Hi,
As a longtime user of BS for recipe design and Bru'n Water for water, I was glad to see the addition of an updated water profile tool. However, it is still not useful to me, and I wanted to pass along my feedback.
Feedback:
1. The profile tool and integration into a recipe is very confusing.
2. Pickling lime is still not an available addition - this is a miss IMO as it is a good way to add Calcium and raise pH.
3. I use RO for my base water. I treat the mash water and not the sparge water (as it is already low alkalinity). It seems there is no way to handle this in BS.
4. The Match Target Profile function does not work well. I find I can almost dead on match the profile manually adjusting the additions, but the automatic function settles on multiple missed totals.
So unfortunately for me, I will need to continue BnW.
-BD
As a longtime user of BS for recipe design and Bru'n Water for water, I was glad to see the addition of an updated water profile tool. However, it is still not useful to me, and I wanted to pass along my feedback.
Feedback:
1. The profile tool and integration into a recipe is very confusing.
2. Pickling lime is still not an available addition - this is a miss IMO as it is a good way to add Calcium and raise pH.
3. I use RO for my base water. I treat the mash water and not the sparge water (as it is already low alkalinity). It seems there is no way to handle this in BS.
4. The Match Target Profile function does not work well. I find I can almost dead on match the profile manually adjusting the additions, but the automatic function settles on multiple missed totals.
So unfortunately for me, I will need to continue BnW.
-BD