JupiterJesus
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Under the fermentation tab, section titled "At Bottling/Kegging", there is a "Measured Bottling Volume" field. This is great, because my final bottled volume is never the same as my batch volume due to trub losses. In BeerSmith 1, I used to have to change the batch volume to my bottling volume, write down the amount of corn sugar, then change my batch volume back to the correct batch volume (12 -> 10 -> 12), so in theory this saves me a lot of headaches.
The problem is, it doesn't work. There is a "batch size" field, a "measured batch size" field, an "est bottling vol" field and a "measured bottling vol" field. The obvious thing would be to set the measured bottling volume to calculate the priming sugar - but this does nothing!
With some hunting around I found that the priming calculation is based on the values in the "water volumes" tab where there are fields for batch size and bottling/fermentation loss (why isn't this trub loss field with the rest of the bottling calculations?). BeerSmith appears to take your batch volume (not your measured batch volume!) and subtract your fermentation/trub loss to create the estimated bottling volume, which is then used for priming sugar calculation.
Long story short, this is not intuitive at all and doesn't allow you to separate your planned values from real world results. This is only disappointing because BeerSmith 2 has made HUGE strides in this by letting you record so many other fields separately between estimated and recorded values (mash efficiency, brewhouse efficiency, batch volume, etc). There should be a way to have a priming sugar calculation based on estimated values (for recipe planning) and another calculation that uses your measured batch volume and bottling volume and calculates your priming sugar and trub losses for you.
The problem is, it doesn't work. There is a "batch size" field, a "measured batch size" field, an "est bottling vol" field and a "measured bottling vol" field. The obvious thing would be to set the measured bottling volume to calculate the priming sugar - but this does nothing!
With some hunting around I found that the priming calculation is based on the values in the "water volumes" tab where there are fields for batch size and bottling/fermentation loss (why isn't this trub loss field with the rest of the bottling calculations?). BeerSmith appears to take your batch volume (not your measured batch volume!) and subtract your fermentation/trub loss to create the estimated bottling volume, which is then used for priming sugar calculation.
Long story short, this is not intuitive at all and doesn't allow you to separate your planned values from real world results. This is only disappointing because BeerSmith 2 has made HUGE strides in this by letting you record so many other fields separately between estimated and recorded values (mash efficiency, brewhouse efficiency, batch volume, etc). There should be a way to have a priming sugar calculation based on estimated values (for recipe planning) and another calculation that uses your measured batch volume and bottling volume and calculates your priming sugar and trub losses for you.