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Effective 16 August 2026 · Last updated 17 August 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and Beerwright — a recipe studio for homebrewers, run by one person. Using the site or the app means you accept them. They are written to be read, not to be impressive.

Operator: Christopher Main, 36 Troy St, Pittsburgh, PA 15209, United States. Contact: hello@beerwright.com.

1. What the service is

Beerwright is software for designing and recording beer recipes: an editor with live style comparison, water and mash-pH tools, brew-day and batch records, inventory, import and export, and an optional AI assistant. The marketing site is beerwright.com; the app is at https://app.beerwright.com. It is a tool for planning and record-keeping. It is not professional, food-safety, health or legal advice.

2. Who may use it

You must be at least 18 years old, or the legal drinking age where you live if that is higher, and you must be legally allowed to brew beer where you live. Homebrewing is regulated differently in different countries and, in some, quantities are capped or permits are required. Complying with the law where you brew is your responsibility, not ours.

3. Accounts

You can use the studio signed out, on one device, with everything stored locally. An account adds sync, backup on our side, and the assistant.

Sign-in is a Google account or an emailed magic link. There is no password, which means your account is only as secure as the email address or Google account behind it — keep that secure and tell us if you think someone else has reached your workspace. Accounts are for one person; do not share credentials or resell access. Give us an email address you actually control, because that address is how you get back in.

4. Your recipes stay yours

You keep every right you have in the recipes, batches, notes and other content you put into Beerwright. You give us a limited licence to store, copy, transmit and display that content, and to send the relevant parts to our AI provider when you use the assistant — solely so that we can operate the service for you. That licence exists to run the product; it ends when you delete the content or your account.

We do not publish your recipes, sell them, or use them to train AI models. You are responsible for having the right to upload what you upload — an imported recipe you copied from someone else is your business, not ours.

You can export your whole workspace from Settings at any time, and any recipe as BeerJSON. We would rather you left with your data than felt locked in.

5. Acceptable use

Do not:

  • break the law with it, or use it to plan anything illegal where you are;
  • try to reach another user's data, defeat account isolation, probe or attack the service, or test its security without asking us first;
  • hammer the service with automated traffic, scrape it in bulk, or resell, sublicense or white-label it;
  • use the AI assistant to generate content that is illegal, abusive or designed to harm someone, or to launder large volumes of unrelated work through the allowance;
  • upload malware, or content you have no right to upload;
  • circumvent plan limits, or create accounts in bulk to multiply free allowances.

Ordinary use for your own brewing — including a small commercial operation planning its own beers — is fine. If you are not sure whether something counts, ask.

6. The AI assistant

The assistant proposes; you decide. Every change it wants to make arrives as a diff you accept or reject, and accepting is the same as typing the change yourself — one undo puts the beer back.

AI output can be wrong. It can misjudge a quantity, a temperature or a style, and it is not a substitute for your own judgement. Check anything that matters before you brew it. We do not warrant that its suggestions are accurate, complete or fit for any purpose.

Assistant use is metered by plan: 10 assistant messages a month on Free and Brewmaster, 200 assistant messages a month on Beerwright. Allowances reset monthly, do not roll over, and can be adjusted with notice if model costs change materially. Availability depends on our AI provider; a provider outage can take the assistant down without taking the rest of the studio with it.

7. Brewing is on you

Every number Beerwright shows — gravity, bitterness, colour, ABV, mash pH, water chemistry, timings — is a model's estimate, not a measurement of your beer. Real efficiency, real water, real equipment and real yeast will disagree with it. Style ranges follow the BJCP 2021 Beer Style Guidelines for reference; Beerwright is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BJCP.

You are responsible for brewing safely and legally: sanitation, pressure and heat, handling acids and salts, what you drink and what you serve to others. Do not rely on this software for food-safety decisions.

8. Plans, prices and payment

Paid plans are sold in the studio, from Settings. You do not have to buy anything to use the product: the free tier is the whole studio, with a recipe cap.

  • Free — no charge, no card. Every feature, with a cap of 10 recipes, 5 blending sessions and 10 assistant messages a month. Caps are checked when you add a recipe or a blend; nothing of yours is ever deleted to enforce them.
  • Brewmaster — $24.99 a year or $2.99 a month. Unlimited recipes, Unlimited blends, unlimited batches, inventory and imports, and 10 assistant messages a month.
  • Beerwright — $39.99 a year or $4.99 a month. Everything in Brewmaster, plus 200 assistant messages a month.

Paddle is the merchant of record. Purchases are made from Paddle.com Market Limited, which sells Beerwright subscriptions as a reseller, handles payment and is responsible for sales tax and VAT. Paddle's own checkout terms and privacy notice apply to the transaction alongside these terms, and your receipts and invoices come from Paddle. Prices are shown exclusive or inclusive of tax as Paddle determines for your country.

Renewal and cancellation. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each term — yearly or monthly, whichever you chose — until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account or from Paddle's customer portal; cancelling stops the next charge and leaves your access running until the end of the period you have already paid for. When a subscription ends, your account reverts to Free: your recipes and blends stay, and the caps simply stop you adding new ones until you are back under them.

Price changes. We can change prices. Existing subscribers will be told by email at least 30 days before a change applies to their renewal, and can cancel before it takes effect. A failed payment may suspend a paid plan until it is settled.

Refunds are covered by the refund policy, which is part of these terms.

9. Availability and changes to the service

Beerwright is in private beta and is actively being built. Features will be added, changed and occasionally removed. We aim to keep it up and fast, but we do not promise an uptime figure, and maintenance, provider outages and bugs happen.

If we remove something material that a paid plan was sold on, or shut the service down, we will give you reasonable notice by email and enough time to export your data. Export is one click, and it is deliberately not something you need our permission for.

10. Suspension and termination

You can stop at any time: delete your account from Settings and your workspace, sessions, sign-in links and account record are erased. That is immediate and cannot be undone, so export first.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, attacks the service, or exposes us to legal risk. Where it is reasonable to do so we will warn you first and give you a chance to fix it, and for anything short of serious abuse we will give you a window to export your data. If we close a paid account without cause, we will refund the unused part of the term.

11. Our side of the intellectual property

The software, the site, the name Beerwright and its design are ours. These terms give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the service; they do not transfer ownership of anything. Do not copy, decompile or reverse-engineer the software except to the extent the law says you may.

Ingredient and style reference data is compiled from published sources and included so the tool is useful; it is provided for reference, with no guarantee of accuracy.

12. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, Beerwright is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind — express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that its calculations will match your brewhouse, or that the assistant will be right.

Nothing here takes away rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded by law. In some places that includes statutory guarantees about digital services; where they apply, they apply.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for lost profits or lost opportunities, for a ruined batch of beer, or for lost data where you had the means to export it.

Our total liability arising out of or relating to the service, in aggregate, is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or US$50.

We do not exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.

14. Changes to these terms

We can update these terms. The current version is always here, with its effective date at the top. For material changes — anything affecting price, your rights, or what you may do with the service — we will email account holders at least 30 days before the change takes effect. Continuing to use Beerwright after that date means you accept the new terms; if you do not, cancel or delete your account, and if you had paid for a term you have not used, ask us for a pro-rata refund.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the state and federal courts located in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes about them. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, or of your right to bring a claim in your local courts.

16. The usual small print

  • If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest stays in force and that part is read as narrowly as it needs to be.
  • Not enforcing something once does not mean giving it up.
  • You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours if the service is sold or reorganised, on notice to you, and your data goes with it under the same commitments.
  • These terms, the privacy policy and the refund policy are the whole agreement between us about the service.

17. Contact

hello@beerwright.com. A real person reads it.