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[Pricelessbrewing]

Hey Brewer's Friend!

Starting in September, I'll be working on improving the documentation to be more complete and up to date, as well as creating short videos to go over some of the more complicated features or workflows.

So, beginner brewers, nows your chance!

What have you been confused by? What have you not figured out? What's the complicated seeming thing that you keep looking at and going, hmmm maybe later!

And more experienced users, what have you seen as common questions, misunderstandings, or what weird work arounds have you had to figure out to get the system to work the way that YOU want it to?

 

[Sunfire96]

I've noticed new users of the site don't know that Brew Sessions exist and can help measure brewhouse efficiency

 

[Zambi]

I think something about not measuring FG with a refractometer unless you use the correction table
Seems to come up a lot

Maybe a FAQ page?

 

[The Brew Mentor]

I think a cleaning/ sanitation chart would be a help.
Listing a choice products to use and processes that go along with the products.
This could also include if the products are alkaline or acidic.
Maybe a what not to do as well.
I'd be willing to help on this if needed.
Brian

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

I think it would help new brewers to know the size of the ballpark for each topic presented. For instance, the ballpark/pitch for yeast pitch rate is pretty big but, with sanitation, the ballpark is more like the infield or penalty box. I see many new brewers, including me in the beginning, think that being a couple degrees over/under a yeast's target temp range was a disaster or being 10% over/under target pitch rate would stress the yeast.

 

[Texas Ale Works]

Setting up the brew system to get accurate water requirements...I think mine is still way off

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

I think a cleaning/ sanitation chart would be a help.
Listing a choice products to use and processes that go along with the products.
This could also include if the products are alkaline or acidic.
Maybe a what not to do as well.
I'd be willing to help on this if needed.
Brian

Hmm good suggestion, I think this may fall more under the blog article topics however and not the videos or software documentation. But a general "you have to clean before you can sanitize" for example may be useful, although I don't want to product specific use instructions necessarily. Something to think about for sure!

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

I've noticed new users of the site don't know that Brew Sessions exist and can help measure brewhouse efficiency

Guilty! I think I was using BF for like 2 years before I knew the brew sessions existed!

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

I think something about not measuring FG with a refractometer unless you use the correction table
Seems to come up a lot

Maybe a FAQ page?

Hmm good thinking, also may be something that could popup when users enter drastically unexpected gravity measurements within the brew sessions log entry fields. Something to consider

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

I think it would help new brewers to know the size of the ballpark for each topic presented. For instance, the ballpark/pitch for yeast pitch rate is pretty big but, with sanitation, the ballpark is more like the infield or penalty box. I see many new brewers, including me in the beginning, think that being a couple degrees over/under a yeast's target temp range was a disaster or being 10% over/under target pitch rate would stress the yeast.

Yeast pitching is a great topic for a blog article for sure, I'll have to think some more about how to translate that into the software recommendations.

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

Setting up the brew system to get accurate water requirements...I think mine is still way off

This will 100% be covered for sure!

 

[Box of Rocks]

In recipe builder, the equipment setup, the hops absorption note suggests 0.15 qt/oz, but probably should be 0.015.