What brewing software does everyone use?

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• Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m the bottom right 😅

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    • xylol@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wrote them down (for kombucha) and then lost my notebook at some point, somebody at goodwill probably bought a bag or something and now has a fever dream notebook full of frozen blueberries scribbles

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  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Very much bottom right. I’m barely a cut above fermenting in open air and hoping it doesn’t turn poisonous.

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• Wfh@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I still use the last open source version of Joliebulle, which has been outdated af for the best part of the last 10 years but still runs in a Debian 11 Distrobox container. It’s basic but functional.

  My dream project would be to fork it and update it and migrate it to libadwaita but I don’t have the time nor the skills nor the time to up my skills to do it (and I refuse to slop-code the shit out of it).

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• schmorpel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Brewing is a manual activity, I’m really glad about any analog activity with no software, apps or screen involved. Sure, you can, but don’t feel obliged.

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• iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure this comm is for brewing beer not homebrew package manager

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  • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    brew install --cask BeerSmith?

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• BasicallyHedgehog@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I find myself working on recipes using different computers or on a mobile, so I ended up with Brewfather.

  I tried for a bit to sync my Beersmith files between machines, but eventually they got corrupted. Fair, since it was never meant to do that.

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  • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I see they have free and paid tiers; do you find the free tier is enough or are there enough features paywalled that you find you need to spring for the upgrade?

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• SpaceMan9000@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use brewfather for the recipes and the rapt pill readings.

  This gets sent towards Home Assistant, which also controls the heating of my fermentation chamber using esphome.

  Genuinely wish brew father would allow people to leave notes on a batch.

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• portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I used paper, i used brewfather, and i used brewers friend I like the automated calculations when designing or tweaking recipes, like IBU, abv, etc. Also the water chem calculators are handy.

  But a nice self hosted solution… Brb, i have an idea :)

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• i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Beersmith is still around and still ugly, but www.brewersfriend.com is rather nice for recipe design.

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  • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think this is the company that took over the software I was using (brewgr) but I guess didn’t migrate any accounts or recipes or anything…

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• 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

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  • 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!

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    • 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

      your phone playing music!

      The brewing tunes are essential, you are absolutely right

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  • Maestro@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or not. It's good to have an offline hobby.

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    • 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

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• tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I carefully planned my first run on Brewtarget and after getting good results, just started modifying things slightly and never ran Brewtarget again 😁 TBH I didn’t even recall the name but someone else mentioned it here.

  I liked the software, and it was great for getting the ratios of things down. But experimenting (and writing every single recipe iteration down) is just my bag.

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• BingBong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Notebook

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• timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Grainfather is what I’m trying next. Beersmith still works though too.

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• BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I wrote my own software, this is lemmy - what else should I do?

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  • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Open source it and federate I guess…🤔

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    • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      at the moment it relies on google services, I want to migrate it to an open db then federation should be easy - it already has scope for users and shared recipes and brew log.

      It is geared towards mead/wine as I’ve not made beers yet

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• plactagonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I tried using Beertarget, it looks promising but because it is open source and changed maintainers it is nearly impossible to find some guides so I don’t know his to do some important stuff (but it looks great).

  Tbh I just eyeball it and only hops are calculated with some ancient excel sheat.

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• breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  BeerSmith because… muscle memory? I’ve been using it so long it feels like an extension of my soul at this point. It’s never let me down though and I can’t remember ever wanting to do anything it couldn’t handle.

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