What are my options for brewing software?

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What are my options for brewing software?

RyanTheDev

2015年10月6日 00:21

I'm looking for brewing software that helps with record-keeping, calculations, inventory, and/or recipes. Across any platform (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux), what brewing software is available, and what are the pros and cons of each?

Topic software calculations record-keeping recipe homebrew

Category Mac

jsolarski · Accepted Answer · 2015年10月6日 00:21

Brewtarget, Open source software, allows you to create, scale, and add notes to recipes, ingredients ..etc

you can use it on mac windows and linux, or if you want build from source on your solaris machine.

For me I sync the Database on several machines using Dropbox, but you can use almost any file sharing service to keep your changes synced up on multiple machines.

http://www.brewtarget.org/

Mark Hewitt · Accepted Answer · 2015年10月5日 16:24

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Mark Hewitt answered at 2015年10月5日 16:24

http://www.brewersfriend.com/windows/

For Windows. It's free, easy to use, uncomplicated. I like being able to enter recipes by percentage too.

JasonStoltz · Accepted Answer · 2011年4月20日 23:30

I asked a similar question on BrewAdvice.com the other day:

Is there an online equivalent of Beer Smith?

Specifically, I asked about online applications, because I'd much rather use a web application then a desktop application.

One that was mentioned in that thread that was not already mentioned here is http://brewershub.com/. I haven't had a chance to play around with it extensively, but it looks nice and it appears to have a rich set of features. It sounds like it was just launched recently. Maybe one more to check out!

EDIT: After looking at this more, it looks like it DOES let you enter recipes, but it doesn't appear to do any calculations for you, which is a little lame. However, it looks like it does allow you to import BeerXML files, which are generated by programs like BeerSmith, so I guess you could create a recipe in BeerSmith and import it here.

baka · Accepted Answer · 2011年3月9日 00:15

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baka answered at 2011年3月9日 00:15

ProMash runs under Wine, if that qualifies as running in Linux.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2011年3月8日 21:06

Check out http://www.brewernauts.com/

I just made this in the last couple months, it has calculations, exporting/importing, recipes, ingredients, and a historical brewing log of each beer you brewed and how it differed from the recipe you were attempting to follow.

Andy O · Accepted Answer · 2010年11月18日 20:09

I can't say enough about BrewPal! iPhone app (which is great because I don't brew in front of my computer). Only $0.99! Built in mash (fly, batch, decoction, partial, or steep) and boil timers (so I can enjoy as many homebrews as I want and not forget to add the 15 min hops, irish moss, or wort chiller...).

I'm a developer and was going to write my own just to learn how to write iPhone apps and learn about all of the math that can go into brewing, but this just did everything I was hoping for and more that I never wrote it. Maybe write something similar for Android.

Doesn't have inventory management features but I'm not that advanced anyways.

rainoftoads · Accepted Answer · 2010年11月17日 20:25

I have used BeerTools Pro quite successfully on Windows. They have a free web-based version on their site as well, but it limits the number of ingredients you can add and lacks the mash schedule calculator which I used quite a lot.

I stopped using it so much when I moved from a Windows laptop to an Ubuntu laptop and found that BeerTools doesn't run under Wine.

KRock · Accepted Answer · 2010年11月17日 18:03

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KRock answered at 2010年11月17日 18:03

BeerSmith is an excellent brewing software. It offers easy to understand recipe creation and a brewday instruction sheet. It also allows for different equipment setups. Recipes generally follow style guidelines.

Ryan · Accepted Answer · 2010年11月17日 15:28

BeerCalculus is really nice to put your recipes together. Since it's a web app, it's platform agnostic. I don't believe it does anything like inventory management. I've used BeerSmith in the past, and it's really nice and worth the money if you need inventory management.

arnemart · Accepted Answer · 2010年11月17日 15:20

I use BeerAlchemy (Mac/iPhone only), and it does pretty much anything I need, including keeping track of inventory. The iPhone version is really neat, and syncs to the Mac-version. The only thing I miss is listing batches by date, I use a spreadsheet on Google Docs for that.

fearoffours · Accepted Answer · 2010年11月17日 12:08

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fearoffours answered at 2010年11月17日 12:08

If you're brewing wine, take a look at Fermsoft's Amphora software. They also offer an online wine-brew logging system which I've just started using.

WilliamB · Accepted Answer · 2010年11月17日 06:39

Take a look at BrewBlogger.

According to developer:

BrewBlogger is a web-based alternative to software such as BeerSmith, ProMash, and others.

I'm busy giving BrewBlogger a try now and I'm pretty impressed.

In the commercial space, BeerSmith is quite popular as is ProMash.

There are quite a few available in the open source space but the only one that I've used is BrewTarget (Windows, Mac and Linux)

What are my options for brewing software?

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