Time to step up to Brewing Software

[808brew]

I know in ProMash you can lock certain parts of the recipe to be able to adjust other parts to come up with the same end product. Can you do this with BeerSmith?

[calpete]

Also on a Mac, I use both BeerToolsPro and BeerAlchemy. I primarily develop recipes with BTP, but BA has a much more Mac-like interface. And it's the software I began using first.

One feature of BTP I find mildly annoying is that mash efficiency calculations are based on the coarse-grind as-is rating of the malts, not the standard fine-grind dry basis. Thus, the 91% efficiency BTP said I got for my most recent brew, a Bavarian Helles, was really more like 81% using conventional methods. Not a big deal, but before I figured out what was going on, I kept over-shooting my OG targets.

If anyone knows of a way (a preference setting?) to change how BTP calculates efficiency, I'd love to hear it.

[Otter]

I was wondering how I got a +90% efficiency on my last brew. I didn't think my new HERMS system was that efficient.

On the other hand, this means the 75% efficiency that I used to get on my old system, wasn't that great either.