Belgian Blonde by Malt Miller

D4nny74 · Post by **D4nny74** » Wed May 06, 2015 9:26 pm

Hi All , not far form getting all my kit sorted now and I’ve just ordered the belgain blonde from the malt miller but when i put them in beersmith2 and put in that I want 23ltr for fermenter its saying I have 27ltrs post boil ? Am I missing something

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Cheers Danny

Bazz · Post by **Bazz** » Wed May 06, 2015 9:34 pm

Only a guess, but dead space in the boiler with the trub etc?

Post by **f00b4r** » Wed May 06, 2015 10:11 pm

The Malt Miller kit volumes refer to the amount in the fermenter (I emailed Rob about it previously). Bear in mind if that is hot wort for end of boil volume it will also shrink by about a litre as well, you have kettle losses to dead space and trub as mentioned above and your particular equipment/efficiency may affect things as well.

D4nny74 · Post by **D4nny74** » Wed May 06, 2015 10:39 pm

How did you find the kit foob4r ?

Post by **f00b4r** » Wed May 06, 2015 10:47 pm

It was another kit I was enquiring about but Rob clarified what was meant by batch size.

Manngold · Post by **Manngold** » Wed May 06, 2015 10:57 pm

I brewed this just before Christmas. It has taken a while to condition, but is extremely nice. Really reminds me of my time in Brugges. Mine came in at 6.1 Abv.

windrider · Post by **windrider** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:03 am

Did this kit last year D4nny74 and it came out really good. I used a BIAB setup and only got 20 litres in to the fermenter from it...

D4nny74 · Post by **D4nny74** » Thu May 07, 2015 10:23 am

Cheers all, will follow beersmith2 and see what happens

windrider · Post by **windrider** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:08 am

D4nny74 wrote:Cheers all, will follow beersmith2 and see what happens

Not sure if you have noticed but your recipe report is showing an OG: 1.055 (bit weak for a true Belgian blond) when the recipe on MaltMillers should be 1.065? Probably because you've increased the batch size as i'm sure this is for a 19-20 volume in to fermenter.

D4nny74 · Post by **D4nny74** » Thu May 07, 2015 11:14 am

cheers for the pointer mate , will change my volume. just getting my head around program , cheers Danny

Jocky · Post by **Jocky** » Mon May 11, 2015 12:37 pm

'Batch size' is used very widely, but nobody ever explains which volume they're referring to.

For BeerSmith, 'batch size' means Volume into Fermenter.

Your Bottling Volume will be lower than this due to loss from trub, dry hops and yeast.
Your End of Boil Volume will be slightly higher than the batch size to allow for loss to trub, hops, cooling and any deadspace in your boiler.

D4nny74 · Post by **D4nny74** » Mon May 11, 2015 4:07 pm

Cheers Jocky

Just need a electronic thermometer now then am sorted

cheers All

Dan

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