Brewing software

[aurumen (Nicholas Golden)]

@denny

@denny

I started with Promash almost 25 years ago and still use it sometimes. The carbonationcalcultor in it is first rate, for instance. Tried Beersmith for a while nd just couldn’t get into to.  Used the Grainfather software and got good resukts, but all the cool kids were raving about Brewfather so I tried that for a while. Didn’t care for it and now I’m back on Grainfather. One of the things I like about is that it implements the mIBU formula, which I feel gives me better results.

I heard a talk about mIBU (maybe it was your show I forget) and it sounds awesome. I hope it makes its way to Brewfather. I use a counter flow chiller so it stays hot longer than if I had used an immersion chiller. mIBU takes that into account.

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Why not try the Grainfather software instead of Brewfather? You dont have to have a GF to use it. It works with any system.

Mostly because I have 8 months left on my subscription. I’ll play around with GF before it’s up. [emoji106]

[mainebrewer]

I’ve been using ProMash for the past 18 years and it still does everything I need and I’m too old to change. 8)
I also use BrunWater for water adjustment.

[erockrph]

Brewer’s Friend for me as well.  I started there and never had any reason to change.  Not saying it’s the best, because I’ve never compared it to any other software.  It just works.

I tried a few other online brewing recipe sites prior, but they didn’t stick around. I needed a web-based application, and when I started using Brewer’s Friend it was the only good one out there. The water calculator works quite well, and automatically ties in to my recipes. If I was starting all over now I may choose some other software, mainly because I hate subscription-based fees, but Brewer’s Friend has years worth of my recipes and brewing records and I have zero desire to start over.

[EnkAMania]

I would try them all and see what you like.  I’ve been using BeerSmith so long that I’m just used to it.

[profitt_chartermi.net (Kevin)]

@mainebrewer

I’ve been using ProMash for the past 18 years and it still does everything I need and I’m too old to change. 8)
I also use BrunWater for water adjustment.

Same here. I used ProMash for a long, long time. When support for it ended I started looking around at other software and found nothing I liked better than the out of date ProMash. By the time I started looking again Beersmith was in version 2 which I liked much better than its initial roll out. I downloaded BS2 a few years ago and found I like it as much as ProMash. Brad keeps making improvements and even the water tool which used to get criticized has changed to become the equal of BrunWater imho.

[BrewBama (Dwain)]

[emoji106] I use the water tool in BeerSmith as well. It has improved to the point of a one stop shop for me.

I can input a recipe in just a cpl minutes soup to nuts. Of course, it took A LOT of tinkering and adjusting to get there for me. …but now that it’s set up, it rocks.

[purduekenn]

I use Beer Smith desk top version and I like it a lot. Its easy to use once you get the hang of it. Brewers Friend is excellent too. You can try them for free and see which works better for you.

[CFRAZIER77]

I have been using beersmith since version 1.  I have been very happy with it and it makes sense in my head.