Welcome to BeerSmith! > Building a Recipe > Creating Your First Recipe

This is intended as a simple tutorial on creating a recipe. The basic process is to choose your equipment and the beer style you are targeting, then start adding ingredients. BeerSmith will update the estimates for bitterness, color, etc as you go.

If you are brewing all-grain or partial mash you can also select a mash profile for your beer, and all brewers can select their carbonation method and fermentation profile using the buttons below the style guide.

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Creating a New Recipe

o	Open a new recipe by clicking on the Add Recipe button from My Recipes view. An empty recipe will open in a new tab.

o	Enter the name of your recipe, your name as the brewer and pick the type of recipe you want to create (all-grain, extract or partial-mash)

o	Choose your equipment profile by clicking on the equipment name button. If you have not already done so, it is recommended you set up an equipment profile to match your particular set of brewing equipment. This should populate the batch size, efficiency and boil size fields.

o	In the style guide section, select a target style for your beer by clicking on the Style name

o	If you are an all grain or partial mash brewer, select the Mash profile for your beer by clicking on the mash name - if you are a beginning all grain brewer, I recommend you choose the "Single Infusion, Medium Body, No Mash Out" profile. See Mash Profiles for more details on available profiles.

Start adding ingredients to your beer using the various "Add" buttons next to the ingredient list. As you add ingredients the color of the beer glass icon and estimated original gravity, bitterness and color will be adjusted. These numbers will continuously be compared to the style you selected and displayed on scale below the ingredients.

o	You can select your carbonation (bottling/kegging) method and fermentation aging profile to match your beer near the bottom of the dialog

o	Press OK to save your recipe, or Cancel to abandon it.