BeerSmith here. I keep handwritten notes too.
For all of those who are utilizing Beersmith AND hand written notes thereās actually a ānotesā section in each recipe on beersmith. You can put those notes there in case you need them on the cloud, donāt want to lose them etc. I use Bruān Water and use the ānotesā section for my water profile, water additions, and any other āoddā additions that might otherwise not be on Beersmith.
A speedy recovery to your wife once she can gain mobilityā¦
I have faith, the kids, dog and fish will be just fine when your better half is well healed!
I wonāt even comment about software as I donāt really know what this isā¦. Paper and pencil are as good as I can doā¦
Sneezles61
The water for me would be a problem calculating by hand. Like i said im lazy
The most concentrated ions I have to deal with is RAā¦ The rest of my water is goodā¦so when brewing very light/pale brews, RO is requiredā¦. Iām not going to get too far into water corrections for any other brewsā¦ How is it saidā¦ ākeep it simple Sneezlesā
Sneezles61
Thanks all for the well wishes for my wife. Sheās doing as well as can be expected and hobbles along fairly well.
I too am too lazy to do the math myself. But, why reinvent the wheel? If a program I use for recipe storage is going to do it why do it again?
Exactly why did my best to deciffer it on paperā¦ Iām close enuffā¦ Even with the addition via calculations my water is goodā¦
One thing Iāve figured because high blood pressureā¦ brews with higher levels Calcium Chloride causes me griefā¦ Not that the alcohol is a saintā¦
Sneezles61
Whatever your approach, it should be fun and not stressfulā¦. Stress will definitely affect blood pressure!..ā¦ Just ask coach Kelly here, now with LSU:
Yes looking for a sharp pencil around here is stressing. But back to my point about what software to use. Since if im using software im looking for simplicity. I did look a brun water and it looked like a learning curve but not much different than BF. BS has a plug and play which seems easy enough but I wasnāt happy with the preloaded profiles. Usually Iāll do an internet search for the best profile for a style and go from there. So either way there will be some input with BS and BF So if i donāt want to calculate the salts BS has the edge for simplicity on everything else BF IMO