BeerSmith 2 Home Brewing Software (CD)

BeerSmith 2 Home Brewing Software (CD) I have always been interested in new and better ways of improving my brewing techniques and end product, since I started home brewing in 2013. Throughout the years I have invested a fair amount of money on products that claim to do one thing but fall short. I have learned that it is better to invest in quality products the first time, which in the end, saves me time and money. This is one of those products that you will be happy you found the first time.This software is a great tool in my home brewery which I use every time I brew. It enables you to enter ingredients, equipment profiles, and recipes as well as many other features. Once you have your recipe developed you can then upload it to the cloud where you can load it onto to another device or share with others in the home brewing community. On brew day, your recipe is loaded onto your device from which you can follow step-by-step procedure for brewing your recipe. The software will calculate; yeast starter size, water volumes, mash/strike temps, fermentation schedules. etc.Makes all grain and extract brewing really fun and easy!I rated this product as a 5/5 stars as I feel it does everything it claims and is of very high quality.Would I recommend to family/friends? Absolutely, for ease of use and quality well though out features.NOTE: If you found this review helpful, please Like it as it helps to review other products.

I really enjoy the features and in depth tools used for brewing multiple batches of delicious brew. I do not think there is a better bargain for the type of easy to use software you will receive with this product. However, the internet portion of the software that I assume is supposed to take you to online references does not work and gives a very annoying error message + tone. I will probably contact Beersmith's customer service, but still it has been extremely frustrating to deal with, taking away from the love of beer making

I have been very pleased after 4 months of using this software. I just bought a laptop computer and appreciate the "cloud" capability that allows me to store up to 10 recipes on the BeerSmith cloud server and retrieve, view, and manipulate them from either of my computers then re-save them in the cloud to be able to call them up later from the other machine. This way I can formulate recipes on my desktop PC and use the cloud feature to brew from my laptop in the kitchen on brew day. This software allows you to enter your own values for many, many things, so you can customize it to your equipment profile, ingredients, etc., etc. The specific grains of many maltsters are downloadable from the website to supplement the extensive list that's already in the software. The website well supports the software's use. With a little practice you'll get used to it and find your way around it, and see how versatile it is. I appreciate that it has built in calculators and converters. I've been home brewing for two-plus years and highly recommend BeerSmith - and home brewing!

I bought this software after I had made 3 Kit Beers and 2 of my own and have used it to design my last three beers. Awesome guide to design your recipes just right. You can use their recipes from the recipe cloud. I like to research a specific beer like an American IPA or Saison to see what they traditionally are made up of, look at a few typical recipes on the BeerSmith cloud, then punch some ingredients into the software and tweak it until I get the numbers where I want them for my brew. It is incredible software for a brew nerd like me. It can definitely help you with everything from ingredients, to a yeast starter, and even ciders and meads. It calculates what the beer will look like, alcohol %, IBU, and even yeast cell count for a starter. It does everything as advanced or basic as you need. For under 30 bucks it is a nice bargain.

I bought this for my husband and son after my son told us how much he liked the original beer smith software. I haven't personally used this but have watched my husband as he is setting up recipes for his next batch. It tells you what the original gravity should be, the color and how different hops and sugars will affect the outcome of your beer. It gets more in depth than what I can describe (I don't do the brewing) It basically takes all the guesswork out of setting up recipes and saves them for you to print out and use later. Great for when you find the perfect batch...you can duplicate it. It does all the math for you. I do know that my husband loves this software and thanks me for getting it for him every time he sits down with the program. Great job Beer Smith!

Intermediate brewer here, have not used any other program but since I’ve been getting into recipe creation I bought it. Easy to use with great tutorials on the website. I think I watched probably 20 min of videos before I got hang of it. Requires knowledge of some brewing terms to use, like mash tun size and kettle dead space and boil off rate. Only takes a few minutes to set up your equipment profile once you know basics. I have learned more about my brewing since using and it makes recipe creation and conversion a breeze. I do wish the water program was a little easier to use but it’s not bad by any means.

Everytime I use this software I find new things I like about it. I love the inventory and shopping kart features. I buy my grains in bulk and it is nice to know just exactly what I am short on. I also like how when designing a recipe it tells me how much the recipe costs. It adjusts for the age of the yeast I use. It also takes into account the age of my hops based on how I store them. It's estimates of my OG are almost always within a point or two.The only downsides are the calendar on it counts down from when you edit a recipe rather than when you actually brew it. I have to do some adding and averaging to get the correct price on my grain when buying a new batch. But these are really no big deal.I highly recommend this product.