In a lot of my beers i like to have about 5% carapils and i find myself spending a lot of time adjusting everythings weight to hit %'s. Second, during recipe formulation i would prefer to be able to adjust my recipes based on % points rather than by weight. If i need 31.5 lbs of 2-row I add one line that is 31lbs and another that is 8oz just because i know i will be thinking about something else when i measure my grains. Is there a way to do this? At this point I basically add an extra line. More times than id like to admit i have filled up 12.8lbs of grain as 12lbs 8 oz, just because i was pushing to get the ingredients quickly. You know, I've had some gripes about Beer Tools Pro and figured i would post about them here because i may just simply be using the software incorrectly.įirst one is a simple one, i would prefer the amounts be listed as lbs and oz instead of decimal points for lbs. On our first brew we lost 1 gallon from the end of the sparge through to the end of the boil (60 min boil) which was far better than the 2.2 gallons er hour I experienced on my 13 gallon propane system. So I guess the metrics I care the most about will be heat transfer, heat loss when idle and boil off rate. When using a cooler it was more important, but with this system it's not supposed to matter. It will be nice to understand the speed that we should expect the system to heat water up, but the metric that I like the most was the heat retention of mash vessels. The more I think about this the less I think the calibration in BTP is going to matter as much as it used to. You can check out these videos if they help you: Ive got the warehouse up and turned and going to start calculating my vessels in BTP. ![]() Once I do I will post my results - and would be interested in see others as well! Once I get it setup I plan on running through all the calibrations. I will be getting my control panel hopefully tomorrow from the super nice UPS man (and Spike Innovations). I too have been using Beer Tools for a while (about 2 years) and love it. ![]() Obviously mine is going to be different because i used different kettles, but we could all use this as a thread to combine our data and give future builders an idea. ![]() So my question is, does anyone have any of their vessels calibrated in Beer Tools Pro yet? I wouldnt mind starting out with some preset values and seeing how close they are on my system, kind of an experiment to see how consistent these builds are across the board. I was just writing up a recipe for a Belgian Dark Strong Ale and when i got to setting up my schedule and evaporation rate it hit me that i needed to change everything. On my current setup, I have all of the vessels calibrated in Beer Tools Pro and as I will begin transitioning over to the new system soon all of these value's will be obsolete. Pro Mash wasnt (and still may not be) available for a Mac and I was tired of wating for Beersmith to be available for a Mac. Ive been using Beer Tools Pro for a year or so now and I love it, its so much better than Beer Alchemy was for me.
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