🍺 Top-down Brew: Beer Engine 2024 Concise

Codes and format

• og: Original gravity in specific gravity (1.0XX) or degrees plato (°P)
• m: Malt name, fermentable %, Lovibond, and yield (SG or percent) with comma separations
• s: Sugar or extract name, fermentable %, Lovibond, and yield (SG or percent) with comma separations.
• IBU: International bittering units
• h: Hop name, IBU %, AA %, and boil minutes with comma separations.
• lb: Late boil spice name and dosage (grams/liter) separated by a comma
• dry: Dry hop additions with name and dosage (grams/liter) separated by a comma
• y: Yeast type, ale or lager

Use a return/enter at the end of each line.

Enter the desired volume at the end of the boil. The volume units can be either liters, gallons, or US barrels.

Select the preferred unit of measurement for the inputs and outputs. Metric uses liters, grams, and kilograms. US uses gallons, ounces, and pounds. US Barrels (31 gallons = 1 barrel) is in barrels, pounds, and ounces.

Enter the anticipated mash efficiency percentage. If this is not known, try the following values based on the sparge method: Steeping (50%), No-sparge or brew-in-a-bag (65 to 75%), Batch sparge (80%), or Continuous (fly) sparge (85 to 90%).