Trials

[Dogger Dan]

Have been trialling a couple of beer programs for recipies etal.

Anyone have any issues with beersmith? The other program is Pro Mash and although prettier........

Ofcourse, I could get my software developers to do me one up for fun or maybe a few brews.......Hmmmmmm some merit in that

Thanks in advance

Dogger

[db]

Have been trialling a couple of beer programs for recipies etal.

Anyone have any issues with beersmith? The other program is Pro Mash and although prettier........

Ofcourse, I could get my software developers to do me one up for fun or maybe a few brews.......Hmmmmmm some merit in that

Thanks in advance

Dogger

i've used beersmith on 15-20 batches now.. the only issues i have with it is that i sometimes find that its way off on the colour.. esp on darker beers. i find it tends to over estimates the colour.. (but i guess that could be an issue with the estimates of grain colours that i've been using.. who knows)
i also used to have hassles with the ibu's when using a kit.. the way that you enter the ibu's of a hopped extract is retarded imo.

& i'm not sure if this is to do with the hop utilization formula i'm using, or my brewing method, but i question the ibu's it gives for the latter hop additions.. just seems abit high to me..

but having said that i cant live without it.. its a great program imo

[Tyberious Funk]

I've used Beer Smith and liked it quite a lot... obviously, it is heavily skewed towards all grain brews, but I liked the fact that it was still useful for a humble extract brewer such as myself. I couldn't really justify purchasing it though, because I only use Windows at work... home is a Bill-free zone.

I've also used Qbrew... mainly because it's open source and works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It's pretty lightweight compared to Beer Smith, but isn't too bad... though I don't think I agree with some of it's colour calculations. And it is FREE

[grabman]

I'm a beersmith person Dogger, I looked at other and settled on Beersmith as it's easy to use and I find it easy to "play" with recipes before brewing toi emulate different styles.

Grab

[anti-fsck]

I've also used Qbrew... mainly because it's open source and works on Windows, MacOS and Linux. It's pretty lightweight compared to Beer Smith, but isn't too bad... though I don't think I agree with some of it's colour calculations. And it is FREE :)

There's also CyberBrau, a web-based application. I'll put a copy on my web server and let peep play with it. Will post when it's done.

[anti-fsck]

There's also CyberBrau, a web-based application. I'll put a copy on my web server and let peep play with it. Will post when it's done.

Gah. Small enough to fit on a floppy, and easy enough perl-based install, but my permissions are still slightly bjorked.
If anyone wants to have a go, there's a demo site at http://cyberbrau.sourceforge.net/demo.html.