See the style while you type
Five bars track BJCP 2021 while you edit. They stay out of the way while you’re in range, and you’ll see at a glance when you drift out.
The beer you meant to make
Brewing software
for the modern web.
Brewing software that keeps you on style when you want to be, and out of the way when you don’t. It puts dead simple mash pH and water adjustments right on the recipe. I stocked the catalog the way I shop, with craft maltsters and yeast labs right next to the big names. There’s a blending tool for the solera in the basement, and tasting cards for club night so you find out what people really thought.
There’s an AI assistant too, kept on rails by the recipe engine so it can’t make things up, and nothing it suggests changes your recipe until you accept it.
- 1672 fermentables
- 225 hops
- 1093 yeasts
- 106 salts, spices and finings
- 76 equipment profiles
- 121 BJCP styles
Hi, I’m Chris. I brew in Pittsburgh, and I made Beerwright for my own brewing and for my friends and fellow club members. I hope you enjoy it too.
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01 — The studio
Change a hop.
Watch the beer change.
Every malt, hop and yeast comes with its numbers and its flavor, and your recipe is checked against the BJCP style you picked. Gravity, bitterness, color and strength are style bars that move as you type, so you never have to run a style report.
Flavor works the same way. The flavor wheels draw your recipe on top of the style’s, so a heavy hand with the chocolate malt shows up before you brew it. The widget beside this is a small copy of the real thing: pick a beer, nudge the malts and hops, and watch it follow.
In the studio: A add an ingredient · ⌘K command palette · ⌘Z undo anything
Try it
German Pils
In style for 5D German Pils
02 — The catalog
Every bag on the shelf,
read off the maker’s sheet.
I read the catalog off the maltsters’ and labs’ own spec sheets, one product at a time, so a malt has its maker’s color, a hop its oil breakdown, and a yeast its attenuation, temperature range and STA1 result.
Where a maker doesn’t publish a number, I leave it blank. If what you bought isn’t in there, add it yourself and it works like any other row.
You can browse the whole catalog and every beer style, with its flavor wheels, without an account.
03 — Water & mash pH
Mash pH next to the grist,
where it belongs.
Water shouldn’t be a side trip to another app. Your water report, salts, acid and predicted mash pH sit right next to the malts.
Pick a water, add lactic, phosphoric or citric, and watch the pH land in 5.2–5.6. Or work backwards: ask for 5.40 and it suggests the additions.
You can also paste your water report instead of typing it. The assistant copies down what the page says, the recipe engine does every conversion, and then it checks that the ions balance.
Try it
Mash pH
5.74
Too alkaline: conversion will struggle
04 — Brew day to cellar
Plan it, brew it,
and remember how it went.
Write your mash and hop schedule and it becomes a brew-day timeline you can print as a brew sheet. Your actual numbers sit next to the predicted ones, and saved versions let you go back to the beer you liked before you “improved” it.
Dry-hop day is on the calendar, inventory tells you whether you can brew it before you mill, and a shopping list appears when you run out. Share a read-only link with the club, or invite your brew buddy to edit the same recipe on their own equipment.
Drop a Tilt, RAPT Pill or iSpindel in the fermenter and its readings chart on the batch as they arrive. Over time, Insights turns your log into trends for efficiency, attenuation and yield. Both come with the Beerwright plan, though the efficiency trend is on every plan.
05 — Feedback
Everybody told you it was
“nice.” Now you find out why.
Most brewing apps stop when the beer is packaged, which is right when it gets interesting. Print tasting cards or bottle labels with a QR code, hand them out at club night, and let people tell you what they really think, on their phone or on paper.
Take a photo of the paper sheets and the assistant reads them into scores and notes on the batch, even a competition sheet in someone else’s handwriting.
Then ask what the sheets say and what to change next time. It answers with the recipe, the brew log and the fermentation curve in front of it. All of this comes with the Brewmaster plan and up.
06 — Blending
For the folks with a solera
in the basement.
For mixed fermentation, barrels and the lambic you’ve been topping up for years, there’s a whole blending tool.
Pull in your batches and it works out TA, pH and the leftover sugar that will carbonate, plus the acid-shock starter for pitching into a sour blend.
Fruit, honey and tinctures go in with the day you added them, and a blend moves from planned to blended to conditioning to packaged, keeping every reading you took along the way.
07 — Journals
Beyond the brew kettle:
honey, apples, bitter herbs and a lot of patience.
Not everything you ferment is a beer. A journal is a page you build as you go: notes, photos, readings, and the calculators a mead or cider actually needs.
Pin a hydrometer to it and you get a live gravity chart. Attach it to a batch, or share it as a link that keeps up as you write.
08 — The gallery
Publish it.
Let someone else brew it.
Your recipes are private until you say otherwise. Publish one and it gets a card in a public gallery with your name on it, and anyone can clone it and start changing things.
You don’t need an account to browse, and there will never be a sign-up wall between you and a recipe. A listing keeps the version you published, so you can keep tinkering without changing what people see.
09 — The assistant
It proposes.
You decide.
Ask it to bring a pils into style, swap a hop you’re out of, or start a recipe from “a dark mild with American craft malts.” It reads your actual recipe and can only pick from the catalog.
The recipe engine works out every number the assistant shows you. A suggestion shows up as a card with what would change and where the style bars would land, and nothing is saved until you accept it. One undo puts it back.
Try it
A staged change
15 IBU is below German Pils. I’d add 0.6 oz of Hallertau Mittelfrüh at 60 minutes. That’s an early addition, for bitterness. Nothing changes until you accept it.
Proposal
Add 0.6 oz Hallertau Mittelfrüh · 60 min
IBU 15 → 24 · OG unchanged
Why switch
The arguments I have
at club night, in the software.
Most recipe tools still send you somewhere else for water, or to a chatbot that will happily invent a malt. I built the one I kept wishing for while standing over a mash tun.
Water belongs in the recipe
Your water report, salts, acid and mash pH live with your malts. Paste the report and it’s read for you, with no export and no second app.
The catalog you’d shop from
Sugar Creek, CNC and Blue Ox; Cashmere, Sabro and the HBC numbers that don’t have names yet; every liquid yeast lab in full. Your own malts sit right beside them.
Numbers with a source
Every number is the maker’s published one. Where nothing is published, I leave the field blank.
Publish it, or don’t
Recipes are private by default. Publish one to the gallery under your name, and unlist it whenever you like.
Write it with the people you brew with
Invite up to five co-brewers to edit the same recipe live. Undo only takes back your own change, and anyone who leaves keeps a copy.
A blending tool for the cellar
Work out TA, pH, leftover sugar, fruit and the acid-shock starter for a solera, a barrel or a mixed fermentation, from the beers you already logged.
Everything else that ferments
Mead, cider, wine, a crock of kimchi: a journal keeps the notes, photos, readings and calculators on one page that you can share.
Decoctions, sized properly
The textbook decoction formula assumes the mash doesn’t cool, the pull comes back boiling, and the boil costs no water. All three are wrong in the same direction, so I size the pull against the mash it returns to.
An assistant that can’t change your recipe without asking
It can only name ingredients in the catalog, and every change arrives as a preview you accept or reject. Undo works like it always has.
Brew day, batches, inventory
A tablet-sized brew-day timeline, a calendar with dry-hop day on it, and inventory that tells you whether you can brew it and writes the shopping list when you can’t.
Your library
Bring the two hundred
recipes with you.
Drop in a BeerXML or BeerJSON export from whatever you use now. The file is read on your machine, nothing is uploaded, and you can do it before you have an account.
The preview shows the numbers Beerwright calculates next to the ones in your file, and marks every ingredient as matched or kept as it came in.
Already paid for another app this year? Send me the receipt from Brewfather, BeerSmith, Brewer’s Friend or anything else, and I’ll put you on the Brewmaster plan until your old subscription would have run out, up to twelve months.
Pricing
Ten recipes free.
Three tiers when you outgrow them.
The whole studio is free for your first ten recipes. The Brewmaster plan takes the cap off, and the Beerwright plan adds fermentation charts, trends across every brew, and more of the assistant.
Free
10
recipes and the whole studio, with no card needed.
- 10 recipes
- 5 blending sessions
- 5 journals
- The full editor and live style bars
- Water, mash pH, brew day and inventory
- BeerXML and BeerJSON import
- Sync across your devices
- 5 assistant messages a month
The limits are on how many recipes, blends and journals you keep. I will never delete something you made to enforce them.
Open the studioBrewmaster
$14.99/yr
Billed yearly, with no recipe cap.
- Everything in the free tier
- Unlimited recipes
- Unlimited blends
- Unlimited journals
- Up to five co-brewers on a recipe
- Tasting cards and bottle labels people scan, and competition scoresheets read for you
- 15 assistant messages a month
For a library without a cap. If you want fermentation charts, trends or more of the assistant, look at the next one.
Open the studioBeerwright
$29.99/yr
Billed yearly. Brewmaster, plus fermentation tracking, insights and the assistant.
- Fermentation charts from your Tilt, RAPT Pill or iSpindel
- Your brewing charted: efficiency, attenuation and yield trends
- 200 assistant messages a month
- Recipe generation, water advice and diffs
- Your allowance resets on the 1st of every month
You get live fermentation charts, trends across years of brewing, and the assistant on every brew.
Open the studioYou can upgrade in Settings once you have an account, or use the whole studio signed out on one device.
Questions
Worth asking first
- Do I have to sign in to try it?
- No. Signed out, you get the whole studio on that one device. If you sign in later, what you built comes with you, as long as the account is empty.
- Can I get my data out?
- Yes, any time. Every recipe exports as BeerJSON, and Settings exports your whole workspace in one click. Deleting your account erases everything on the server.
- What is my password?
- You don’t have one. You sign in with a passkey, an emailed link or Google, so there’s nothing to forget and nothing for me to leak.
- Does it work in the garage?
- Yes. Every calculation runs on your device, and changes sync when you’re back online. It installs to your home screen and opens with no connection. Only the assistant, version history, new share links and signing in need the network.
- Does it work on my phone?
- Yes, it’s built for one. Brew day is a checklist sized for a phone or tablet propped against the kettle, and what you change in the basement is on the laptop upstairs.
- Is there a real blending tool?
- There’s a whole one. Pull in batches, set volumes, add fruit, and it works out TA, pH, carbonation from leftover sugar and the acid-shock starter on the beers you already logged.
- I make mead and cider too. Is this only for beer?
- No. Journals are for everything else that ferments, with the calculators a mead or cider needs: honey to gravity, TOSNA nutrients, sulfite by pH, sorbate by alcohol, acid adjustment and the Pearson square.
- What do I need the Beerwright plan for?
- Two things, plus a lot more of the assistant: fermentation charts from a device and the full Insights page. Neither is taken away if you stop paying. A running device keeps recording, and your efficiency trend stays live.
- Can I write a recipe with the person I brew with?
- Yes. Invite them from the recipe’s menu and you both edit it live from your own accounts, each on your own equipment. Inviting takes a paid plan; the people you invite don’t need one.
- I already paid for a year of Brewfather, BeerSmith or something else. Do I have to pay twice?
- No. Send the receipt for any brewing subscription you haven’t finished to hello@beerwright.com, and I’ll put you on the Brewmaster plan until it would have run out, up to twelve months. No card needed, and nothing to cancel.
- Why “Beerwright”?
- A wright is someone who builds a thing by hand and knows why every part of it is shaped the way it is: shipwright, wheelwright, playwright. That’s the job here, applied to beer. It’s spelled -wright, not “write” or “right”.