Not quite as full featured as beersmith, but it's FOSS, on github. Not quite as stable on mac from what I hear, but can be ran in a VM. Has a free version, and a subscription for more recipe storage.īrewtarget. The biggest alternatives are, limited to full featured software and excluding simple calculators like my own.īrewersfriend, web app. Obviously this would be a WIP / guess but I would love to see estimates on flavor wheel based on the flavor profile of the grains, and the hop oils integrated into the software.īeersmith does not estimate efficiency changes in accordance with changes in process or scaling grain amounts, since it assumes a constant brewhouse efficiency.īeersmith applies thermal expansion of wort towards specific gravity, which is an error. Batch size, boil length etc should not be part of the equipment. Mash profile should be a process, and things like mash temperature, thickness etc should be dissasociated from it. So seperate any process and recipe related steps. Anything that can change with a different recipe or brewday should not be in a profile. IMO profiles should be something you set up once, and never mess with again. We would need a thesis worth of research to determine more accurate models.Ĥ) Throw out or minimize the obsession with "profiles". Braukasiers has less issues, but is not perfect. A number of yeast experts, biologists, yeast labs, etc have all noted errors in the growth formula he uses. Beersmith uses the Zainasheff "formula" aka mr. The model he's using, IIRC the braukaiser model, is pretty inaccurate when compared to bru'n water.Ģ) Add an option for the Braukaiser yeast growth model. There's some bugs, some fudge factors, and the UX is the biggest complaint I see time and time again.ġ) Water chemistry needs to be updated/fixed. Is there a reason why 100% liquid decoction would be inferior?įrom what I can tell, beersmith has everything you need. I'm still fairly new to decoction and looking to learn more. Instead, I've just stuck to doing 100% liquid, heating that straight up to boiling and adding it right back in to bring the temp up to my step temperature and holding temp inside the mash tun rather than a kettle. If that's correct, boiling grain and re-introducing it back into the mash tun is lowing efficiency. It just never made sense to me to do the rest in a kettle and then boil it before re-adding to mash tun because I'd read that temps above 170F has a negative affect on mash efficiency even if you bring the temp back down. Thanks for the comment.This leaves me a bit confused though.ġ) I'm doing 5gal batches with a 10gal mash tun and I have my equipment profile set to use a higher water to grain ratio(.5qt/1lb).Ģ) Maybe the way I'm doing it is just plain wrong but I've been doing 100% liquid decoction for everything. I guess I just don't care that it's complicated.I put in the time to learn it and it's paid off Overall I give it a 3/10 for the user interface but 10/10 for features and 8/10 for accuracy (10/10 after equipment profile is set up properly.took me 3 brew days and tweaking it after each one) It's incrediblly useful to just add stepped mash temps and have it instantly spit out how much water to add or drain for decoction.same usefulness with with sparging as well. It's a bit of a learning curve and you have to get your equipment profile dialed in but it's really worth it, imo.įor example, I've been getting a ton of use out of the calculations for mashing.If you have the software (free trial works) just go in and play around with it. If you want something for recipes then it's just a small step up from brew toad and similar alternatives.but there's so much more to it than that. I agree with you that it's not that user friendly.but holy hell is it robust. IRC channel Specific Fermentation-Related Sub-RedditsĬider Mead Wine Brew Gear For Sale Distilling Spanish Homebrewing Subreddit Growing Hops Grainfather "Hold my yeast" - crazy fermentation ideas Prison Hooch - getting drunk for pennies Pro Brewing Kombucha Fermented Foods Automated Brewing If you can think of a good general link or even a better one than is currently posted please message the mods and let us know! Glossary of Terms Acronym Soup Yeast Harvesting Yeast Starter Priming Sugar Calculator Is It Infected? r/Homebrewing chat: Please be patient as more links will be added you have to start somewhere. What Did You Learn This Month? (4th Wed.) Brewing Tools/Information Tu: Tuesday Recipe Critique and Formulation!įri: Free-For-All Friday! Monthly Threads Vendors/Potential Vendors, read this before posting Daily Threads Welcome those of the fermentation persuasion!īefore making a post, read our posting guidelines
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