Need some tutoring with Beersmith.
Got a saison going at the moment, used YB Wallonian Saison.
OG of 1.056, refractometer is calibrated, and entered into BSmith. However when I use an online Brix conversion, I am currently getting and SG reading of about 1.024, which works out to about 4.07% ABV, meanwhile in BS, if I plug in the OG, and enter the current Brix reading it is telling me it is 6.82% ABV. (in the refractometer part under "Fermenting Wort Gravity")
However if I go to the SG calculator on BS, and enter in the OG and the current gravity, it tells me it is at 4.2% ABV
I think it is just my lack of understanding of some of the intricacies of BSmith, but thought it was fairly straight forward for this part, but needless to say, I am a bit confused.
First time using this yeast as well, so not really sure how long it should take to ferment out. Have a heating pad on the side of my fast ferment on high, so it sitting at about 82F/27C
It has dropped 0.2brix since Friday when I checked it last so still coming down, and has been in the FF for about 9 days. Yeast obviously needs longer to go, as everything else I am reading they are saying 14-18 days in primary.