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    Brewing Success: Calculate Boil Length for Specific Gravity

    On my last batch I collected 8.5 gallons of wort with a specific gravity or 1.030 pre boil, and the post boil specific gravity target was to be 1.052. I was aiming for a post boil volume of 5.5 gallons and I calculated that I lost roughly 1.625 gallons to evaporation during my 60 minute boil...
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    Brewing Success: Calculate Boil Length for Specific Gravity

    Given a pre boil volume of 8.5 gallons at a SG of 1.030 and a target SG of 1.052 post boil with 1.63 gallons per hour evaporation, could you give me an example of what the math would look like. I want to make sure I'm doing this correctly and mimicking your answer would help me best learn it.
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    Brewing Success: Calculate Boil Length for Specific Gravity

    What is Pwhart?
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    Brewing Perfect Wort: Asking Tom Dible How Long to Boil

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    Brewing Success: Calculate Boil Length for Specific Gravity

    Since the yeast feed off the sugars in the wort if you miss your OG on the low side you will end up with a beer that is lower in alcohol than the recipe might have originally yielded. The thing you need to remember is that the yeast need enough time to eat as much of the sugar as they can...
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    Brewing Perfect Wort: Asking Tom Dible How Long to Boil

    Thanks for the information, and I will give the program a try as well as let some of the brewers I talk to know about it. I am aware that evaporation is dependent on many factors, but I'm just looking for an estimate anyway. Over the weekend I brewed and missed my ending gravity by a ton and...
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    Brewing Perfect Wort: Asking Tom Dible How Long to Boil

    Hello. I am not quite sure this is the correct place for this question so I will apologize now if it isn't. As a home brewer I mash the malt with hot water and collect the runoff (called wort) which contains the sugars needed for fermentation. Most recipes call for a boil length of either 60...
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    Brewing Success: Calculate Boil Length for Specific Gravity

    Hello. I am not quite sure this is the correct place for this question so I will apologize now if it isn't. As a home brewer I mash the malt with hot water and collect the runoff (called wort) which contains the sugars needed for fermentation. Most recipes call for a boil length of either 60...
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    Undergrad Brewing Wort: Calculating Boil Length for Desired Gravity

    Hello. I am not quite sure this is the correct place for this question so I will apologize now if it isn't. As a home brewer I mash the malt with hot water and collect the runoff (called wort) which contains the sugars needed for fermentation. Most recipes call for a boil length of either 60...