Edit the Mash pH and Beersmith software

Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:52 am

Question.

I have my water profile for my city.

I run that through the water profile settings. Say I want to target Burton on Trent water.

BS software tool gets me my target numbers to treat my water. Excellent!

I treat my strike water with whatever chemicals are needed.

I add that to mash and stir.

I check my mash pH. It says read 5.9 pH

Is there some way to tell BS what my mash pH is and have the software tell me "No problem brother; add XX of Gypsum, and XX of Lactic Acid and that'll get you to 5.2pH"

That is my problem. BS will helps me treat my strike water, but I don't know how to get it to help me reach my target Mash pH.
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Re: Edit the Mash pH and Beersmith software

Sat Mar 15, 2014 7:00 pm

I don't think it has that function in it. At least I haven't been able to find it, and I think I have clicked every button in that program.
If you want to do that go here http://www.ezwatercalculator.com/
download the spreadsheet template and it will do exactly what you want. Then donate a few bucks through his paypal button since this program will totally make you feel like water chemist
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Re: Edit the Mash pH and Beersmith software

Sat Mar 15, 2014 8:59 pm

I always treat my HLT so that all of my water is at the target profile.
Adding it all to the mash tun seems to blow the mineral concentrations out of proportion, in my opinion.
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