Tabs in Brewfather to sort recipes?

I brew smaller batches (6.5L) and enjoy collecting recipes and study them to create my own version. As a result I have a lot of recipes, some from Brewfather’s library, some from other sites. As my library grows, so does the difficulty sorting through and finding recipes.

I suggested to Brewfather that they should incorporate tabs in the software. The reply was to use tags. That doesn’t do the job. Try searching for a Pilsner recipe and you get every recipe that has pilsner malt. Or search for Lager and get recipes for pilsner with NovaLager yeast. And so on.

The tabs would also be helpful to separate recipes I have brewed already. And those that I don’t like but don’t want to delete or archive outside the app.

Beersmith and Brewer’s Friend already have tabs or folders. Why is Brewfather so against it? I have tried all three and prefer Brewfather. Except for this.

I’d like to hear comments from others about whether I’m a small minority wanting this feature.

I agree, seems tags is all they have. With lots of recipes you have a very flat unwieldy file structure. Folders and sub folders would be useful.

Did you post this over on Reddit, too? If so, I don’t want to spam you with a duplicate response…

I haven’t used this software. Are these tags predefined? Or can you create your own tags?

If the latter, you could use your own naming convention to ensure that you don’t get over-matching. E.g., instead of tagging with “pilsner” you could tag with “recipe_pilsner”.

I have just created 3 as a test, not sure if there’s a limit but it works fine on a search

So I set those and than on a search

Those tags work great for me…and below this brewing plan, I also tag things out by beer type. Lots of flexibility.

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