AHB Articles: Which brewing program is best?

[peas_and_corn]

This is the discussion topic for article: Which brewing program is best?

 

[jonocarroll]

Before the fur starts flying, perhaps this should include the *nix software. Lesser known, but free. I don't know them all myself, but I'm sure there's someone just waiting in the wings.

Perhaps also all the other lesser known programs, just for completeness?

 

[peas_and_corn]

Then include it!

 

[Frank]

Before the fur starts flying, perhaps this should include the *nix software. Lesser known, but free. I don't know them all myself, but I'm sure there's someone just waiting in the wings.
Perhaps also all the other lesser known programs, just for completeness?

QB
Hit the edit button on the Article and add the name of software and link. Articles are pages that anyone can add to.
Cheers

 

[WarmBeer]

Then include it!

Done!

For us lucky Ubuntu users, it's in the repository, just use:

sudo apt-get install qbrew
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For you Windows guys, I dunno, something like "Download. Setup.exe. Next...Next...Next...Finish"?

 

[atkinsonr]

Just added a couple of OS X programs for Mac users.

 

[WarmBeer]

Just added a couple of OS X programs for Mac users.

Hey Richy, I think I accidentally clobbered your changes to the article with my own, sorry mate.

No optimistic locking on the articles, 1996 just called, they want their forum software back!

 

[peas_and_corn]

They've been put back

 

[peas_and_corn]

No optimistic locking on the articles, 1996 just called, they want their forum software back!

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[WarmBeer]

Sorry mate.

Computer geek humour, there's enough of us on this forum will get it.

 

[atkinsonr]

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Nerd Speak. Thanks WB and P&C

EDIT: WB beat me to it.

 

[jonocarroll]

QB
Hit the edit button on the Article and add the name of software and link. Articles are pages that anyone can add to.
Cheers

As I said...

I don't know them all myself, but I'm sure there's someone just waiting in the wings.

I use BeerSmith myself. I figured it best to let people who know the software add the links, which is what seems to have happened. Sheesh. It was just a suggestion.

 

[Amber_Man]

I just successfully installed "BeerSmith" on my Linux Ubuntu 8.10 system. I used crossover and the installation went hassle free and all features work. If you like beersmith and running Linux you can have your beer and drink it too :beer:

Cheers

 

[Fermented]

sudo apt-get install crossover?

In which case "YAY! I can get off this freakin' Windoze laptop and back onto my 1337 machine".

Cheers - Fermented.

 

[Amber_Man]

sudo apt-get install crossover?

In which case "YAY! I can get off this freakin' Windoze laptop and back onto my 1337 machine".

Cheers - Fermented.

Unfortunately crossover is not an open source program. However it is a great bit of software I managed to install a lot of windows software including Photoshop CS2.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/

 

[matti]

I am not writing to advocate one against the other.
But for those who are new to brewing programs I'd suggest you down load the free version(s) of both the major ones, Beersmith and Promash and play around for a couple of weeks.

Find the one that you like to navigate through and that you can grasp there funtions.

I myself have got Promash and it suits my needs.
Most people that have chosen to down load Promash over the web have reported it to be slow confirming payment and the emais always seem to end up in the spam folder.

SO I would suggets for the people used to windows set up of the microsoft excel and data bases would naturally choose Beersmith.

Well I like to be different, so I chose Promash.

Because I spend so much time with pissfarting around and not concentrating on more important thing in life like .......
I'd go:
Promash for the people that are a little country by heart, like myself.

Beersmith for the the city-slickers and habitual Microsoft crew.

 

[Fermented]

Unfortunately crossover is not an open source program. However it is a great bit of software I managed to install a lot of windows software including Photoshop CS2.

Bugger. Good to know it's out there as I may have to bite the Adobe bullet for business reasons.


@ Matti: Beersmith for the the city-slickers and habitual Microsoft crew.
I only chose it because more people talk of it here so it's easier to get support in the early stages of getting started. I'm not pro-M$ - I only have one Windoze box because I needed it for accounting software, otherwise my home and businesses are all Linux (Debian for servers, Ubuntu for desktops; choice was made both economically and ethically). The only open source ProMash / BeerSmith application I could find (name escapes me) was rather clunky at best and did not have a very useful interface. If there is one out there, I'm more than willing to change.

Cheers - Fermented.

 

[mika]

So now all the fights on the forum over this for the past forever will now become part of a Wiki...great !

 

[MarkBastard]

my fighting words: promash can blow me. Ugliest interface I've ever seen.

 

[Kleiny]

Started using beersmith but got major peed off :angry: when it was not working correctly. Being an IT Spaz i couldn't fix the problem so i changed to promash but couldn't really get used to it. I got somebody who was a bit better with computers who fixed my beersmith problem in about 2 minutes.

So im sticking with beersmith for now.

kleiny