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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?

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.

Ok, thank you for the answer.

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".

Edit: Oh, and Welcome to the forum.

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

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.

Alur 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.

Welcome to the Borg Alur! Ditto what they said^^^