Jtd6628

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Has anyone used iBrewmaster iPad edition. If so let me know your opinion it's only $11 so I was thinking i could buy it sooner than I could beersmith2 for $50.

Wingfan13

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I have it and I really like it. It comes with a bunch of free recipes too.

bartbert

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I have iBrewMaster and BeerTools Pro. I use them both because they each have their advantages. BTP has much greater capabilities when it comes to all the calculations. It allows you to define your process in greater detail and I have found it's calculations to be pretty damn accurate in terms of temperatures, times, gravity targets, etc.

Even though iBM doesn't have the calculation bells and whistles that BTP has, it does have a nice recipe editor that will do all the basic calculations for you. But it has some other features that really make it useful. First, it runs on an iPad, which means you can have it handy while brewing. It has an awesome set of timers which are tied into your recipe. So if you have additions to make at 60, 45, 15, and 0 minutes, it will sound the alarm at the correct time and tell you what you should be adding.

But the feature I like most about iBM is the batch calendar. Once you get a pipeline going, you will have multiple batches in various stages of the process. The batch calendar will give you a chronological sequence of upcoming events (dry hopping, bottling, etc.). Suppose you have a batch that should have been ready to drink on 8/13 based on your recipe, but when you taste it on that day, you detect some off flavors and decide that it could use another 2 weeks conditioning. You just update the bottling duration for that batch (but not necessarily the recipe) to add two more weeks, and it will notify you in two weeks that it is ready to try again. If you notice that all your batches for that recipe are taking longer to condition, then you might update your recipe so that all future batches will use a longer conditioning time.

triangulum33

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I agree. Love the ability to track batches and the calendar function.

I sent an email with some suggestions to improve the software, and the creator wrote back that they have an update coming with a bunch of new features.

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Irrenarzt

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I may have to try this. I have it for the iPhone but I never thought it was a useful as Brewpal who has no plans to do an iPad app as far as I can tell.

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FoundlingOfDollar

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Will it convert recipes back and forth between AG and extract?

snowbeavers

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Just downloaded it and LOVE it. I love all the access to recipes. You can create your own and download others for free. Lots of control and data collection

suds_zville

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I've been using for 9 months or now and really like it. Well worth the price to me. Good recipe creator plus a nice batch manager feature to boot.

socalboomer

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I don't know about that, but it does scale recipes very nicely - I just moved from 5G to 10G AG and it makes it EASY to go from one to the other. . . just input my 5G recipe and hit scale to 10G (x2) and boom, it's all done. nice.

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