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sptaylor70
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Beersmith is great, and probably worth the money. Lots of flexibility.
Tastybrew.com does a lot of things, including recipe and priming calculation. Green Bay Rackers has some nice calculators for practical questions, such as whether your mash tun is big enough. There is the ever-popular Mr. Malty pitching rate calculator, and of course Dave's Dreaded Actual Specific Gravity Calculator. All are free, and I find myself using them all frequently.
Tastybrew.com does a lot of things, including recipe and priming calculation. Green Bay Rackers has some nice calculators for practical questions, such as whether your mash tun is big enough. There is the ever-popular Mr. Malty pitching rate calculator, and of course Dave's Dreaded Actual Specific Gravity Calculator. All are free, and I find myself using them all frequently.
Shakybones
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I love BrewSmith. Do the free trial on your first batch recipe.
Be sure to check out all the features. It figures your strike volume and temps to achieve your desired mash temp, even adjusting for your own MLT specs. It tells you your sparge volume. You can use it to scale a recipe effortlessly. I had trouble at first hitting my numbers or over sparging and having too low OG and too high volume, and it was great to use to figure out where I should expect my batch to end up (ABV, IBU, color, FG) and whether I was still within the style parameters. You can even track your inventory and calculate your cost per batch, if you're into that sort of thing. It is very flexible. Well worth the money!
Be sure to check out all the features. It figures your strike volume and temps to achieve your desired mash temp, even adjusting for your own MLT specs. It tells you your sparge volume. You can use it to scale a recipe effortlessly. I had trouble at first hitting my numbers or over sparging and having too low OG and too high volume, and it was great to use to figure out where I should expect my batch to end up (ABV, IBU, color, FG) and whether I was still within the style parameters. You can even track your inventory and calculate your cost per batch, if you're into that sort of thing. It is very flexible. Well worth the money!
I used BeerCalculus when it was on Hopville.com. It worked well. It was bought and changed some by Brewtoad I do not like the new layout as much.
Beersmith is more complicated but gives a lot more control and details. It takes a bit of a learning curve to use it but I think it is well worth the $$.
Beersmith is more complicated but gives a lot more control and details. It takes a bit of a learning curve to use it but I think it is well worth the $$.
Hey,if an old brewdog like me can learn to use Beersmith2,then anyone can. It's pretty in-depth,but helps a lot in every aspect of the brewday. Even has a page for notes on every recipe. That's handy. Then there's My Equipment,where you set up kettle size,brewing style,etc. You can also add fermentables,hops,& adjuncts to the respective lists. Def way worth the one time fee.
+1 To everything said.
Well worth the $$
Well worth the $$
Beersmith is a joke. until you rip your hair out and get used to it's faults.
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Shakybones
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Well, OP is going AG, so...
Greyhound
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This question comes up a lot. I personally would not brew without using BeerSmith. It makes it easy to formulate recipes, scale recipes, calculate & adjust bitterness, etc. etc. etc. You can play with the free trial version and then buy it for less than a batch of beer will cost you.
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