Beersmith 2.0 Water Adjustment question

[FiddlersGreen87]

Does anyone know, and maybe I'm just missing the feature, if beer smith has a water adjustment for beer styles feature? This is one of the primary reasons I purchased beersmith and it seems that it's lacking this critical feature.

I've loaded my local water profile, and what I was looking for is something that shows what the water adjustment needed for a specific style. It does adjust for a specific water location, but that's a worthless feature... If I want to clone a rogue beer, I can obviously make the adjustment for the Oregon water table, but that's a mute point because Rogue then adjusts their water for the beer they're making anyway.

Hopefully, I'm just missing the feature, and someone more experienced with it can dial me in.

 

[grathan]

No. Use bru'n water.

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

If you know the "rogue beer" profile that the brewer ultimately uses, you can enter it into beersmith and it will adjust your water profile to closely match & save it for future uses.

 

[FiddlersGreen87]

If you know the "rogue beer" profile that the brewer ultimately uses, you can enter it into beersmith and it will adjust your water profile to closely match & save it for future uses.

I understand that, but that's not the intent. I was trying to find profiles for beer styles, ie. an amber ale. A lot of breweries keep their water profiles quite confidential... but even still I'm not looking for one specific beer, I'm looking for the style as a guidelines to adjust from.

Thanks Grathan, looks like I have some more reading to do.

 

[Yooper]

I understand that, but that's not the intent. I was trying to find profiles for beer styles, ie. an amber ale. A lot of breweries keep their water profiles quite confidential... but even still I'm not looking for one specific beer, I'm looking for the style as a guidelines to adjust from.

Beersmith doesn't have any feature like that, and I don't think any brewing software does. You can save profiles you want in Beersmith, though.

For guidelines, I like bru'nwater the best. It also helps with predicting mash pH in new recipes.

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

Page 156-159. Gives a range for each suggested profile for each style.

 

[FiddlersGreen87]

Thanks, I'll dig into using Bru'n and I'll have to dive into that book too. Hopefully I can get through this topic... not exactly my strongest area of focus lol.

 

[grathan]

Water changes are pretty tough to discern.

 

[sloanfamilydsm]

Water changes are pretty tough to discern.

Agreed. Water profile is the last thing I started tampering with after I looked at every other part of the brewing process.
I still don't fully grasp every aspect of water as my books read like Hebrew sometimes and those formulas are a killer.