allentwnguy
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I have given up on BeerSmith's ability to keep an accurate tally of items on hand of ingredients. If I have to constantly take a physical inventory then I might as well just tally by hand also.
Yesterday I wanted to know if I had enough on hand (except base grain) to do a particular brew on the next warm day if it should come. To be accurate I did another physical inventory of grains and hops and made corrections in the program. Since Sunday is supposed to be in the 50's here in Buffalo, a rare winter brew day I decided to run to the LHBS rather than wait for a delivery that might not get here in time. I pulled up my double IPA, put it in the shopping cart and it said I needed 16+ lbs of 2-row. I knew from the previous day I had 5+ on hand. I also noticed that the WLP002 I used to brew an Old Ale a couple of weeks ago AND removed the ingredients was there again with all the other ingredients used. So I basically wasted my time yesterday doing an inventory and correcting the BeerSmith stock on hand. It is an fairly easy program to create a recipe because it does the math/formula computations but it can't keep an inventory for crap.
Yesterday I wanted to know if I had enough on hand (except base grain) to do a particular brew on the next warm day if it should come. To be accurate I did another physical inventory of grains and hops and made corrections in the program. Since Sunday is supposed to be in the 50's here in Buffalo, a rare winter brew day I decided to run to the LHBS rather than wait for a delivery that might not get here in time. I pulled up my double IPA, put it in the shopping cart and it said I needed 16+ lbs of 2-row. I knew from the previous day I had 5+ on hand. I also noticed that the WLP002 I used to brew an Old Ale a couple of weeks ago AND removed the ingredients was there again with all the other ingredients used. So I basically wasted my time yesterday doing an inventory and correcting the BeerSmith stock on hand. It is an fairly easy program to create a recipe because it does the math/formula computations but it can't keep an inventory for crap.