PCPartpicker-like Brew Engine

[Aristotelian]

Has anyone used the website PCPartpicker to build a computer? I was thinking it would be cool to use a similar interface to build your own beer recipe. Start with your base malt, add your adjuncts, yeast, and hops, and voila! The engine predicts the color and flavor of your beer, matches it to a style, maybe suggests some comparable commercial brews. PCPartpicker works well because every computer has the same essential components, but it strikes me that beers are similar. Does anything like this exist?

 

[ong]

This is pretty much Beersmith, or any of the free or paid recipe software packages (e.g., brewtoad.com). Check them out -- great tools.

 

[Aristotelian]

Thank you! Just discovered BrewR and once I figured out how to use it, it indeed does most of what I am wanting to do.

 

[BrewingTravisty]

Has anyone used the website PCPartpicker to build a computer? I was thinking it would be cool to use a similar interface to build your own beer recipe. Start with your base malt, add your adjuncts, yeast, and hops, and voila! The engine predicts the color and flavor of your beer, matches it to a style, maybe suggests some comparable commercial brews. PCPartpicker works well because every computer has the same essential components, but it strikes me that beers are similar. Does anything like this exist?

The major difference that I see (I built computers for a living, PCPartpicker made my life easy) is that computers have compatibility issues, you can't put an Intel core i7 on an AMD AM3+ motherboard lol where the way I see it with brewing, some things may work better with others but for experimentations sake, you can take whatever ingredient you want and mix it with whatever else you want lol.

 

[jmpreiks]

I really like Brewer's Friend. It has a nice dashboard and every feature/tool I could want.