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Fermenticus Brew Log - Home Brewing Calculator & Logbook

Fermenticus Brew Log is a logbook, calculator, and recipe formulator for homebrewers and small craft brewers alike.
Category Price Seller Device
Utilities Free Mark Hambly iPhone, iPad, iPod

• Optimized for both iPhone & iPad.

• Clean design - You can quickly input your ingredients and measurements, automatically perform important calculations, and concentrate on the brewing instead of the software!

• Suitable for any level of expertise - Brew Log will handle all your extract, steeped grain, partial mash, or all-grain recipes.

• Ingredients database - Add your own ingredients or select from lists of common malts, extracts, adjuncts, hops, and commercially available yeasts.

• Save your recipes - Recipes are stored on your device for quick access at any time. You can also export your recipes via email in a convenient table format that can be pasted into any spreadsheet or printed out for brew day reference.

• Organize your recipes - Sort your recipes with logbooks for organizing and archiving.

• As you add grains or hops Brew Log instantly updates estimated gravity, color, and bitterness. Great for building recipes on the go.

• Mash Rest & Sparge calculations for simple to complex mashes. Calculates volumes and temperatures for your strike water, infusions, and decoctions.

• Built in calculators to determine original and final gravity, alcohol (ABV), bitterness (IBU), color (SRM), efficiency, attenuation, and more.

• Choose a standard beer style or make up your own.

• Designed to be an efficient brewing companion for quick logging during your brew day (“Do more with fewer clicks”).

• US & Metric simultaneously supported. You can combine both US and metric units in your malt bill or hop bill. Recipes can also be converted from US to Metric and vice versa.

• Unique date handling, so you can add dates with information about the date. Useful for logging information during fermentation or bottling!

• Once you make your own measurement Brew Log will let you know your actual brew-house efficiency (for all-grain) and actual yeast attenuation.

• Save your default settings such as typical batch size and if you brew extract/all-grain/steeped. Of course, this information can always be set on a recipe by recipe basis.

••• Important Information Regarding In-App Purchases •••
Brew Log has a limitation on the number of recipes you can store on your device. All users will get 5 empty recipe slots. There is no other limitation on any functions. The free slots are the exact same as paid recipe slots.

Brew Log's In-App Purchases are tied to your iTunes account and are permanent. Your purchases on one device will be shared on all your devices. You can refresh to restore your purchases at any time.

Upgrades of +10, +25, and unlimited slots are available for less than a beer at the pub.

If you reach your maximum recipe limit, you will have to either delete existing recipes (I recommend exporting via Email first!) or purchase an upgrade before adding a new recipe or cloning an existing recipe.

As always, I highly encourage you to email any bugs, suggestions, or comments you may have!

Lastly, if you are enjoying Brew Log, please consider supporting it by leaving a positive review on the App Store. Every rating and review is a big help!

Cheers and Happy Brewing!

Reviews

The best recipe app out there
jplise

This app is so user friendly. It is also customizable to meet your recipe spec needs. I strongly encourage using this app for all recipe designs. The best!! Testimonial from 2006 California Homebrewer of the Year.


Great app
Qorly

I’ve used both brewlog and BeerSmith and I will keep with brewlog because it is easier to follow and you can export and print your recipes. In the app there is a log that is continuous and allows me to make notes. Thanks for the updates


Great App
Roxzalott

Easy to use. 43 recipes and counting


Needs to be updated!
Crushdaley

Nice easy to use format. Ingredients list is decent but could be freshened up. The hop IBU calculator is in serious need of updating. Overall good app but wish it had some upkeep.


Terrible
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Very difficult to use. When you’re messing around something for 10 minutes and still can’t figure it out that’s why it’s time to go to another app. Do not download this app terrible.


Great calculator
CoolJFD

I love this app but Mark Hambly would you please update it? There’s many more hops, yeasts, and specialty malts since it was last updated. Would also appreciate highlighting the selected recipe to be able to navigate easier within recipes, like another user reviewed.


Vs BeerSmith
Qorly

I have used both apps and this one is more concise and structured. BeerSmith has a lot of multiple screens to adjust information, brewlog everything is all available on one screen. I hope the author will continue to provide updates.


Just a few drawbacks (updated review August 2018)
The iron dukage

Love the app. I'm able to come up with a complete brew-day plan and everything is very easy to use / see. But not being able to sync between devices is a pretty big problem for various and obvious reasons. I would be more inclined to purchase the unlimited recipes option (currently just purchased the 30 slots) if I felt like the devs were working toward the sync thing. Until then it just kind of feels like it's second fiddle to beersmith (similarly priced). Also, call me old school but some sort of desktop site would also be nice. (Update) revised my rating from a 4 Star to a 2 Star and here’s why. Most recent version / update is over 2 years ago. I paid for additional slots and lost all my recipes -approx a dozen- when I changed from android to iOS. Wrote in to the devs and heard nothing back. Finally broke down and went with beersmith. I have no idea why I waited as long as I did. Really wanted this to be my brewing app that would evolve with my hobby but it just didn’t happen.


Go to app for brewing
Coolpapers1234567

Although you can only keep 5 beers in the free version, you have the option to export via email or printing to keep 5 of your latest brews. App contains everything you need to brew from start to finish. Input grain bill, hops and yeast and it will determine your output including water needed to brew to hit your 5gal target. By far the best free app for brewing.


Mead?!
meadme

App is well laid out but would appreciate some common yeast strains for mead making to be added.


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