BrewDemon and BeerSmith2

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BrewDemon and BeerSmith2

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Hi!
I'm going to make my first beer with 2-gallon BrewDemon fermenter and 2 cans of One Evil Pilsner BrewDemon extract. And I'm trying to calculate my future beer with BeerSmith2 application. I created new extract profile for One Evil Pilsner extract, where SRM=12 IBU=16 and amount of ectract is 1 kg (according to official information from BrewDemon site). But I can't choose which beer style I need to select in BeerSmith2 because my extract SRM is out of all pilsner styles SRM limits. So can someone help me to understand what I'm doing wrong?
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I wouldn't worry about it, a lot of brews made are not always true to style. I don't mean just BD or MrB, but our own original recipes.
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Ok, thank you for the answer.
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You're not doing anything wrong, the extract is just not light enough to fall within style guidelines set by the BJCP. It's not that big a deal unless you are planning to enter a competition. I pick the style of beer I'm brewing when putting a recipe in BeerSmith and I'd say that half my recipes are out of whack in at least one area "according to style".

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Welcome to the forum!

I found for software and DMEs, qbrew is more accurate. Brewsmith I believe is geared more towards all grain although it can be used for DMEs. IMHO Brewsmith is a good program but can be a pain in the backside to get set up correctly. You can also e-mail the Brewsmith creator and ask them for help if need be. qbrew is free if you have not seen it and is a decent program. Again, IMHO
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And to top it off, if you are using the yeast supplied it will not be a pilsner as it uses ale yeast. So even if the numbers matched perfectly, technically it would still be out of style.
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Alur :bbwelc: We're glad you found us. Please let us know how that brew turns out and be sure to ask if you have any other questions. :barman: :cheers:
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Welcome to the Borg Alur! Ditto what they said^^^

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