Although we have already covered setting up your equipment profile in this post of the BeerSmith2 Guide for BIABrewers, I have written a more detailed explanation of how to set up equipment in this post on the BeerSmith forum.

I'm not sure if you can download files from BeerSmith as a guest so I'll attach them here. sigurdur has written a clever online tool that mirrors the spreadsheet below. Great job sig!

The next instalment of the guide, 'Converting 'External' Recipes to Your BeerSmith2 BIAB Equipment - Part 2' shouldn't be too far away.

Cheers,
Pat

I have just added another 3 posts to the BeerSmith2 Guide for BIABrewers.

If you would like more posts added to the guide, please let us know here. The guide though, actually has two purposes...

1. Helping BeerSmith2 Users: The guide aimed to cover the most difficult areas of using BeerSmith2 as well as recipe conversion in general. This is not insignificant. Anyone that studies and absorbs the dozen posts there will be well on the way to understanding and then becoming one of the few brewers proficient in this area.

2. Helping BIABrewers with the Upcoming BIAB Calculator 2.0: The BeerSmith2 Guide is also acting as a prototype for a 'How to Use the BIAB Calculator'. This guide will be easier to write now (and easier to understand for the reader) but a lot of it will simply be a modified copy of the BeerSmith2 guide.

So, if you have any suggestions as to what you'd like to see added, changed, re-ordered or better presented in the BeerSmith2 guide, this will also really help with the writing of the BIAB Calculator 2.0 guide. So, any feedback or requests you post here will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Pat

Hi there dicko - another Blue Mountains man! (One of my old haunts.)

Calc Boil Vol automatically should always be ticked. I cannot think of a situation where it shouldn't be but apparently some people use it occassionally, mainly extract brewers from memory..

It seems like you already know that you need 30 litres in your urn, so yes, change your evaporation rate to suit. The default evaporation figure used in the 'guestimator' seems to be too high for small diameter pots and too low for really large diamter pots. It was the best we could do given the small sample size the figures are based on. So, change it before your next brew so your numbers add up to 30L and then start your 5 brews from there after which you can fine-tune all your numbers.

See you in the Blue Mountains one day .
Pat

Here's a quick update on some errors we have spotted...

1. Total water required refers to the volume required at boiling point not ambient temperature. (This is not a great issue).

2. Tinseth formulas are based on the pre-boil gravity whereas they should be based on the average gravity of the boil over the time of the addition.

3. Aroma hops are not scaling correctly.

Brad has been advised of 2 and 3 above as we regard these as big issues although we have recently discovered that pretty much all the software out there, if not all, is using the Glen Tinseth formula incorrectly.

I have asked the admin guys to remove, "Buy Now - BeerSmith2!" from the header of the forum. This might take a day or so. We have one key left. If you would like that, please PM me directly. When sufficient updates have been made to BeerSmith2, we will re-visit the idea of making it available on site again.

In the meantime, those of you who have purchased BeerSmith2 from BIABrewer, please feel free to let us know how you are getting along and thank you for going out of your way to support BIABrewer.

It is very much appreciated,
Pat