Arbe0,
I recently brewed a Rocherfort 8 clone and while building my recipe I ran into a bunch of similar questions including...
- Ratio of grain to sugars - do you use lbs or points?
- What happens to target OG if you add candi syrups to primary rather than kettle, especially since Candi-syrup recommends dilution prior to adding, and how do you adjust grains and sugars to maintain target OG and grain to sugar ratios in final product.
That being said, my homegrown program written in excel is updated to be able to maintain a target OG and lbs percentages while toggling between adding sugars to kettle or primary. It will also tell you how many points make it into the primary from grains and sugars if you want to target points ratio. I wrote it from the perspective of a homebrewer and how we think about recipes - target OGs, % lbs, batch size.
Let me know if you are interested in the program and I can email it to you as well as answer any questions. Would appreciate feedback, especially for this kind of brew. The program has become a labor of love.
Regards,
KB