Containerized Brewing software

Systems, Gear, & DIY
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Hey all — I got frustrated that most brew software (BrewTarget, BrewFather, Brew Session) is either Windows-only or locked to beer. I wanted something that covers beer, wine, and spirits in one place and can run self-hosted on a local machine, home server, or your own cloud.

I just released a first beta of Brewbot — a Docker Compose app with no external dependencies, runs on any OS with Docker installed.

A few highlights:

  • Recipe builder for all-grain, extract, wine, and spirits with live stats (OG, FG, ABV, IBU, SRM)

  • Fermentation logging, MLF tracker, SO₂ management for wine

  • Barrel aging with SA:V calculator (has specific support for small/non-standard barrels)

  • MQTT hardware automation for those running brew controllers

GitHub: https://github.com/joshmanis618-stack/Brewbot/releases/tag/v0.1.1-beta.1

It’s a beta so expect rough edges — feedback and bug reports welcome via GitHub Issues.

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I believe the desktop version of Beersmith is not only locally hosted, but has wine, mead, and, cider built already. The developer, Brad Smith, is an avid mazer.

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Completely fair,I wanted a self hosted software that worked with Linux specifically. This being container based can be deployed on windows, Linux, in a home server, or in the cloud like aws. I did miss meed/ciders so that’s a feature, If wanted i could add.

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I’ve updated the software to take a hook for your preferred Ai, added water chemistry, mead, cider, seltzer, calendar.. etc.