If anyone needs a quick way of having all your recipes on the cloud then use dropbox and change the beersmith recipe directory to somewhere in that - File->Change documents directory. Also change 'ulfite' to 'ulphite' and now have a Sulphite tool with sulphites. Pretty much if it's not fully in caps you can replace it, so you could do a search and replace on all the xml and bsmx files with something like grepwin. To be fair, there does seem to be something going on with the water treatment (you can add salts from the 'water' tab, but they don't appear in the 'water' tab) so possibly it is still 'work-in-progress'?Ĭlick to expand.Go to the beersmith directory (right click on the shortcut -> open file location) make a backup of Res.xml, then edit Res.xml and do a case matched search and replace and change 'ulfate' to 'ulphate'. And to top off my grousing you've got to put up with the spelling ('sulfate' rather than 'sulphate', okay a minor grouse and I understand our well ingrained use of 'ph' is likely incorrect?). Why can Beersmith suggest adding bicarbonate and chalk to the sparge water - that is daft.

And then there is Slaked Lime to modify alkalinity, or even Potassium Bicarbonate (Bru'n Water don't have Potassium Bicarbonate either - slaked lime is a pain as it must be added to the dry grain and never directly to the water) - the assumption seems to be everyone wants reduce alkalinity, although there are quite a number of us who need to increase alkalinity. Using Magnesium Chloride has done far more to making water treatment easy than Beersmith has done so far (Bru'n Water includes Magnesium Chloride and introduced me to it). Manipulating magnesium and chloride ions became a doddle. Being able to exclude chalk is an improvement, but all the other water treatment salts are cut in stone and you can't add to them or modify the existing.Ī major improvement to my water treatments was discovering Magnesium Chloride. What quickly turned me off v.3 is the very inflexible water treatment.

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