![]() Using only BeerSmith2 (and any other commercial program), you will need a pen and paper to answer this. ![]() Let's say that the bittering hop used in the recipe is 9.5% AA but the hops you are using from your shop are from a different year's crop and they are only 7.8% AA. (There are far more serious problems though that you will never notice unless you want to dig through a lot of threads here - most BeerSmith recipes lack integrity and cannot be scaled.) Anyway, take any sample BeerSmith2 recipe. This example is unimportant in a way as it just will cost you a lot of time on every recipe you do. Here is just one example of how non-BIABacus software is just so frustrating. Any reading you do will back up what I am saying here - there is actually heaps to learn so it would not be a waste of time. I could probably answer your BeerSmith volume problem* but it would require a few days of posts with you posting up files and me spending hours writing - I have done it before here, several times and those threads may be worth searching and reading if you are genuinely determined to find the best software. (I'll give you just one example of this below.) And, you will also know why you would actually never want to use BeerSmith 2 or any other program as your brewing software. BIABacus: I know it is uncomfortable to but, if you can forget the $30 you spent on BeerSmith and concentrate on the BIABacus (and possibly ask a few questions - bear in mind, the BIABacus is still in pre-release)) then you are going to save yourself many hours of frustration and confusion. It will take you ages to learn all the traps you can fall into and all the detours you will need to make to get the right figures.Ģ. BIABrewer has written the most comprehensive stuff you will find on setting up BeerSmith 2 equipment - even air-locked stuff on the Beersmith2 site on setting up equipment was written by BIABrewer - and you will still struggle. BeerSmith2: Study all the stuff written on BIABrewer about Beersmith2 starting with the guide written here. You currently have two options and they are.ġ. I didn't have the option of a BIABacus (or even The Calculator) when I started out. I have bought all the major brewing software and studied pretty much everything else out there. ![]() Just to give you some comfort, I have been brewing for a long time now and have bought a lot of stuff (some very expensive) that I was told would do something but it doesn't. Blancasterb wrote:I am new to BIAB and had already paid for Beersmith 2 before I found this site so I don't want to not use it.
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