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Step one actually is exactly the same regardless of whether you are using software or doing your own math.

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How to calculate your strike temps and volumes for single infusion and step infusion mash.How to calculate your total water volume.How to calculate your entire grain bill in pounds and ounces for each fermentable ingredient.For our purposes here, we will be looking at four calculations, the things that until now I’ve relied on software to take care of for me: Most of the math that we are about to get into, I pulled from Designing Great Beers, but quite frankly what we’re looking at barely scratches the surface of that text. All this time I’ve had nearly all the knowledge I needed, in a book that my wife bought for me a dozen Christmases ago, forgotten and collecting dust on a shelf. Luckily, this post contained a vital piece of information and my next point of departure: a picture of a book, a book that I own, Ray Daniels’ iconic Designing Great Beers. It wasn’t until the result deemed #21 in relevance by the search engine that I found any content actually relevant to my query: a blog post on an online homebrew retailer’s website. So, after scrolling past the multiple Ads for brewing software, I found the first twenty returned results all to be brewing software home pages, blog posts about brewing software, or HBT threads comparing/ contrasting brewing software or asking which is the best (or which is your favorite) brewing software.

Whether by oversight or by deliberate intent, Google missed the most important keyword in my query: “without!” To do that, I need to know what the software knows, so I set myself to the laborious task of researching: “Hey Google, how do I design a beer without software?” Ok, ProTip, computers are not good at telling you how to do things without the help of computers.

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I also want to free myself from this cumbersome, overly-complicated software with its clutter of unnecessary bells and whistles that I never use. The malt and hop bills in Janssen’s Grisette are brilliantly simple quite frankly I could probably nail most of it just by throwing a few things together based on his parameters and my knowledge of my system.īut, I want to do this right. But I haven’t actually had BeerSmith running during a brew day in years.Īll the more reason, when I sat down to put together a recipe for my system based on Dave Janssen’s research into Historical Grisette, it seemed absolutely absurd to go through all the trouble (and probable expense) of just logging back in. Yes, these recipes were originally designed and developed- tweaked, revised, and updated- in the software. They’re all fairly simple, and they’re all written down in a notebook. Most of what I’ve brewed over the past three years have been variations on maybe half a handful of recipes. What’s my username? What’s my password? I could probably rotate through the 46,656 combinations of my most commonly used usernames and passwords and eventually get in, but then what would I find? Probably that I need to pay a renewal fee for what is now- like everything else digital in my life- a subscription-accessed Cloud-based service. To be honest, I don’t feel like trying to log back in. It’s just been so long since I’ve opened the application that it logged me out. I’ve owned and used this software since 2010 (back then just BeerSmith, and yeah I know there’s now a BeerSmith 3).

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Nope, I was not running a trial version that required activation.