The geek in me is already thinking through setting up recipe conversion spreadsheets, etc, but I was hoping to see if the methodology looked sound to the folks who have been doing this for a while. I’m going to do one more extract kit, then work on converting a recipe to partial mash using these formulas… be prepared for me to ask a billion advice questions.
I believe beer smith has a built in conversion feature. Though I have never used it.
So far, in my limited experience, if I was searching for a partial mash recipe, google usually finds several. Then I kind of read through a few for reviews and maybe combine recipes or run the recipe by this forum. There is usually great feed back on tweaking recipes here.
My recipes are researched, but usually look different than what I find; last beers that I really tried to clone was Two Hearted and Cynic. I’m leaning now toward the freestyle.
Partial mash recipes are the most difficult recipes to find.
That said, converting an all grain recipe to PM is fairly easy. I can mash 6lbs of grain in my 3 gallon cooler. So I include all of the specialty grains from the AG recipe in my mash, plus however much of the base malt that I can to bring it to 6lbs. Then replace the remaining amount of base malt with light or extra light LME and/or DME to get to the proper OG.
If you’re doing a partial boil, use late extract additions just as you would for an extract batch. If I’m brewing a PM batch, I’ll boil 3.5 gallons of the wort extracted from my mash for 60 minutes, then add the extract at flameout before cooling. It works great.
I highly recommend using a recipe-building software. BeerSmith, qBrew, even Hopville.com all work great.
Crookedtail tail’s thought process is what I’ve done in the past. Works when moving an extract batch to PM, an AG batch to PM, extract to AG, or AG to extract.
Enter a recipe into a program. Note the OG. Make changes to match the OG. Simple.
qBrew and Hopville are both free and work just fine. There’s even a free recipe formulator app called BrewR that is available for Android phones (they probably have it for iPhones as well).
qBrew and Hopville are both free and work just fine. There’s even a free recipe formulator app called BrewR that is available for Android phones (they probably have it for iPhones as well).[/quote]
I’m one of the few, the proud, the Windows Phone users… I only found one app for WP7, and there’s no “preview” of it, so I’ll check out the free options you mentioned. Thanks for the tip!
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I’m one of the few, the proud, the Windows Phone users… I only found one app for WP7, and there’s no “preview” of it, so I’ll check out the free options you mentioned. Thanks for the tip![/quote]
God I hated my old Windows phone. Lived with it for two years and just despised it every time I picked it up and it was a top of the line phone. I hear the Win8 phones are pretty cool though
qBrew and Hopville are both free and work just fine. There’s even a free recipe formulator app called BrewR that is available for Android phones (they probably have it for iPhones as well).[/quote]
I’m one of the few, the proud, the Windows Phone users… I only found one app for WP7, and there’s no “preview” of it, so I’ll check out the free options you mentioned. Thanks for the tip![/quote]
I use QBREW and I’ve used it for converting AG to PM, AG to Extract, Extract to AG, etc.
I like that the database is editable so you can add or modify any of the ingredients.
Well, I ended up finding a Windows phone app that offers a trial version (PocketBrewer) and threw this together… as my wife will tell you, I tend to make things too complicated, so I tried to be as simple as possible here… too simple? (And yes, I kind of like “Recipe name left blank amber ale” as a name)
Name: Recipe Name Left Blank
Post Boil Volume: 5.00
Pre Boil Volume: .00
Mash Time: 60.00
Boil Time: 60.00
Desired Original Gravity: 1.07
Desired Final Gravity: 1.015
Calculated Likely ABV% Based on Specified Gravities: 7.200
Users Targeted ABV%: .000
Desired CO2 Volumes: 0
Anticipated Brewhouse Efficiency: 68
Likely Original Gravity at 5.00 Based on Grains and Efficiency: @ 68% = 362 GU = 1.072
