This week I take a look at the practice of using multiple equipment profiles for your brewing equipment in BeerSmith.
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This week I take a look at how you can use percentages to formulate your grain bill for more efficient
This week I take a look at some of the key process factors when lautering and sparging your all grain beer. Last week in part one, I discussed equipment design and how a filter bed forms around grain husks and creates channels that the wort flows through. I explained why a poorly designed lauter tun […] 
This week I take a look at the process of lautering or sparging your all grain beer. What appears to be a simple process actually has some interesting complexities to it. Lautering Lautering would appear to be one of the simplest steps in all grain brewing. Hot water is run through the grain bed to […] This week I take a closer look at the mashing process and what is actually going on when we mash malted barley and then sparge it to produce wort during the brewing process. The Purpose of Mashing Mashing is, in its most simple form, a process that breaks longer carbohydrate molecule chains into simpler sugars […] Author and beer expert John Palmer shares his insights into the simplest ways of adjusting your home brewing sparging water to minimize astringency. View this entire 2-hr event as well as all the previous events for as little as $5 (https://www.patreon.com/dougpiper): https://www.crowdcast.io/e/john-palmer-bjcp-water-exam Support via Affiliate Links (helps us a little, but costs you nothing) o
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This week I take a look at the rapid rise of all-in-one BIAB style brewing systems for all grain brewing. These affordable, compact systems have quickly become the favorite of beginner and experienced brewers alike. All-in-One Brewing Systems Only a few years ago, most serious homebrewers had full-size three tier brewing systems for their all […] 
This week I take a look at how to incorporate separately steeped dark grains with BeerSmith, a technique often used to minimize burnt, harsh roast grain flavors in the finished beer. Steeping/Sparging vs Mashing Dark Grains As I covered in this original article on the topic, all grain brewers can be well served by separately […] In this video I show how to mash grain the first step in brewing your own beer as a all grain brewer
Some of the most frequent questions I receive on BeerSmith software are about how to properly set up and dial in your equipment profile. This is an important first step as the equipment you are using drives all of the critical recipe estimates like color, bitterness and original gravity. I’ve composed many articles and videos […] 
This week I present the mash temperature calculations in BeerSmith and how you can adjust your equipment profile and mash profile to hit your mash temperature the first time. Mash Steps and Profiles To understand the mash profile system in BeerSmith, lets start with the mash profiles themselves. You can edit and create mash profiles […] As all-grain homebrewers, we have two options for rinsing mashed grains to collect wort in our kettle: fly sparging and batch sparging. Neither is difficult and both have their own unique advantage benefits. NB head development brewer Brad Segall demonstrates both methods. Learn all about mashing, sparging, and the complete all-grain homebrew process in the