software?s- beersmith,promash,others etc

[dogtailale]

Im a newby

All Ive ever brewed was local brew shop 5 gallon just add water batches


The other day (monday) I was bottling a 5gal batch of JAW beer ( I hate bottling ) got done.
Checked the local CL and found (2) 5gl and (1) 3gl cornys, co2, +++++ All Grain gear = 5&10gl coolers, false bottom, sparge arm, 7.33gl heavy SS brew pot ++++ other misc

So Ive been beating the net to death the last couple of day getting more info on this AG stuff

I believe Ive got the basics on all AG brewing with most of the recipes for 5 gallon batches.

Now Ive been finding recipes for non 5gl batches ( 6gl 7gl 8gl 6.5gl ) I dont believe my gear could hold those.

Do or does one of them programs reduce the ingredients in to smaller batches?

I guess if I had a bigger Brew pot like a converted keg I could do it... Keg some bottle the rest.

 

[Baum604]

Beersmith has a "scale" option that will allow you to input a recipe, say that is made for a 8 gal batch and you can scale it to whatever batch size you want.

 

[dogtailale]

forgot I did downloaded beersmith & promash and I just dont understand them quite all the way

 

[Blender]

It will take some energy to learn how the programs work but Beersmith seems to be a more up to date program. I think they also have a forum and possibly some tutorials on how to set the program up for your brewing equipment. Both programs allow you to lock the ingredients to batch size so the grain bill scales up or down. You should conisder making 5.5 gallon batches so after all the transfering you end with a keg full of beer.

 

[ajf]

Download the trial versions of both (or any other programs you find).
They all take a bit of time to learn how to use them, but I found Promash to be much easier to use and set up, and the help system to be much more user friendly.

-a.

 

[Bensiff]

If you have an iPhone BrewPal is an awesome app...it will scale for you too

 

[vincemash]

although promash has not been "updated" as a program in awhile, its the only software I use; and it does what it needs to do, there are updates to the ingredient databases that are used so as long as you download them once in awhile your good to go

 

[Starderup]

Brewtarget and QBrew are two free programs. You can also do a recipe on beertools.com.

 

[maida7]

I have beersmith and it works very well. Like the others have said, it can scale a recipe with the click of a button. Very easy to scale in size and/or efficiency.