On the advice of many of you here, I downloaded BrewTarget and printed out the getting started tutorial.
And then I got stuck.
As instructed, the first thing I tried to do was to set up an equipment record for my set up (6.5 gal batch size, 10 gal Igloo cooler mash lauter tun, 15 gal brew pot).
The problem I am having is that when I put in all of my parameters and hit "save" on the bottom of the equipment editor, it will save the name and the batch size, but it doesn't save any other information -- like boil time (I put in 60 min), pre-batch volume, or any of the other information. It shows up on the equipment list with the name I gave it, but when I open it up it shows 0 for boil time and 0 for all the other parameters BUT FOR the name and the batch size.
What the heck am I doing wrong? Any advice would be deeply apprecaited. I have a brew day scheduled for November 17 and I would like to get my recipes scaled and calculated well ahead of that time.
Or, would you all suggest that I bite the bullet (a relatively inexpensive bullet, all things considered) and just go ahead and purchase BeerSmith?
Thanks for any and all advice and/or suggestions.
And then I got stuck.
As instructed, the first thing I tried to do was to set up an equipment record for my set up (6.5 gal batch size, 10 gal Igloo cooler mash lauter tun, 15 gal brew pot).
The problem I am having is that when I put in all of my parameters and hit "save" on the bottom of the equipment editor, it will save the name and the batch size, but it doesn't save any other information -- like boil time (I put in 60 min), pre-batch volume, or any of the other information. It shows up on the equipment list with the name I gave it, but when I open it up it shows 0 for boil time and 0 for all the other parameters BUT FOR the name and the batch size.
What the heck am I doing wrong? Any advice would be deeply apprecaited. I have a brew day scheduled for November 17 and I would like to get my recipes scaled and calculated well ahead of that time.
Or, would you all suggest that I bite the bullet (a relatively inexpensive bullet, all things considered) and just go ahead and purchase BeerSmith?
Thanks for any and all advice and/or suggestions.