Profiles

Save and reuse equipment, mash, fermentation, water, and style profiles for consistent brewing.

Profiles in Brewfather allow you to save and reuse equipment configurations, mash schedules, fermentation plans, water chemistry, and custom beer styles. Create once, use many times – perfect for maintaining consistency across your brews.

Available Profile Types

Equipment Profile

Define your brewing system's specifications including batch size, efficiency, losses, and boil-off rate. Essential for accurate recipe calculations.

Mash Profile

Save your favorite mash schedules with infusion, temperature, and decoction steps. Mash profiles can include manual infusion amounts and temperatures, manual decoction amounts, thick or thin decoction pulls, optional decoction rests, and an optional decoction boil-off rate for return-volume planning. Reuse proven mash profiles across different recipes.

Fermentation Profile

Plan and save multi-stage fermentation schedules including temperature ramps, cold crashing, and conditioning phases.

Water Profile

Store your water chemistry data including mineral content and pH. Build a library of water profiles for different beer styles.

Custom Styles

Create your own beer style guidelines with target ranges for gravity, color, bitterness, and other characteristics.

How to Use Profiles

1. Access Profiles: Navigate to the Profiles section from the main menu

2. Select Profile Type: Choose the type of profile you want to create or edit

3. Create New: Tap the + button to create a new profile

4. Edit Existing: Select a profile from the list to modify it

5. Apply to Recipe: When creating or editing a recipe, select saved profiles from the dropdown menus

Benefits

• Consistency: Use the same settings across multiple recipes

• Time Saving: No need to re-enter common configurations

• Organization: Keep all your brewing configurations in one place

• Sharing: Export and share profiles with other brewers

• Experimentation: Compare different profiles side-by-side

Tips

• Name profiles descriptively (e.g., "5 Gallon BIAB Setup" instead of "Equipment 1")

• Create seasonal water profiles based on your local water reports

• Save successful mash profiles from great batches for future use

• If you use decoctions, set a decoction-specific boil-off rate on the mash profile for more accurate return-volume guidance, and choose thick or thin pulls to match your process

• Use fermentation profiles to replicate successful temperature schedules

Related docs

• Equipment Profiles

• Mash Profiles

• Fermentation Profiles

• Water Profiles

• Custom Styles