slash22000
Stereotypical Lupulin Addict
- Joined
- 2/7/12
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Only recently started using Beersmith, having used Brewmate for a long time.
Honestly I've found Beersmith is a serious pain in the arse to use. It has many more features than Brewmate, but you need a friggin PHD or something to figure it out. It's just not "instinctive" software at all. Brewmate you can just quickly enter in all your percentages or weights or whatever of every ingredient. Beersmith you need to change every .. ingredient .. individually .. in its own .. little .. window .. <_<
It also has some other seriously weird choices as well. For example, in Brewmate, if you change the volume it defaults to scaling up the recipe. Beersmith dilutes the recipe. I was pulling my hair out and had to Google how to scale a recipe in Beersmith. Turns out there is a button on the top left of the screen (nowhere near any of the other buttons for ingredients) that lets you do it. Why is it not an easy option!? Why would you dilute the recipe by default?!
Also, the way the recipes in Beersmith print out is ridiculous. It takes up like 3 pages full of just extraneous bullshit (why do I want to print out my "Assistant Brewer's Name"? If the field is empty, why not just remove it from the print out!?). I want my recipe on 1 page, in an easily readable format. Apparently impossible.
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But, yes, I will use the inventory feature when I can be bothered setting it up. At the moment I just keep a spreadsheet.
Honestly I've found Beersmith is a serious pain in the arse to use. It has many more features than Brewmate, but you need a friggin PHD or something to figure it out. It's just not "instinctive" software at all. Brewmate you can just quickly enter in all your percentages or weights or whatever of every ingredient. Beersmith you need to change every .. ingredient .. individually .. in its own .. little .. window .. <_<
It also has some other seriously weird choices as well. For example, in Brewmate, if you change the volume it defaults to scaling up the recipe. Beersmith dilutes the recipe. I was pulling my hair out and had to Google how to scale a recipe in Beersmith. Turns out there is a button on the top left of the screen (nowhere near any of the other buttons for ingredients) that lets you do it. Why is it not an easy option!? Why would you dilute the recipe by default?!
Also, the way the recipes in Beersmith print out is ridiculous. It takes up like 3 pages full of just extraneous bullshit (why do I want to print out my "Assistant Brewer's Name"? If the field is empty, why not just remove it from the print out!?). I want my recipe on 1 page, in an easily readable format. Apparently impossible.
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But, yes, I will use the inventory feature when I can be bothered setting it up. At the moment I just keep a spreadsheet.