Just curious what most brewers are using these days as far as software goes. We are going to have to make a decision in the near future about this. BeerSmith? ProMash? BeerTools? Any others I haven't heard of?
I found the following recipe on Brewers Friend: https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/528861/kellermeister This is a traditional all grain recipe and I would like to brew it with my BIAB setup. But I'm having trouble understanding/converting the mash steps described on the recipe, which are the following: Amount Description Type Temp Time -- Infusion 53 °C 20 min -- Infusion 65 °C 30 min -- Temperature 70 °C 30 min -- Fly Sparge 76 °C 15 min The Infusion and Sparge steps are quite …
I'm brand new to brewing, but I've been wanting to do it for a while. I've seen some videos. Seems that, like cooking, recipes are key at the beginning until one gains enough experience to experiment. Are there any beer recipe websites that cater to beginners? I specifically want to avoid websites that sell pre-packaged recipes as part of their business. I'd prefer to order ingredients myself.
Last brew I calculated by brewhouse efficiency to be 63%. Not great, but I dialled this into BeerSmith and hoped my next brew would at least be predictable, even if I was not getting the most out of the grain. I brewed a low ABV beer for my wife. BeerSmith calculated that I would hit 1.026, I managed 1.027 The issue I have is that when I post these numbers into http://www.brewersfriend.com/brewhouse-efficiency/ along with my grain bill, it calculates my …
I'm an all-grain brewer but I haven't done an extract batch in years (or an all-grain one in over a year) and want to do an extract IPA this week. Looking at the various software and calculators, they don't seem to account for partial boils, just final batch size. I want to boil at about 50% volume, then top off with cold water. How do people calculate this in advance? I was hoping for something other than the hash-marked measuring …
I'm looking for brewing software that helps with record-keeping, calculations, inventory, and/or recipes. Across any platform (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux), what brewing software is available, and what are the pros and cons of each?
I would like to starting making smaller batches (10L) but most of the recipes that I have found online are for larger batches. Luckily, it seems that you can scale down ingredients linearly but unfortunately I can't locate this feature in most recipe websites that I have tried so far. Can you recommend some free PC/Online tool that would have a large database of recipes and would allow in an easy way to scale down the recipes to smaller batches …
There is a lot of software to manage and recipes, do conversions etc. (for example BeerSmith, BeerTools, etc.). Is there any software that also integrates a timer (that alerts you mash steps, boiling hops, etc.)?
I'm going to be bringing several styles to a wedding, but this same question would work if I wanted to brew several styles for a competition. We have a given date for the group of beers to be ready to drink. Are there any tools that would show me, all batches together, what I need to be doing? I realize I can put each batch into something like brewsmith and get the dates, but wondered if there was a tool …
Promash doesn't support late addition of extracts (which affects hop extraction). Either that, or I can't find out how to do it. I sometimes use beercalculus.hopville.com to create two recipes, one without the late addition, from which I take the IBUs, and one with the late addition, from which I take the OG. Is there any software out there that will allow me to note when fermentables go into the boil? UPDATE: hopville.com has supported late additions since shortly after …
I designed a barleywine in BeerSmith2, made it, plus I made another beer afterwords from the same grain. My mash efficiency on the first runnings turned out to be 75% (I put the grain bill and pre-boil 1.092 and 5.85 gallons into BeerSmith2 for that). I purposefully didn't mash-out so I could do the partigyle. I got 3.6 gallons of 1.034 wort out of the mash tun on the second runnings. What I wanted to do was make a new …
Does anyone know of a solid application for pre-planning your homebrews? I have a really tight schedule, and determining when to start a batch can be a real hairball. There are lots of variables and points in time to consider. For example, on a particular beer: I know I want my yeast on a plate for 36 hours, then 24 in the fridge, then equalizing for 6 before pitching, then 10 days in ferment, then 7 on dry hops, then …
I have a bunch of small amounts of leftover specialty grains ranging from 3 ounces to about 8 ounces of various types. I'd like to brew something with them. Are there any good sites out there that might allow me to enter the grains I have and suggest a recipe style that might come from the grains I entered?