Welcome to BeerSmith! > Getting Started

BeerSmith 2 offers a ton of features for the home brewer and professional brewer alike.

This Pour Bien Commencer guide is intended to help you get up to speed quickly, even if you have never brewed before.

Activation and Trial Versions

BeerSmith has a 21 day trial period (no activation required), after that you must purchase a key to continue to use BeerSmith unless you have already purchased BeerSmith 2. Existing users may upgrade by purchasing a key for BeerSmith 2. Once you have your key you can Activate BeerSmith to permanently register your copy.

Creating an Equipment Profile

o	To best use BeerSmith, it is important that you create a personal equipment profile to match your particular set of brewing equipment

o	The process only takes a few minutes - but using an accurate equipment profile within your recipes will improve your results. Equipment can also be used to more quickly and accurately scale and adapt sample recipes that came with BeerSmith or you downloaded from the internet.

Key Features for Building Recipes

o	Most of time with BeerSmith will likely be spent designing and editing recipes. This is done from the My Recipes View which is displayed when you first enter BeerSmith.

o	You can add a new recipe to your My Recipes folder by clicking on the Add Recipe Button on the ribbon which opens the recipe design editor in a new tab.

o	There is a tutorial on Créer votre Première Recette here. BeerSmith comes pre-loaded with the most common brewing ingredients so it is a matter of choosing the ones you want in the L'Onglet Création de Recette and adjusting the amounts to create a new recipe.

o	Once you are done with your recipe you can save it by pressing the OK button

o	We also have Tutoriels Vidéo on creating recipes here.

More Avancées Recipe Features

o	The recipe editor also has tabs for Pied de Cuves, mash details, fermentation and notes.

o	In addition you can print step-by-step instructions for the recipe you just created

o	You can use the buttons on the ribbon to quickly scale and adjust your recipe

o	You can also add your own ingredients to the list of pre-loaded ones

o	You can import and export recipes and other data from the internet to share your recipes with friends, and scale imported recipes to match your personal equipment

Standalone Tools and Unit Converters

o	BeerSmith comes with 15 stand-alone tools to perform the most common brewing calculations

o	It also has Outils de Conversion d'Unités for converting between different unit systems, and you can even do unit conversions and simple calculations in any field

Shopping, Gestion de Stock, Calendrier et Notes

o	BeerSmith includes a shopping cart to make your personal Liste de Courses for the next trip to the store. You can even add all the ingredients for a recipe to the shopping cart in one click using the Add to Cart button from the open recipe.

o	The shopping cart and recipes are integrated with the Gestion de Stock view - for easy Gestion de Stock management.

o	A brewing Calendrier et Notes feature lets you track and schedule your brewing sessions and brewing events.