First, thanks for making such a great product. I was a longtime user of another program and found the user interface design of BeerSmith to be vastly superior and I immediately converted all my recipes to BeerSmith.
Water adjustments have become a subject that is near and dear to my heart lately. One of the tools I have found to be very useful is ezWater. It is a simple Microsoft Excel workbook, but it is extremely useful. Let me describe what makes it more useful than the BeerSmith Water adjustment guide.
Starting water profile - BeerSmith does this but ezWater allows you to switch between Bicarbonate (HCO3) and Alkalinity (CaCO3) for starting profile
Independent calculations for mash and sparge water - BeerSmith only gives you one volume to work with. A single volume makes sense for everything BUT Calcium Carbonate which cannot be dissolved in water and must be added to the grist
Recommended range for all ions - BeerSmith currently doesn't tell you if you've strayed from the 50-150ppm for Ca or any of the other ion additions.
Recommended RA for a specific SRM - This could actually be better by allowing the user to enter a target SRM and helping them acheive this value.
Chloride to Sulfate Ratio - This could be better as well allowing the user to target a specific style
I could help designing this as well. I am a .NET developer with a keen eye for UI design. Let me know if I can help.
Thanks,
Mel Silva
http://www.3dogbrew.com
Water adjustments have become a subject that is near and dear to my heart lately. One of the tools I have found to be very useful is ezWater. It is a simple Microsoft Excel workbook, but it is extremely useful. Let me describe what makes it more useful than the BeerSmith Water adjustment guide.
Starting water profile - BeerSmith does this but ezWater allows you to switch between Bicarbonate (HCO3) and Alkalinity (CaCO3) for starting profile
Independent calculations for mash and sparge water - BeerSmith only gives you one volume to work with. A single volume makes sense for everything BUT Calcium Carbonate which cannot be dissolved in water and must be added to the grist
Recommended range for all ions - BeerSmith currently doesn't tell you if you've strayed from the 50-150ppm for Ca or any of the other ion additions.
Recommended RA for a specific SRM - This could actually be better by allowing the user to enter a target SRM and helping them acheive this value.
Chloride to Sulfate Ratio - This could be better as well allowing the user to target a specific style
I could help designing this as well. I am a .NET developer with a keen eye for UI design. Let me know if I can help.
Thanks,
Mel Silva
http://www.3dogbrew.com