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PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:46 am

That wont make a difference. The information relating to the trial period is stored in your registry and the only way to do anything about that would be to manually find all the relevant entries and delete them. Not something I would advise (or advocate!)

BarrowBoy · Post by **BarrowBoy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:50 am

PieOPah wrote:That wont make a difference. The information relating to the trial period is stored in your registry and the only way to do anything about that would be to manually find all the relevant entries and delete them. Not something I would advise (or advocate!)

By 'cleaned' I mean to the extent that we had to reinstall Windows. Would that have done the job PoP? I'm afraid, like my car, if it swiches on and goes then I'm not too sure what happens inside.

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:37 pm

Well, that is a little more than cleaning

Yeah, completely wiping everything off the computer including the OS would certainly do the trick

steve_flack · Post by **steve_flack** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:06 pm

That's a bit like cleaning your house by razing it to the ground then building a new one.

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:12 pm

Although sometimes it is exactly what is needed.....

BarrowBoy · Post by **BarrowBoy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:34 pm

OK, thanks guys. I get the message. So, Beersmith, here I come...

SteveD · Post by **SteveD** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:52 pm

PieOPah wrote: On the website you can choose a beerstyle and enter the ingredients you want. It will then formulate a recipe based on what you have told it.

You mean it will accept 'Coco Pops', 'Strawberry Jam' and 'Peanut Butter'? Wow!! That's some software!!

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:54 pm

I think the Strawberry Jam was pushing it a little

ModlrMike · Post by **ModlrMike** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:32 am

I use Suds... and have done for years. It hasn't been updated in a while, but I don't care. What I like about it is that you can add your own ingredients to it and it will calculate the effect of these ingredients on the beer. It will also print a shopping list for you if you want.

Post by **Andy** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:05 am

PieOPah wrote:That wont make a difference. The information relating to the trial period is stored in your registry and the only way to do anything about that would be to manually find all the relevant entries and delete them. Not something I would advise (or advocate!)

It's actually very easy to do with Beersmith - just have to delete one registry section. The key is knowing which one of course

And as it only costs a tenner then I'm not telling

mixbrewery · Post by **mixbrewery** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:11 am

It's an old windows 3.1 bit of software from memory!!

Looks like its had some updates

http://www.oldlib.com/suds/

PieOPah · Post by **PieOPah** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:01 am

Andy wrote:It's actually very easy to do with Beersmith - just have to delete one registry section. The key is knowing which one of course And as it only costs a tenner then I'm not telling

Don't know which registry entry it is, but in the past I just deleted all entries relating to Beersmith. I have since bought Beertools so don't need to delete anything

eskimobob · Post by **eskimobob** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:47 am

ModlrMike wrote:I use Suds... and have done for years. It hasn't been updated in a while, but I don't care. What I like about it is that you can add your own ingredients to it and it will calculate the effect of these ingredients on the beer. It will also print a shopping list for you if you want.

Have heard of SUDS but not tried it. BTW, you can do the same things in Beersmith and one neat feature is that if you keep your inventory up to date then when you want to brew, it knows what bits you have already so will tell you only what bits you need to buy.

I may have deleted the registry entry a few times in order to extend my trial period but I decided that it was a great program and well worth the money (less than the cost of one brew). Have not looked back since.

SteveD · Post by **SteveD** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:56 pm

I've got the trial version of Promash. This is what I use it for....

(1) Doing my Refractometer calculations. Handy.

(2) Calculating revised Hop IBU's according to age, storage conditions, and storage temperature of the hops. Pack values are bunk, especially on 18month-2year old hops! They quote the harvest value. Excellent - if used soon after the harvest. However as time goes by, the aa value diminishes.

All other calcs I do by hand (ie calculator) using Graham Wheeler's formulae. Been doing it like that since the first edition of Homebrewing came out - apart from the WBC calcs. I use IBU's - if that's ok, Graham

mysterio · Post by **mysterio** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:26 pm

I bought Beersmith last year. It's basically a glorified calculator, but it makes my brewing much easier. I mainly like it as a recipe formulation tool. Now it won't write a good recipe for you, but combined with a little experience, and knowledge of what makes a recipe good, software can make it easy to fine tune a beer recipe to your personal tastes. Because I know my efficiency, I can also easily work out my OG and bitterness calculations. I'm useless with maths so the bittering & OG calculations are essential to me. Another good thing is it acts as a recipe depository - I'll make the recipe on the software, print it off, brew it, then annotate notes on the recipe for next time. Theres also lots of little things - refractometer conversion, scaling up recipes, recipe conversion to and from metric, inventory, etc.

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