Nice job Toca, joshua and MS
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Couple of points/clarifications/questions...
Toca: Yep you are correct. Whatever you type into Section W assumes that you will follow that plan. Your plan is very sensible given that size kettle
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But!
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On forums, stuff can get a little confusing. For example, in your first post, you mention,
This time I tried different approach. I always did soaking for my Full volume variations instead of sparging
. That sentence is forcing MS to ask his question above because your BIABacus says you still did sparge (4 L "Water Used in a Sparge" in Section W) and MS, and I , would assume you did that as well as adding the 1 L to the fermentor.
So, in addition to MS's question, if you did sparge 4L and 1 L to the fermentor, what were you doing before? (I'll write a bit more below.)
VIF assumes you have done everything in Section W. So, if you had, before your brew, 1 L written in "Water Added to Fermentor" then you would add that to the fermentor before taking your actual VIF reading. (No other software handles auto-efficiency, let alone the things allowed in Section W, as the hidden calcs to allow this are pretty wild. As far as I can see though Toca, you are reading and understanding everything well.)
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Josh mentions about getting great beer above and that is the first thing to be assured of. The amount of measurement you have taken tells me that you take care and with that attitude and a robust recipe, it's really hard to go wrong. Josh then looks at the difference in Volume versus Gravity and most of that is cool by me. The only correction I would have (lecturer that I am
) is that your kettle efficiency cannot be changed post-boil as there is no more sugar to be added or subtracted once the boil begins unless you physically throw in more sugar. (See
this post for clarification and possibly that whole thread to get the context. It might take you a good 60 minutes or a couple of beers and slow reading to get everything in that thread.)
I was going to write more but there are lots of goodies in that thread and you are under much harder conditions than that thread as you are brewing a very high gravity beer in a very small kettle with two large full volume variations.
In fact, I think I ended up writing the above link after answering a question of yours in the main pre-release BIABacus thread where you asked on how efficiency is calculated. Before answering that question properly, it's really important to understand the basic principle of a "sugar score"* which you'll find in that thread above.
PP
*It's essential understanding to locating where a problem in the brewing process lies. Section P shows your efficiencies are actually all perfectly acceptable,especially on such a high gravity brew.
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