Adding an Existing Equipment Profile

Adding an Existing Equipment Profile

To add an equipment profile for the RAPT database, select the Add button in the top left.

This opens the New Equipment Profile box. From here we can search for and add an existing profile, or select Blank Profile to create your own.

To Add an existing profile, either click the dropdown and scroll through current Equipment Profiles, or enter a brewing equipment name in the search bar in order to search for all profiles with that name.

Once you have located the Equipment Profile you wish to add, select CLONE PROFILE to clone this to your Equipment Profile Library.

Once the Equipment Profile has been cloned (added) to your library, it will be opened in the RAPT Portal and can be edited if needed. If any changes are made make sure you SAVE the changes before exiting!

Creating an Equipment Profile

If the brewing equipment you use is not in the RAPT database, it is quite easy to add a suitable Equipment Profile from scratch.

To add ana Equipment Profile, select the Add button in the top left.

The select the BLANK PROFILE option.

This will open the Equipment Profile editing screen. For more informaqtion about editing an Equipment Profile, please refer to Creating An Equipment Profile

NOTE: Most equipment profiles listed are based on information directly from the respective manufacturers.

We recommend that all brewers measure several brews when using the RAPT Portal recipe brewer. You can then use the actual numbers to 'tweak' the profile used based on real world data.

This will acheive a number of positives.

1. You will get a more accurate and up to date profile that better represents your brewing style. For example, if you tend to brew stronger than average beers we would expect brewhouse efficiency to drop a bit.

2. You can identify and track actual losses and potentially uncover ways to improve or streamline your brew day.

3. You may identify issues that need to be rectified - for example, if you consistently get lower than expected efficiency your grain crush or thermostat may need to be dialled in, or it may drive you to experiment with Water Chemistry (which can have a very positive effect when all grain brewing!)