What is Brewfather?
Learn about Brewfather's features for recipe design, batch tracking, inventory management, and device integrations.
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Brewfather is brewing software written from the ground up to give you the best recipe design and brewing experience on both desktop and mobile devices. The modern design makes it easy to use on all platforms. Get your recipes done in no time! With automatic synchronization between all your devices and offline support you are covered no matter if you are at the brewery or at your local homebrew store buying ingredients.
Available as a web app and a downloadable app on Google Play or the App Store. Brewfather can be used on any device. Add it to your home screen or desktop without having to install anything: Simply open it in the browser and add it to your home screen, or download the app version. Click below to get started:
New to Brewfather? Start with the Getting Started guide to set up your brewery, create your first recipe, and brew your first batch.
Brewfather includes
Powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface
Multi-device support - one app everywhere - always!
Offline support, auto-saving, and automatic synchronization
AI Brewing Assistant for recipe ideas, modifications, inventory analysis, and brewing questions
Fully-featured and easy-to-use recipe designer
Recipe versioning and recipe folders for organizing and evolving your recipes
File attachments for batches and recipes
Complete batch tracking - log every step of your brew
The ability through batch tracking and inventory to provide full traceability for commercial breweries
Fermentation chart
Recipe library with hundreds of quality recipes available for you
Create your public profile and optionally share your recipes with the library
Brew timer with alarms and notifications for your brew day!
Profiles for your equipment, mash schedule, fermentation steps, and water
Highly customizable equipment profile to suit any brewing system
Large customizable ingredients database
Inventory stock & cost tracking
Multiple style guidelines (BJCP, Brewers Association, Norbrygg, SHBF, DØDL)
Supports custom style guidelines
Print your recipe or batch to PDF
Import and export BeerXML
Metric and US/Imperial units
Scale recipes up/down
Easily share recipes
Estimate your Final Gravity based on many variables
Calculate every important detail of your recipes and batches
Easy-to-use yeast amount and yeast starter calculator
Integrated water adjustment calculator with mash pH
Strike temperature calculation
Proper calculation of hop-stand bitterness
API support for integration with your own tools or third-party solutions
And many more tools and features to help your brewing!
Current highlights include Recipe Versioning, Recipe Folders, the Color Adjuster, File Attachments, redesigned batch and readings workflows, and the built-in AI Brewing Assistant.
Integrations:
Integrate Tilt, iSpindel, Brewtools, RAPT Cloud, Brewpiless, MyBrewbot, Plaato Airlock, Plaato Keg, Brewbrain Float Hydrometer, Floaty and Custom Stream with Webhook support and more...
Connect to the Brewtools Cloud
Full SmartPID two-way integration, for brew-day and fermentation control
API for integration with your own or third-party solutions
AI Brewing Assistant
The AI Brewing Assistant is Brewfather's built-in chat assistant for brewing.
It can help you:
Create recipes from a style, ingredient list, or free-text idea
Modify the current recipe by adjusting hops, grains, batch size, or process
Search your recipe library, inventory, and batch data
Answer brewing questions with Brewfather context
The AI assistant is available with Premium Plus and uses monthly AI credits. See Subscription for plan details.
Why Brewfather?
Brewfather believes designing your recipes and tracking your batches should be easy and fun with easy access from all your devices with no hassle.
Brewfather strives to cover all your brewing needs in one place, new features are added continuously, get in touch via Discord or the Contact button in the app if you miss any features or find any issues!
Free to use as long as you want!
Brewfather can be used for free as long as you want and can fully be used for brewing on the free plan. The free limits are generous, and the app includes everything you need to brew. Eligible new users can start a free 30-day Premium trial without a credit card.
The free version includes:
The full recipe designer
Full batch tracking
The full tools and calculators suite
The full public recipe library
The full ingredients database
The full style guidelines database
Any of the tools and calculators can be used for free with no limitations as long as you want.
As a Free user you are limited to a maximum of 25 recipes and 25 batches, and are unable to import or export data from within Brewfather. If you exceed these limitations you are free to delete recipes or batches, or sign up for a paid plan.
If you exceed the free-plan limits during your Premium trial, you will not lose any data when the trial runs out, but extra recipes and/or batches become read-only until you either delete items to get back under the limit or subscribe.
Remember to import your existing data during the free 30-day Premium trial if you are moving from another brewing app or from local files.
Brewfather Premium
Brewfather offers paid plans that unlock unlimited recipes and batches plus advanced features. The checkout page shows the current prices for your region, currency, tax settings, and plan choice. In general, the annual Brewfather Premium price is set around $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99 plus tax. See Subscription for current plan details.
Premium features include:
Unlimited number of recipes
Unlimited number of batches
Import and export features
PDF print of recipe, batch, inventory, and ingredients
Integrate with Tilt, iSpindel, Brewtools, Brewtools Cloud, RAPT Cloud, Brewpiless, MyBrewbot, Plaato Airlock, Plaato Keg, Brewbrain Float Hydrometer, Floaty, Custom Stream with Webhook support, and more...
API Access
Create your public profile and add recipes to the recipe library
Inventory stock tracking
Ingredient cost tracking
Custom style guidelines
Ability to restore deleted recipes and batches
Add manual readings for the fermentation chart
Advanced configuration for Final Gravity estimation
Access to experimental features
Premium Plus
Premium Plus includes everything in Premium, plus:
Monthly AI credits
File Attachments for batches and recipes
Early access to selected new features
To sign up for a paid plan, go to your account page in Brewfather app and click Upgrade or Change Plan.
All payments and credit card details are handled securely by Stripe or Paddle. Brewfather never receives any sensitive payment details. Full PCI compliance.
For In-App subscription purchases the payments are handled by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play Store) depending on your device.
Community
Connect with other Brewfather users and share your experiences and get in touch with the Brewfather Team directly.
Join the Brewfather Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/brewfather
Join our Discord: Brewfather Discord Community
About Brewfather
Brewfather (owned by Warpkode AS)
Lead developer and architect: Thomas Gangsøy. Professional developer, and brewer at heart!
Brewfather® is a registered trademark.
Brewfather© copyright Warpkode AS. All rights reserved.
Documentation
Getting Started — Set up your brewery and brew your first batch
Recipes — Recipe designer, folders, versioning, and water calculator
Batches — Batch tracking from planning to completion
Profiles — Equipment, mash, fermentation, and water profiles
Inventory — Ingredient stock and cost tracking
Tools — Brewing calculators and conversion tools
Integrations — Connect devices and third-party services
API — REST API for custom integrations
FAQ — Frequently asked questions
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