Or not. It's good to have an offline hobby.
Comment on What brewing software does everyone use?
Skua@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Uhhh... a text document?
I am not doing this in a very sophisticated manner, I could probably stand to learn some things from this thread
Maestro@fedia.io 1 day ago
Skua@kbin.earth 1 day ago
That is true! Although I'm not too worried about the notion of a tool to plan brews on provided it's not, like, required to connect to a server to work or trying to be a social media thing
xylol@leminal.space 1 day ago
The trick is to run your own server and self host your own software and social media instance before you can begin to ferment anything. Its all about putting hurdles in front of yourself while you’re alive and able
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“If you wish to make beer from scratch, first you must invent the universe”
– Carl Sagan, I think
Skua@kbin.earth 1 day ago
Fuck, I knew I should have learned to code properly before I bought any grain
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
If you’re not creating or tweaking recipes, a paper notebook is fantastic. It gives you something to do while you’re waiting on the boil.
I have a notebook with a page for every brew session: date, full recipe, steps, observations, and things I fucked up. Update it until the beer is done and there’s tasting notes. It’s fun to reread in later years. I have a few early brews that I noted got “infected” - and after some experience I had a good laugh because the “infection” was the shitty recipe I designed.
If you’re building a recipe you really need to use software (unless you don’t care about calculating estimated alcohol or IBU up front). The alternative is a level of referencing tables and doing arithmetic that exceeds what I want to see in my hobbies.
But if you aren’t trying to be scientific or you’re just following a basic kit? The only technology that should be involved is your phone playing music!
Skua@kbin.earth 1 day ago
I've got a very similar approach to what you describe doing yourself there! I started off with other people's recipes, but I've adjusted them to my tastes and equipment
The brewing tunes are essential, you are absolutely right