Post #2 made 10 years ago
cuth, have you seen the bit under where you write your post that says, "Choose File"? After you do that, you should see a progress bar of the file uploading. Once it has uploaded, press, "Add the file" and you'll get something that looks like the pic below.

The file will appear at the bottom of your post. If you want to put is say half way through your post, put your cursor where you want the file or image to go and then click the "Place Inline" button
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Post #4 made 10 years ago
What I reckon might be happening cuthburtb is that your extension might be not .xls

Double check that you have the .xls on the end and not something like ,xls (or nothing at all).

If possible take a screen shot like the one Manor posted above as there is probably something simple that you might be missing. Upload the image as a .jpg here. If that works, we'll at least know that you can upload at least one type of file.

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Post #5 made 10 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion pistol its definitely .xls i use a Mac so I tried a PC, same result check out the screen shot and the red type
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Post #6 made 10 years ago
What is the name of the file you are trying to post. It looks by that error that the file name does not end in .xls
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Post #8 made 10 years ago
cuthburtb - Joshua may have solved your immediate problem, but for future reference just check through that you are doing the following;

Look below where you type your text you will see an area called "upload attachment".
under "filename" click the "browse" button. Navigate to where the file is stored on your PC. Select it then click "open".
The filename will now appear next to the browse button.
Below this is a "file comment" box which you can type in to add text/description of your picture/xls file etc.
To the left of this is a box "add the file", click on this and the file will be uploaded to the BIABrewer server (nearly finished now)! :shock:

You should see the file has been added to the list below where you just typed. You should also see in the "attachments" line directly below your main text the file you just added with a button "place inline"

Navigate back to your main text, and click the place inline button where you want the picture to be located (beginning/end/between text) etc.
Or as mentioned previously it will just append to the end of your post.

Click on preview button to ensure you have correctly detailed what you want, then either correct or click submit.


If you are doing all this and it is an XLS file but still won't upload I... :scratch:
Is there a minimum post setting before attachments can be made?
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Post #9 made 10 years ago
No minimum posts are needed and we can see that cuth is having no problems uploading the pic so all is good so far.

What we need though from cuth is a screenshot like PistolPatch's above where the filename can be seen in two places clearly - once to the left of the "Place Inline" and then again, at the bottom, under the 'Posted Attachments' area.

It will end up being something simple that we all go :idiot: about but we will need the above pic before we can :headhit: ourselves.
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Post #10 made 10 years ago
Well, having only just properly looked at the pic, you can replicate this error by changing your extension from ".xls" to ".3t - bass clone"

The simple and most likely explanation is a misplaced "full stop"/period" (or make sure there is nothing after the .xls).

However, as Manor mentioned, show a pic of what you are attaching. We can quickly see whats going on!
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Post #11 made 10 years ago
Thanks so much guys i am trying everything, I think i have got it I changed the file name to BIABacus PR1.3T bass clone .xls
Thanks Mally,Manor,joshua,Lumpy5oh,PistolPatch
How does my BIABacus file look ?
This is the recipe
with a few things changed and added (honey malt)
Bass clone.pdf
BIABacus PR1.3T bass clone .xls
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Post #12 made 10 years ago
Cuthburtb, looks pretty good.

You still need to input the IBU"S you want in Section "D" as "I am Designing my own Recipe.......Please set my Desired IBU's to___"

Also, as you Brew, (to make things More Difficult), Please record the Data needed to be entered in Sections 'L,M.N.O.'
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Post #13 made 10 years ago
Great to see you got it all sorted cuth :peace:.

I've been lazy lately so I'll do a thorough review of your file as there are several things that might need correcting. You said above, that you have changed some things but as I don't know your level of brewing knowledge, I'm going to duplicate the recipe as best as we can copy it from the book so as others (and yourself) have a base to wok from. In other words, you'll want to alter alter my file here to add any alterations (such as honey malt) back in.

The BIABacus, even though on first sight looks daunting, actually makes things really easy for you. Any time yo find it hard to use, it generally means that you are using it incorrectly or, in the case of copying a recipe, the recipe you are copying is lacking information.

The recipe you are copying is pretty good and has nearly all the info we need so our job here is pretty easy. Let's have a look....

Sections A and B are great so let's have a look at...

Sections C.

In Section C, all you need to do is whack in the OG at the top, which you have done and then you need to see that there are three distinct sections under that line. In the first one, "The Original Fermentable Bill Design", all you have to do is copy the weights and colours from those in the book. The book gives you colours for two of the malts. The ones you have entered don't match the book but if they are the ones you will be using, then those colours should go under the middle section, "Substitions" as they do not match the original recipe. (I've done this in my file and added some colours for the maize and pale ale.

Now that is all done, you look under the right hand section, "What you will use..." and those are the weights you will buy from the shop.

Section D.

Section D works the same way however the first two fields are a little tricky as we can rarely get this critical information from a recipe. (Search my early posts for "Garetz Rager Tinseth" to discover why, if a recipe IBU is stated it can rarely be relied on. Search my posts for Volume of Ambient Wort to see why that figure is so important.)

Even though the recipe says it is 32 IBU's, we have to disregard that for reasons you'll discover doing the search mentioned above. The recipe gives a few volume figures which can help me to guess the Volume of Ambient Wort (VAW) with a good degree of accuracy. I am, for a few reasons, typing 21.25 L into the VAW field. It's the best I can do with the info given and should work out fine.*

Next we need to type in the hops that were used in the book under the left side of Section D, "The Original Hop Bill". Note that AAU's are not the same as AA%. Don't worry about AAU's as they are derived from just two things, the weight of the hops and the AA% of the hops and we are given that information. The hops used have an AA% of 9.0 so that is what goes under the AA% column. I have also changed the weights so as they match what is in the book.

With hops, it is rare to find that the AA% of the hops you will be buying will match those given in a recipe as AA% varies from season to season. So, what you do is ask your retailer, "What are teh AA% of your Northern Brewer hops you have for sale." If he/she says 7.5%, you will type that in the middle section of Section D, "Substitutions" and then the right hand side will tell you exactly how much you need to order from the shop.

Some Other Notes

Everything else looks great. Note that yeast nutrient isn't needed in all-grain brews as the trub etc, contains all the nutrients needed. Only use nutrient in extract brews. As for gypsum, it is impossible to know whether you should be adding that or not as everyone's water is different. You'll need a little local knowledge to know what to do there and if your water tastes fine it is not something to be worrying about at this stage of the game.

Also, see if there is a dry yeast you can use instead for the liquid as the dry yeast is much easier to use and cheaper. Often there is a dry yeast equivalent of equal quality to the liquid yeast.

:peace:
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* Advanced users note that there is still a colour discrepancy but without knowing the colour and program used, we can't read much from the number given anyway.
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Post #15 made 10 years ago
Thanks Pistol for the fantastic info, its Thanksgiving here in America this is the first chance i have had to peruse your very helpful reply. I am beginning to see what a great tool the BIABacus is.
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