How To Use Brewfather Like A Boss Recipe Entry Endorsed Guide

Fantastic software I’m hooked.

Flame-out hop additions and IBU calculations are a pita with Brewfather.

Excellent guide to great software, even for beginners 👍🍻

David, is there a way to search the library for more than one ingredient at a time? Such as a search for a recipe with Pilsner grain and voss yeast?

This is so hugely helpful, thank you!

Great video and this series will help me on my brewing journey. A quick question for anyone with regards water treatment. Do people treat the total water when adding minerals/additives to reduce PH and match the target profile and then set aside the recommended sparge volume? Or just treat/adjust the main body or water excluding that set aside for the sparge? I assume that untreated sparge water will have some (if minimal given potential sparge volumes) effect on the overall PH and the overall dilution/distribution of minerals when untreated sparge water is used? Or are additions added to the mash water sufficiently high that when the untreated sparge water is used this has little/no effect on treated liquid already used? Thanks for the great videos.

Most complete video Ihave seen until now. Great job. Thanks.

Hi David, thanks again for this awesome Video. I really helps me out, to figure out, whats going on in Brewfather and how to use it proper. It really keeps some time to understand and from time to time im asking my self, if iam using the Software in the way its ment to be. Now i got a Question concerning the Hop Additions. What is your recommandation for adopt the hop additions during brewday on the fly. E.G. when the pre Boil Gravitiy / or the volume is above or below the assumption. Is there an easy way to adjust it on the fly and let Brewfather calculate the "new" needed Hop Quantities to hit my desired IBU? Thanks a lot and please keep on going this great work at this Channel :)

Hi David i really appreciate your videos a lot. I have always been wondering what i need to do when i have a smaller brewhouse and bigger fermenter which forces me to mash and boil several times to fill my fermenter. What do i select for batch volume target? I have 100L brewhouse and 300L fermenter.

What happens if Thomas gets hit by a bus? We need to wrap this guy in cotton wool

david this is a fantastic video. I swapped over to brewfather and really enjoying the software. One question -in the water settings (under ph calc) -what water chemicals do you set to "auto" besides gypsum, cal chloride, mag sulphate. ie do u have/add sod bicarb, sodium metabisulfite, slaked lime on auto calc tick. My softwware seems to come up with these by default & I have to take them off auto.

Loving Brewfather so far, thanks for the recommendation. Is there a way to add a conditioning profile to BrewFather recipes? I know they have conditioning in the status (with bottling date), but cannot see anywhere one could add conditioning temp and conditioning time.

Hi David! Very useful videos Boss. I'm interested in your opinion about treat the water by final volum that you want. For example if you want 25 final litres and you need 33 total litres, treat only 25 litres and acidificate the sparge water at the target pH and then after the boil and evaporation you have 25 litres treated as you want. You treat for 25 litres and Finally you have 25 litres, no treat the water for 33 litres. Whats your opinion about the minerals at the end of evaporation (boiling) if you treat water for 33 litres but you are working for 25 l (Taste mineral or anything)? Thank you! Stay safe

Brewfather newb here, been using Beersmith for over a decade. I really started taking a liking to Brewfather and have been using it along with Beersmith in my last few brews. I pretty much only use either program to build the recipe, I dont use it while brewing. One thing I cannot figure out , is there a way to remove inventory ? In BS it's there's a big tab in the recipe builder that allows this, I cannot seem to find it on BF . Forgive me if you covered it in your video and I missed it, but is there a tab that removes grain, hops, misc etc? I assume there is I just cannot seem to locate it.

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Awesome tutorial David. I used Brewfather today and following your directions, it was very simple to use. I really like how simple it was to use the water chemistry section. We have pretty average water where I am, hopefully my next few brews will be more balanced and true to type.
Cheers 🍺🍺👍

Hey mate, Great video as usual. the one thing that still confuses me is yeast calculator. It defaults to 13 billion cells per gram for all yeasts. I use a lot of safale us-05 but cannot find the exact yeast count per gram. I assume most yeast are the same. This can lead to incorrect amounts of yeast being pitched. Is this is important as it seems. I just never know exactly how many packsof yeast to pitch. My fear is under pitching.

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Thanks David, really helpful guide. What initially looks like a very complicated piece of software was made nice and simple for luddites such as me!

Yeast starter tool confuses me a bit. What is overbuild? Do i need to make 4l starter for this batch? That's a lot. :o

Thanks you so much!!!

hey, do you know why the difference of IBU calculator in the Brewfather App an dthe Grainfather App is so big? mostly the GF App Calculates much more IBU than the BF App. The AA of the Hop is in both same same. thx a lot

Great 👍🏻

Shit your content is valuable and relevant. Thank you.

Is it possible to install the brewfather app on a pc to use offline like beersmith? I've been trying to figure that out but not having any luck

Great information. Thanks
As a note- I have no idea how to find all the water information of my local water. Any clues?
I’ve been brewing since it was legal here and just used filtered tap water- always worked well but I’m also always interested in trying new things.

thanks for this video, very helpful for a brewfather newb like myself

Very useful information. Thanks again for all your efforts!

Hi David I am struggling to find CaC03 on my water report. would the calcium given mg/l work? Thanks for all your help and great videos.

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Thanks for the great video. Quick question .. how would I input a recipe that I find online then scale it to my brewing set up? Is there a default to enter all variables, then scale it?

Thanks for a clear and simple walk-through of how to use Brewfather. I liked this app from the first day I tried it and you showed us how to take it many steps further. So far I have only brewed a couple of beers using it but I can see many more ahead. And also, thank you for sharing all your recipes and walking us through them in your videos :)

Brilliant David. I have been fumbling around writing recipes not knowing the advantage of scaling fermentables and OG to suit what I want. Your a legend.

Just watched this video for the second time, with Brewfather opened at the same time. Like many others I've been using Brewfather for sometime, but picked up some new things from this video, very useful, thanks

If premium subscription ends will I lose my saved recipes?

Hi, PLEASE HELP! I'm having trouble getting the right outputs in Brewfather when adding the EBC & IBU data for Black Rock extract products. Where/how do I put in the Brix? Some feedback/instructions, please. Many thanks.

David, have you found a way in Brewfather to account for dry hop additions that occur at a specific time point for a set number of days? For example, if I want to dry hop 1 oz Cascade at Day 4 of Primary for 3 days, and then do another dry hop of 1 oz of Cascade on Day 0 of Secondary for 5 days...there is a "Days" option under Dry Hops, and a "Day" option under Dry Hops...Days seems to mean "Hop for X days" with no timing information; "Day" seems to mean "Hop on day X" with no duration information...and it appears that you can't use both in combination (you have to pick Days or Day). Maybe a question for Thomas if he's listening in?

Hi David, very helpful video as always. One comment and a question (in a separate post for brevity), both related to hop recipe additions. 1) There is a checkbox in the Equipment Profile called "Calc aroma hop utilization" along with related "Hopstand Temperature" and "Whirlpool / No-Chill Time" inputs for the number of minutes the wort remains at a non-chilled temperature. When enabled, this setting tries to estimate how many additional IBUs are added from your boil additions by performing a hopstand/whirlpool (the logic being that these additions will continue to isomerize when temp is above ~160 - 170F (apologies for American temp units). For some recipes (e.g., NEIPAs where the hop additions are relatively late), it is probably important to consider enabling this setting. Not doing so can result in a beer recipe that predicts a much lower IBU beer. I mention this because it took me awhile to realize/realise that the feature is embedded in the equipment profile. Said differently, if you simply add hopstand/whirlpool additions in the Hops section of the recipe, the software will not adjust the boil IBUs accordingly. Instead, you have to go into the Equipment Profile and enable it. FWIW, same issue applies to BeerSmith (the setting is embedded in equipment profiles). The nice thing about Brewfather is that when the switch is enabled, any hopstand additions will adjust the IBUs according to the temp and time set for the hopstand addition. If time and temp are not specified in the hopstand addition, Brewfather will use the defaults set in the equipment profile. BeerSmith will ignore the time and temp values for individual hopstand additions and will instead use the defaults specified in the equipment profile.

I wish I could use this app but unfortunately if you’re using piece-mealed equipment like I am, it is too confusing to setup. All these parameters like “hlt deadspace” “boil off” “mash tun loss”... how am I supposed to calculate all these? Wouldn’t these change per recipe based on how much maly you’re ysing?

Also, I don’t understand the difference between choosing the target volume for either fermenter or kettle. What is the purpose of this feature?

Can someone recommend a more complete guide for someone who has never used this app and does not have one of the complete brew systems supported by the app?

Brilliant. I've been using it over a year and hadn't realized half of what you can do i.e. setting via IBU or %ge of Grain. I just fiddle with amounts until I get it right. Brilliant

Have been using Brewfather for two years and learned a few tricks I did not know about! Thanks.

I just signed up for Brewfather because of it's support for iSpindle and as a long time Beersmith user found it a bit confusing. This video cleared up many questions I had and I'm sure I'll watch it several times to get everything out of it. Thanks for the great help.

Hey David.

Great video mate. Very concise and easy to follow.

One question, how do you get the BU:GU ration in the green style sliders like in the video.

Mine does not seem to have an I cannot figure out how to turn on.

It does have this data further down in the hops section but would like it up top if possible.

Thanks.

Thanks for the video! I am just making the change from Beersmith to Brewfather. I like the feature to sort my recipes by tags - I just haven't found the perfect system for it yet. What kinds of tags do you use to sort your recipes?

This video is a great help for home brewers who are new to brewfather. Thanks David

Who on earth is the one person who would watch this then click 'dislike'?? People are strange...

Great video David - I've just signed up to Brewfather as a result of watching, looks the business.

Thanks David for this very good explaining video.

Excellent video, thank you. I've been using Brewfather for about 1 year now at a very high level, this is exactly what i needed to start digging into it further

I was never happy with beersmith, I have had brewfather for about 9 months and my beer tastes better!