Batch Volume to 5
And down at the bottom (blue highlight) if not slow-chilling then:
Total Whirlpool Time to 30 (or however long it takes you to chill from boiling to ~160 or so)
If you don't do a whirlpool and/or very rapidly chill then you could uncheck the box "Estimate Boil Hop Util in Whirlpool", but I'd just leave it checked though and set my Whirlpool Time to the chilling time needed, that way late hop utilization will still get factored in while you are chilling it.
Note that BeerSmith doesn't understand Whirlpools > 180 minutes, so that's just the maxed out # (you can put in more, but it won't do any different math because of it). This more or less works out right for me anyways, as it doesn't take so long for it to slow-chill down to 160 or so. It just takes forever for it to get from about 130 to pitching temps. It doesn't actually take 3 hours to chill to 160, but since my "whirlpool" is a slow chill starting at near boiling temps, I get very high utilization for the first part of it. The 180 seems to work well for what I'm doing because of that.
I have found that 0.6 boiloff gives me more accurate final volume then 0.5 which is what seems to be the actual boiloff. I am not exactly sure why, but that's why that's set up like that there.
The 0.5 trub loss is to make up for what is below the spigot, you can get a bit more out by tipping it so you could lower it a little bit if you really wanted to, but I'm trying to be dialed in to where I don't need to, or if something goes wrong and I end up slightly under volume, I can make up some by doing so instead of resorting to topping up or something.
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