![]() ![]() Beyond that it makes its selection based on the age of the ingredient, using up the oldest first. Then when I go to brew, BeerAlchemy tells me how much to use of each & automatically adjusts based on what ingredients I have in stock & the type it is (i.e. So if I buy 2oz of Cascade at 5.2% AAU and then also buy another ounce at 5.9% AAU I can have both in my inventory under a single ingredient listed in my inventory (Cascade). But what BeerAlchemy allows you to do is have different versions of the same item without having to make (again) multiple copies of the same item. Ingredients - BeerSmith allows you to keep stock of your inventory. Rather it's just an additional "pointer" to the original recipe that is in the All Recipes folder.ģ. And if I copy a recipe into an additional subfolder I don't have 2 or 3 or 5 copies of the same recipe. If I delete a recipe from a subfolder I don't delete it from the "All Recipes" folder. As you can see in the attached picture, on the left I've got all my subfolders. So I can have the same recipe in multiple folders. Also, one nice thing about the subfolders is that I'm not actually making a "copy" of the original recipe. But.if I make a copy of the recipe, the changes to the original recipe won't affect the copy. By keeping a single copy of the recipe and having it sync across all the different copies in the other folders, I don't have to worry about which recipe I edited/changed/etc. And if I have copies in a "Lagers" folder but also a "2018 Beers To Brew" folder, any change I make to the original recipe (whether I'm editing the recipe in the Lagers folder, 2018 Beers to Brew folder, or All Recipes folder) is reflected in all the different copies of that recipe. For example, if I have a Pilsner recipe called "BohPils w/ Mandrina" that recipe is in my "All Recipes" folder. ![]() But what is different is that if I make changes to a recipe in one subfolder, it makes changes to all the other copies of that recipe that I might have in other subfolders. And like BeerSmith I can put those recipes into different subfolders. But BeerAlchemy has a single folder called "All Recipes" where every recipe is kept. Folders - Like BeerSmith, BeerAlchemy also uses folders. This keeps everything nicely organized.Ģ. I love this feature because it allows me to have ONE original recipe and see all the different iterations of that recipe right under in a type of drop-down menu under the recipe (see the attached picture). You can of course change your primary recipe and all batches created after the changes will be affected (not previous bathches though). all without changing anything about your primary recipe. Your batches can be scaled, adjusted, ingredients swapped out, etc. Recipes - BeerAlchemy creates batches from a single main recipe. So here are a few reasons why I ended up switching back and maybe some ideas that could help the next version of BeerSmith.ġ. The gains from BeerSmith to me were not worth the losses from BeerAlchemy. After all that though I ended up switching back to BeerAlchemy. I watched all the videos and a number of other videos from various YouTubers. and feel like I thoroughly understand the program. I went through the whole process of making profiles, adding recipes, adding ingredients, etc. That said, I recently tried to switch over to BeerSmith but just found it difficult. I like the program, it's just not updated quite as often as I would like and there are other weaknesses as well. But the stuff I'll mention below (really just points 1-3) is keeping me from doing that currently. All the calculators, the regular updates for functionality and ingredient lists, etc. Let me start by saying I hope this doesn't come off like BeerSmith sucks. ![]()
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