BeerSmith profiles help.

[jgalak]

Greetings. I am a brand new brewer, just put my first attempt into the primary. I grabbed BeerSmith mobile to try to log the brew, but can't make head or tails of the profiles, especially the equipment profile and mash profile. Even the terminology is unfamiliar in many cases.

I am trying to brew the AHS Blue Moon clone, an extract recipe with specialty grain. The procedure was to put two gallons water into pot, bring to 155F, turn off heat, steep grains for 25 min, bring to boil, turn off heat, dissolve LME and DME, add another gallon water, bring back to boil, then boil for 30 min adding varying hops and favors. After cooling, move to bucket fermenter, add enough water to make up 5.25gallons (took about 2.25-2.5 more gallons).

Whats the correct equipment and mash profile for this recipe?

Thanks,
Juliean.

 

[jgalak]

A pointer to how to figure this out myself would also work.

 

[Nicegirl]

If you're going to brew an extract you don't need to be concerned with the mash profile. This is only used when brewing all grain.
The equipment profile can be accessed through the profile tab. This is where you would setup the information for your kettle and cooling methods.
Hope this helps.

 

[jgalak]

There doesn't seem to be a way to turn off having a mash profile. Will having one selected affect the calculations? And how/where do I specify the details of the steeping?

 

[Nicegirl]

The mash profile will always show up. It's a default with BeerSmith. Make sure that "extract" is selected under "type" on the Design tab for your recipe.
Steeping grains are not noted any differently from other grain additions. When adding grain to your recipe for steeping simply add them. If you have selected "extract" for your recipe type BeerSmith will interpret the grain additions as steeping grains.
Hope this is helpful. If you need any other help just drop me a PM. Always happy to lend assistance to a fellow brewer.

 

[jgalak]

Ah, that was the answer. I had type set as "partial mash". When I changed it to "extract", the mash profile went away. Now to tweak the equipment correctly.

Thanks.