Brewtoad Issues

[El Gertez]

For those who use Brewtoad, has anyone had issues logging in and using the web app recently?

I occasionally will have days where I try to log in and get a "500 internal server error"

And then sometimes when I am logged in, if I refresh the page, it redirects me to an outside page that seems very insecure and spammy.

Overall, I like the tool a lot and I have about 75 recipes stored there, but if this keeps happening, I may need to look into switching to Brewer's Friend or similar. I wonder if the Brewtoad website is even still being maintained...

 

[verdantfamine]

I have been having some of those issues as well. While I have not yet had any issues logging into my account... all recipe pages are extremely slow to load. They finally load after 2-3 minutes when a script on those pages finally times out (https://ads.brewtoad.com/ads/serve), which makes using the tool a nightmare. It does seem like no one is maintaining it, which is a shame as I have been using the tool for years and have all my recipes there.

One of the developers is a member of this forum based on a quick search, but doesn't seem to have been active since 2013.

 

[Steveg229]

I just saw that Brewtoad will be shutting down as of 12/31/18.

 

[El Gertez]

Shoot, that sucks. Guess I'll be switching to something else after all.

 

[verdantfamine]

Yeah, me too. Thanks for the heads up.

The funny thing is I emailed Brewtoad directly yesterday and got a reply from them this morning saying they were going to fix the issue. Guess shutting down is the fix...

 

[El Gertez]

Sounds like they decided it's too much effort to fix it, so they're just abandoning it.

 

[camiller]

I might make a seperate post about this but though I would share here.

Noticed an issue with brewtoad beerXML recipe export. In the fermentables section they may have the following types:

Grain
Adjunct
Dry Extract
Sugar
Base Malt
Kilned Malt
Liquid Extract
Caramel/Crystal Malt
Roasted Malt

However the BeerXML spec states the following with regard to type:

May be "Grain", "Sugar", "Extract", "Dry Extract" or "Adjunct". Extract refers to liquid extract.​

So if you are exporting your recipes and some the software you are importing into has a strict implementation of beerXML it may simply ignore some fermentables. You can either edit your recipe's xml file and change "Base Malt", "Kilned Malt", "Caramel/Crystal Malt", and "Roasted Malt" to "Grain" and "Liquid Extract" to "Extract". Or, if you are writing your own software you can change the code as you see fit.