? Better still, do a re-post of the questions I missed? If so, I'll tackle it when I'm having a beer next as some of those questions are tricky and need a beer

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djseaton: Thanks for getting back to us

. As I said in the other thread - nice attitude

. Looks like you are going well but let us know if you get stuck on anything.
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Strengthnhealth and Mad-Scientist, thanks a heap for posting your completed files up. I always love looking at these.
Strengthnhealth
Sorry to hear about the bag. Good to see Bob did a sympathy burn for you

. How's that for the Brewerhood?
Your file actually opened up with an unreadable content warning. I think it's because you saved it as an .ods. If using Libre or whatever, still save it as an .xls file (2003) as I think this is problem free.
Your numbers are looking 'honest' to me on a single brew. (You've actually done a superb job at filling the actuals in). See how you have a discrepancy between EIK and EOBE? They should be much more in agreement
but anyone who gets perfect agreement on every brew on these two numbers is fudging.
All you can do on any one brew is notice a discrepancy. Rarely should you do anything about it.
To me, your file looks very typical. Your numbers could be mine on any of my brews. What next?...
Don't make any adjustments on your next few brews. Your end of the day numbers are definitely in the ballpark. Nothing worries me at all. If you leave things as they are for a few more brews, the 'noise' will settle down and, if there are any adjustments to be made, we will see them easily and be able to place some good faith in those adjustments.
Very nice

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Mad_Scientist
Just have been looking at your file in conjunction with your great post in the Mash Gravity Figures thread. Once again, nice

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The great thing about the other thread is that it emphasises the value of considering things over a number of brews instead of a single one. e.g. THe numbers there are showing a definite advantage of a 90 min mash over a 60 and there also is a mash-out advantage (although at this stage, we don't have enough numbers to know if this is due to more time, increased temp or both).
All the numbers look 'honest' except for the 'Mash Volume' and 'VIK' in Section L. I'm guessing that you just copied those numbers from K. YOu said above that your 'Mash Volume' measurement was okay but that your VIK did not match. Can you remember what they were off the top of your head?
I think you said you had more VIK than predicted so here's what is sticking out for me...
(Bear in mind this is one brew so we should not be drawing any conclusions at all but, there is one over-ride in your BIABAcus file that I think needs to be deleted.)
1. Your evaporation over-ride strikes me as too low. Maybe this is why you ended up with too much VIK? Delete that and you'll see that we have gained nearly 2 L VIK.
2. If you do this, you'll also notice that the GIK requirements drop by over two points.
On this brew, doing this would have avoided all your troubles. (I'm going to come back to this.)
Leave your 2% auto-efficiency over-ride in. This is doing no harm and has actually worked pretty much perfectly on this brew. Don't hope for such accuracy on the next one

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So, I reckon just get rid of the evaporation over-ride for your next few brews and use the BIABAcus default. Besides that, change nothing!
Also make sure you do the 90 min mash and a mash out but don't wait. Just pull the bag when you reach mash out temp. And here's my main point...
What I do on my brews Richard is let them run. I never ever try to match my numbers. I make a plan, from figures I totally trust as they are based on averages (that's what the BIABacus does for us) and then brew the beer. I
never make adjustments prior to the end of boil.
One of the
worst bits of advice, and you'll see it written in so many places, is the casual sentence, "Just brew your wort down until you reach the correct pre-boil gravity." The problem with this advice is two-fold. For starters, the person is relying on a single gravity reading and a single gravity reading is prone to wild variations. Secondly, it assumes that the evaporation rate will match the one estimated. Evaporation rates can also vary wildly depending on atmospheric conditions.
I often get strange readings pre-boil but at the end of the boil, all works out fine. If it doesn't, I check it again after transferring from the kettle and if something is way out, now that I have a confirmation, I might choose to make a pre-pitching adjustment.
In other words, just let the brews ride through the boil.
Isn't there a saying that if you fiddle with some things too much you go blind?
I'm pretty sure there is

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Never thought of that before but it is perfect brewing advice when it comes to numbers.
... Thanks again Richard for posting your actuals file and also for posting perfectly in the
Mash Gravity Figures Needed for BIABacus thread. And for helping out in that other thread over the weekend. These things make a big difference.
PP