Wheeler's Beer Engine

[dedken]

Hi Graham,

Had to use BKE the other day to bring up my points, but couldn't find it directly on the ingredients list - is this the thing known as malto-dextrin? Or is it something else?

[Graham]

Hi Graham,
Had to use BKE the other day to bring up my points, but couldn't find it directly on the ingredients list - is this the thing known as malto-dextrin? Or is it something else?

Unlikely. Malto-dextrin is meant as a beer kit improver, used to replace part of the sugar in a kit and kilo kit, but that is not what Muntons BKE is. Muntons BKE is something like 50/50 sugar and dried malt extract. I am not sure of the exact ratio, perhaps the packaging would give a clue. If not assume a 50/50 ratio and enter the two ingredients separately. Seems an expensive way of upping the gravity though.

[dedken]

Entering the ingredients separately was not something I had thought of before! I just had some BKE lying around and I wanted to use it rather than pure sugar because of the malt it contains. What would you suggest as a cheaper way of upping the gravity?

[WishboneBrewery]

Using less liquor with the same Malt bill

[dedken]

A bit late for that!!

[Uncle Joshua]

Is it worth downloading Wheeler's Beer Engine? I bought his book last week and hope to start extract brewing in the next few and wondered if this would help?

[WishboneBrewery]

BeerEngine is free and very useful.

It could use an Update though!

[Uncle Joshua]

BeerEngine is free and very useful.

It could use an Update though!

Cheers. downloaded. I'll try work out how to use it later.

[Uncle Joshua]

I'm trying to use the beer engine to work out an extract recipe for Tanglefoot as per this thread...

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=43312

I'm adding the hops but can't work out how to chance how many grams to add. I have this ....




But can't change how many grams of each hops I need. any idea's?

[simple one]

Unclick the fixed box. Then it'll change from ibus to grams.

[Uncle Joshua]

Cheers Simple One.

[moose]

OOI is the old perl/tk version of this available anywhere? It'd be fun to have a hack around with it for those of us who don't use windows primarily .

Thanks,

Stu

[timbo41]

Graham have played about a bit with your engine and found it informative just wonder:
I brew kits with modifications have you considered putting kits data into ingredients list( I realise this is a HUGE amount of work sorry!!)
I tend to only use additional hops as flavour/aroma with a max 15 min boil or dry hopping is there any way of incoporatin g this into engine??

Dont want much do I
Beercalculus kind of does this but crashes all the time probably my server Cheers

[critch]

any news on the steep hops calculation graham?

many thanks for the app by the way its reet good

[garwatts]

any news on the steep hops calculation graham?

many thanks for the app by the way its reet good

Has Graham brought an app out then?