Comments on: Balancing your Beer with the Bitterness Ratio http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/ Get weekly articles on home brewing, beer styles, and making beer recipes Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:04:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Confused by IBU, Bitterness, Hoppy - Home Brew Forums http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/comment-page-1/#comment-19583 Confused by IBU, Bitterness, Hoppy - Home Brew Forums Mon, 07 Nov 2011 02:56:54 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/?p=624#comment-19583 [...] IBUs are an absolute measurement - like a quart of water. Bitterness is perceived based on the balance be the sweet malt and the bittering hops. As an extreme example, a heavy Imperial Porter can take a lot more IBUs than a light cream ale. Check out this article http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/ [...] [...] IBUs are an absolute measurement – like a quart of water. Bitterness is perceived based on the balance be the sweet malt and the bittering hops. As an extreme example, a heavy Imperial Porter can take a lot more IBUs than a light cream ale. Check out this article http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/ [...]

]]> By: Brad Smith http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/comment-page-1/#comment-18998 Brad Smith Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:22:37 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/?p=624#comment-18998 Glenn, Thanks - but I actually calculated them by averaging the high/low bitterness to OG ratios from the BJCP guide. They really should not be excessively high particularly for hoppy styles like IPA. Brad Glenn,
Thanks – but I actually calculated them by averaging the high/low bitterness to OG ratios from the BJCP guide. They really should not be excessively high particularly for hoppy styles like IPA.

Brad

]]> By: Glenn Roy http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/comment-page-1/#comment-18995 Glenn Roy Sun, 17 Apr 2011 11:27:58 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/?p=624#comment-18995 Hi Brad, I think your bitterness ratio guidelines for the styles of beer are way too high. I been using this method for hopping and anything above 0.66 (In my opinion) is undrinkable. Been there, done that. Thank, Glenn Hi Brad,
I think your bitterness ratio guidelines for the styles of beer are way too high. I been using this method for hopping and anything above 0.66 (In my opinion) is undrinkable. Been there, done that.
Thank,
Glenn

]]> By: Brad Smith http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/comment-page-1/#comment-17840 Brad Smith Sun, 14 Nov 2010 17:33:00 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/?p=624#comment-17840 Typically percentages are quoted as raw weight - example 50% wheat would mean half of the total grain bill by weight is malted wheat. Here's one way to handle this in BeerSmith. Lets say you have a recipe that is 60% pale malt, 20% crystal malt and 20% munich malt. You could enter it in BeerSmith as 6lbs pale, 2 lbs crystal and 2 lbs munich. Then use the "Adjust OG" tool to adjust the original gravity of the recipe to match your target - which will scale all of the ingredients proportionally to match your actual batch size and target gravity. Brad Typically percentages are quoted as raw weight – example 50% wheat would mean half of the total grain bill by weight is malted wheat. Here’s one way to handle this in BeerSmith. Lets say you have a recipe that is 60% pale malt, 20% crystal malt and 20% munich malt. You could enter it in BeerSmith as 6lbs pale, 2 lbs crystal and 2 lbs munich. Then use the “Adjust OG” tool to adjust the original gravity of the recipe to match your target – which will scale all of the ingredients proportionally to match your actual batch size and target gravity.

Brad

]]> By: steve witkowski http://www.beersmith.com/blog/2009/09/26/balancing-your-beer-with-the-bitterness-ratio/comment-page-1/#comment-17837 steve witkowski Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:23:55 +0000 http://www.beersmith.com/blog/?p=624#comment-17837 hello and thank you trying to write my first recipe extract brewing using % my question how to figure each in the recipe in % to total up to 100 % example 70 % malt and than fill in the less with grains and adjuncts looking for a couple of examples and or formulas and if i make a recipe with 12 lbs of malt for anothe example thank you hope to hear from you hello and thank you trying to write my first recipe extract brewing using % my question
how to figure each in the recipe in % to total up to 100 % example
70 % malt and than fill in the less with grains and adjuncts
looking for a couple of examples and or formulas and if i make a recipe with 12 lbs of malt
for anothe example thank you hope to hear from you

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