Brewers Software

[floydmeddler]

Why don't you download trial versions and see what you think? You can try most of them on a trial basis... the one that you like, buy! Beertools pro is brilliant.

[Russ]

Wheelers Beer Engine is great http://www.practicalbrewing.co.uk/calcu ... index.html

Its free and I can't see the need for anything else if used with his water treatment calculator. I also use DaaB's batch sparge calculator (find them both thru the hints and tip tag at the top of the page)

Russ

[dandan]

I use Beersmith!!

On the market is Beer Smith, Beer Tools, Pro mash, Beer Engine for pc

Beersmith you can set this to show recipes that you could make from the ingredients you have in your inventory, which is great, as some great features you are able to programme in your own equiment and log brewdays, the print outs produce a step by step guide on your brew day too (even reminds you to pre heat up your mash tun) its about £14 so good value compared to what beertools is.

[harvs]

I use qbrew. It's free and not too complicated

[RabMaxwell]

Wheelers Beer Engine is great http://www.practicalbrewing.co.uk/calcu ... index.html

Its free and I can't see the need for anything else if used with his water treatment calculator.

Russ

I would second this i use it instead of Promash now & love it i really like the water calculator too

[WishboneBrewery]

I use qbrew. It's free and not too complicated

one or two things from Qbrew would look good in BeerEngine Though I find Qbrew slow to input a recipe.

[Bobba]

Just purchased beersmith yesterday after testing it against promash and looking into a couple of the others.
It has excellent hop descriptions, making it a great all round brewing database, as well as an excellent tool for designing a brew.
Graham's beer engine is excellent also if all you want is to formulate a recipe. I can see myself using a combination of both

I did notice something quirky however, the colour for my last brew that I inputted into both beerengine and beersmith is different, despite having the same quantities and ebc's......any idea why anyone?