http://www.mrmalty.com/calc/calc.html
Yeast Pitching Calculator
Beer/Wine Blending calculator
I found the following calculator and used it to figure out what the ABV of my FSS is(or should be) after bottling
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/blending.asp
The adjusted ABV should be 4.2 % based on the SG of the beer before I added the priming solution. The SG measurement of the primed beer seems to have been off by quite a lot.
Random Beer Name Generator
Looking for a few things today I ran across the Random Beer Name Generator on www.strangebrew.ca I decided to name my latest brew Flying Squirrel Special Bitter. I hope the name is not already being used somewhere.
Strong Bad
While I was brewing yesterday, I was listening to random mp3’s through jinzora. The song Full Throttle by Prodigy came on. It so reminded me of the following Strong Bad e-mail clip.
New Grain Mill
I got tired of dealing with the local HBS. They have a nice selection at their store, but the proprietors have the personality of a rotting lump of hamburger. I got tired of being treated like shit when I spend my money. Sooo…I purchased a Barley Crusher grain mill. This thing runs sweet. I filled the hopper with Maris Otter and started cranking.. after about a minute I hooked up the drill.
I crushed 8 lbs of MO in less than 2 minutes. It would have been faster if I had hooked up the drill to begin with. I did not make any adjustments to the gap setting on the crusher. the roller gap is still set to .039 in/1mm. The crush came out much better than I have ever used before. I can’t wait to brew on Saturday.
Beer Beer Beer
I always loved the videos that they make over at rathergood.com. Check this one out.
Beer Beer Beer
Bottle priming references
Ingredients Guides
No Rise Sanitizing
Calculating Mashing efficiency
I realized that when I posted about calculating extract yield, that I forgot to explain how I calculated brewhouse effieiency. I use the same formula
S.G. = ((((DBCG – Mousture Content – 0.002) * Brewhouse Efficiency * 46.214) * 0.001) +1)
Except that I remove the variable for brewhouse efficiency. The forumla will then assume that the mashing efficiency is at 100%
S.G. = ((((DBCG – MC – 0.002) * 46.214) * 0.001) +1)
This will give us the theoretical maximum ppg of 1 lb of grain in 1 gallon of water. For example, Maris Otter Pale Malt.
S.G. = ((((0.805 – 0.03 – 0.002) * 46.214) * 0.001) +1)
S.G. = 1.035723422 or 35.7ppg
In my bitter 2 recipe I mashed 3 lbs. of Maris Otter Pale Malt, and 1 lb of Briess 10 L crystal malt collecting a final 2.5 gallons of wort at a S.G of 1.043 .
The theoretical maximum ppg of 10 L crystal malt is
S.G. = ((((0.75 – 0.07 – 0.002) * 46.214) * 0.001) +1)
S.G = 1.031333092 or 31.3 ppg
Now, using the formula from John Palmer’s How To Brew, we calculate the maximum theoretical points for our brew using the following formula
((ppg Malt1 x lbs Malt1) / gallons of wort) + ((ppg Malt2 x lbs Malt2) / gallons of wort) = Total Points
((35.7 x 3)/2.5) + ((31.3 x 1)/2.5) = 55.36
This is our theoretical maximum number of points per gallon.
In the wort for the Bitter 2 recipe the S.G was 1.043 or 43 ppg. If we divide our real ppg by the theoretical ppg this will yeild our percentage yeild.
43/55 x 100 = 77.75%