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I am inputting a recipe from the July/August 2006 issue of Zymurgy (Stone 8th Anniversary Ale) into Beersmith as a reminder to brew it someday.

According to the recipe in the magazine, the IBUs should be 55. When I put the listed amounts into Beersmith, my calculated IBUs are 40. What gives?

The obvious: Yes I have the right hop form (pellet); Yes I have the right times; Yes I have the right AA %

make sure you have your settings to reflect the same hop utilization formula, i.e. rager, tinseth, etc. Each will give you a different number.

Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company

Problem solved! Just switched over to rager. Thank a million Bug!

PS - What the hell are these formulas? Your telling me that all my recipes have 3 different values for IBUs?

JRoche00 wrote:What the hell are these formulas? Your telling me that all my recipes have 3 different values for IBUs?

Yes.

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JRoche00 wrote:PS - What the hell are these formulas? Your telling me that all my recipes have 3 different values for IBUs?

No, they have 4. Three from the different formulas and the IBUs that you actually get on your syestem.

In my system I know that I get a better hop utilization since beers tend to turn out more bitter than I expected. I then started aiming low knowing that shooting for 27-30 IBUs will get me something that tastes more like 35-40 IBUs when comparing with commercial examples. I also brew my recipes over and over and adjust the targeted IBU number from batch to batch if I think that there is a change necessary.

Kai

Who said brewing beer is easy. I will punch them in the face.

4 different IBU calculations.... pbbbbbt.

JRoche00 wrote:Who said brewing beer is easy. I will punch them in the face.

4 different IBU calculations.... pbbbbbt.

Brewing beer is easy...mastering it is not!