

It’s quite simple and intuitive to use, you choose your ingredients from the drop-down lists of fermentables, hops and misc (for anything else) and enter the weights. Here’s a look at the main screen with a recipe loaded: I found that either of those apps would have met my needs but I settled on BrewMate as it had more features, a nicer interface and has been updated more recently.

Two of the apps that I looked at were QBrew and BrewMate. At that point I was considering buying a copy of the popular BeerSmith but first decided to have a look at some of the free brewing software apps available. In the past I had played with the BeerSmith free trial version and then settled down on an Excel spreadsheet application called Kit & Extract Beer Designer which served my needs well until I started doing partial mashes. I came across BrewMate when I was looking for a free recipe calculator application. Links to the other reviews are at the bottom of this post. Hey there, this post is a collaboration post with some other home brewing bloggers to review all the different brewing software applications that we use.
