Forrest
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Well Thursday of next week is the day I have been waiting on, PAY DAY!!!!!!!!!!
To Celebrate, I am going to buy myself some more beer brewing equipment to ease myself a little closer into all grain brewing. I am want to get a grain mill and some of that brewing software as the first all grain brew I am going to attemp to make is a personal developed recipe and I would like to run it through a program and make sure everything is sound as I have had some people tell me that I am putting too much Hops in it.
Starting with the Grain Mill though. I have been reading on these forums people recommending two main Grain Mills. The Barley Crusher, and CrankandStein. I have also heard of some other Brands but these are the main two listed. I know these things are a matter of personal preference but I thought I would get some opinons on which is better. Funny thing is, I use to live in Atlanta. In fact, I just moved away from Atlanta back in January. So I could have bought a CrankandStein and saved on shipping. Oh well.
The next thing is the brewing software. I have downloaded trial versions of Promash and Beersmith and I have the same problem with both of them. The reason I first started brewing beer was the inclination to brew hard to comeby or unusual beers. I particuarly like Rye which is not so unusual any more but I still like using it. Anyway, I noticed that none of these programs (at least the trial versions) have any of the different Rye Malts included that I use a lot like Chocolate Rye and Cara-Rye. So I am not sure how much use these programs would be to me. Maybe the newer version do have these malts?
Any advice will be appreciated.
To Celebrate, I am going to buy myself some more beer brewing equipment to ease myself a little closer into all grain brewing. I am want to get a grain mill and some of that brewing software as the first all grain brew I am going to attemp to make is a personal developed recipe and I would like to run it through a program and make sure everything is sound as I have had some people tell me that I am putting too much Hops in it.
Starting with the Grain Mill though. I have been reading on these forums people recommending two main Grain Mills. The Barley Crusher, and CrankandStein. I have also heard of some other Brands but these are the main two listed. I know these things are a matter of personal preference but I thought I would get some opinons on which is better. Funny thing is, I use to live in Atlanta. In fact, I just moved away from Atlanta back in January. So I could have bought a CrankandStein and saved on shipping. Oh well.
The next thing is the brewing software. I have downloaded trial versions of Promash and Beersmith and I have the same problem with both of them. The reason I first started brewing beer was the inclination to brew hard to comeby or unusual beers. I particuarly like Rye which is not so unusual any more but I still like using it. Anyway, I noticed that none of these programs (at least the trial versions) have any of the different Rye Malts included that I use a lot like Chocolate Rye and Cara-Rye. So I am not sure how much use these programs would be to me. Maybe the newer version do have these malts?
Any advice will be appreciated.