Brewing software

[Jim Blockley]

Just wondering what recipe software anyone would recommend. I've had a look at the beer engine, but find it a bit restrictive - I can't seem to adjust the amount of water I'm boiling in for eg. I've scanned the forum, but can't find a thread. Advice appreciated. It would have to be Windows by the way.

Jim.

[JohnMarso]

I along with a few brew buddies use beer smith
Free trial download I think
And only bout 16 quid to buy

[keith1664]

BrewMate - free and easy to use, this is what I use.
Beersmith - not free , does more but takes more learning. I own it but tend not to use it.

[JohnMarso]

I never tried beermate
i had the trial of beer smith for a while and liked it. I think in some ways your right it does more probably than most of us need and no its not free (if you really wanted it free it would be well easy to turn the trial copy into a full version)
I think its good value

I suppose its what you get used to first.

[JohnMarso]

But you know what I think I will have a look at beermate

[The Dribbler]

As somebody new to AG brewing I was very impressed with the capability of Beersmith.

I found it had a slight learning curve of a couple of hours to be familiar with it.
But the features are certainly impressive, and does anything I can think of.


Well worth the £16
Not that I advocate piracy but license free versions float around the web as well.

[Manx Guy]

Hi!

I use a combo of GW's Beer engine (see lnks above on this forum) todownload for free on PC.

If you use mobile devices iphone/iPad etc) then I think beeralchemy takes some beating and not bad value at £9.00 either...

A forum user on here wrote it from what I understand and did a pretty decent job on it too!



Guy

[stitch]

+1 on Beer Alchemy, it's a superb piece of software (for those with Macs or iPhones/iPads.)

I have both the Mac version & the iPhone version. When the two are synched together you can do all the big hand-wavey recipe design on the computer and then on brewday keep the same thing on your phone in your pocket as you rush around your brewery getting everything done. Dead handy.

The forum user who wrote it is steve_flack, BTW.

[orlando]

BeerSmith for me too. Tried a couple of others (free versions) but decided you get what you pay for. One critical issue with BS2 was a lack of timer but that has now been put right with a recent (free) update. They have initiated a "cloud" that allows you to store and/or share recipes so handy if you have a computer meltdown and lose all your brewing history. The part I definitely think is worth it is the extensive notes and tasting sections that allows you to record every aspect of your brew.