The brewing science, done for you
BrewBat writes the recipe, works out the water, the yeast and the mash, and tells you what to do on brew day. Most of it is free, your stock too. Brewer adds unlimited recipes, brewing from your stock, Auto fix, Style Match, shuffling and importing.
Try Brewer free for 30 days. No card needed.
Free
£0
- A complete recipe from any style, sized to your kit
- Classics of 90+ styles and clones of nearly 100 beers
- Yeast, mash, fermentation and packaging worked out
- Water and mash pH from your town
- Brew day readings, with what to do when you miss
- Flavour flower, smart swaps, scaling, print and share
- Keep your stock, taken off as you brew
- A shopping list for every recipe
- Keep up to 25 recipes
Brewer
£25 a year
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited recipes
- Auto fix: one tap puts a recipe back on target
- Shuffle malts and hops for a new take on a beer
- Brew from your stock, see what to buy
- Import from Brewfather, BeerSmith and BeerXML
- Style Match: how close it is to its style, and the fix
Brewer
What Brewer adds
Unlimited recipes
Free keeps 25 recipes. Brewer keeps every one you design, copy or import.
Auto fix
When a recipe drifts off style or off your targets, one tap puts it back in the style's range, holding what's already right.
Shuffle malts and hops
Shuffle a recipe's malts or hops and BrewBat builds them again from others the style's brewers use, your stock first, keeping the strength, colour and bitterness. Or tick Shuffle when you copy a recipe, to brew it a different way.
Brew from what you have
Can I brew this? on every recipe, how much of each of your recipes, the classics and the clones your shelf covers, which styles your shelf suits and what to buy, with the closest stand-ins you already hold. New recipes and copies can be built from what's on your shelf, and each recipe shows where a stand-in went in, how alike it is, and what's worth buying to make it better.
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.
Style Match
The Style tab scores how close a recipe is to its style, section by section, shows the six styles nearest to it and the yeasts its brewers use, and fixes the numbers, hops or grain bill to the style.
Free
What every brewer gets
Built on 125,000+ published recipes, 1,000+ malts, 440+ hops and 1,200 yeasts.
A recipe in a few clicks
Pick a style, nudge a slider, press Create. A typical recipe for the style, built from 125,000+ real ones and sized to your kit.
Classics and clones
A classic for more than 90 styles and clones of nearly 100 well-known beers, copied onto your kit with your own water.
Brewing water, handled
Your water from 3,000+ reports near you, and the salts and acid that land the mash pH. No ppm tables.
Brew day help
Enter your readings as you go. Running low? It says how much longer to boil or how much extract to add, and learns your kit.
Know how it'll taste
A flavour flower from what the maltsters, growers and labs say about each ingredient, with mouthfeel from the recipe's numbers.
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.
Your units
Metric or imperial, litres or gallons, °C or °F, EBC or SRM: each brewer sees their own.
Your stock
Keep your malt, hops and yeast in BrewBat, and mark a brew as brewed to take what it used off.
Shopping list
Every recipe says what you need to buy for it, ready to copy, and Bought it puts the lot in your stock.
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.
Questions
How does the free trial work?
Every new brewer gets Brewer's features free for 30 days, with no card. You keep Free's 25 recipes while you try it. When the trial ends you're on Free unless you choose Brewer.
What happens to recipes past 25?
Nothing is deleted. On Free, your newest 25 stay editable and the rest are read-only: you can still open, print and export them. Move to Brewer and they're all editable again.
Can I cancel?
Any time, from your account. Brewer runs to the end of the year you've paid for, then you're on Free.
Who takes the payment?
Polar, our payment provider. They handle the card and any VAT or sales tax, which is included in the price.