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Description
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 | Choose the Grain or Extract command from the Insert menu |
| Name - Name of the item. |
| Origin - Country or region of origin for the item. |
| Supplier - Company that makes or distributes the item. |
| Type - Indicates the type of fermentable ingredient. May be Grain, Extract, Sugar, Adjunct or Dry Extract. Certain fields in the dialog may be enabled or disabled depending on the type. |
| Color - The color of the item in SRM (or EBC if set). Note: The widely used Lovibond (L) color scale is equivalent to SRM color for brewing purposes. |
| Inventory - Your personal inventory of this ingredient. |
| Amount - Only shown from within a recipe - the amount of this ingredient used in the recipe. |
| Potential - The potential yield of the ingredient, expressed in current specific gravity units. Note - This field is equivalent to the Dry Yield field -- editing one field will also change the value of the other. Values for either the potential or dry yield can be found in grain data sheets. A potential of 1.046 is the maximum (equivalent to 100% yield) |
| Dry Yield Fine Grain - Equivalent to the Potential field, but expressed as a percentage of total weight converted. Note - This field is tied to the Potential field such that editing one will also change the other (they are equivalent). |
| Coarse/Fine Difference - For grains, the difference between the coarse mill yield and a fine powder milling of the grain. This number is typically small (< 3%) and can be found on the grain data sheet. |
| Moisture - The average moisture content of the grain, expressed as a percent of weight. |
| Diastatic Power - A measure of how much starch converting enzyme is in the grain. A higher number (common in pale malts) indicates the presence of more enzymes for starch conversion. This is usually not a factor unless you are brewing beer with a large percentage of unmalted adjuncts such as unmalted wheat. |
| Must Mash - Checked for grains that must be mashed (i.e. they cannot be used for steeping in Extract recipes) |
| Add After Boil - Check this box for fermentable adjuncts such as Honey and Fruits that are generally added to the fermenter and not included in the boil. BeerSmith will adjust the boil gravity (used in hop calculations) to exclude items that have this box checked. |
| Notes - Notes on the grain and its use. |
| Hop Alpha - For hopped extracts, the equivalent alpha percentage of the hops. This number is used to calculate the bitterness contribution of the hopped extract. |
| Equivalent Hops in Extract - This section, used only for hopped extracts, allows you to insert the "equivalent" hops that is included in the extract. This "equivalent" is used to calculate the bitterness contribution of the extract. |
| Hop Weight - The equivalent hop weight used for hopped extract to calculate bitterness. |
| Boil Time - An equivalent boil time used in creation of the hopped extract. 60 minutes if a good default value if the actual value is not known. |
| Per Extract Weight - Used to scale bitterness based on the hops weight. For example, if the equivalent hops is 1 oz of 4% alpha hops per 3.3 lb can of extract, the entry here would be 3.3 lb. |
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