SleepySamSlim
Grandmaster Brewer
A lot of things have improved in BeerSmith and many features added - yet I still feel the equipment profile is still a disjointed bunch of numbers. I think it works pretty well if you are doing straight extract brew or full all grain brew. But anything else it just becomes a bunch of conflicting numbers. Trying to setup a profile for partial mash partial boil and its just loopy - below is a sample profile included in BeerSmith 2 that is along the lines of what might work but is unclear where some of these base numbers are derived from.
How is the Boil Volume determined? If my pot can only easily handle 3.5gal then that should be a driving number not a resulting number. In the screen shot below where does the 4.28gal Boil Volume get determined ???? How do you control that?
Its also totally unclear how the recipe/profile includes / adjusts for for my mini mash gravity in the boil pot ---- do I need ot build a profile for a mash of 1.5lbs or a mash of 2.5lbs of grain? Does it matter?
How is the Boil Volume determined? If my pot can only easily handle 3.5gal then that should be a driving number not a resulting number. In the screen shot below where does the 4.28gal Boil Volume get determined ???? How do you control that?
Its also totally unclear how the recipe/profile includes / adjusts for for my mini mash gravity in the boil pot ---- do I need ot build a profile for a mash of 1.5lbs or a mash of 2.5lbs of grain? Does it matter?