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Hi all,
I was browsing the subject category under the ‘Homebrew Recipes’ menu and landed on the ‘Ozark Beer Co. Belgian Golden Ale’. Entered it in Brewfather and ended up with an OG not even in the ball park of the recipe. Discovered that the conversions from metric to imperial in the recipe are way off. I did not see a consistent factor of conversion, in fact. I only looked at a few other recipes, which seemed OK, so I don’t know if this is an issue elsewhere.

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Where were you looking? Can you give a link to it?

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… Or look under Home Brew Recipes → Top 50 Homebrew Clone Recipes → Arkansas : Ozark Beer Co. Belgian Golden Ale.

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Though I have not looked at the specific recipe you are using, when converting from/to metric I use BeerSmith, change the standard the software uses to the one the original recipe is written in, enter the recipe as written, then change the standard back to my preference and it converts the recipe for me. I have to make slight +/- tweaks to round up/down that make sense but it otherwise works fairly well.

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Thanks Dwain,
The recipes list the Imperial units and then metric in parentheses. The Imperial units are off by a lot, for example the base malt is listed as 6 lb, but converting from the listed metric units results in 7.1 lb. Same for the other malts and hops.

EDIT: I meant to add that the metric units are OK per the gravities and IBUs in the recipe. Converting the metric quantities and using the resulting Imperial quantities brings everything back into alignment.

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I did look at the recipe in question, and the imperial-metric conversion is definitely wonky.