I started to brew in the beginning of this year. Got a cheap kit from a friend as a christmas gift and it escalated out of control immediately. By now, my whole apartment is a brewhouse! I even cleaned out my storage room (at last) and made it into a "conditioning room". Davids lessons, as I see them, are priceless. It has been my primary source of knowledge about this craft from the beginning and will so be in the furutre as long he posting new content! On topic Im a quite rebellious newbie and like to experiment a lot and not follow recipes word by word. Of course some "compositions" turned out...interesting but learning by mistakes are quite powerful as well when developing a broader understanding about all factors that make a superior beer...i think. Anyway, Its fun as he...avens doing this. Cheers!
Thanks Jacob. Sounds like you got the brewing bug :) Same here! I think learning by experimenting is a good way, though I would say that you can get more from brewing a recipe to the recipe the first time and then brewing it again with differences. Then you have comparisons and know the differences.
Great video. Adjustments of your recipe are the only way to repeat results in the final product. Especially with hops. Unless you buy a large quantity of what you are using, it will almost always have to be adjusted based on the hops you get. Cheers! 👍🍻
Thank you very much for putting this up. I always brew small batches, so I have always had to struggle with scaling recipes and I have discovered most, but not all, of the information you provided. This is solid gold for a beginner. You almost MUST use a calculator to modify the hops for the resized brew and I made several beers that were hard to enjoy because I changed the hops in a linear calculation...so very, very wrong! Cheers!
Thank you. You would be surprised how many people who have been brewing for some time did not know all of this. I learnt this over the last few months.
Brilliant David ! I have been working on my recipes recently and use the Brewers Friend App! This has helped me greatly and made me understand how to work out recipes from given percentages of grain and hop IBUs to aim for. Thank you sir!👍👍👍
Grain Absorption Rate: I find that the default values in the Grainfather software versus the Brewfather GF profile are wildly different. Makes a big difference in the water quantity calculations. What are you using for Grain Absorption Rate?
@@Brewfather 0.8 what? I'm using Imperial Units I and I see two entirely different numbers. Brewfather uses qts/lb and GF uses gal/lb, so you would expect to see a difference, but the conversion between the two does not compute.
on my Brewfather 110V profile I see 0.383 qt/lb. (I believe this would convert to 0.09575 gal/lb). The GF default for 110v is 0.1. So not as far off as I thought. I'll have to check the receipe I was messing with earlier- maybe something got messed up.
Hey David..I got a Grainfather unit (110V) a little less than a year ago (Jan 2021), and have made about 12 different brews, all using kit purchases and associated GF software. They have turned out very well for sure. Do you know if the GF software has been updated and corrected since after this video was made (as comments mention the conversion errors on the GF recipe software). I want to start getting away from the complete kit brewing approach,, and would like to use a conversion software for my GF that is fairly accurate. Any comments would be very helpful! Thanks!
David, I understand that you use Brewfather from now. Do you put your recipies on the GrainFather software as well so we can find them still? I do not brew as much as you do and the Grainfather software and recipe share library is still handy for my personnal usage... and I am sure that I am not alone in this case. Numerous amateur homebrewers follow your tips and advises as well as your recipes...
Yes, I understand Yannick. When I use the GF then I will share the recipe on GF recipes also but I am also using other equipment now also. Often I find that if you search for my recipe then someone else will have already entered it and this can be checked and then used. The problem is that the GF recipe software is very inaccurate currently and has been for quite some time. This has meant that many GF users are now not using it. So when I or anyone else puts my recipe in it then the numbers it generates for things like gravity, colour and IBU are all wrong. This is a big problem. I want people to brew the actual recipe :) Any recipe can be added manually though, it only takes 5 minutes usually.
David Heath Homebrew ok. Thank you For this advise. I might use your recipes on Brewfather and enterthem manually in the Grainfather software so it can sync with my iPad and Bluetooth. I have no budget, desire or plan to change this equipment for now. That would be nice to get an update on the Grainfather software that could fix these inacuracies.
:-) It is interesting that you remain with 23L (5 Imperial Gallons) and not 25L a nice round number :-). Other than that how do you judge the opened (vacuum Seal) pack of hops with an opened one, even one which has been closed tightly? I am moving to using my Food Saver Vacuum Sealer to do short term seal of the Mylar bag within a standard sealer bag. I do not use pellets very often because I like the hop bed filtering action and have only had limited success with "Whirl Pooling". I use a GrainFather and I believe that the Pump draws the Pellet Hop debis towards it and I am struggling to counter this. I am wandering off-topic, sorry. I found the video and commentary interesting and useful.
Haha thanks James :) I went with 23L as it is the standard GF batch size. AA% loss is pretty slow with hops that are kept in a freezer and resealed in vacuum. Ive got hops in my freezer that are 2 years old and they still taste fresh when brewed with. I only really use pellets. Much more space efficient and I only buy hops in 5kg bags generally. Wp wise yes the punp will dry all trub towards the end but it is not an issue. The main point is wort and trub seperation, which it will do for most of the end wort. Glad you found the video useful :)
You are the David Attenborough of home brewing ! Such informative and easy flowing information. Keep it up!
Many thanks James :)
I started to brew in the beginning of this year. Got a cheap kit from a friend as a christmas gift and it escalated out of control immediately. By now, my whole apartment is a brewhouse! I even cleaned out my storage room (at last) and made it into a "conditioning room".
Davids lessons, as I see them, are priceless. It has been my primary source of knowledge about this craft from the beginning and will so be in the furutre as long he posting new content!
On topic Im a quite rebellious newbie and like to experiment a lot and not follow recipes word by word. Of course some "compositions" turned out...interesting but learning by mistakes are quite powerful as well when developing a broader understanding about all factors that make a superior beer...i think. Anyway, Its fun as he...avens doing this.
Cheers!
Thanks Jacob. Sounds like you got the brewing bug :) Same here! I think learning by experimenting is a good way, though I would say that you can get more from brewing a recipe to the recipe the first time and then brewing it again with differences. Then you have comparisons and know the differences.
"and it escalated out of control immediately" Bästa jag har läst på länge.
Very good video explaining some important details when adding recipes!
🍻🍻🍻 Many thanks 🍻😎😎
Another great video David, I’m glad I have been on the right path! Cheers mate!
Thanks Ken and good to hear :)
Another top video. Thanks David
Many thanks Scott :)
Great video David! Thank you very much for sharing your brewing wisdom. As always I have learned very good staff watching your video.
Great to hear Marc :) Thank you :)
Great video. Adjustments of your recipe are the only way to repeat results in the final product. Especially with hops. Unless you buy a large quantity of what you are using, it will almost always have to be adjusted based on the hops you get. Cheers! 👍🍻
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Thank you very much for putting this up. I always brew small batches, so I have always had to struggle with scaling recipes and I have discovered most, but not all, of the information you provided. This is solid gold for a beginner. You almost MUST use a calculator to modify the hops for the resized brew and I made several beers that were hard to enjoy because I changed the hops in a linear calculation...so very, very wrong! Cheers!
Thank you. You would be surprised how many people who have been brewing for some time did not know all of this. I learnt this over the last few months.
Thanks Dave for the very informative video. One I will use often.
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Great refresher, thanks David
Great, thanks Craig.
Very helpful and just in time for me, just been working on my first AG recipe and using Brewfather so doubly helpful, cheers
Great to hear Steve :)
Outstanding guide David... Thank you
Many thanks Mark :)
Great video very informative just the ticket in a nutshell! Very well produced as always.. .all the best and Mash On! 👍👍🍻🍻
Great to hear, thank you 😎
Brilliant David !
I have been working on my recipes recently and use the Brewers Friend App! This has helped me greatly and made me understand how to work out recipes from given percentages of grain and hop IBUs to aim for.
Thank you sir!👍👍👍
Awesome to hear :) thanks for your feedback :)
Clear information David, thanks. Now I'm gonna try to do that in my brewingsoftware. It is called 'brouwhulp' and later in brewfather.
Thanks Chris, great to hear :) Let me know if you need further help :)
Excellent as expected. Still waiting for my personal lesson from you as my guest in switzerland :)
Haha thanks Manuel. You never know! One day :)
Thanks very much for this David, I just wish I had it a few months ago!
Thanks Justin, glad you found it useful :)
Super video, always interesting to follow you :)
Many thanks Allan, glad you enjoyed it :)
Grain Absorption Rate: I find that the default values in the Grainfather software versus the Brewfather GF profile are wildly different. Makes a big difference in the water quantity calculations. What are you using for Grain Absorption Rate?
I find Grainfather to be more accurate. No point dwelling on any of the variables really.
Both GF and Brewfather use 0.8 as default value
@@Brewfather 0.8 what? I'm using Imperial Units I and I see two entirely different numbers. Brewfather uses qts/lb and GF uses gal/lb, so you would expect to see a difference, but the conversion between the two does not compute.
on my Brewfather 110V profile I see 0.383 qt/lb. (I believe this would convert to 0.09575 gal/lb). The GF default for 110v is 0.1. So not as far off as I thought. I'll have to check the receipe I was messing with earlier- maybe something got messed up.
@@jkmarut ah, sorry 0.8 L per kg
Thank you for your time from Phoenix Arizona ;
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Hey David..I got a Grainfather unit (110V) a little less than a year ago (Jan 2021), and have made about 12 different brews, all using kit purchases and associated GF software. They have turned out very well for sure. Do you know if the GF software has been updated and corrected since after this video was made (as comments mention the conversion errors on the GF recipe software). I want to start getting away from the complete kit brewing approach,, and would like to use a conversion software for my GF that is fairly accurate. Any comments would be very helpful! Thanks!
Hi Bob, I did use the GF software again recently for some brews and it certainly has improved a lot. However, I do prefer Brewfather.
David, I understand that you use Brewfather from now. Do you put your recipies on the GrainFather software as well so we can find them still? I do not brew as much as you do and the Grainfather software and recipe share library is still handy for my personnal usage... and I am sure that I am not alone in this case. Numerous amateur homebrewers follow your tips and advises as well as your recipes...
Hey Yannick. Just look for David Heath in the Grainfather recepie database. He shares them all
Yes, I understand Yannick. When I use the GF then I will share the recipe on GF recipes also but I am also using other equipment now also. Often I find that if you search for my recipe then someone else will have already entered it and this can be checked and then used. The problem is that the GF recipe software is very inaccurate currently and has been for quite some time. This has meant that many GF users are now not using it. So when I or anyone else puts my recipe in it then the numbers it generates for things like gravity, colour and IBU are all wrong. This is a big problem. I want people to brew the actual recipe :) Any recipe can be added manually though, it only takes 5 minutes usually.
ManuelZ thank you Manuel.
David Heath Homebrew ok. Thank you For this advise. I might use your recipes on Brewfather and enterthem manually in the Grainfather software so it can sync with my iPad and Bluetooth. I have no budget, desire or plan to change this equipment for now. That would be nice to get an update on the Grainfather software that could fix these inacuracies.
Thanks David! Could you please tell me the name of the software you normally use?
David Montero I just use Brewfather now.
:-) It is interesting that you remain with 23L (5 Imperial Gallons) and not 25L a nice round number :-). Other than that how do you judge the opened (vacuum Seal) pack of hops with an opened one, even one which has been closed tightly? I am moving to using my Food Saver Vacuum Sealer to do short term seal of the Mylar bag within a standard sealer bag. I do not use pellets very often because I like the hop bed filtering action and have only had limited success with "Whirl Pooling". I use a GrainFather and I believe that the Pump draws the Pellet Hop debis towards it and I am struggling to counter this. I am wandering off-topic, sorry. I found the video and commentary interesting and useful.
Haha thanks James :) I went with 23L as it is the standard GF batch size. AA% loss is pretty slow with hops that are kept in a freezer and resealed in vacuum. Ive got hops in my freezer that are 2 years old and they still taste fresh when brewed with. I only really use pellets. Much more space efficient and I only buy hops in 5kg bags generally. Wp wise yes the punp will dry all trub towards the end but it is not an issue. The main point is wort and trub seperation, which it will do for most of the end wort. Glad you found the video useful :)
'Beer God 2019', I'm locking than in,lol.
Haha :p