Description

This section will walk you through creation of a simple extract recipe.  We recommend printing a copy of this help file and walking through each step as written.

Our recipe is for a simple 5 gallon batch of Pale ale with the following ingredients:

Use

1. Select the Recipes View from the View menu.
2. Pick the New Recipe button on the context bar.  This will display a new empty recipe.
3. Enter Pale Ale in the Name field.  This is the name of our recipe.
4. Select Extract as the Recipe Type.  This creates an extract recipe, and will disable the mashing fields.
5. Select American Pale Ale as the beer style by pressing the Choose button next to the Style field.  This will display a list of beer styles to choose from.  Select the American Pale Ale style.
6. Type your name in the Brewer field if it is not already there.
7. Select the Choose button next to the Equipment field to choose the equipment.  In this case, we are going to use a 3 gallon brew pot, so select Brew Pot (3 Gallon) from the equipment list.
8. Check that the batch size is 5 gallons and the boil volume is 2.43 gallons.
9. Click on the Add Grain/Extract button next to the ingredients list.  Select Pale Liquid Extract as the ingredient to add and type in 6.6 lbs as the weight to add.
10. Click the Add Grain/Extract button again, and add 1 lb of Caramel/Crystal malt (10L)
11. Click on the Add Hops button to bring up the hops list.  Choose Cascade as the hops to add and set the amount to 2.5 oz.  Boil it for 60 minutes.
12. Choose the Add Hops button again, and this time select Goldings, B.C. as the hop type.  Enter 1 oz as the amount and then select Dry Hop in the Use drop down.  Leave the dry hop time at 3 days (the default).  This yeast is dry hop yeast to be added to the fermenter for aroma purposes.
13. Click on the Add Yeast button and select the Wyeast British Ale Yeast (#1098).  Press OK to add it to your ingredients.
14. The ingredients list should now read the same as the list in the Description section above.  You can adjust the amount for an item by double clicking on the item or clicking the Increase Amount or Decrease Amount buttons.
15. Look at the beer profile box below the Ingredients list.  It will show how close the beer we have designed comes to the American Pale Ale beer style we selected.  If you change the ingredients, the profile is automatically recalculated with estimated gravities, color and bitterness.  In this case, we have a beer that appears to be appropriate to the style.
16. If we were to brew this beer, we could enter the actual starting gravities in the Measred OG and Measured FG fields to calculate alcohol by volume and calories.
17. Use the default values for a two stage fermentation, aging, and carbonation.  Note that BeerSmith calculates how much corn sugar to add at bottling.
18. Press OK to save the beer.  Note that Pale Ale is now in the recipe list as a new item.
19. Click on the recipe you just created, and look at the Preview pane.  It will show the recipe as it would appear if printed.
20. Click on the Preview as Brewsheet button.  Notice how the preview window now shows a brewsheet of detailed instructions for making our beer.  Note how each ingredient is added at the appropriate time and place, water amounts are calculated for the equipment, and each step is listed with a checkbox next to it.
21. Click the Print command on the File menu to print the detailed brewsheet.  You now have exact instructions for brewing this new recipe.

Note - There is no need to save your recipe.  All recipes and other items entered in any of the main table views are saved automatically as you work with BeerSmith.  If you close BeerSmith now and reopen it, you will see your new Pale Ale recipe in exactly the same folder.

Congratulations!  You have entered and printed your first recipe.  

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