Be sure to sign up for my newsletter or my podcast (also on itunes…and youtube…and streaming radio station) for more great tips on homebrewing. You can get a trial version of BeerSmith here if you don’t already have one. Thanks for joining me on the BeerSmith Home Brewing Blog. That’s it – if you set up your equipment profiles properly you can use “Scale Recipe” to select the new equipment This is an effect you will also see on smaller batches – your brewhouse efficiency will go down for very high gravity beers. This is due to the fact that you are mashing/sparging with significantly less total water relative to the amount of grain you have added to this large batch. ![]() For really high gravity beers (like barley wine or imperial IPA) you may need additional adjustments to total efficiency (usually downward) for that particular recipe since the mash efficiency and efficiency scaling can be much different than a traditional brew.This is a number you may have to dial in a bit as you gain experience with your particular setup. This is due to the fact that you will often get better extraction of sugar from the wort both in the mashing and lautering phase that you get on a small pilot system. Brewhouse/total efficiency is usually higher for a commercial system – perhaps 1-5% higher depending on the system.Unfortunately I can’t offer a hard guideline here since each system is different, but you can consult the manufacturer or other brewers using similar systems to get a starting point for scaling your hop utilization. This is an important first step as the equipment you are using drives all of the critical recipe estimates like color, bitterness and original gravity. Some of the most frequent questions I receive on BeerSmith software are about how to properly set up and dial in your equipment profile. By default it is 100% for batches under 20 gallons (80 liters), but it can easily be 125%, 150% or possibly more for a multi-barrel brewing system. The Ultimate BeerSmith Equipment Profile Guide. The “Hop Utilization Factor” listed in your equipment profile is the number you adjust to correct this. If you simply scale up a 5 gallon (19 liter) batch to craft brewery sizes you will get a beer that is way too bitter. This is the largest change that hits most new craft brewers. Added percent drop down to preview pane (My Recipes view) that allows scaling of reports so you can adjust font sizes. Hop utilization is much higher at craft brewing scales, because large boils simply extract more bitterness. Below are the change log notes for the BeerSmith 2.3 update To download the latest version of BeerSmith visit the download page here.There are, however, several key considerations that come into play when developing an equipment profile for commercial scales: Recipe Scaling Considerations Setting up an equipment profile for a large system is not much different than the small one – you just need to enter the correct volumes/weights/losses for the larger system, and then of course go through a process of adjusting and tweaking the profile until it matches up well with your actual brewing process and volumes. Then they use the “Scale recipe” command and select the larger system to scale their recipes up to full scale. They don’t want to be left with an experiment that went wrong on a commercial scale.Ĭommercial brewers maintain two equipment profiles in BeerSmith – one for their test/pilot system and one for their production system. ![]() ![]() Even for professional brewers, every idea they have in beer may not be a great one, so the pilot batch lets them test and perfect a recipe before scaling up. ![]() Most craft breweries develop and test recipes on a “pilot” brewing system, which can range in size from 5 gallons (19 liters) to several barrels in capacity. Also, many passionate home brewers who make the leap from home to professional brewing then write and ask how to scale up from 5 gallons to 3 barrels or more? So I thought I would provide this article to explain the process. Be sure to sign up for my newsletter or my podcast (also on itunes…and youtube…and streaming radio station) for more great tips on homebrewing.Follow am often asked about using BeerSmith for Craft brewing and in fact BeerSmith is used by a large number of commercial breweries. You can find additional tutorials on the main tutorial page and download a free trial copy of BeerSmith from. Follow week I present a short video tutorial on how to use the new cloud folder and move/copy features in BeerSmith 3 software for beer brewing, mead, wine and cider making.
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