laserghost, it's great to see you and others handing on the right information. Nice job
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That's a very typical thread though on other forums. 53 posts and just a jumble of information. Sorry, it's actually not typical. The wording of the first post allowed you and many others to recommend the BIABacus and BIABrewer.info. YOu then went on to try and pass on some finer points.
When I say it's a typical thread, what I meant was 53 posts and still the guy is not confident in the answers given because of the noisy jumble. I really don't blame the respondees. Would have any of them read
this? Just such a shame to know that if that guy had asked his question here, he would have got sorted in just a few posts.
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It's always a bit distressing though when people come up with calculators that take two minutes to write (as occurred in that thread on page 5 I think) and then name them 'officially' with names such as biabcalculator.com, simplebiabcalcualtor, 'profile helper' or whatever
. Some of these outrightly have stolen concepts and/or numbers that I conceived and collected over many hours and communications with the intention that they be conveyed to other brewers with integrity. The above and many more, lack that integrity. Of the ones listed here, I can blame one on newbie enthusiasm, one on laziness and one on just a plain lack of integrity.
Anyway, let's move on
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The above only deal in volumes and, even then, some of their volumes are absolutely wrong. Not much point dealing in volumes when it requires you putting in a grain weight. Where do you get your grain weight from? If you use normal software (non-BIABacus software), you'll need to guess a heap of things that you actually will have no idea of before you can even use the software, let alone even come close to knowing your grain weight. (The BIABacus does intelligent estimates for you). And, if the above make sense, you'll see that anyone that wants/recommends just a volume calculator is pretty uneducated in their brewing.
Paradoxically, if you can mange to avoid those sites and programs, things can be a lot more simple and more powerful here.
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Some links that may help with the above are
The Basics of BIAB and
"No-Sparge" Definition.
Keep up your good work guys
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PP
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