founddrama
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I found this old post which is asking roughly the same question, but there were no replies and I thought I'd ask here.
I do quite a bit of partial mash brews with late-addition extract added to help hit the O.G.'s that I want. What I'm running into is that when I take my gravity readings, I'm doing so after the mash has completed but before I've added the extracts. I'm finding that BeerSmith will show me an estimated post-mash gravity like 1.082 but what I actually get is something closer to 1.050 (with the remaining points coming late in the boil from the extract).
Is there a setting that I've missed that can account for this? Or should I create two versions of the recipe (one with the extract and one without) -- as a hack to get around this? What are other people doing to calculate their mash efficiencies when partial mash brewing?
I do quite a bit of partial mash brews with late-addition extract added to help hit the O.G.'s that I want. What I'm running into is that when I take my gravity readings, I'm doing so after the mash has completed but before I've added the extracts. I'm finding that BeerSmith will show me an estimated post-mash gravity like 1.082 but what I actually get is something closer to 1.050 (with the remaining points coming late in the boil from the extract).
Is there a setting that I've missed that can account for this? Or should I create two versions of the recipe (one with the extract and one without) -- as a hack to get around this? What are other people doing to calculate their mash efficiencies when partial mash brewing?