Promash v beersmith v beer tools?

[Northern Brewer]

I've been using promash for many years, and just wandered upon beersmith in this forum then found beer tools (http://www.beertools.com/) when browsing for comparison.

Promash is great but no longer being updated and the interface is a bit clunky now.

I have no opinion on the others - anyboy tried them?

Cheers
NB

 

[Old Firkin]

I use Beersmith. Great for designing, scaling and over-all tailoring a recipe...

It even keeps a Brew-Log for me... You need to input your equipment profile into Beersmith, then it does everything automatically...

Well worth the money for what it does...

 

[Vossy1]

Beersmith for me. I've only ever used the trial version of Pro Mash, seemed o.k but nowhere near as easy to navigate as Beersmith for me, never used Beertools.

 

[Northern Brewer]

Just downloaded the trial version of beersmith, looks pretty good.

Took a while to work out how to import promash recipes - here's the process for Beersmith v2

1.) Export the promash recipe in .txt format. To do this open the recipe then go file, export/print then make sure you select all text options and "export to .txt file"
2.) Download the visual basic conversion script from here http://www.beerxml.com/converter.htm
3.) Remove the .txt extension from the converts file name and run it
4.) Specify the file name and path of the promash .txt file when it asks
5.) It produces an .xml file, open it in beersmith (file - open - select.xml. file)
6.) When the file appears in beersmith, right click on it and save it in .bsm (beersmith v1 format) and make sure you save it with filename "recipe" i.e. it will produce a file called recipe.bsm
7.) Select import from the beersmith file menu and select recipe.bsm
8.) Done, when you go back into your beersmith recipes your promash recipe will appear.

The difference between promash and beersmith here is that each recipe in promash is a different file where as in beersmith its one file called recipe.bsmx. so you have to export each file individually |-O

Cheers
NB

 

[Northern Brewer]

Just checked this - recipes contents are imported but each ingrediant has zero weight and hops have zero boil time - apart from that its perfect :thumb:

 

[Frisp]

used beersmith peviously and have downloaded V2 and it looks just as good.... :thumb:

 

[Dronfieldbrewer]

I use Beermate and Beer engine, no probls with either of them and their free

 

[Northern Brewer]

Hi Robbarwell

I did have a look at Brewmate and Beer Engine - not bad for nowt. One of them looked like it hadnt been updated for years however if it works why fix it.

Now, if I could get the software to control valves etc. then I could fully automate brewing - maybe a project for next year....

Cheers
NB

 

[Northern Brewer]

here's a opensource recipe tool that uses Beer XML so can read beersmith recipes

http://brewtarget.sourceforge.net/

Haven't tried it yet but looks OK from the video.

Cheers
NB