Everyone has different wants and needs from modeling software. If those programs meet your needs, by all means use them. I am pretty active on the BeerSmith forum helping others with using the program (full disclosure), but I also recognize that some of the issues people have with BeerSmith are better handled with other options such as BrewFather and Brewer's Friend. I should probably start tracking this as well though to see what that relationship actually is though. Maybe it is just the way I had operated my process, but in switching to the Anvil and using a hop basket (versus just free additions previously, I am still at very low volume losses versus hop loading. Tracking trub loss versus hop loading for over 110 recipes brewed, I have found no reliable correlation (r 2 = 0.0182) between hop loading in boil and whirlpool (all pellets) and trub loss. I find the mash pH prediction, once you take into account the overestimation of buffering in Mark Riffe's model that BS uses, to be as accurate as Bru'n water so have not had any issues with that function. I track inventory separately due to that particular weakness in the program. I will totally agree that the inventory and issue with cloud storage are an issue with BeerSmith. Every program has its weak points and faults, it all depends on which ones you can live with. I have trialed BrewFather and Brewer's Friend and am sticking with BeerSmith. Any modeling software worth its weight will need to have an accurate description of the process and process variables.
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