Welcome to BeerSmith! > Using Profiles and Styles

A carbonation profile represents a method for carbonating your beer. This could include either adding some kind of sugar when bottling, or kegging using CO2 pressure to carbonate, or kegging with sugar (called natural carbonation). BeerSmith comes pre-loaded with a number of carbonation profiles.

Within the recipe design tab you can simply choose any existing carbonation profile and BeerSmith will calculate the correct keg pressure or amount of sugar to use for carbonating your beer.

In rare cases you might want to add your own carbonation profile, which you can do from this view.

Using the Carbonation Profile View

o	Select the Carbonation Profile view from the profile menu or ribbon

o	From here you can add, edit or delete new carbonation profiles using the large buttons on the ribbon

Adding a Carbonation Profile

o	Select the Mash Profile view from the profile menu or ribbon

o	Select the Add Carbonation button from the ribbon

o	Give your profile a unique name and select the type (bottle, keg or keg with priming agent).

o	If using a sugar for bottling other than corn sugar, adjust the percentage effectiveness of the item relative to corn sugar. Most sugars (except table sugar) are less effective at priming than corn sugar.