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The iOS version was released today. I installed it on my iPhone and iPad and it looks fantastic as a brew day tool! Great work, Brad! Can you update it to support the larger iPhone 5 screen, though?

Well, I will point out that after I fill and before I cap, I take the wand out of the tap and spray just a bit on the top of each bottle, put on the cap but not yet crimped, tilt the bottle to get a little pressure, and as I actually crimp the cap, let a little pressure bleed off in part to vent...

Actually I've been using the single filler technique for years now and generally fill 6-8 bottles before capping any. These bottles have stored fine for months after capping and have done very well in various competitions without any scoresheet feedback attributable to this practice. What I...

That, sir, is a really great idea!!!

I never know how many bottles I'm going to need from a given batch. I just pull exactly what I need when I need it, mostly for competitions, but sometimes to share with folks, and this technique has worked flawlessly and, for the most part, effortlessly for me for the past several years.

Thanks for the tip. Just to clarify, you actually need to change it to "Calculate gravity, color, and IBU" from the default of "Use imported values for gravity, color, and IBU calculations". Then you'll need to re-import ant previously imported recipes, at least in my experience.

I have a NOOKcolor (1024x600 7" Android reader/tablet) that I've rooted with Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and have Brewzor installed. Looks very nice on that screen. I've exported quite a few recipes from BeerSmith as BeerXML and Brewzor has imported them with very few issues...much less so than...

Okay, that was easier than expected. I've unified the Mash Water Chemistry Calculator and John Palmer's Mash RA worksheet into a single spreadsheet. You just enter your source and target water profiles and mash water volume and dilution into the former, calculate your salt additions, and all...

Okay, this may be the answer to a question no one was asking, but I "ported" this spreadsheet to OpenOffice Calc using its non-linear program solver extension. Overall it's the exact same algorithm posted by Beercat Brewmeister but using Calc's NLP solver library instead of Excel's. It's...

I've been contacted by some folks asking exactly how to fix this in Office 2K7 and 2K10. The UPDATE above gives the general instructions, but I'll be more specific. If you get an error like "Compile error: Can't find project or library" in the Visual Basic debugger, you'll need to do the...

I also used a hacksaw (the one on my wife's Swiss Army Knife, in fact), then used very fine sandpaper to create a very smooth, clean edge. Worked great for me.

I just short-circuited things and posted it in BeerSmith and BeerXML formats to my own (otherwise pretty much barren) Web site. You can find the link in my edited post above. Please let me know if you can't access it for some reason.

Yeah, the former (in Beersmith) I use all the time. Wasn't sure how to attach the file here. It says I'm not allowed to post attachments. Is that something I have enable myself or does and admin have to enable that for me?

I don't mind at all, though I don't know how to add attachments in this forum. Quick pointer on that?

Interesting recipe. I just drafted this up my own all grain version of this in BeerSmith. I made a few changes: I used a base malt of maris otter because I prefer the distinct crispness of that grain vs. standard 2-row. I've used lactose in my chocolate toffee ale in the past and personally...

I can't for the life of me get this working in Office 2K7. I get the same results as above where I have the Solver Add-In activated but I still get the error identified above. When I tried to fix this in the VBA debugger using Tools>References, that option is disabled/grayed out. Any ideas on...

Depends on what you mean by sediment. If you mean yeast sediment from secondary fermentation in the bottle, yes, it will eliminate that because you're not performing a secondary fermentation. However, if your beer in the keg has other suspended particles. For me, most often this is hops from...

I cracked open an IPA that I bottled from keg ~5 months ago over the weekend and the carbonation was perfect on it. I've also sent bottles pulled from keg in this manner into competition and gotten consistently high marks for carbonation. The stopper is still very much in place and throttling...

For what it's worth, I don't have to "burp" the stopper with my finger anymore. I just position the stopper so that it *just* covers the mouth of the bottle and move the bottom of the wand into the side of the bottle. This puts the stopper at a slight angle and leaves a tiny bit of room for it...

For what it's worth, I found this page earlier in the year and have been using this technique all year long to pull bottles from keg for sharing and for competition. I had a quite successful competition year with positive comments about the quality of carbonation virtually every time on my...