BrewSoft
Recipes, batches and what's in the cupboard. Open source. Runs on your own computer.
The brewing apps everyone uses are good, no argument. They're also somebody else's cloud, and your recipes live wherever they decide. We wanted the same sort of thing on a box at home, open source, in grams and litres. And the hops and malt you can buy here already in the list, not typed in off the packet. So we're having a crack at it.
What it does
- Recipes. Put in the grain bill, hops and yeast. OG, FG, ABV, IBU and colour update as you go. Scale it to whatever your kettle holds.
- Batches. Start one off a recipe and it takes its own copy, so fiddling with the recipe next month doesn't rewrite what you actually brewed. Planned, brewing, fermenting, conditioning, done. Log gravity and temp readings, and it'll tell you what a litre cost you.
- Inventory. What's in the cupboard, what you paid, where you got it, and when it's going off.
- BeerXML both ways. Pull your recipes in from whatever you're using now; near enough everything talks BeerXML. Send them back out the same way if you leave.
- Metric. Grams, litres, °C and EBC, because that's what's on the packet. Plato and US gallons are a display switch, not a second set of numbers.
- NZ ingredients already in there. The NZ Hops range with alpha acids (Nelson Sauvin, Motueka, Riwaka, Nectaron, the lot), Gladfield malts in EBC, and the shops that are still going as supplier defaults. Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland tap water once water chemistry's in.
- Accounts. Sign in from any browser on the home network. Your phone's the app.
Where it's at
Early days. Accounts and sign-in work, on our own server. Nothing to download yet.
Next, in order: ingredients and inventory, equipment profiles and BJCP styles, the recipe designer and its maths, batches, BeerXML, the NZ data, then water chemistry. That one's last because it's a bit of a mission. No dates. The source goes public with the first release you could brew off. Till then, this page is it.
What it won't do
No phone apps, no public recipe library, no cloud-to-cloud gadget integrations, no AI helper. Brew-day timers and a proper water calculator come after the list above, not before.