Beer recipe calculations?

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Does anyone know of a good place to get all the various formulas used to compute final gravity, color, bitterness, etc. in your beer?

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 23:25

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Hopville has a nice online recipe calculator: http://beercalculus.hopville.com/recipe. You can store your recipes on the site too which makes it very easy share your awesome creations with others :)

answered Nov 16 '10 at 23:25

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 02 '14 at 14:36

Open-source brewing software:

brew-journal: http://github.com/jsled/brew-journal (disclosure: my project :) docstring comments in the computational classes in app/models.py have links to references).
qbrew: http://www.usermode.org/code.html
brewtarget: http://brewtarget.sourceforge.net/

Non-open-source brewing software:

Brewer's Friend has a number of excellent online calculators distinguished by having documented details on their approach and the references/formula used.

Archives:

"Technical Library at the Brewery": www.brewery.org/Library.html
Home Brew Digest archives: hbd.org/archives.shtml ftp, but often quite a high s/n ratio.

This is exactly the sort of info I was looking for! Thanks! :D — Ryan, Nov 17 '10 at 15:29

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 22:24

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Jamil has a great pitching rate calculator on his site, which you might be interested in.

answered Nov 16 '10 at 22:24

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 16 '10 at 23:36

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The Beer Recipator is another good one.

answered Nov 16 '10 at 23:36

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 17 '10 at 20:21

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I am a fan of BeerSmith. Performs tons of calculations, maintains recipes, and all around is a handy tool to have. There is a trial version to get a feel for it, and for me it was well worth the cost to get the full version.

answered Nov 17 '10 at 20:21

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 19 '16 at 13:05

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Have a look at captainbrew.com. You can create recipes, adjust gravity or bitterness, scale a recipe, create brew sessions and many more. There are also other calculators included like Yeast Pitching Rate, Priming Sugar, Keg Carbonation, ABV , Sparge Water, Washed Yeast.

answered Jan 19 '16 at 13:05

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The poster wants the formulas, not a recipe generator. Are you with Captainbrew? This is your second or third post where you include it in your answer? No big deal just asking. – brewchez Jan 19 '16 at 17:23

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