Brewing Software

Does anyone know of any good free brewing software?

Runyank said:

Does anyone know of any good free brewing software?

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All the main brewing software apps have free trials. Check one of them out.

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Try the free trial from Beersmith. After using it for the month that it's free, you'll gladly pay the $22 to buy it.

Kungpaodog said:

Try the free trial from Beersmith. After using it for the month that it's free, you'll gladly pay the $22 to buy it.

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That's exactly what I did.

Are any of them compatible on a wm6 phone?

Kungpaodog said:

Try the free trial from Beersmith. After using it for the month that it's free, you'll gladly pay the $22 to buy it.

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Amen to that. Beersmith is worth its weight in gold.

I tried it 2 days and made the purchase.... I dont know how you guys could last a month

The Recipator is the pinnacle of free brewing software IMHO (click the link, then click spreadsheet to get started). I've been brewing for a little while now, and have dropped a fair amount of cash on this and that gizmo, but brewing software is the one thing I really can't justify buying.

The recipator does pretty much everything I would need from software when trying to come up with a recipe. For the few esoteric things it doesn't do (strike temps, etc etc), one can easily find another online calc for specific tasks/calculations.

I'll admit that Beersmith et al do have some nifty features like inventory, etc -- but I'd much rather spend $20-$30 on more ingredients/equipment and use the recipator, the net, and/or a pen & paper. Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first guy to drop the cash for Beersmith if it genuinely does something that I couldn't get for free elsewhere...but at this point I'm not seeing the justification.

Pelikan said:

The Recipator is the pinnacle of free brewing software IMHO (click the link, then click spreadsheet to get started). I've been brewing for a little while now, and have dropped a fair amount of cash on this and that gizmo, but brewing software is the one thing I really can't justify buying.

I'll admit that Beersmith et al do have some nifty features like inventory, etc -- but I'd much rather spend $20-$30 on more ingredients/equipment and use the recipator, the net, and/or a pen & paper. Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first guy to drop the cash for Beersmith if it genuinely does something that I couldn't get for free elsewhere...but at this point I'm not seeing the justification.

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This is why i waited a month before buying it, but I'm way too lazy to keep track of everything in a notebook, and I think the best part of Beersmith is that you can keep the brewlog and simply copy a recipe into it each time you do it to track changes and tweak revisions of recipes.

The calculators are really nice to have too.

I'd love to try Beersmith but as a Mac user it seems I'm out of luck unless a Mac version comes out someday. (fingers crossed)

Also there is StrangeBrew.

+1 though on buying BeerSmith.

Sure, I'll plug my site.

http://www.brewtility.com

It's free, it's new and it does recipe formulation. There are some other misc. tools, but ut doesn't do brew sessions yet. (On the list)

BrewBlogger is web based (needs a lamp server), lets your create recipes and copy into brewblog, has nice calculators, is free, and being web based lets you share with others. Feel free to use the one I use (below) to try it out if you'd like

You can't go wrong with BeerSmith for $20.

I used QBrew for a while before I bought BeerSmith. It was pretty decent.

I'm currently evaluating BeerSmith myself and I'll most likely buy it after just an hour or so of playing with it. I can't really imagine not wanting to buy this program. If I buy this, there will be no more hunting for recipes. I can just choose a style that I want to brew and then start slapping ingredients together until I come up with something that I'm looking for. I also really like the feature where I can add/update the pricing on the ingredients I buy. The recipe will then tell me how much it will cost to make it and give me a shopping list of what I need...

shaundesjardins said:

I'd love to try Beersmith but as a Mac user it seems I'm out of luck unless a Mac version comes out someday. (fingers crossed)

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You might want to investigate VMware Fusion at some point.

shaundesjardins said:

I'd love to try Beersmith but as a Mac user it seems I'm out of luck unless a Mac version comes out someday. (fingers crossed)

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I like Beersmith enough that I run it on Windows via Parallels. IMO it's markedly better than the OS X app (Beer Alchemy?).

I have tried them all. The best free brewing software hands down is StrangeBrew Java. Runs on pretty much anything, too:

StrangeBrew Java

shaundesjardins said:

I'd love to try Beersmith but as a Mac user it seems I'm out of luck unless a Mac version comes out someday. (fingers crossed)

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You could try Beer Alchemy.

Brian

check it out. Brewtility - Homebrew Beer Recipes and Brewing Tools

jldc said:

I like Beersmith enough that I run it on Windows via Parallels. IMO it's markedly better than the OS X app (Beer Alchemy?).

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I just can't justify spending the money to purchase a copy of Windows.
I would only use it for my brewing software.
Thanks for the info though.