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Designing Great Beers has a table listing fermentability of a few brands of extract on p 15. I don't think it's permitted to reproduce it here, but if you search the book content in Amazon, search for "Malt extract test worts" - you'll get a link to table 3.1 which will take you right there. The range is from 45% to 65%.

I've not seen any tools that directly take fermentability for each ingredient into account, and as such,. Most tools seem to estimate or use a fixed value for the fermentability of the wort, and thusconsequently, the final gravity is also just an estimate.

For example, in Hopville, a single item recipe of 10# pale malt gives an OG of 1.056 and FG of 1.014. Plugging in a recipe hitting same OG with 7# table sugar still gives a FG of 1.014 even though in practice the yeast will ferment out the table sugar completely (provided sufficient pitching rates and nutrients are available.)

The same is also true of Beersmith - the final gravity is just an estimate (I've had this confirmed by Bradley Smith the producer of Beersmith. It) The tool doesn't take into account fermentability of the wort nor the typical attenuation of the yeast, and instead uses a fixed attenuation of 75%. Note that yeast attenuation is mostly a function of the ability of the yeast to metabolize maltriose - ale yeast can at most ferment 1/3 of the maltriose, although often ferments much less due to fermentation conditions, flocculation etc., creating variability from strain to strain.

EDIT: My advice above was based on Beersmith 1. I just tried this on Beersmith 2, and for a recipe comprising only table sugar, it gives a FG under 1.000, as expected. So, my updated answer is try Beersmith 2 as a tool that takes fermentability into account, although it doesn't appear to offer the end user any control over fermentability percentages, only that the selection of ingredient type Grain/Extract/Sugar/Adjunct/Dry Extract alters the estimated FG.

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Designing Great Beers has a table listing fermentability of a few brands of extract on p 15. I don't think it's permitted to reproduce it here, but if you search the book content in Amazon, search for "Malt extract test worts" - you'll get a link to table 3.1 which will take you right there. The range is from 45% to 65%.

I've not seen any tools that directly take fermentability for each ingredient into account, and as such, the fermentability of the wort, and thus, final gravity is just an estimate.

For example, in Hopville, a single item recipe of 10# pale malt gives an OG of 1.056 and FG of 1.014. Plugging in a recipe hitting same OG with 7# table sugar still gives a FG of 1.014 even though in practice the yeast will ferment out the table sugar completely (provided sufficient pitching rates and nutrients are available.)

The same is also true of Beersmith - the final gravity is just an estimate. It doesn't take into account fermentability of the wort nor the typical attenuation of the yeast. Note that yeast attenuation is mostly a function of the ability of the yeast to metabolize maltriose - ale yeast can at most ferment 1/3 of the maltriose, although often ferments much less due to fermentation conditions, flocculation etc., creating variability from strain to strain.

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Designing Great Beers has a table listing fermentability of a few brands of extract on p 15. I don't think it's permitted to reproduce it here, but if you search the book content in Amazon, search for "Malt extract test worts" - you'll get a link to table 3.1 which will take you right there. The range is from 45% to 65%.

I've not seen any tools that directly take fermentability for each ingredient into account. Most tools seem to estimate or use a fixed value for the fermentability of the wort, and consequently, the final gravity is also just an estimate.

For example, in Hopville, a single item recipe of 10# pale malt gives an OG of 1.056 and FG of 1.014. Plugging in a recipe hitting same OG with 7# table sugar still gives a FG of 1.014 even though in practice the yeast will ferment out the table sugar completely (provided sufficient pitching rates and nutrients are available.)

The same is also true of Beersmith - the final gravity is just an estimate (I've had this confirmed by Bradley Smith the producer of Beersmith.) The tool doesn't take into account fermentability of the wort nor the typical attenuation of the yeast, and instead uses a fixed attenuation of 75%. Note that yeast attenuation is mostly a function of the ability of the yeast to metabolize maltriose - ale yeast can at most ferment 1/3 of the maltriose, although often ferments much less due to fermentation conditions, flocculation etc., creating variability from strain to strain.

EDIT: My advice above was based on Beersmith 1. I just tried this on Beersmith 2, and for a recipe comprising only table sugar, it gives a FG under 1.000, as expected. So, my updated answer is try Beersmith 2 as a tool that takes fermentability into account, although it doesn't appear to offer the end user any control over fermentability percentages, only that the selection of ingredient type Grain/Extract/Sugar/Adjunct/Dry Extract alters the estimated FG.

See

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Designing Great Beers has a table listing fermentability of a few brands of extract on p 15. I don't think it's permitted to reproduce it here, but if you search the book content in Amazon, search for "Malt extract test worts" - you'll get a link to table 3.1 which will take you right there. The range is from 45% to 65%.

I've not seen any tools that directly take fermentability for each ingredient into account, and as such, the fermentability of the wort, and thus, final gravity is just an estimate.

For example, in Hopville, a single item recipe of 10# pale malt gives an OG of 1.056 and FG of 1.014. Plugging in a recipe hitting same OG with 7# table sugar still gives a FG of 1.014 even though in practice the yeast will ferment out the table sugar completely (provided sufficient pitching rates and nutrients are available.)

The same is also true of Beersmith - the final gravity is just an estimate. It doesn't take into account fermentability of the wort nor the typical attenuation of the yeast. Note that yeast attenuation is mostly a function of the ability of the yeast to metabolize maltriose - ale yeast can at most ferment 1/3 of the maltriose, although often ferments much less due to fermentation conditions, flocculation etc., creating variability from strain to strain.

See