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This is a general point that someone may be able to answer.
When you select Late Addition for a fermentable the builder automatically reduces the calculated Gravity and increases the IBU value as it states here (from the Learn / Documentation section):
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The Late Addition Checkbox: Use this to exclude the fermentable from the estimated boil gravity used in the calculator. To reveal this for a standard fermentable, click the down arrow (▼) below the fermentable line, or click the '▼ All' button. This is usually done for about half of the total fermentables in an extract batch, but can also be done in any brew method when boosting the gravity with sugar. Doing it this way increases IBUs (higher utilization), so you get more bitterness out of the same hops.
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But... does the overall Boil Time get taken into account? Should there not be a time option - say a percentage value that works with the boil time - so the true effect of the late addition to the SG it taken into account. Whenever the fermentable is put in it must make a variable effect on the resultant SG. Five minutes out of 90 may be ignored but say it was 25 out of 60 minutes?
Or does it not really matter and being "late" is a too difficult calculation to have any bearing on the end result?
When you select Late Addition for a fermentable the builder automatically reduces the calculated Gravity and increases the IBU value as it states here (from the Learn / Documentation section):
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The Late Addition Checkbox: Use this to exclude the fermentable from the estimated boil gravity used in the calculator. To reveal this for a standard fermentable, click the down arrow (▼) below the fermentable line, or click the '▼ All' button. This is usually done for about half of the total fermentables in an extract batch, but can also be done in any brew method when boosting the gravity with sugar. Doing it this way increases IBUs (higher utilization), so you get more bitterness out of the same hops.
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But... does the overall Boil Time get taken into account? Should there not be a time option - say a percentage value that works with the boil time - so the true effect of the late addition to the SG it taken into account. Whenever the fermentable is put in it must make a variable effect on the resultant SG. Five minutes out of 90 may be ignored but say it was 25 out of 60 minutes?
Or does it not really matter and being "late" is a too difficult calculation to have any bearing on the end result?
