The Profils de Matériel are used to store your personal equipment settings for building recipes. It is very important that you create your own personal equipment profile to match your particular set of brewing equipment and set that as the default for future recipes.
New Feature: BeerSmith now has an Equipment Wizard mode to make creating custom Profils de Matériel easier - see "Using the Equipment Wizard" below
Important Note!: Please take a few minutes to create your own equipment profile for your brewing setup. As the equipment profile is used throughout the recipe calculations, an accurate equipment profile is important particularly if you want accurate Eau calculations when brewing.
Also important: If you want to make your new equipment profile the default for all new recipes, use the Brewing tab in the Options dialog after you have created and set your equipment profile. If you edit your profile in the future you may need to update this option to have it saved for future recipes.
Voir aussi : L'Onglet Création de Recette, Page de Support BeerSmith - has videos on building your own equipment profile
Online Articles: Understanding Brewhouse Efficiency, Improving your Brewhouse Efficiency
Using the Equipment Profile View
| o | Select the Equipment view from the profiles menu or ribbon |
| o | From here you can add, edit or delete new Profils de Matériel using the large buttons on the ribbon |
Using the Equipment Wizard
| o | The Equipment Profile Wizard is a new tool to create your own equipment profile by answering a series of questions |
| o | Select the Equipment view from the profiles menu or ribbon |
| o | Select Equipment Wizard from the Insert menu. Alternately you can add a new profile using the Add Equip button and then select the Equipment Wizard button at the bottom right of the equipment dialog |
| o | Answer the questions listed, and use the Next and Previous buttons to navigate between pages. Click OK when done |
Creating an Equipment Profile of Your Own
| o | Select the Equipment view from the profiles menu or ribbon |
| o | Click on the Add Equip button to add a new equipment profile, or you can copy/paste an existing profile and edit the copy to make it your own |
| o | Details for the equipment profile dialog are shown below |
| o | Press OK to save your equipment profile |
Details of the Equipment Dialog - Setting up your own profile
| o | Name - Give your personal equipment profile a descriptive name |
| o | Brewhouse Efficiency - If you are an all-grain or partial mash brewer, this should be set to the overall gross efficiency for your system from grain to fermenter including losses. For most brewing systems this is in the range of 68%-76%. |
| o | Hop Utilization Factor - Should always be set to 100% unless you are working with a very large system (more than 20 gallons) in which case your utilization might be higher. |
| o | Mash Tun Volume - The volume of your mash tun (for BIAB brewers, you should set this to the volume of your boil vessel). |
| o | Mash Tun Weight - Approximate weight (mass) of your mash tun - used to compensate mash temperatures for the thermal mass of your tun |
| o | Mash Tun Specific Heat - The specific heat of your mash tun - generally this is a number between 0.10 and 0.50 with lower numbers associated with all metal mash tuns such as stainless steel and higher numbers representing plastic thermal coolers. |
| o | Lauter Tun Deadspace - Represents the deadspace in the lauter tun - how much wort will likely be lost to the lauter tun screen and piping |
| o | Top Up Eau for Kettle - Enter zero here for most cases unless you add additional Eau between the mash and the boil |
| o | Calculate Boil Volume Automatically - When checked this will determine the boil volume based on the Batch volume into the fermenter minus losses and evaporation. Generally it should be checked. |
| o | Boil Volume - The volume of Eau at the start of the boil |
| o | Boil Time - The time that you usually boil the wort - typically 60-90 minutes for an all grain batch or slightly less for an extract batch |
| o | Boil Off - An estimate of the Eau boiled off or evaporated during the boil |
| o | Evaporation Rate - Calculated from the boil off - this represents the percentage boiled/evaporated off during the boil |
| o | Cooling Shrinkage - Eau typically loses about 4% of its volume when cooled from boiling to room temperature |
| o | Cooling Loss - Simply the cooling shrinkage expressed as a volume |
| o | Losses to Trub/Chiller - The amount of wort lost in the trub or chiller during the transfer from the boiling vessel to the fermenter |
| o | Top Up Eau - Typically zero for a full boil batch, but many extract brewers do add a few gallons of Eau at the end of the boil |
| o | Batch Volume Into Fermenter - The target batch size as measured into the fermenter - typically a bit over 5 gallons for most home brewers |
| o | Fermentation Loss - Losses to trub and transfers during the fermentation process |
| o | Bottling Volume - The batch volume minus fermentation losses - represents the volume of beer left to be bottled or kegged |
