Beer Smith ?

[MightyMouth]

Do you actually use grain in less than 10 gram amounts, you can add as little as 10 grams as 0.01kg. Do your recipes require greater than that level of granularity in weights.

[ashbyp]

beersmith or promash -what should i get then?

[MightyMouth]

I like Beersmith better but that doesn't mean its better its just my preference.

[ashbyp]

think i agree Daab- i'd rather do it manually, except maybe the water analysis which i'm struggling with. i did physics and chopping up rats at school not chemistry so i've only just managed to grasp what an ion is.

[Graham]

I wouldn't worry too much about water analysis for the time being.

Nor inventory-type crap. It is not as if your average home brewer has a 20,000 square-foot warehouse to deal with - just look into your cupboard or freezer for effs sake. It is a joke. Any recipe design programme for home brewers that buggers about with stuff like inventory control is unlikely to be much good at recipe design. Ah! that might have done it.

[Vossy1]

When you've got kilo's of hops in 100g packs all lose at -18 sometimes an inventory is quite useful

[Graham]

When you've got kilo's of hops in 100g packs all lose at -18 sometimes an inventory is quite useful

Just looking for controversy.

[Vossy1]

[Martin the fish]

Do you actually use grain in less than 10 gram amounts, you can add as little as 10 grams as 0.01kg. Do your recipes require greater than that level of granularity in weights.

I use less than 10g for hops, so yes. And grain bills don't always end in a 0 so yes again.
It's worth getting just for the ability to easily change a recipe from 23.5ltr to 35ltr in the blink of an eye. It's worth the price IMO and i find it quite usefull.

As i said. Beersmith is ok. But it doesn't do everything a brewer needs. IMO.

[macleanb]

I use less than 10g for hops

When - did you leave a "k" out there somewhere Martin?

[ashbyp]

I wouldn't worry too much about water analysis for the time being.

sorry, no can do. I've read about it now so have to have a go

[Andy]

I did but it changed all the weights to KG's and i couldn't enter things in in grams anymore?
I've set everything to 0 now and ignore the cost. Probably best for me to ignore the costs anyway.

When you enter a value into a field you can add the units on the end and Beersmith will convert into the quantity you entered into the "normal" field quantity.

So if you've set grain units to kg then you can enter "100g" or "10oz" and Beersmith will convert to kg.

[Martin the fish]

Yes it will. But try doing it without an 0 on the end.

Go on try, cos you haven't yet...

[Andy]

Works for me.

[Martin the fish]

How do you put in KG's with a number other than 0 on the end? In KG mode it will not accept, for instance 5003g or KG 5.003. Cos it doesn't allow 3 digit's after the initial kilo amount? When you input KG's it does not allow grams. So it has to be a division of 10.

You must have a different version than me.