Preboil gravity readings

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Preboil gravity readings

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Fairly new to BTP and I can't figure out how to figure a couple things. I see where my original gravity and terminal gravity is calculated, but how can I find my pre-boil SG. Post mash I would like to take a gravity reading and figure out how close I will be to my OG after I boil off and cool to room temp. Thanks.

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Joe028 wrote:Fairly new to BTP and I can't figure out how to figure a couple things. I see where my original gravity and terminal gravity is calculated, but how can I find my pre-boil SG. Post mash I would like to take a gravity reading and figure out how close I will be to my OG after I boil off and cool to room temp. Thanks.

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BTP gives the predicted OG reading post boil. But it would be great if it could also calculate the Pre-boil OG, which would give us a target to aim for.
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in search for an answer I came up with a somewhat crude solution. I opened a new blank recipe and put in enough 2-row malt to equal an OG equal to that of my actual recipe at the 5.25gal (or whatever your post-boil volume is). Then I change the final volume to my pre-boil volume with OUT Scaling. The OG is adjusted to that volume. Works for now, but yeah that would be nice if it was calculated for you.
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version 1.0.17

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The latest update addresses this issue. The help tag displays pre-boil gravity when mousing over the kettle volume. Likewise the help tag displays the original gravity when mousing over the final volume field.
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jeff wrote:The latest update addresses this issue. The help tag displays pre-boil gravity when mousing over the kettle volume. Likewise the help tag displays the original gravity when mousing over the final volume field.
I am using BTP 1.0.21, but still cant seem to display the pre-boil gravity even when moving the mouse over the kettle volume or final volume fields. What is the help tag your referring to?
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Post by jawbox »

I'm running 1.0.22 and can confirm that mousing over kettle and final volume does work.
Jeff would it be possible to put the pre-boil gravity on the print out next to or under the total run-off?

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I've tried running 1.0.22 but it won't load. Gives me the following error:

Runtime error 4: Failed Assertion
Location:/volumes/rbus/common/pluggin.cpp:7078
failure condition: pluginEntrytable.getEntry(entrypointname, out)
failure message: cant find plugin melthod extingeger__init

Im using Mac OS 10.2.8 1Ghz PowerPC G4

Can anyone advise?
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