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Even more heartbreaking are those breweries who may have fired or removed a brewer only to find that the brewer took their recipe data with them. Unfortunately I regularly receive emails from commercial brewers who have had a hard drive failure. It should be obvious, but your Craft beer recipes are critical data for your business that should be backed up periodically. This data is kept on the server database and backed up nightly, so it is relatively secure. Since your phone can be lost or broken, you may want to back it up by coping important recipes to your cloud folder.Īnything stored in the Cloud folder on any version of BeerSmith (including the web version) is stored online as part of your account.

Similarly the local recipe data on our mobile phone app is stored on the phone. So if your recipes are in ‘My Recipes’ then they are stored on your computers hard drive, and you should back them up periodically (see below). This is done in part for legacy reasons, but also because many home and commercial users are concerned about their data and don’t want it stored online. Our flagship BeerSmith desktop program stores all of your data in My Recipes locally on your hard drive by default. Local (My Recipe) Data vs Cloud (Web) Data While the BeerSmith Web version and cloud based data is automatically backed up on the sever nightly, your local data is not. Maybe data points not everyone needs to capture but points I wish to capture, and be reminded to capture, every brew.Rarely does a week go by where I don’t receive an email from a user who has had a computer failure, lost laptop or lost phone resulting in BeerSmith data loss. My minor quibbles are the steep learning curve - but that is behind me, and desire for a few customizable data fields. I end up keeping separate brew day logs in Apple Notes but I'd really prefer to be able to attach at least limited size photos to my recipes. My only real complaint about BS are lack of ability to attach photos to the logs. I've started accepting 'good enough' for mash pH - anywhere form 5.1-5.5 I am not worried - and then I am adjusting pH in the kettle at end of boil to 5.0-5.1. If I was using a RO system I might see things differently. I think the lack of accuracy of all of the calculators may be due to the fact my city water comes from different wells and so week to week there is going to be some variability. I haven't found any of the various ph predictors to be substantially more predictive than BS3, I tend to use about 2/3 of the BS lactic acid recommendation and land within about 0.15 units of target. I've tried many including Bru'n Water, Beer Alchemy, MME and Brewer's Friend. Many objections I see to BS2 and BS3 have to do with the water calculations. I get the value in having the cloud and the price to me is modest compared to some of my other brewing expenses. The cloud is also great for when I take my beer to club meetings or other tastings and want to be able to answer questions about the recipe or process.

I print the brewday instructions but can also access the recipe from my ipad via the cloud while brewing.

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I tend to design my beers on my mac upstairs in my office and I brew in my garage. I'm using BS3 with the subscription I think for same reason as The cloud service is awesome and integrates well with my work flow.