Hail and well met gurus.

I have been lurking, and from time to time launching my own responses to
this group for a couple of months now.

Recently, I have been evaluating a couple of software apps for brewing. You
know, Promash and Beersmith.

My OS is Win XP Pro, and Beersmith installed just fine there. Had trouble
with Promash, but it did install on a Win98 box fine. Promash support was
as concerned about my installation delimna as I, and we have found no
resolution to the issue. I use the trial on my 98 machine atm.

Getting to the meat of this post, I was wondering if you guys had a
preference of these apps? Promash is a bit more expensive, but I've seen
much more detail in thier selections. My caveat with them, I dunno WHAT
will the printed output look like, as printing recipes is not available in
the trial version.

Beersmith, on the other hand, seems a bit more user friendly for the person
evaluating the app. Also, the lesser exensive of the two. Not sure how good
their support is.

Either way, I am currently doing partial boils, and neither app has been on
the mark with OG when given my list of ingredients, ( I am measuring more
OG than they redict, and I always measure @ 60 deg.) F. This alone makes me
wanna be sure I get the better of the two apps for my money.

So, if any of you folks have advice on thes 2 apps, I would be happy to
consider this in weighing my usae of which one.


Regards,
Jerry

I have used the trials of promash, beersmith, and strangebrew. I find
beersmith to be easier to use. as far as support the author of beersmith
(Brad Smith) lurks and posts to this group and rec.crafts.brewing from time
to time so I'm sure he would be willing to answer some of your questions.
"Jerry" <jerrdaleHATES_SPAM@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Hail and well met gurus.
>
> I have been lurking, and from time to time launching my own responses to
> this group for a couple of months now.
>
> Recently, I have been evaluating a couple of software apps for brewing.[/color]
You[color=blue]
> know, Promash and Beersmith.
>
> My OS is Win XP Pro, and Beersmith installed just fine there. Had trouble
> with Promash, but it did install on a Win98 box fine. Promash support was
> as concerned about my installation delimna as I, and we have found no
> resolution to the issue. I use the trial on my 98 machine atm.
>
> Getting to the meat of this post, I was wondering if you guys had a
> preference of these apps? Promash is a bit more expensive, but I've seen
> much more detail in thier selections. My caveat with them, I dunno WHAT
> will the printed output look like, as printing recipes is not available in
> the trial version.
>
> Beersmith, on the other hand, seems a bit more user friendly for the[/color]
person[color=blue]
> evaluating the app. Also, the lesser exensive of the two. Not sure how[/color]
good[color=blue]
> their support is.
>
> Either way, I am currently doing partial boils, and neither app has been[/color]
on[color=blue]
> the mark with OG when given my list of ingredients, ( I am measuring more
> OG than they redict, and I always measure @ 60 deg.) F. This alone makes[/color]
me[color=blue]
> wanna be sure I get the better of the two apps for my money.
>
> So, if any of you folks have advice on thes 2 apps, I would be happy to
> consider this in weighing my usae of which one.
>
>
> Regards,
> Jerry
>
>
>[/color]

Jerry,
I apparently overlooked this post earlier. While I don't feel it
appropriate to comment on which program is best (I'm the author of
BeerSmith), I would be more than happy to answer any questions you have
about the program if you want to email them to me. My address is available
on the web site - and I look forward to answering your questions.

Cheers!
Brad
[url]www.beersmith.com[/url]

"BKBooth" <bkbooth@nospam_.com> wrote in
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>...as far as support the author of
> beersmith (Brad Smith) lurks and posts to this group and[/color]

I have not tried Mr. Smith's program, I am sure it is good. I bought into
the ProMash on a machine with XP and it runs very well. I like the
flexibility that ProMash gives with the formulation of your own recipes.
The printout is very flexible and configurable. I also like the inventory
section it has.

For what its worth, ProMash works very well.

Vince


"Brad Smith" <beersmith@NOSPAM.beersmith.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9442D9F1CC221beersmithNOSPAMbeers@68.1.17.6...[color=blue]
> Jerry,
> I apparently overlooked this post earlier. While I don't feel it
> appropriate to comment on which program is best (I'm the author of
> BeerSmith), I would be more than happy to answer any questions you have
> about the program if you want to email them to me. My address is[/color]
available[color=blue]
> on the web site - and I look forward to answering your questions.
>
> Cheers!
> Brad
> [url]www.beersmith.com[/url]
>
> "BKBooth" <bkbooth@nospam_.com> wrote in
> news:3fc3baa2$0$9409$2c56edd9@news.cablerocket.com:
>[color=green]
> >...as far as support the author of
> > beersmith (Brad Smith) lurks and posts to this group and[/color][/color]