Beersmith help needed please

[TheEarlOfMarquis]

I would like to convert 23litre recipes into 19 litre recipes to suit my new cornies. I wondered if there was any way I could do this on Beersmith which I am just trialling.
I'm finding the software a bit daunting and hard going at the moment so any pointers would be gratefully received.

[Sadfield]

Open your recipe (or make a copy, then open). Then click on the scale recipe tool in top left corner of screen.

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It will then open this screen.

[TheEarlOfMarquis]

That's great, thank you.

[BenB]

Bearing in mind I'm tighter than a duck's arse my advice would be- stop trialling and support Beersmith. It's great. The Queen is involved in the annual opening of my wallet yet somehow I've paid my hard earned for both the PC and mobile versions....

[TheEarlOfMarquis]

I can see me paying for beersmith, it looks good. I've just been looking at all the recipes available.
His grain mills look great too, shame about the postage.

[Dave S]

I can see me paying for beersmith, it looks good. I've just been looking at all the recipes available.
His grain mills look great too, shame about the postage.

If you get from here it's a deal cheaper, which I am sure will meet with the approval of Ben's wallet.

[TheEarlOfMarquis]

[quote="Dave S"]If you get from [url=http://brewadelaide.com/retail/index.ph ... cts_id=162]here[/url] it's a deal cheaper, which I am sure will meet with the approval of Ben's wallet. [/quote]

Thanks for the link Dave, I have ordered that for the princely sum of nine quid odd

[Dave S]

If you get from here it's a deal cheaper, which I am sure will meet with the approval of Ben's wallet.

Thanks for the link Dave, I have ordered that for the princely sum of nine quid odd

Oooh, it gets cheaper. Is that because of the exchange rate? or has it gone down in Aussie dollars too?

[TheEarlOfMarquis]

I'm not sure what the price was before, a bloody good deal though

I'm still trying to get my head round a few things on it. I will be brewing all grain and it will be my intention to brew in batches of 19 litres or 38 litres so as to fill my corny kegs without need to bottle any spare brew.
I've set my equipment profile to give me those volumes after fermentation etc.
All my recipes are for 23 litre batches and I'd like to put these into BeerSmith and scale them down to my profile, do I need to set up a new profile for 23 litre batches so I can enter the recipes under that profile before scaling them to my equipment profiles? I'm not quite sure how to do it.

[Dave S]

I'm not sure what the price was before, a bloody good deal though

I'm still trying to get my head round a few things on it. I will be brewing all grain and it will be my intention to brew in batches of 19 litres or 38 litres so as to fill my corny kegs without need to bottle any spare brew.
I've set my equipment profile to give me those volumes after fermentation etc.
All my recipes are for 23 litre batches and I'd like to put these into BeerSmith and scale them down to my profile, do I need to set up a new profile for 23 litre batches so I can enter the recipes under that profile before scaling them to my equipment profiles? I'm not quite sure how to do it.

Well you can either save the 23L version in case you think you may want to brew that length at some stage, then scale and save the 19L version, or if you're sure you'll never brew a 23L batch just scale it down and save as 19L. You can always scale that up again later. What you do need to check after scaling is that some of your ingredients probably don't need scaling. Items such as yeast, Copper Finings etc. And other ingredients will probably need to be rounded off, e.g. 19.045g hops, 4.608kg grain etc.

[Jocky]

I'm not sure what the price was before, a bloody good deal though

I'm still trying to get my head round a few things on it. I will be brewing all grain and it will be my intention to brew in batches of 19 litres or 38 litres so as to fill my corny kegs without need to bottle any spare brew.
I've set my equipment profile to give me those volumes after fermentation etc.
All my recipes are for 23 litre batches and I'd like to put these into BeerSmith and scale them down to my profile, do I need to set up a new profile for 23 litre batches so I can enter the recipes under that profile before scaling them to my equipment profiles? I'm not quite sure how to do it.

Well you can either save the 23L version in case you think you may want to brew that length at some stage, then scale and save the 19L version, or if you're sure you'll never brew a 23L batch just scale it down and save as 19L. You can always scale that up again later. What you do need to check after scaling is that some of your ingredients probably don't need scaling. Items such as yeast, Copper Finings etc. And other ingredients will probably need to be rounded off, e.g. 19.045g hops, 4.608kg grain etc.

What he said. Copy the pot and cooler profile, changing the volume to 23 litres and then make use of the scaling function to convert between profiles.

If you are currently brewing these recipes then make sure you tweak the efficiency on both the old and new profile, or you'll be some way off when converting.

[TheEarlOfMarquis]

That's great, many thanks for your help.

I tried getting on the BeerSmith forum to ask but it wouldn't send me a link to my email so I could register, so I thought I'd ask on here.
I can feel a Burton Ale coming on

Thanks again, Jim.

[Dave S]

That's great, many thanks for your help.

I tried getting on the BeerSmith forum to ask but it wouldn't send me a link to my email so I could register, so I thought I'd ask on here.
I can feel a Burton Ale coming on

Thanks again, Jim.

Always a good place to start