Now, that's a huge difference for two reasons.ġ) it's a big difference from 270 to 608.Ģ) beersmith tells me I'm under pitching while brewersfriend tells me I'm over pitching. This tutorial shows you how to get your water tested and create and use water profiles in BeerSmith to calculate additions needed in a recipe to match a targ. (each ball was filled with one hops) Refrigerated at 36 F for 5 days with 10. each of Simcoe, Centennial and Columbus in three 3 stainless steal tea balls. Fermented for 10 days (gravity at 1.015) then kegged with approximately 0.3 oz. Now, beersmith tells me that my cells without starter are 45.2 B and need to have 465.9 B (a little different than brewersfriend but no big deal)īut when I make a 4 L starter with the same yeast and expiration date it tells me I will have 270.9 B cells. Fermented for 4 days (gravity at 1.038) then racked on top of 1 oz. And I need 486 billion.Īfter making a 4 L starter on a stir plate it tells me I will have This tells me I have about 33 billion cells. I'm making a 1098 OG wee heavy and am a little concerned with the differences in the cell count of my starter.
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I own beersmith 2.0 and use whenever I'm not able to go on beersmith. I just created a test recipe and when I add top-up water in the fermentation/bottling section, the water volume in the mash section decreases, the pre-boil. Our easy-to-use beer recipe calculator and designer will let you brew with total confidence. Hey everyone, so I'm trying to calculate a yeast starter.