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The problem was I was modifying previously made recipes that I had downloaded. If I create a new recipe from scratch and then click save as it goes into my "my recipes" folder. Any downloaded ones don't get saved over. Really weird functionality, but I'll have to keep that in mind next...
There's your problem right there: you watched a Judd Apatow movie. If you try and watch "Knocked up" you'll realize the problem is with Apatow and not with you :p
I've searched this problem before on this site, but all of those posts relate to someone's computer crashing and losing a recipe or beersmith wasn't recognizing that its license key has already been entered. I'm not having either of those problems.
While editing a new recipe, out of habit I...
How hot and how long should water be for oatmeal to activate the enzymes to make a mash? I had a crazy idea about making a grainer tasting hard apple cider today and I wanted to experiment with proportions.
I've never done an all grain beer or even an extract beer so I'm sorry if I used the...
I just put in a half-tsp of brewcraft yeast nutrient. It seems to be working because the airlock is bubbling once every 15 seconds and I only pitched it on saturday (my last 2 gal batch didn't bubble at all). Thanks for the recommendation on Fermaid K, I think I'll add that on my next brew.
Last Saturday I pitched a one gallon mead just to see what it would taste like. I was reading yesterday that adding DAP or any yeast nutrient high in nitrogen will help the yeast work at full capacity on processing the mead because honey is low in nitrogen and other essential chemicals that...