Is there an opportunity to finally use one piece of brewing software that fit all my requirements? BeerSmithĬould the BW Model be short for Bru’n Water? Has BeerSmith actually improved the way it calculates acid additions? In general the BW model results in similar pH estimates, but the acid additions are significantly lower than the MPH model.

You can now choose whether to use the MPH model (recommended) or a new BW model. There are new mash pH models available under the mash screen. A quick glance of the release notes state: While it works great when it comes to calculating my water profile, it’s one extra step I have to go through every time I put a recipe into BeerSmith.īut wait, BeerSmith just released a new version of their software, version 3.1. That’s led me to use the free version of Bru’n Water. While I love the simplicity of BeerSmith and the way it calculates your mineral additions, I can’t rely on it for my acid additions. It fails miserably in calculating my water profile for the beer I’m brewing, specifically the acid additions.Ī quick search of BeerSmith vs Bru’n Water, will yield you a number of results on water profile adjustment frustrations.īeerSmith consistently overestimates the amount of acid required to hit your mash pH targets. The brewing software I use is BeerSmith, and it does everything I need, except one thing. BeerSmith 2 has improved support for foreign languages and several volunteer teams working on foreign language versions of BeerSmith.I’ve been a huge fan of water chemistry when it comes to all-grain brewing, and it’s helped up my brewing game. Metric and International Language SupportīeerSmith’s 2 supports english, metric and imperial units and has improved support for foreign currencies and number formats. Additional tabs can display over 100 details about your recipe and brewing session. However, we also have advanced support for all grain brewing, mashing, batch sparging, brew-in-a-bag and more. BeerSmith graphically shows color, bitterness, gravity and alcohol comparisons against the style as you build your recipe.īeerSmith’s new design tab lets you design great extract recipes.

As you add ingredients, the color, gravity and bitterness are updated automatically.Ĭhoose from nearly 100 beer styles in our extensive BJCP style guide.

Hundreds of preloaded ingredients are available including grains, hops, yeasts, misc ingredients and waters. The Macintosh and PC versions are nearly identical, and share common file formats including BeerSmith 1.x support.īuilding a recipe in BeerSmith is as easy as picking ingredients off a list. Users with large screens or multiple monitors can also open items in separate windows.īeerSmith 2 is available for the first time on the Macintosh platform (all intel-based Macs with OSX/10.5/Leopard or higher) as well as Windows 7, Vista and XP. Tabbed browsing lets you open many recipes and tools at the same time and work with them in separate tabs. Its designed to make your brewing as easy to use as possible.īeerSmith 2 has been updated with tabbed browsing to make it easy to work with as many recipes and tools as you like. Three years in the making – BeerSmith 2 has been redesigned from the ground up to give it a modern look and feel with ribbons, themes and tabbed browsing.

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