Recipes are the back-bone of any brewing software package. A recipe
should contain all the information required for yourself or another brewer to
successfully duplicate the recipe time and time again. A recipe should not
contain information that is not relevant to every brewer, such as the equipment
used to brew the recipe on, actual measured efficiency levels on brew-day, etc.
A recipe is just that, a collection of ingredients, water profiles, mash
schedules, time and level measurements and notes the brewer thinks may be
relevant.
When you do want to measure things such as your actual efficiency, how
much was bottled or kegged, or other items relevant to yourself only, move the
recipe into a brewing session and have at it!
As ProMash follows this philosophy in recipe design, recipes can be circulated
from brewer to brewer easily (see our Recipe stockpile for a vast assortment
of recipes available here and elsewhere). Additionally, ProMash makes local
copies of all database entries within the recipe itself. This means that you
can send a recipe to a friend with all of your custom ingredients and he will
be able to view the recipe exactly as you intended, without worrying about
having the custom ingredients in his/her databases.
Recipes in ProMash are broken into 4 sections; The Main Recipe Screen
(grain, hops, style, times and sizes), The Yeast and Water screen, The
Extra Ingredients and Notes Screen, and the Mash Schedule Screen.
The first section of a recipe is the Main Recipe screen itself: |
