Whether you're new to brewing or you've been brewing for a while,
I certainly think it's a good idea to add brewing software to your process.
There's so many different tools and things you can use in brewing software.
In this video, I'm going to share with you five reasons.
I think you should be using brewing software.
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So the software that I am using is BrewFather.
I highly recommend the brewfather software because it's what I'm using.
And it's just it's absolutely great.
So let's go take a look.
All right. So when you first come into BrewFather,
you're going to see basically recipes.
If you don't have any recipes,
you're not going to be seeing anything because there won't be any in there.
There might be a couple of test recipes, I think.
But this is the basic overview of the recipe of the software.
There are several different things, you know, as you create recipes.
You can see here I've got a batch of beer that's actually going right now.
We'll go over that here in just a minute.
But then you've also got inventory
where you can put all of your grain and everything that you have on hand.
There's also a library that has different recipes
in it, equipment, profiles, mash, fermentation, water, all those things.
It's got a complete style
guideline where you can kind of research whatever style you want to want to brew.
And then it's also got tools which, you know,
everything that you need pretty much for brewing is in here.
So the first reason that I feel like you need to be using software,
especially if you're beginning, is to get a familiarity with it.
And what I mean, familiarity is, you know, entering your ingredients,
entering the you know, your hops, your yeast, all that sort of thing.
Not really anything complex.
And matter of fact, I did do a video on entering a beer kit into Brew Father.
And if you want to check that out, you can just click the card up here above
and take a look at that.
But I go over the kind of the ins and outs of entering a kit and everything.
But I think familiarity is a really good reason to start using it now.
And early in your brewing career, if you will, because there's
going to come a point where you're probably going
to want to make your own recipes.
And when you do, you're going to need to know how to enter those
and what different ingredients do and how they affect the brewing
process and all that.
So now another part of that familiarity piece is the timers
that are incorporated in the Brewfather.
It has everything step by step that you need to be doing on your brew day.
It tells you, you know, what water you need to prepare at,
what temperature
it needs to be, what additions,
if you're using any kind of water additions or anything like that.
It also has a notification
where it'll tell you to start heating up your sparge water.
And then it also has the ability to,
you know, track whenever you need to add hops and all those sort of things.
So especially if you've got a recipe that has like a ton of hops in it
and you've got a really big schedule, you know, some at 60 Minutes, 45, 15,
10, Whirlpool, all that kind of stuff
definitely is advantageous to have a timer in your brewing software
so that you can be notified when you need to add all those things
in case you're having a couple of beers when you're brewing or whatever.
But it's definitely another part of the familiarity piece
that will make a lot of a lot of difference in your birthday,
making it easier and less stressful for you.
Number two, I'm going to say is the tools.
Now, this software has a bunch of tools in it you can do.
You know, you can figure out what your alcohol is going
to be based on the original gravity, the final gravity.
It reads everything.
It shows you everything here based on what you input into the software.
There are other tools for yeast pitch rate, like if you want to know
if you need to do a starter or something like that,
you can definitely put all that information here.
It has a manufacture dates on calculates kind of how many cells
are active at the time.
It also has a refractometer adjustment.
So you can put in and this is something that I see all the time as people wanting
to take final gravity measurements on fermented work with the refractometer.
You can't do that without making some adjustments.
This software will actually make those adjustments for you.
So there's something there's another one hydrometer temperature correction.
If you don't have a hydrometer or such as the Brewing America hydrometer
that has a temperature adjustment on it, you can put it in your measured gravity
and put the temperature in the water in there
and it'll tell you what the calibrated measurement is.
Carbonation, it has a carbonation.
You can pick whatever style you want and it'll tell you, you know,
how many volumes of CO2 you're going to put in there.
There's just there's just a lot of tools that are really, really awesome here.
All right. Number three, inventory.
Now, this is a little bit of a painstaking process
as far as putting all of your items into the into of the software.
But what it does for you is whenever you go to brew a recipe.
So let's say if I've just put this summer Shandy in here and I go to brew it
whenever I get to the next step, it's a planning step.
And what happens is basically, if you don't have any of these ingredients
in your inventory, if you have everything inventoried, you can actually see
that I don't have like Breiss Wheat Malt and I don't have Cascade.
But what also is great about the inventory system is that
whenever you check these boxes on items that you do have
It basically removes whatever the amount of that is
from your inventory and reduces your stock so you can at a glance,
you can take a look and see, OK, you know, do I how much do I have?
You know, do I have any of this ingredient?
Let's say you're at the brew store
and you, you know, wonder, do I have these hops?
If you have all your inventory entered in here,
you'll know immediately that you have whatever you need for a recipe
you're going to brew.
Now, this one is a little bit
more advanced, but for those of you that have Tilt hydrometers
or some of the other devices, Plato, Keg, Plato,
Airlock, I-Spindel, DIY floating hydrometer, brew piless.
It has integration's for all of that. All of those devices.
So basically what you can do is you can connect those devices
and configure their connections so that it will actually report
any of the information that those devices send to the cloud,
into your software, so that you'll be able to track,
you know, your fermentation or whatever the case may be,
and you can actually do it all in one place in the Brew
Father app without having to open up the tilt app or anything like that.
So here's a screen of a tilt integration.
You can kind of see where it tracks the original gravity
and the the temperature during the fermentation and everything.
So all that stuff can be done right inside of the recipe,
right inside a brew father.
And there's a ton of integrations and they're always working on more.
I know that they're working on some more integrations
as far as brewtools go and being able to control the software.
There's also the Grainfather I believe they have
there is a Grainfather integration.
When you go into settings and you look at your.
Additional items, there's a
Grainfather Bluetooth control, so you can actually use
the Brewfather software to control your
Granifather brewing device.
So that's something that's in beta right now.
But I know for some people that use it, it does work.
So that's number four.
Number five has a great deal to do with the community surrounding Broo father.
There's a lot of support for it in the brewing community.
A lot of people are sharing their recipes.
And as of currently, there are 3700 recipes
that are in Broo Father, the library, the online library.
You can search for whatever type you like.
Here's here's a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale clone.
All you have to do is just click on that and you can actually copy it
right into your system.
There's no saving a file and importing and exporting and all that kind of stuff.
It just makes it so easy to be able to use.
The other thing about the developer this, they do have a Facebook page
and the developer is always on there pretty much every single day and asking,
you know, answering questions, you know, taking suggestions for improvements.
There's a whole bunch of support around this software.
I'll leave a link down below for the software, as well as the Facebook page
where you can go and check out, you know, the community and see,
you know, just how the interaction and everything is.
But, you know, the developers definitely on top of this.
And the great thing about the software is that it's cloud based so that, you know,
if there's any updates that need to be made,
he can do it immediately and it pushes out to basically every device.
One bonus reason to be using this software is the app support.
It has an app that basically is exactly like the Web design.
Everything that you find in the Web version of this,
you would run on a computer and pretty much you can find it on your
on your phone or in the mobile app, on a tablet or whatever.
And the nice thing about it is they don't charge you any extra for the mobile app.
Some of these items are paid services in here.
The the integrations, that's something that you have to pay for.
But as far as just regular use, you can test drive this software for free.
You know, I highly, highly recommend this software
and I highly recommend that people start using it as soon as possible.
Now, I know this was a pretty high level overview of the software.
I'm going to be doing some more in-depth tutorials on all the different features
and different things you can do with the software.
But I wanted to kind of
give you an idea of, you know, what the software is capable of,
what you can do with it.
And I'm just kind of scratching
the surface with that will definitely get into some more content on it.
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