BeerSmith Brewing Features Tour - Part 3

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BeerSmith brewing software supports the advanced and professional all-grain brewer as well. With powerful features like custom mash profiles, instant unit conversion, recipe scaling, conversion and a large set of advanced brewing tools, BeerSmith will grow with you as your homebrewing skills improve.

All Grain Brewing Made Easy

BeerSmith takes the guesswork out of all-grain brewing. All grain brewing is fully integrated into the BeerSmith recipe system including an extensive database of mash profiles, water profiles, multiple beer style databases, advanced equipment profiles and a full ingredient database. Building an all grain recipe is as easy as choosing your style, mash profile and ingredients, yet from that BeerSmith will automatically build a detailed list of brewing instructions including step-by-step mash instructions.

Your beer profile is updated instantly as you build your recipe.

Support for Custom Mashing

BeerSmith supports the idea of mash profiles. A mash profile is a collection of mashing steps - and may include infusion, decoction and heating the mash. When you choose a mash profile within a recipe, all of the steps are automatically adjusted to match your particular recipe, with the result being a step-by-step list of mash instructions. Even your exact equipment settings can be factored into the profile for easy use.

Create your own mash profile!

You can easily create your own mash profile and add it to the database as well, so it can be used with any recipe! The dialog above shows how easy it is to create an infusion step.

Instant Unit Conversion

You can use any unit in any field, and BeerSmith will automatically do the conversion for you. For example, type 60 C into a temperature field, press the tab key, and the amount is automatically converted to Fahrenheit. This works throughout the program - allowing you to enter weights, volumes, temperatures, etc...in any units!

In addition, BeerSmith fully supports display of your recipes in any unit set - so you can easily display any recipe in metric, english or even mixed units using the units options on the Options dialog, Tools menu.

In-Field Unit Conversion - Enter "65 C" and it is converted to degrees F automatically!

Easy Recipe Scaling

BeerSmith makes quick work of changing the size of any recipe. Quickly go from 5 gallons to 10 gallons. Adjust the grains to match your own brewhouse efficiency. You can even specify the equipment profile if you want more precise recipe scaling to match your exact equipment setup.

Click on the Scale Recipe button to scale by size, efficiency or equipment!

Custom Reports (Competition and more)

BeerSmith supports a wide variety of report formats including simple recipe reports, plain text, web based reports, competiiton reports and the new BeerXML standard for recipe data exchange. You can select any report format from the report list on the toolbar, and it will automatically appear in the preview window. You can also create your own custom reports in HTML (Web based) and also in text.

Inventory Control

BeerSmith offers full integrated inventory control. You can view your entire inventory of ingredients on a single inventory report. The inventory is fully integrated with the shopping and recipe system, so you can add new purchases right from your shopping list, and then remove them with a single click from the recipe once you brew.

Recipe Conversion Tool

Have you ever found a great all-grain or partial mash recipe that you wish you could brew? BeerSmith lets you convert those recipes automatically into extract recipes for easy brewing. For more details see our Conversion Tool

Detailed Efficiency Calculator

BeerSmith now has a detailed efficiency calculator for calculating brewhouse efficiency at each stage of your process. This lets you determine how well your sparge, boil and overall batch efficiency compares with predicted values.

The Efficiency Calculator - determines brewhouse efficiency at each stage!

Search By Ingredient

BeerSmith lets you search your extensive set of databases by any set of ingredients. In fact, you can even search using the ingredients you already have in stock. This can really help when you want to determine what you can make with what you have on hand - or if you are looking for a style with a particular grain or hop style.

Advanced Standalone Tools

BeerSmith has over a dozen standalone calculators that let you calculate any aspect of your beer and brewing process. These include extensive unit conversion, strike, infusion, hydrometer, hops, bitterness, alcohol, calories, dilution, water needed, refractometer, weight to volume, boil off, carbonation and more. All of the tools update in real-time, and all are available with a single click from the shortcut bar.

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