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I had a fiddle around with Brewfather yesterday to see what it was all about. Seems generally pretty good but I could not find a way to add 'top up water' to my equipment profile. I have a grainfather (and a robo brew) that I use for slightly concentrated batches. Between the two I get around 53L into my ferm and I topup with 6L water for a 59L combined batch. In beersmith there is a section for topup water so that the software takes into account the final 'watered down' batch size and adjusts my hops calc to ensure target IBU will still be reached after dilution. In Brewfather I can turn off 'auto calc boil size' and put 'batch size into ferm' value but I'm not sure this is correctly compensating. Feeding in my standard recipe the IBU value comes out 24IBU in Brewfather but was 22.2 in Beersmith. Has anyone used Brewfather with this requirement? Apart from that, Brewfather seems very simple and easy to use for the reasonably basic recipes that I make. Certainly worth checking out.

<blockquote data-quote="ferretlegs" data-source="post: 1527643" data-attributes="member: 17946"><p>I had a fiddle around with Brewfather yesterday to see what it was all about.&nbsp; Seems generally pretty good but I could not find a way to add &#039;top up water&#039; to my equipment profile.&nbsp; I have a grainfather (and a robo brew) that I use for slightly concentrated batches.&nbsp; Between the two I get around 53L into my ferm and I topup with 6L water for a 59L combined batch.&nbsp; In beersmith there is a section for topup water so that the software takes into account the final &#039;watered down&#039; batch size and adjusts my hops calc to ensure target IBU will still be reached after dilution.&nbsp; In Brewfather I can turn off &#039;auto calc boil size&#039; and put &#039;batch size into ferm&#039; value but I&#039;m not sure this is correctly compensating.&nbsp; Feeding in my standard recipe the IBU value comes out 24IBU in Brewfather but was 22.2 in Beersmith.&nbsp; Has anyone used Brewfather with this requirement?&nbsp; Apart from that, Brewfather seems very simple and easy to use for the reasonably basic recipes that I make.&nbsp; Certainly worth checking out.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ferretlegs, post: 1527643, member: 17946"] I had a fiddle around with Brewfather yesterday to see what it was all about. Seems generally pretty good but I could not find a way to add 'top up water' to my equipment profile. I have a grainfather (and a robo brew) that I use for slightly concentrated batches. Between the two I get around 53L into my ferm and I topup with 6L water for a 59L combined batch. In beersmith there is a section for topup water so that the software takes into account the final 'watered down' batch size and adjusts my hops calc to ensure target IBU will still be reached after dilution. In Brewfather I can turn off 'auto calc boil size' and put 'batch size into ferm' value but I'm not sure this is correctly compensating. Feeding in my standard recipe the IBU value comes out 24IBU in Brewfather but was 22.2 in Beersmith. Has anyone used Brewfather with this requirement? Apart from that, Brewfather seems very simple and easy to use for the reasonably basic recipes that I make. Certainly worth checking out. [/QUOTE]

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