How do you calculate your recipe?

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

ZOMBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I voted other... check out BrewTarget search for the thread here and go download it. It is not as perfect as some, but I find it is all I need. Maybe I should shell out for beersmith,...

No dude this is not a "Dead issue".:fro: I need to finally break down and buy brewing software.:rockin: So rather than create a NEW poll, I gafawsearched for an existing thread, AND Im sure I'm not the only person who just wants to know a consenses of what people like to use.

As a mater of fact:
Im posting and looking around the forums for similar polls and guess what.

Beersmith is more liked so far.


I also find it amazing that of the 1000's of people on this forum only 138+ have an opinion?, use software?

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[Yankeehillbrewer]

I finally went out and downloaded Beersmith for the free trial. There is a lot going on in that program, but I really like it so far. It's really pretty easy to use.

 

[TheCarnie]

So what about those random brew-days when its a all guesswork. A hand full of hops and approximately X pounds of grain. those are fun for SMASH-ing.

 

[jitteringjr]

Wow! Looks like I am becomming a relic. Stricktly pen and paper for me.

Although I am not completly technology challenged. I will use my iPhone to look up style guidlines on the BJCP website and I'll also use the calculator function.

 

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

Thats it. I signed up for the free trial.

 

[Randar]

I used to use Beersmith and tried BTP, but switched to using BrewTarget full-time.

 

[JayInJersey]

Wow! Looks like I am becomming a relic. Stricktly pen and paper for me.

Although I am not completly technology challenged. I will use my iPhone to look up style guidlines on the BJCP website and I'll also use the calculator function.

FYI there is a BJCP app for the iPhone that has all the guidelines in it

 

[jitteringjr]

FYI there is a BJCP app for the iPhone that has all the guidelines in it

I'll check it out, thanks.

 

[jmferris]

I use Beer Smith at the moment. However, I am also calculating everything out by hand, just so I can get the feel of the science behind it all. The one thing I was hoping to avoid, being in software development, was writing code for things that are already written.

Not being able to leave well enough alone, I have already started writing little "calculators" to verify my manual math skills, however. It hasn't progressed beyond that, which is good news for me. There are already too many unfinished projects on my hard drive.

 

[Malticulous]

I voted already. I don't remember when. I'm other.

http://hopville.com/brewer/recipes/conroe

 

[Goosta]

I use BrewPal for iPhone. It's tough to beat for 99 cents.

 

[buckeyebrewer]

+1 on the iPhone Brew Pal.....they update it every so often and for .99 cents it's great.

 

[wildwest450]

Does anyone have a crack for Beersmith or Promash?

You're asking for a free copy? Have you lost you're mind?

 

[Brewdouche-RuBrew]

Way to kill a great thread "pirates" of some sort.

It makes me crazy that this thread doesn't have 100's of votes.

Are there really only...
Voters: 203. You have already voted on this poll
...203 people who actually participate in this forum?

 

[Waunabeer]

Yeah, trying to pirate $21 software is rediculous. You cheap bastards; maybe brewing is too expensive as well and you should leave it to us. BeerSmith is great software and was well worth my money to get it and I recommend you people get it too (legally).

 

[jmferris]

Yeah, trying to pirate $21 software is rediculous. You cheap bastards; maybe brewing is too expensive as well and you should leave it to us. BeerSmith is great software and was well worth my money to get it and I recommend you people get it too (legally).

Yep. Exact point I made, too. Disappointing to see this kind of stuff here. BeerSmith is well worth the price of admission, IMHO.

 

[mithion]

I use brewtility.com. It's got a few glitches and the author doesn't update very often. But even it's current state, the tool is very useful. It is free, it has enough features to get most beers done and the interface is quite nice. Worth a look at for sure. Also, when I'm on the go, I use Hopularity on the iPhone to do hop schedules on the fly when the hops I had planned to use are not available or are of significantly different AA% content than I had anticipated. The combination of both takes care of everything.

 

[DeathBrewer]

After working at the LHBS the last few months, I've found using ProMash to be problematic. I need to make and fix recipes on the fly without software, so I've been reading through How To Brew and getting used to calculating on the fly.

In doing this, I realized why a few of my recipes were off. Part of it was water (I wasn't using the filter for a while) but there were also quite a few beers I made that were too sweet because I didn't compensate the hops for a partial boil. Lesson learned.

I'll probably post a thread for easy to use formulas when I get everything worked out for the whole brewing process. It's been great, tho. With my refractometer and the basic math laid out, I can deal with changes in efficiency or volume in a matter of seconds.