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I'm plowing through my noob phase and like to have quick references for new material. I spread a little chart for myself, and thought I would post it in case it would save someone else a little time.

are you really making a 4l wash? i would convert to 20l but that is the size of all my washes.

Thanks!

ipee7ABV wrote:are you really making a 4l wash? i would convert to 20l but that is the size of all my washes.

Oh, no. The first line of each recipe is simply what the author of that recipe presented as his formula. In the first two cases, rad wasn't suggesting a batch size, he was making it easy to scale to any even 4 liter (~gallon) size batch. To compare recipes, and to make scaling even easier, I then converted the recipe to both 1 gallon and 1 liter sizes in the following two rows. It is because I haven't even chosen my boiler size, and therefore my batch size, that I wanted an easy way to compare recipes as well as make scaling them up dead simple.

Too late to edit my first post of this thread, but unfortunately I discovered two errors. The sugar weight in the first two washes had an error in the 1 liter rows. The highlighted cells in this new chart corrects the gram weight from 239 to 174. Sorry.

Bungling along, here are a few more charts for what they're worth.

The first gives weight/volume conversions for common wash ingredients. Thought it might help someone without a scale (or vice-versa, without measuring spoons).
The second deals with assimilable nitrogen for simple and complex yeast nutrients.

[EDIT: the first line of this table should be grams/hectoliter, not gallons/hectoliter... doh!]
The third lists maximum allowable levels of various adjuncts to both distillation and wine ferments, according to the US TTB. Might help to at least be aware of health concerns.

Good effort.

Cheers for the charts. They will be going into my brew folder.

I'm an idiot, but I try, thank you.