Best, free brewing software?

I have the trial version of beer tools pro right now, but it doesn't account for hop utilization when doing partial boils. I didn't notice that until I had already started my boil last night. Is there a free software that you guys l ow of that can help me?

Brewtarget is free. I haven't messed with it a lot but it might have what your looking for, can't lose its free.

If you have a droid, the BrewR app is pretty good.

Brewtarget is great. I use it all the time.

Chemkrafty said:

Brewtarget is great. I use it all the time.

Click to expand...

Does it account for hop utilization when doing partial boils, and late extract additions?

Thanks for the help guys.

I have an iPhone, and I've seen a few apps in the app store, but most of them aren't free.

Brewtarget!!

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f84/brewtarget-1-2-4-free-brewing-software-277810/

smalliewader said:

If you have a droid, the BrewR app is pretty good.

Click to expand...

+1 on the BrewR droid app, you could also try hopville's beer calculus

http://beercalculus.hopville.com/recipe

beer calculus has been REALLY messed up for me lately.extremely slow but works. might have to check out the other ones.

OHIOSTEVE said:

beer calculus has been REALLY messed up for me lately.extremely slow but works. might have to check out the other ones.

Click to expand...

Yes beer calculus is slow, and it only allows you to set your late additions at 5 mins left in the boil. I usually add mine at 15 mins.

I don't think you're setting the knobs correctly on BTP. I just selected the Rager or Tinseth utilization models from the utilization window (under the recipe tab) and it's adjusting both based on late additions and/or the concentration of the boil due to the IBU dilution that occurs (e.g. the more you dilute post boil, the lower the end IBUs are).

Bobby_M said:

I don't think you're setting the knobs correctly on BTP. I just selected the Rager or Tinseth utilization models from the utilization window (under the recipe tab) and it's adjusting both based on late additions and/or the concentration of the boil due to the IBU dilution that occurs (e.g. the more you dilute post boil, the lower the end IBUs are).

Click to expand...

Hm...when I changed the DME addition from mash to late addition, and set it to 15 mins the IBUs didn't change at all. They also didn't change when i changed my boil volume.

I'm at work right now, but when I get home I will try to fix it with the utilization window (which I didn't know existed until now ).

Thanks for the advice. I'll let you know if I succeed...and I guess we'll find out how good I was at dumping in extra hops on the fly.

I'm using brewtarget. Works great.

I'm just starting to get my feet wet with Brewtarget, but so far it seems pretty awesome!

brewtarget works great for me so far still cant afford beersmith2

Bobby_M said:

I don't think you're setting the knobs correctly on BTP. I just selected the Rager or Tinseth utilization models from the utilization window (under the recipe tab) and it's adjusting both based on late additions and/or the concentration of the boil due to the IBU dilution that occurs (e.g. the more you dilute post boil, the lower the end IBUs are).

Click to expand...

Ok, now it's working. :rockin: Thanks Bobby, but now...I'm even more confused - Haha. I don't know which model to use. Can you point me towards a discussion on the subject if there isn't any easy answer (it seems like there isn't one, Lol).

From what I'm seeing in the graphical representation associated with each model - they seem significantly different, so I would like to make an educated decision on which to use for my setup instead of just pick one.

Any direction? Thanks again for the help. I have learned so much in the past few months it's ridiculous. A few years ago I was happy brewing mediocre beer, but since I have put forth an effort to put out good beer the results have been amazing.