BREWERS EDGE MASH AND BOIL BEERSMITH PROFILE HOW TO
BREWERS EDGE MASH AND BOIL BEERSMITH PROFILE BLUETOOTH

You can walk away and do whatever else you want to do. Once you add the grain, the Grainfather does all the work with the step mashing. I never had the capability to step mash before so this was great. I brewed a hefeweizen with 3 mash steps: a ferulic rest at 110 for 10 minutes, regular mash at 151 for 60 minutes, mash out at 167 for 10 minutes. I just stuck to the Grainfather website for this first batch. Supposedly there is a way to import BeerSmith recipes to it via XML files, but I haven't tried it yet.

BREWERS EDGE MASH AND BOIL BEERSMITH PROFILE BLUETOOTH

If you want to use the Bluetooth enabled Grainfather Connect feature, you need to put your mash and boil schedule in their website, and then, using an app on your phone, you send the mash and boil schedule to the Grainfather. On the Grainfather website, there is a calculator which will tell you how much water to add for your mash, and how much water to sparge with. I downloaded an adjusted BeerSmith Grainfather profile from Reddit, but I didn't really use it. The inner bucket that holds the grain doesn't go all the way down to the bottom of the Grainfather, so you have some extra volume of liquid that's sitting under the grain. BeerSmith comes with an equipment add-on for the Grainfather (supplied by the Grainfather folks themselves), but discussions on HomeBrewTalk and Reddit indicated that the equipment profile wasn't really correct. For my traditional setup, I used BeerSmith to design my recipes.

BREWERS EDGE MASH AND BOIL BEERSMITH PROFILE HOW TO

I'm still working on how to design recipes for this. I usually hit my mash temperature with my traditional setup, but not always, and this takes that concern away. No more worries about getting your strike water right. The recirculation gets the temperature back up to where it needs to be fast. Since its a RIMS, you don't heat up to a higher temperature to account for temperature loss when you add the grain. My federal tax refund came in, and I decided to go Grainfather.įor mashing, you heat up your strike water to the desired mash-in temperature, put in a basket with a perforated bottom and add your grain. Also, with just a 5-gallon mash tun, I couldn't brew any big beers without involving malt extract, nor could I do temperature stepping. I wanted something that was closer to 'set and forget' which could allow me to do other things while I brewed. My kegerator became empty because my enthusiasm to brew had waned. It was getting to the point where I didn't want to brew because I didn't to burn an entire weekend day. But still, a brew day was a big time-suck for me. My setup before my Grainfather was an Igloo 5-gal cooler mash tun, a Coleman beverage cooler for sparge water, a keggle and an immersion chiller. The majority of suppliers have enough information on their data sheets to enable these to be added into BeerSmith.I have a little more time now than I did when I made my first response, so I'll expand on my (limited) Grainfather experience. Most of the ingredients that are not available can be added in easily by opening up the ingredient profiles and clicking on 'add new'. There are many ingredients available through the add-ons as well. There are also some more equipment profiles available for some of the brewing systems on the market which can be downloaded through the 'add-ons' button in BeerSmith. Marshall at Brulosophy has also created a few videos on making equipment and mash profiles using BeerSmith, as has Brad. You can start with a search through these forums or through Brad's blogs for written guidance. There are several sources on the internet to help with creating or making a profile.

Especially with the pre-marked kettles and vessels available, I highly suggest that you make your own dip stick to measure volumes as the markings are usually stamped or etched on based upon the engineering drawings and not according to how each kettle is manufactured. I always recommend that new users spend some time in either taking a stock equipment profile or creating a new one and customizing it to their equipment and style of brewing.

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