BREWFATHER 2.0 - New Features and Profile creation - Brewzilla 35L - Robobrew

[@rich3614]

Thank you, Newbie Brewzilla user here, used this data in Brewfather today. Absolutely spot on for my first attempt! Did a simple Mosaic Smash and seemed to hit all my numbers. Love your work!

[@stevetindall3766]

Great vid Gash. Thanks for putting in the hard yards foie the rest of us. I have just changed to Brewfather (from BrewersFriend) and this was super helpful. Legend!!

[@SteveT__001]

Cheers mate, just decided to settle on Brewfather and that was a great walk through of the profiles

[@MrPhillian]

I’ve just jumped on brewfather and think it’s streets ahead of beer smith. Just ordered my tilt and Pi to hook up to it as well. I’ll try and give you some kick backs when my trail runs out. Thanks Gash.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

I think theres parts that are ahead and parts that aren't, but people are really loving brewfather! Beersmith has a lot more control, but it can take years from them to update to something like having tilt connected. Cheers mate!

[@MrPhillian]

@@HomeBrewNetwork I think I'm enjoying it more because I'm feeling like I get more feedback about dialing in my system. I run a Guten 40l and have never got the system perfect yet with Beersmith 2. But I've only been brewing all grain for just over a year and been mucking around with a wide range of variables. Things are just starting to settle down a bit now that I have worked out my processes a bit further. Thanks mate.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

@@MrPhillian I think it takes a long time to figure out where everything is in Beersmith, beersmith isnt pretty but its very functional, Brewfather needs an Advanced version or options so a little bit more tweaking things is easier, but the basics are there and thats mostly what people need, that's for sure! I need to learn more about brewfather, its just confusing for me because there isnt many settings. lol thats what people like hahaha Cheers mate!

[@PaHoHaska]

Thank you very much for this vid !! I'm an absolute noob with the new Brewzilla, trying to set up a profile on Brewfather - confused by all those numbers - one big mess :-) Your video helps me a lot. TY

[@Butsugen8]

Really helpful thanks very much for posting

[@birdybro9403]

Thanks Gash mate, You're a LEGEND!🍻

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Cheers Birdy Bro!

[@CiWhite89]

Great work Gash - I was just wondering the other day if you had a Brewfather equipment profile. Love brewing on the Robobrew and you have taught me a heap. Thanks!

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Cheers mate!

[@tommygun83]

Fantastic mate, been trying to figure this out, what all the different settings are on equipment profiles. Helped heaps. Cheers.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Cheers Tommy.

[@rayw9067]

Hey gash. I’m doing a trial now with Brewfather and I grabbed your VB recipe and I was able to copy your equipment profile from that. 👍 I think I’ll give Brewfather a run this time as well mix it up a bit. Did you ever run a brew day with it after this as a test?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

geez thats a long time ago I think the profile in the vb one is this one, maybe adjusted though, I think I changed a few things.

[@rayw9067]

@@HomeBrewNetwork well I’ve set mine up very similar to yours and your video. I just can’t come at the 20l mash water all the time and the dead space obviously it may need some adjusting after a few runs

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

@@rayw9067 theres a setting for min and max mash ratios, click without grain included. i used to have something like 17 min 21 max.. but | just know 20 works for 4 to 5 kilo, 6kg i might go 21, and its around about 35l all up each time, bigger grain bill suck a little more water. small grain bills a little less, i dont rely on the programs for water amounts, even though its pretty bloody close each time.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

99% of the time you'll realise that mash ratios dont really work due to the dead spaces, say you want 3:1 if you got 5kg of grain thats 15L plus whatever the dead space is say its 5L i cant remember right now.. well that would be mash water of 20l, but if you had 6.5kg theres 19.5L plus 5L dead space, 24.5L its not going to fit. so if you're usually brewing with with say 4 to 6kg you can just set it to 20L min 20L max and it just makes it easy for you each time, you know its going to be 20L to start, maths easy, water calc easy .. if you do a random really small beer or large beer you change it for them

[@rayw9067]

@@HomeBrewNetwork ahh yes thanks mate. I also found the thread about the profile last night on cellar dweller it’s so simple when I think about it now lol. Cheers for all your help

[@imsd89]

Great overview video! Quick question, when/why would you scale a recipe? If the recipe was done on a piece of equipment that wasn't a Robobrew? To account for volume differences etc? Cheers!

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Yep, or for smaller bench top batch, even just 5 gallon to 6 gallon. When making some one else recipe you should never just copy the amounts, you copy the ratios or percentages, even on the same equipment it can operate differently in different parts of the world, Cheers!

[@Jarvo325]

Hey Gash, what software are you using these days. Have you changed to Brewfather exclusively? I always used beersmith, used brewfather once but thinking about switching. Is the profile in the video still your latest profile for the brewfather?

[@Beerjunkieguy]

Maybe I missed it but could you share how you got your Beer Style graph to go across the screen as at about 9:50? I'm sure it's something simple but I just can't find it.

[@dunster]

Do you know what the setting difference would be in Canada 1500w total , 35l

[@SKBRANN06]

Hi! I just wonder how you get the "ABV - OG - FG - EBC - IBU" section above the "Fermentables" & "Hops" sections. Hope you know what I mean. I got mine in the right top corner. I couldn't figure it out in the settings.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

You zoom in, it's CTRL and + . Cheers! Thats on PC so google zoom on other platforms. Cheers!

[@SKBRANN06]

Ahh...Thanx man :)

[@kacerhomebeerbrewing]

Nice! I've had a play with it but at the end of the day I messed it up and walk away :)). Still BS3 bigt more understandable to me atm. Cheers mate!

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

I agree mate, Im the same at the moment

[@kacerhomebeerbrewing]

@@HomeBrewNetwork cool ;-)

[@craiggambetta694]

Thanks Gash, great video as per usual. What i do not understand is the setting of min and max mash limits. Does this control how much strike water you use for the mash? If so, doesnt all other settings like water to grain ratio, deadspace volume (6.75Kg) calculate the strike volume for you. In your exmple, the water totals state in red that calculations exceed your max mash volume (20 Litres) so therefore you are 4.75 litres shy of what Brewfather suggests your total water volume should be. Hope this makes sense...

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Yep thats right, I set my mash strike, not brewfather, ratios just dont work in systems like this, so I set the minimum I'd use and a rough maximum. I can fit 8kg grain in but no where near what a ratio for the water would be, limitations of small vessels, but unless you're going really nuts it all works out fine mate. Cheers!

[@craiggambetta694]

@@HomeBrewNetwork So if you have a high volume grain bill then you are confined to a thicker mash, does this effect efficiency??

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

@@craiggambetta694 Yes you are, and yes you'll lose efficiency, but this is the case on most systems even 3V unless you have a huge boil pot, if you have to stick to set mash and sparge amounts, or if you follow programs to the T, you will have less efficiency. The only way to avoid this is to have a very big boil pot, and sparge until the run off reads 1.010. You might end up with 4 litres or a gallon extra wort, and then have to boil for 40mins (for eg) longer to get to preboil, but that is the only way to hit numbers precisely, it makes brew days much more work and much longer.

[@craiggambetta694]

@@HomeBrewNetwork Great information mate and thank you for taking the time to clarify. This is making sense as to why i am not getting great mash efficiency, to much strike water maybe. I watched a good video by Hendo from Rockstar Brewing. He does a video on hitting numbers accurately and in a nutshell he says add 10% more grain, overshoot your target OG and then add water to dilute till you reach your target OG. It makes sense, his motto is dont try to control factors that are out of your control, use what you can control.

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

@@craiggambetta694 Exactly, anyone that says they get perfect numbers every time is full of shit. You can get perfect numbers if you put the work in, like what I said, lots of sparge and extra boil off etc. or Like what Hendo said, where you overshoot and water down, both cases though you need boil pot room. I mean can add water half way through the boil but then you're messing a bit with your hop utilisation, though probably not enough to notice. Cheers mate

[@blink4711]

I got a question Gash... it maybe something stupid. But how did you get that page look with the green info bar stretched across the screen? I just downloaded it, and its a small corner on the top right side with thew ABV, OG and FG etc in a small box. Like how your page looks. Is it in settings?

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

I zoom in, its "CTRL and +" at least in google chrome and windows. Cheers!

[@blink4711]

@@HomeBrewNetwork Legend. Thanks mate. Cheers.

[@blink4711]

@@HomeBrewNetwork I just thought the view was in the programme... Thanks again. Im doing a brew tomorrow and changed my settings like you showed with my Robobrew ver3. Sounds heaps better. I have have been going in with heaps less water in mash by following Beersmith. This will be a good experiment.

[@HairyJamie]

Kyuss, best band I ever saw

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Yes one of my favourites! Cheers!

[@battlelux]

KYUSS!! 🤘🤘

[@aidanhill]

65L?

[@adamb7744]

Thanks man. That boil rate seems really low. I bumped it up to 4.3L

[@HomeBrewNetwork]

Yeah theres many ways to achieve results, my older ones I did that, this was just a way I came up with today more closely using the supplied profile. I'll see how it goes. Cheers!