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Changelog
Versions are released first for the web version and should be available shortly after for iOS and Android due to the review process.
- With one click from the Brewtools Cloud settings, you can connect to your Brewfather account
- This allows your recipes and batches to be automatically synchronized and updated automatically on changes in the Brewtools platform
- Allow for setting the dilution water amount directly in the mash pH water calculator
- Recipe Designer
- The last details are remembered when adding hops allowing quicker addition of similar hops
- Most of the tools have been improved with an auto-save feature remembering the last used values
- New tools added:
- Hop Freshness Calculator - Estimate the remaining acids in the hop depending on storage conditions
- Gravity Conversion Tool
- Unit Conversion Tools (volume, weight, temperature, pressure)
- Updated style guidelines Norbrygg 2022, SHBF 2020 (added at an earlier date)
- Added HCO in the PDF print for the water profile
- When using Plato as an input gravity unit the number of decimals used when calculating ABV% and Final Gravity is increased
- The default number of b.cells for White Labs yeast is changed to 150 in the yeast calculator
- Recipe Calculation Engine 1.2: Calculating the recipe color will now always correctly use the Lovibond value of the grain color when present instead of relying on the SRM value (when this is the only data point), this might cause the calculated recipe color to change when you upgrade to this engine version.
- Manual upgrading of the recipe engine is done to prevent automatically changing vital values of your recipes, protecting the integrity of your recipe data. An automatic upgrade to this recipe engine version might happen at a later version.
- Support scaling boil hops where recipes have less than a 60-minute boil time
- Fixed sometimes clicking an active brew tracker in the menu not always taking you to the batch
- Fixed an issue of calculating hop sums when the unit was oz
- Reduced the number of decimals for the battery value in the fermentation chart to make it more readable
Internal upgrades and performance improvements
- Shows aroma hops as an amount per volume in the recipe designer
- Share dialogue now always shows, with an optional button to show the "native share" dialogue (previously the native dialogue was always shown when supported by the device/browser)
- Fixed an issue with dropdowns not showing caused by a recent chrome browser update
- Whirlpool-time now shows in brew-sheet
- Fixed batch PDF header not showing if notes table starts on page 2
- DØDL 2022 (Danish) style guidelines
- Fixed display bug (when using non-metric volume unit) in bottling volume in carbonation tool
- New and improved brew-tracker alarm sound
- (iOS-issue) Fixed issue where opening the app would pause audio playback
- (iOS-issue) Fixed issue where alarm sound playing would pause audio playback
- Clear instead of deleting inventory items in inventory modals
- Aroma and dry hops now listing lot numbers in PDF
- (iOS-issue) Fixed recipe values below ingredients not always updating on iOS 15.6 or newer
- Fixed adding misc in recipe by recommended amount not working for use mash and sparge
- Fixed carbonation unit setting in settings page
- Fixed some carbonation styles not working in carbonation tool
- Added battery series checkbox for RAPT devices, you can now toggle the battery showing in chart
- Brewers Association 2022 style guidelines
- Fixed various minor issues
- BJCP 2021 style guidelines
- Added recipe name to header in batch notifications
- Improved inventory stock icon and color, show amount on hover
- Fixed fermentable amounts could display "x lbs 16 oz"
- Fixed non-dryhop flamout hops sent dryhop notification
- Fixed show-stock in recipe designer showed out of stock if inventory amount was exactly the same as the recipe amount
This version includes support for notifications and e-mail reminders. Get notified of important batch events like "Brew Day"-reminder, dry hop times, fermentation profile steps, and so on.
You can customize which notifications and e-mail reminders you want to recieve in the settings page.
- Support for push notifications and e-mail reminders
- In the settings page you can set the default time for day-based notifications and you can easily toggle on and off any event types
- On the batch page you have a new events section where the time and date can be altered per event, for total control
- You will also get a notification when an integrated device does its first logging to a batch
- More events for device integrations will be added in the coming releases
- You can now show the inventory status in the recipe designer by toggling "Show stock" below the water section
- New sorting options on the Batches / Inventory / Styles pages
- Norbrygg 2021 style guidelines
- Brew tracker alert now automatically stops after 45 seconds
- Improved performance when opening and closing the batch/batches page
- Various performance improvements and bugfixes
- Linebreaks now show in batch notes
- Fixed sugar additions in some cases appeared in both mash and boil in brew-tracker
- Fixed Firefox not displaying all placeholder text in input boxes
- Fixed toggling off yeast labaratories not saving
- Fixed setting webhook forwarding for Brewbrain Float and Floaty Hydrometer not working
- Improved speed of loading default profiles when creating new recipes
- Brewers Association 2021 style guidelines, activate in the styles page
- Improved response when navigating to a recipe from the recipes page, this navigation is now instant
- Fixed diasatic power not showing in recipe when all grains had a specified diastatic power
- Fixed an issue related to old browser versions (Safari 12.0)
- Added support for showing battery in chart for iSpindel, BrewPiLess, Float Hydrometer and Custom Stream integrations
- New use "Steep" for grains in recipe designer, will calculate lower efficiency for steeped grains and make the contribution not fermentable
- Added CRS/AMS and DWB to water calculator, must be enabled in water calculator settings
- Crash issue related to Safari version 14.0 introduced in version 2.7.0 (not present in Safari 14.0.1 or newer)
- Thumbnail not updating automatically on batch recipe if updated in original recipe
- Correctly export dry hop time in BeerXML export
This release includes many technical upgrades for improved performance and some new icons with an updated look.
- Added IoB as diastatic power unit
- Shows date for each fermentation step in batch
- Added water calculation method Batch Sparging to the equipment profile, will calculate amount of sparge water for multiple batch sparges
- When using LBS + OZ as unit you can now type them in separately when adding fermentables
- Serbian (Latin) language added
- Recipe notes are now exported to BeerXML
- Diastatic Power field is now always visible in fermentable modal for grains
- Recipes and Batches page now retains state between navigation
- "Show more" button when you have alot of recipes or batches is removed
- Fixed some modals closing when using enter inside text area
- Fixed not able to clear some values in profiles when using non-metric volume unit
- Fixed issue related to adding manual readings to the fermentation chart
- BeerXML export now includes the recipe note field
- [Recipe Engine 1.1] Historical batch recipes and non-all-grain recipes must now manually be updated to recipe calculation engine version 1.1 to use the new Total Gravity calculation method released in version 2.6.0. This is to avoid having the calculated ABV changed for historic batches where the user manually had accounted for fermentation additions in the typed Original Gravity measured value
This updates include a completely new system that allows all users to help update and add missing inventory and equipment profiles to Brewfather. This will allow the database to easily include more up to date and accurate details for all ingredients and equipment profiles. Submissions will go trough review before it is added to the database.
If you want to help out, more details can be found here: Instruction to add/update data in the global database
- New submission system to allow users to update and add missing ingredients or equipment profiles to the global database (visible for all users).
- Introduced a new "Total Gravity" term, this gravity inlcudes all the sugars used in the recipe (including bottling sugar) and is used to calculate ABV and attenuation. Original Gravity now only include sugars before fermentation start. Shows as a new field in batch summary. Previous version the Original Gravity worked as Total Gravity is now
- You can now easily add carbonation sugar to recipe from batch carbonation section and have it properly included in the ABV calculation
- New language added:Polish
- Diastatic Power for fermentables are now calculated and shown below fermentables in recipe (Note: diastatic power must be specified on fermentables)
- Added more fields to specify hop oil composition in hops
- Added more fields for fermentables to specify Extract FGDB, Coarse-Fine/diff, Friability, Acid, FAN, Max Recommended Amount
- Added Lager (Standard) fermentation profile
- Fermentation chart now supports Plato as display unit
- Lots of new ingredients have been added / updated
- Grainfather integration now shows 100 C as maximum target temp rather than 120 C as returned by the controller for boil stage
- Now shows two decimals for hop alpha % in inventory print
- Hide batch status in header of batch page if on a small screen
- Changed some volume fields default arrow step to 0.1 rather than 0.01
- Post-Boil gravity input field always shows in batch and as a field in batch summary
- Editing gravity in readings now respects what input gravity you have set in settings
- Increased size of description fields on profiles and inventory
- Improved import of BSMX files
- Active tab in batch will be highlighted with color
- Custom stream fridge temp-offset was using normal temperature offset
- Setting offset gravity now works with plato as input unit
- Fixed fermentation chart ramp not showing proper ramp target temperature during fermentation
- Fixed initial hopstand temp showing wrong temp in a special situation
- Improved Sodium Metabisulfite PPM input field not always working as intended
- Improved hop per amount input field not always working as intended
- Improved efficiency calculations in batch summary (when using top-up water or kettle as batch target)
- Now shows sugars with default use time to be added as near end of boil additions as intended in brew tracker, rather than mash addition
- Brew Tracker now uses boil time as a maximum time for additions even if specified otherwise on the additions
- Fixed IBU calc in hop modal not respecting if calc aroma hop utilization was disabled
- Fixed removing set boil temp when using F as input unit in equipment profile
- Carbonation tool now supports setting 0 as temperature
- You can now remove dates set on inventory items
- Brew Tracker now correctly checks if sparge water reminder is enabled in equipment profile even if the time is set
- Fixed an issue where no-boil recipes could in a special case show an invalid pre-boil volume
- Added "DD/MM/YYYY" and "MM/DD/YYYY" as custom date format option
- Fixed setting custom date format not always working
- You can now tweak the Final Gravity estimation with parameters in relation to mash temperature. New Mash Temperature Slope configuration option in the settings page (premium feature)
- Slope settings: Default, Alternative (gives a similar FG calculation as some other tools), Custom Slope and No Effect
- You can now easily set the batch size and boil time directly in a recipe with dedicated buttons in the equipment section
- Implemented import of ingredients from BSMX and BeerXML files (import button at the top of the inventory page). Import from ingredients files or import all ingredients from a recipe file. Import will autodetect the file type and format
- You can now toggle off/on what suppliers/laboratories will show in the Fermentables and Yeast lists
- Show lotnumber and usernote for the ingredients in the PDF
- Added support for showing pressure for BrewPiLess and MyBrewBot integration (you must activate the pressure checkbox in series for the device)
- Added the extra/custom measured values to the PDF when printing a batch
- Added Spike Solo 20G equipment profile
- You can now exclude a fermentable from the percentage of grainbill and total amount (exclude checkbox in the fermentable modal)
- When selecting a style for a recipe you will now see the graphical style guidelines when expanding a style and you can see how it lines up with the recipe
- You can now easily toggle style guidelines on or off in the settings page for BU/GU and RBR
- Water calculator: Added an option for diluting the source water with a separate water profile, for example: RO or distilled water
- Water amounts now show in the planning page of the batch
- Added gallon (gal) as unit for miscs
- Added copy buttons for fermentation and mash profiles (similar to equipment and water profiles have)
- Cooling Shrinkage / Boil Expansion can now be customized in the equipment profile
- You can now set the date input format to the device language or selected app language in addition to the custom formats
- Added total weight below fermentables / hops in the recipe designer on small screens
- Moved calculated IBU before text on add hop dialog to better show on devices with small screens
- Improved BrewTracker synchronization across devices
- Fixed water calculator not always updating estimated values (issue on some devices)
- Ramp days was not shown for fermentation profile when set (troughout the application, this has now been added)
- Now using cold boil volume rater than hot (including expansion) when calculating water for "No Sparge" water calculation method, this will reduce the total water calculated by 4%, you might want to increase the grain absorption rate to compensate
- Fixed fermenter vol before top-up in the batch summary not taking into account the measured batch size
- Fixed an issue related to scaling a recipe to a new equipment profile with a different batch volume target, scaling will now work properly
- Fixed ramp days not taken into account when setting the default bottling date of the batch
- Fixed colors of fermentables when importing BeerXML from BS3 when it was set to EBC in BS
- Fixed custom stream showed BPM in chart even if not set
- Fixed tools showing default units rather than selected units if loaded directly on app open
- Fixed an issue with the gravity input selector in the settings page
- Fixed a minor issue that could occur when boil time was set to 0 in a recipe
- Fixed a display issue of the totals when setting the grain percentages on a small screendevice
- Fixed status above chart not updating live when entering a measured OG in the batch
- API: added "inventory_negative" query parameter for retrieving inventory with inventory amount lower than 0
- Fixed an issue introduced in version 2.4.9 where the equipment profile selector would be blank if no equipment profile was set as default
- Fixed brewhouse efficiency in the summary of the batch not taking into account fermenter-top up if fermenter top up was 0 in the original recipe
- Fixed AM/PM issue in the timepicker when hour was 12 PM
- Fixed an issue related to sharing recipes when autosaving of recipe was disabled
- Fermenter Volume before top-up now shows in batch summary
- Added name field to fermentation profile steps
- Now shows hop type in PDF if not pellet
- Improved hopstand in the brew tracker to handle multiple temperature steps
- Fixed overbuild on yeast starter calc only showing details if auto calc volume was enabled
- Fixed the "Advanced" FG calculation method estimating too high FG when using kettle as batch volume target
- Fixed brewhouse efficiency in the summary of the batch not taking into account difference in fermenter-top up
- Added support to sign in with Apple (for web and iOS client)
- Added support to sign in with Google and Facebook for app clients
- Added support forCzech language🇨🇿
- Improved performance on the recipes page when you have many recipes
- Fixed a display issue where batches list page would not show the batches if your account had only batches with status archived
- Added support forSlovak language🇸🇰
- Improved GF integration beta:
- Added button for delayed start
- Clarified PUMP/HEAT on/off buttons
- Added skip stage button
- Fixed setting boil time not working
- Fixed an issue where recipes list page would not show the correct values from a recipe in a certain situation
- Added support forFrench and🇫🇷Greek language🇬🇷
- Improved PDF print to include full notes and batch notes
- New time picker for selecting hour and minutes
- Time and date settings in the settings page allows to set 24H or 12H time format, and type of date input (ISO8601 and others)
- Archived batches are not loaded into the client until expanded, to search in archived batches you must now expand the category
- Fixed L per amount field accuracy issue in the miscs (when using non-metric volume unit)
- Fixed an issue writing in 0 as fermenter top-up volume in batch when using non-metric units
- Improved translations for some languages
- Improved translations for some languages
- Fixed display issue in devices page introduced in v 2.4.0
- Improved some translations
Brewfather now supports: Português (Brazil and Portugal), Italiano (Italian), Español (Spanish), Deutsch (German), Pусский (Russian), Svenska (Swedish), Dansk (Danish), Magyar (Hungarian), Dutch (Nederlands), Eesti keel (Estonian), UK English in addition toNorsk (Norwegian) and US English.
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A big thank you to the fantastic community for help with translating the app and the continued support.
- Language selector to select between the different new languages on the bottom of the menu or on top of the settings page
- Dedicated Scale Recipe button in recipe designer for easier access to scaling
- New fields on ingredients:
- Lot #, track the lot # for the ingredient used, will be listed in the planning stage of the batch and locked in when you check of an item, to keep as a permanent log of the lot number used in that batch
- Best before date, date will be listed on inventory page
- Manufacturing date (Harvest date for hops)
- Print inventory (inventory page) and ingredient shopping list (from batch planning)
- You can now add a default set of custom measurement fields that will be added to new batches, configurable in the settings page under batch setup
- Support for typing amount per liter in miscs, this amount will be a calculated default amount when adding that misc to a recipe
- Hopcat 65, Ezbrew, Brewmonk equipment profiles
- Now shows pressure from MyBrewBot
- Added new hops, yeast and fermentables
- Added timestamp to bottom of batches, showing created and last saved time, also shows if a batch is shared (with a button to unshare)
- Scaling fermentables now scales with one gram accuracy when batch size is lower than 14 L. Otherwise will use dynamic rounding based on batch size.
- Minor UI tweaks, some text buttons replaced with icon only buttons
- Fixed First Wort hop IBU not accounting for lower boil temp if using altitude adjustment
- Fixed scaling IBU not accounting for IBUs from fermentables if present
- Fixed BeerXML import issue introduced in v2.3.2
- General performance improvements and technical optimizations
- Phosphoric acid in the water calculator has been adjusted, will now suggest about 40% less acid for the same pH adjustment
- Setting an inventory amount on ingredients is now a premium feature
- GF control integration no longer automatically sends recipe upon connection, click the send recipe button to do this
- Added new yeasts to inventory
- Fixed issue with ramp time for mash profiles in brewtracker (issue from v2.3.2)
- Show FG calculation method in brew sheet if different from normal
- Fix brew tracker issue if ingredient name is empty (issue from v2.3.2)
- Fix shared batches not defaulting to sharing users unit (works on new batches only)
- Shared recipes will now default to the sharing users selected units if the receiving user is not logged in
- You can now export/print the "adjusted" recipe in a batch
- Add support for Sodium Metabisulfite in water calc, with support for typing PPM
- New and improved calendar datepicker
- Improved how recipes are saved and synced
- Fixed scaling issue for certain extract recipes, will now match OG after scaling
- Fixed lower boil temp not taken into account when there was no hopstand or whilpool in the recipe
- Fixed going back to recipes page when clicking recipes menu button failed on a special case
- Fixed not showing sparge ingredients in brew tracker when sparge water reminder was turned off
- Fixed minor issue related to sending recipe to the GF Connect controller
- Connect to your GF Connect Bluetooth controller directly from Brewfather (only works in Chrome and other chromium based browsers, also works in the web version of the app on android devices in chrome). Activate it as a powerup in the settings page, and click start under brewing controller on the brewing tab of the batch.
- Send recipe directly to the controller
- Issue commands to your controller, setting the temp and time remaining
- This feature is in the early stages and will be built upon based on user feedback
- Does not work on iOS, only Chromium browsers on desktop or android
- Thanks to Alexander Broekhuis for help with the bluetooth web implementation
- Support for localization of the app - partially translated to Norwegian, selectable in the settings page
- More languages coming later, email h[email protected] if you are interested in helping translating
- Updated some Lallemand yeasts
- Shows concentration for liquid calcium chloride in the recipe
- Updating fermentation end date when editing the fermentation profile in a batch
- Other minor fixes
- Added inventory access to API - new scopes available when generating API-key. Documentation available at https://api.brewfather.app
- You now have to manually enable offline support for non-chromium browsers (due to improved performance when disabled), you can enable it in the settings page if you plan to use your device offline
- Reset button on default profiles, allows you to reset the profile back to its default values
- Added initial API support to allow integration with your own or third party solutions. Documentation available at https://api.brewfather.app
- You can generate your API-key in the settings page in the API-section
- Increased notes maximum character limit from 6000 to 10000 characters
- You can now import Brewfather BATCH JSON as a batch from the import button on the recipes page
- Fixed custom endpoint toggle where you where not able to turn it off again
- Fixed minor issue in the equipment modal when calc mash efficiency where disabled, but mash efficiency where still calculated when editing parameters
- Reset inventory on/off setting because of a previously fixed issue. Allow negative inventory is now on by default - please turn off inventory/allow-negative manually if you want it disabled
- Minor technical upgrade
- Improved offline checker when offline mode is disabled
- Fixed diastatic power not showing value in fermentables
- Made reset zoom button for chart more visible in dark mode
- Fixed rare batch stuck at loading issue
- Fixed font size scaling issue in Google Play Android app
- Fixed issue editing batch recipe if the website was refreshed when batch recipe was open (web version)
- Support for High Gravity Brewing / Fermenter Top-Up.
New Fermenter Top-Up field in the equipment profile and measured value in the batch allows for planning a larger fermenter volume than your brewing equipment can handle.
- Fixed not able to add / edit reading with no temp or gravity measurement
- Other minor fixes
Deprecated / no longer needed: Tilt readings can no longer be logged by just entering batch number in the name field, now requires you to attach to batch
Many new features and improvements in this major release of Brewfather 2, including Dark Mode, upgraded Yeast Calculator, improved usability, altitude adjustment, more unit options, Plaato Keg integration, as well as other highly requested features.
Major techincal upgrades behind the scenes have been done laying the groundwork for more rapid development and deployment of new features in the future as well as improved performance.
- Updated look - increased button sizes for easier usability
- Support for Dark Mode - Theme will automatically switch based on your device settings, or you can select it in the settings page
- Selectable unit for carbonation CO2-vol and g/L
- Support for Altitude adjustment in equipment profile (unit switchable in settings)
- Easier to switch between US / Imp / Metric units with dedicated buttons in the settings
- Added support for Lovibond for grain color
- New ingredients and equipment profiles added consecutively (Brewtools B150pro profile, G70 profile, Gladfield Malts, Bonsak Malts, new yeasts ++)
- Added support for overbuilding (for harvest) in the yeast starter calculator. Also shows inoculation rate and growth factor
- When stopping a brew-tracker alarm on one device you will now stop it on all active devices
- Shows estimated nutrition for recipe in recipe designer and completed tab of batch (can be disabled in settings)
- Added support for larger units for volume and hops in the settings page, like beer barrel and hectoliter
- Attenuation now shows on the yeast in recipe designer and listing
- New option in the setting to show and input SG w/o the decimal
- Using browser back/forward buttons will now work
- Bookmarking a page will take you directly to that recipe/page/batch (deeplinking)
- Initial app download size is reduced and improved caching
- In app popup when new versions are released
- Show large beer color icon on recipe listing
- Hide thumbs down counter in recipe library
- Copy to clipboard button for strings that are relevant, like integration urls
- Water calculator remembers last used acid type and concentration
- General performance improvements
- Implemented many minor features requested since the last release
- Upgraded client with multiple technical improvements
Dedicated version for iOS (Apple Devices) is now available in the app store. This is the recommended way to use Brewfather for iOS devices. On Android devices, add the app to your home-screen from the Chrome browser.
- Fixed minor issues discovered
- Improved brew-tracker sync issue when left in the background
- Fixed brew tracker alarm sometimes starting on app load
- Fixed AA% scale button not working when the unit is Oz
- Fixed a rare issue where deleting a reading did not remove it from the chart
- Fixed pressure unit in custom stream
- Improved general error handling
If your home-screen app does not update, go into the settings, scroll down and click the Reload button or add it to your home-screen again.
This release was had an extended testing period due to the major technical changes. Big thanks to all the testers for their help.