Including all Fermentables in Grain Weight?#126

If something isn’t included in the mash, then why would it contribute to the weight of the grain? The algorithm for figuring out how much strike/sparge water depends on this calculation. So if you could, if someone designates something as “Mash” it should contribute to Grain Weight, which then factors into the Strike/Sparge ratio. Extract/Late Additions/Etc, should be factored in differently.

As it is, I have to remove my late additions/extracts from the recipe, record what the strike/sparge is, and then add the additions back.

It would also be helpful to factor in the late additions in terms of how they might effect volume, if that’s possible.

Say I’m going to add a kg of honey as a late addition, that is also going to change my final volume. If Late Additions could be factored in this way in terms of how much they will add to the ending volume, that would be super-helpful.

In the recipe creator, non-mash fermentables (steep/extract/late additions) are excluded from the grain weight when calculating mash and sparge water volumes. If you have some examples where this is not the case please provide some examples so that we can fix it.

Good idea regarding accounting for volume of late additions, currently we are not taking that into account. We will add this to our roadmap.

Thanks

Yeah so if you check it out on the Brew app, it’s displaying the total weight of fermentables and it’s calculating water volumes differently than on the Recipe app. The Brew App says I need 31 liters of water, 21 in the strike and 9 in the sparge and the Recipe app says I need 27 liters 16 in the mash 13 in the sparge.

Thanks for pointing this out, we will get a fix out in the next release.

Thank you Marko! Great product. Really enjoy making beer with it!