BrewBat beta
Pro brewing,
simplified.
Great beer without the chemistry degree. Get brewing great beer in minutes. BrewBat asks you what kind of beer you want to brew, and takes care of the rest. BrewBat is powerful enough for expert brewers to customise their recipes, but simple enough to enable beginners to design great tasting recipes with a few clicks.
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How it works
A few questions away from a cracking pint
You don't need to know what mash pH is, or how much gypsum an IPA wants. BrewBat asks for the little only you know, and does the brewing science for you.
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Tell us about your kit
Pick your system from the 50 we know, and tell us where you brew. That sorts your volumes and your tap water, with no water report needed.
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Pick a beer
Choose a style, clone a beer you love, or let your shelf decide. BrewBat writes the whole recipe: grain, hops, yeast, mash, fermentation and water.
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Brew, and it learns
Note a reading or two on brew day. If your numbers are out, BrewBat tells you how to fix them. We learn about you as a brewer, so we can better build your next recipe.
Data-driven
Built on what brewers actually brew
Every recipe BrewBat writes starts from more than 125,000 published homebrew recipes: their grain bills, hop rates, yeasts, extras and water. Each malt goes in at a share its style's brewers use, and the ingredients that make a style what it is (a milk stout's lactose, a wit's coriander) go in too. Where thousands of brewers disagree with the style guidelines, BrewBat goes with the brewers. Style Match checks your recipe against them, and Auto fix brings it back when it drifts. Don't want to make the same recipe each time? Shuffle the malt or hops to make something new.
- published homebrew recipes behind the numbers
- 125,000+ published homebrew recipes behind the numbers
- water reports, so you don't need your own
- 3,000+ water reports, so you don't need your own
- malts and sugars
- 1,000+ malts and sugars
- hops, with what they taste of
- 440+ hops, with what they taste of
- yeasts and how they ferment
- 1,200 yeasts and how they ferment
- brewing systems, set up for you
- 50 brewing systems, set up for you
From a style
A few clicks from a good beer
Once BrewBat knows your kit, a good beer is a few clicks away: choose a style, nudge a slider if you like, and press Create. You get a typical recipe for the style, sized to your kit. Want it stronger, more bitter or darker? Move a slider. The style's range is shaded in, so you always know where you are.
Classics and clones
Brew a beer you already love
Start from a classic of more than 90 styles, or a clone of nearly 100 well-known beers, from Pliny the Elder to Guinness Draught. Where homebrewers have cloned a beer many times, its recipe is built from what their clones have in common and aimed at the brewery's own numbers. Where they haven't, it's built by hand from the best recipe out there. Press Brew this and it's copied onto your kit, with your own water. We keep refining how they're made, and your copy tells you when there's a newer version.
All filled in
Nothing to look up
How much yeast to pitch, the mash temperatures, the fermentation plan, water volumes, the salts and acid for the mash and the sparge: all worked out and checked against the style. Change anything you like, but you don't have to.
Water and mash pH
Brewing water, handled
You don't need a water report. Tell BrewBat where you brew and it matches you to the nearest of more than 3,000 water reports across the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Pick the finish you want, crisp to soft, and how much mineral, light to full, and BrewBat works out the salts and acid that land the mash pH and ion profile. No ppm tables, no spreadsheets. Following a recipe that gives its own doses? Set the salts yourself and watch the minerals and mash pH move as you go.
Brew day
Missed your numbers? It tells you what to do
Enter your gravity and volume as you go. Running low? BrewBat tells you where you're heading, then how much longer to boil or how much malt extract to add to hit your target. One tap changes the recipe, and your kit's efficiency is learned for next time.
From your shelf
Brew from what you have
Keep your malt, hops and yeast in BrewBat and it shows which recipes you can brew now, which styles your shelf suits and what you'd need to buy, with the closest stand-ins you already have. Mark a brew as brewed and it comes off your stock.
What to expect
Know how it'll taste before you brew it
A flavour flower built from what the maltsters, growers and labs say about each ingredient, weighed by how much goes in and when. Around it, the mouthfeel from the recipe's own numbers: bitter or sweet, full or light, where they stand out.
Why BrewBat
Other brewing apps hand you a blank page
Open most brewing apps and you get an empty recipe and a list of a thousand ingredients. To fill it in you need to either copy a recipe, or know what each malt does, how much hop goes in and when, which yeast suits the style and what your water needs. That's hard to get right without years of brewing behind you. Other apps record what you decide; BrewBat starts you on a recipe that works, and does the sums.
Switching? Bring your recipes.
Import from Brewfather, BeerSmith, Grainfather or any app that exports BeerXML. Every malt, hop and yeast is matched to BrewBat's catalogue, the numbers are worked out again and each recipe is fitted to your kit, ready for Style Match and Auto fix. And you can export them again any time.
Explore
Every ingredient, mapped
Curious what goes into a beer? Wheels of hops, malts and yeasts drawn from real recipes: the bigger the dot, the more it's brewed. Tap one to see its flavour, what it's used for and what it pairs with.
Styles
Find your next beer
Every style in its real colour on the Beer Map, from straw to black and soft to very bitter, and a family tree of how they relate. Your own recipes show up on the map too, with the nearest styles named. Each style's page shows what its brewers really use, and a button to brew one.
And more
The rest of the brewing, handled
Brew from what you have
Your shelf decides what you can brew, what to swap and what to buy.
Fruit, spices and the rest
Cherries in a stout, coriander in a wit, a fining for clearer beer: see what the style's brewers add, how much and when. Fruit's sugar counts towards the strength.
Smart swaps
Out of a hop, malt or yeast? Get the nearest substitutes by flavour, origin and the styles they're brewed in, from your own stock first.
Yeast, sorted
How many packs to pitch, a starter when you need one, and a fermentation plan for the yeast and style.
Packaging
Bottles or keg: the priming sugar for the fizz you want, or the pressure to set.
Scale anything
Change the batch size or switch kit and the whole recipe follows.
Share and print
A brew day sheet to print, a link to share, and your recipes as BeerXML or a full backup.
Fermentation log
Gravity and temperature on one chart, against where the beer should finish.
Style Match
A score for how close your recipe is to its style, and the six styles nearest to it.
The right amount, added for you
Add a malt or hop and BrewBat proposes how much from the style's recipes, keeping the strength or bitterness where it was. Take one out and it does the same.
Malt limits
A malt past what its maltster or the style's brewers would use goes red, with how far to cut it back.
Planned to packaged
Each recipe shows where the beer is, from planned to fermenting to packaged, and locks once it's bottled so the record stays true.
Pro brewing, simplified.
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