How To Use Brewfather Like A Boss Recipe Entry Endorsed Guide

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This guide to Brewfather recipe entry is endorsed by the developer and gives full information in regards to recipe entry from A-Z with lots of hints, tips and recipe writers tricks along the way.
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Introduction music:- Drink Beer (Till The Day That I Die) by Dazie Mae
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Introduction music:- Drink Beer (Till The Day That I Die) by Dazie Mae

[@the_video_word]

Who on earth is the one person who would watch this then click 'dislike'?? People are strange... Great video David - I've just signed up to Brewfather as a result of watching, looks the business.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Nick. No idea but its hard to have a video on KZbin without at least one dislike these days! People are indeed strange but that fully 99% are pretty awesome :) The 1% are not something I worry about. Glad you liked what you saw :)

[@timryan1154]

Have been using Brewfather for two years and learned a few tricks I did not know about! Thanks.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Tim. I am always looking for ways to speed things up in brewing software when recipe writing.

[@Brewfather]

Thanks David, excellent video, much appreciated, and hopefully a start of a new video series from you :-)

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thank you :) Yes, I think there needs to be more :)

[@Wild-Boar-Brewing]

Just watched this video for the second time, with Brewfather opened at the same time. Like many others I've been using Brewfather for sometime, but picked up some new things from this video, very useful, thanks

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great. Yes I think having BF open and moving along with the video would be very useful. Great that you picked up some pointers here, I made this after watching all other BF guides on KZbin.

[@davidsales5855]

Hi ! I used brewfather app for my first ever brew and first ever recipe. It is a wonderful app very easy to control. I love how you can add data as you plan, brew, ferment, condition and ultimately drink gold! Estimations are also very accurate New toy to keep playing at any time to keep creating. Also plenty recipes to share, brew and compare! Well done and fantastic job creator of Brewfather app

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear David :)

[@spanners2772]

I’ve been using Brewfather for a while now and I thought I was pretty proficient in its use but you still managed to teach me a few things, it’s nice to see another user of this recipe and brewing assistant which is rapidly growing in popularity, I’d be lost without it. First class video David.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Kevin, yes it sure is great software :)

[@jackmeovf]

I moved from Beersmith to Brewfather a couple of weeks ago and have already found it great. However your video has really opened up it's amazing functionality and clever design. Thanks very much David for the guide.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Jack, I will do some more in the near future :)

[@dotte64]

Best brewing software I have ever used, and I have tried most of them. Great modern interface and a fantastic developer! Very nice video! Cheers!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Couldn't agree more! Glad you enjoyed the guide also :)

[@blink4711]

Brilliant David. I have been fumbling around writing recipes not knowing the advantage of scaling fermentables and OG to suit what I want. Your a legend.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear that you found it useful Tony :)

[@jncpedley]

Excellent! Having used BeerSmith for years, I thought I would give Brewfather a go just because it seemed to be highly thought of on this KZbin channel and its sister Facebook group. I have now switched to Brewfather (sorry Brad). This video was so good because it will help anybody new to the software but also has a few neat tricks that more experienced users might be unaware of. I did not previously know about the ability to scale according to malt percentages or set bittering hop rate according to IBU. Thankyou for this neat, precise and highly informative guide. Thanks also to Thomas for this effective and satisfying software and for his continued commitment to keeping it up to date and responsive to user needs.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks John. BF has become super popular everywhere it seems :) Its great to hear that you found this guide helpful, it took a lot of hours to make but I am happy with the end result :)

[@Brewfather]

Fantastic :)

[@ShortCircuitedBrewers]

Great guide. It will certainly come in handy for those needing to know how to create their own recipes. Cheers David! 👍🍻

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Brian, I certainly hope so :) Thanks for your video also, it allowed me to keep this one within 15mins :)

[@ShortCircuitedBrewers]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew yay team!! Lol

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Short Circuited Brewers Haha :)

[@markstolowski6956]

I just signed up for Brewfather because of it's support for iSpindle and as a long time Beersmith user found it a bit confusing. This video cleared up many questions I had and I'm sure I'll watch it several times to get everything out of it. Thanks for the great help.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great :) I moved from Beersmith to Brewfather mostly because it just works so very well and the developer is always hard at work either improving or adding more things. I also love that for one price it runs great on any device with a browser.

[@forlifeyoda]

I was never happy with beersmith, I have had brewfather for about 9 months and my beer tastes better!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

That is awesome to hear :)

[@alanman5328]

Fantastic guide, the best I have seen to Brewfather by a long way. Keep up the great videos David!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Alan, very much appreciated :)

[@chucklebrewers2744]

Brilliant. I've been using it over a year and hadn't realized half of what you can do i.e. setting via IBU or %ge of Grain. I just fiddle with amounts until I get it right. Brilliant

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great, so glad that you found it useful. There is certainly more to this than meets the eye.

[@mikemotta9754]

Excellent video, thank you. I've been using Brewfather for about 1 year now at a very high level, this is exactly what i needed to start digging into it further

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Mike. I will do some more guides to Brewfather soon :)

[@yannicksimard3412]

Thank you David for this short but so full of good tips video. Even if I am using this software for a year and a half now, I still learn new stuff each time I use it. Keep going David. You are my Guru.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Mank thanks Yannick, glad you found it useful :)

[@TheHavoci]

This video is a great help for home brewers who are new to brewfather. Thanks David

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Scott, great to hear :)

[@allanbrand]

Fantastic video David! I've been using Brewfather for a little while but learned of a feature I did not existed until now. Thank you!!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Allan :) More of these will be coming :)

[@1hwbrewing852]

Hi David, very helpful video as always. One comment and a question (in a separate post for brevity), both related to hop recipe additions. 1) There is a checkbox in the Equipment Profile called "Calc aroma hop utilization" along with related "Hopstand Temperature" and "Whirlpool / No-Chill Time" inputs for the number of minutes the wort remains at a non-chilled temperature. When enabled, this setting tries to estimate how many additional IBUs are added from your boil additions by performing a hopstand/whirlpool (the logic being that these additions will continue to isomerize when temp is above ~160 - 170F (apologies for American temp units). For some recipes (e.g., NEIPAs where the hop additions are relatively late), it is probably important to consider enabling this setting. Not doing so can result in a beer recipe that predicts a much lower IBU beer. I mention this because it took me awhile to realize/realise that the feature is embedded in the equipment profile. Said differently, if you simply add hopstand/whirlpool additions in the Hops section of the recipe, the software will not adjust the boil IBUs accordingly. Instead, you have to go into the Equipment Profile and enable it. FWIW, same issue applies to BeerSmith (the setting is embedded in equipment profiles). The nice thing about Brewfather is that when the switch is enabled, any hopstand additions will adjust the IBUs according to the temp and time set for the hopstand addition. If time and temp are not specified in the hopstand addition, Brewfather will use the defaults set in the equipment profile. BeerSmith will ignore the time and temp values for individual hopstand additions and will instead use the defaults specified in the equipment profile.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Yes, very true. Though this type of calculation is an area of disagreement for some, so I guess that is why it is optional.

[@mybrew95]

Most complete video Ihave seen until now. Great job. Thanks.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks, much appreciated 🍻🍻🍻

[@rogertornstrom8206]

Thanks for a clear and simple walk-through of how to use Brewfather. I liked this app from the first day I tried it and you showed us how to take it many steps further. So far I have only brewed a couple of beers using it but I can see many more ahead. And also, thank you for sharing all your recipes and walking us through them in your videos :)

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great, many thanks Roger. Yes BF is very well put together and with some extra hints and tips can be super fast to use :)

[@ElNhaco]

Great guide David....as always. Thank you for sharing. Brewfather is an excellent tool to use...the best imo. Thank you Thomas

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it. Yes, the very best brewing software for sure :)

[@Brewfather]

Thank you!

[@BennyBestt]

Awesome tutorial David. I used Brewfather today and following your directions, it was very simple to use. I really like how simple it was to use the water chemistry section. We have pretty average water where I am, hopefully my next few brews will be more balanced and true to type. Cheers 🍺🍺👍

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Ben. Cheers 🍻🍻🍻

[@kenfowler1980]

Fantastic mate! I liked the way you just put 1 gram in and then hit the various buttons - very clever! Cheers David

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Ken Fowler Thanks Ken. Yes its a nice time saver for sure. Glad you found it useful ;)

[@davidpinnington213]

First! - and thanks for all the information you’ve put out over the years - six months in on a GF system and loving it apart from one or two experiments that went off wrong!!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks David, I am glad that you have found it all useful :)

[@PortlyGentleman]

Super useful stuff ! I wish this video was around when I first started to use brewfather 🍻

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Bradley :)

[@jimmythekidd78]

Great video and this series will help me on my brewing journey. A quick question for anyone with regards water treatment. Do people treat the total water when adding minerals/additives to reduce PH and match the target profile and then set aside the recommended sparge volume? Or just treat/adjust the main body or water excluding that set aside for the sparge? I assume that untreated sparge water will have some (if minimal given potential sparge volumes) effect on the overall PH and the overall dilution/distribution of minerals when untreated sparge water is used? Or are additions added to the mash water sufficiently high that when the untreated sparge water is used this has little/no effect on treated liquid already used? Thanks for the great videos.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hey James, thank you and great to hear. I would suggest treating all your water for the intended result.

[@A2an]

Fantastic, this I have been fighting with, loved it. Maybe you can make a serie of each step and go in depth with it and giveaway some of your precious knowledge. There is currently nothing out there at least not up-to-date, beside you video. Thanks for the effort 👍

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Allan. I am looking at making more BF guides in the future, very glad that you found this one useful :)

[@robertschonfelder2162]

Great video again, thank you. It would be interesting if the developer could add a library of flavour profiles (malts and hops), especially for users who enjoy writing their own recipes in line with the bjcp guidelines which are available within brewfather.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Yes, that would be cool! :) Glad you enjoyed the guide :)

[@Louz_Drumz]

thanks for this video, very helpful for a brewfather newb like myself

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear :)

[@JulianLane]

Thanks David, really helpful guide. What initially looks like a very complicated piece of software was made nice and simple for luddites such as me!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Julian. Yes, welcome for all of us :)

[@marvinwright3963]

Another great video!! I was in the process of writing a Festbier and found out it falls in the Helles Export category, so I guess I'm making a Helles. LOL

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Glad it was helpful! Haha, Helles is good :)

[@jannesb100]

Very useful information. Thanks again for all your efforts!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear, thank you :)

[@stephenward5250]

very helpful. have been using Brewfather but learned some tricks here

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Stephen :)

[@bobrobinson4252]

Hey Dave, firstly thanks for video, this alone helped me understand better what is going on with established recipes and how to scale the ABV for the right balanced outcome.. opened up a new world .. now minor criticism the video felt a bit rushed not your usual steady pace , I like my hand being held and my brow dabbed as I am guided through the scary world of brew mastery :)

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Bob :) The pace was intended, there was a lot to get through and I wanted to keep things moving :) Glad it helped you work things out :)

[@mardanheddeokwa]

Very informational. You showed me options that I didn't know. Thank you!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Chris, there is quite a bit to this :)

[@benbinks2012]

Excellent guide to great software, even for beginners 👍🍻

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear, that was the goal 🍻🍻🍻

[@martynbramwell5752]

This is so hugely helpful, thank you!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear :) I have various guides like this.

[@mark9378]

Thanks for another great video mate. 🤙🍻🇦🇺

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Mark, much appreciated 🍻🍻🍻

[@scottyzlive]

Fantastic software I’m hooked.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Same 🍻🍻🍻

[@africantwin173]

Flame-out hop additions and IBU calculations are a pita with Brewfather.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Why do you think that?

[@africantwin173]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew 0 Minutes and cooling the wort to 19c doest give me any IBU according to Brewfather. But BF calls it a Hop Stand. Greg Hughes Neipa recipe calls out for a hop edition at flame out. When you turn off the heating elements. A flame out is 0 minutes if I'm correct. But the Hops always stay in the warm wort untill it reaches the tempature for pitching the yeast.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Yes a hop stand or flame out is zero minutes. If you enter 19 C though this will not add to IBU. Usually a hop stand will involve a held temp stand at 80-85c for ten mins or more which will add to IBU.

[@improvsax]

Great information. Thanks As a note- I have no idea how to find all the water information of my local water. Any clues? I’ve been brewing since it was legal here and just used filtered tap water- always worked well but I’m also always interested in trying new things.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Mark, check this water guide out:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6SXcpp6pM2BiLc

[@timwood8733]

david this is a fantastic video. I swapped over to brewfather and really enjoying the software. One question -in the water settings (under ph calc) -what water chemicals do you set to "auto" besides gypsum, cal chloride, mag sulphate. ie do u have/add sod bicarb, sodium metabisulfite, slaked lime on auto calc tick. My softwware seems to come up with these by default & I have to take them off auto.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Tim. Yes untick what you do not use.

[@nednorge]

Fantastic. Loved the way you made up the recipe.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@exedus666]

Hi David, thanks again for this awesome Video. I really helps me out, to figure out, whats going on in Brewfather and how to use it proper. It really keeps some time to understand and from time to time im asking my self, if iam using the Software in the way its ment to be. Now i got a Question concerning the Hop Additions. What is your recommandation for adopt the hop additions during brewday on the fly. E.G. when the pre Boil Gravitiy / or the volume is above or below the assumption. Is there an easy way to adjust it on the fly and let Brewfather calculate the "new" needed Hop Quantities to hit my desired IBU? Thanks a lot and please keep on going this great work at this Channel :)

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Peter, I suggest making adjustments before preparing the ingredients. I covered the ways to adjust hops in this video 🍻🍻

[@shanejorgensen8806]

Excellent review. Thank you again for a great video

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Glad you found it useful Shane :)

[@shanejorgensen8806]

David Heath Homebrew I definitely learnt some new things.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Shane :)

[@ToXXeRR]

as always - great guide for a great tool! thanks David !

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Anton, glad you enjoyed it :)

[@FrankSluijter]

Thanks David for this very good explaining video.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Frank, glad that you found it to be useful :)

[@jakerowland7334]

Hey David. Great video mate. Very concise and easy to follow. One question, how do you get the BU:GU ration in the green style sliders like in the video. Mine does not seem to have an I cannot figure out how to turn on. It does have this data further down in the hops section but would like it up top if possible. Thanks.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great to hear Jake. The BU:GU ratio slider, Just click on BU/GU in the hops section and it toggles it on/off. Not something you need to do more than once and to be honest something I forgot needed to be triggered in the first place.

[@jakerowland7334]

David Heath Homebrew awesome! Can’t believe it was so easy, spent ages looking through settings. Thanks again mate!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Jake. Yes, I think this should be in the settings. I've made the developer aware :)

[@1hwbrewing852]

David, have you found a way in Brewfather to account for dry hop additions that occur at a specific time point for a set number of days? For example, if I want to dry hop 1 oz Cascade at Day 4 of Primary for 3 days, and then do another dry hop of 1 oz of Cascade on Day 0 of Secondary for 5 days...there is a "Days" option under Dry Hops, and a "Day" option under Dry Hops...Days seems to mean "Hop for X days" with no timing information; "Day" seems to mean "Hop on day X" with no duration information...and it appears that you can't use both in combination (you have to pick Days or Day). Maybe a question for Thomas if he's listening in?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi, no I am not aware of such an option for hop layering. Might be best to make a post on the Brewfather Facebook group :)

[@suburban91]

When it says dry hop after 3 days. Do you leave the hops in the fermenter for the rest of the fermentation ? Very good guide

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thank you. Usually a recipe will say dry hop for 3-5 days. This means adding them in the final stages of fermentation.

[@suburban91]

What about Nøgne Ø Two Captains. Dry hop 8 and 11 days. What to do ?? Put in after 8 and 11 days or leave it for same

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

It must be after those days. You would not want to leave dry hops in for that long unless you reduced the temperature down to serving levels.

[@logankale3663]

Where does the dextrose or sucrose become part of the recipe?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

In the fermentables section 🍻🍻🍻

[@beerman1957]

This is a good video on the product. I’m staying with Beersmith.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thank you :) Everything is about choices :)

[@mpc7084]

David, is there a way to search the library for more than one ingredient at a time? Such as a search for a recipe with Pilsner grain and voss yeast?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi, sadly not 🍻

[@Nedikful]

Thanks you so much!!!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Glad you found it useful Denis :)

[@slaw38]

Hey mate, Great video as usual. the one thing that still confuses me is yeast calculator. It defaults to 13 billion cells per gram for all yeasts. I use a lot of safale us-05 but cannot find the exact yeast count per gram. I assume most yeast are the same. This can lead to incorrect amounts of yeast being pitched. Is this is important as it seems. I just never know exactly how many packsof yeast to pitch. My fear is under pitching.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Yes, this is a fair point. Most yeast will have a data sheet that can be found via the yeast companies website that can clear this up.

[@slaw38]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Thx for that. I think id rather slightly overpitch than way under pitch

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Yes, thats wise with yeast that is not kveik.

[@beatschuler]

Does the brewfather app has something like an export function for a shopping list? Like the grainfather app. Thank you David for your huge contribution to the homebrewer community!!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

There is an inventory feature that highlights items you do not have in stock for a recipe. You can save the recipe to PDF. Personally I just open the app and look at the recipe in a homebrew store :)

[@RuckinBrit]

Loving Brewfather so far, thanks for the recommendation. Is there a way to add a conditioning profile to BrewFather recipes? I know they have conditioning in the status (with bottling date), but cannot see anywhere one could add conditioning temp and conditioning time.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I think you found the limitation. It is not something I use personally but you could reach out to the developer.

[@RuckinBrit]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew thanks I will reach out to them. Keep up the great work. Cheers

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

@@RuckinBrit cheers 🍻🍻🍻

[@marct9444]

Hi David! Very useful videos Boss. I'm interested in your opinion about treat the water by final volum that you want. For example if you want 25 final litres and you need 33 total litres, treat only 25 litres and acidificate the sparge water at the target pH and then after the boil and evaporation you have 25 litres treated as you want. You treat for 25 litres and Finally you have 25 litres, no treat the water for 33 litres. Whats your opinion about the minerals at the end of evaporation (boiling) if you treat water for 33 litres but you are working for 25 l (Taste mineral or anything)? Thank you! Stay safe

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Sorry Marc, I must have missed this. You will need to treat your whole water as this is important for all steps including your mash. This boil off will keep the water in good order mineral wise, no worries there.

[@marct9444]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Great! Thank you so David

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers Marc 🍻🍻🍻

[@PaulAldred]

Great app and good tutorial. Thanks.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Paul :)

[@JohnnyReverse]

Brewfather newb here, been using Beersmith for over a decade. I really started taking a liking to Brewfather and have been using it along with Beersmith in my last few brews. I pretty much only use either program to build the recipe, I dont use it while brewing. One thing I cannot figure out , is there a way to remove inventory ? In BS it's there's a big tab in the recipe builder that allows this, I cannot seem to find it on BF . Forgive me if you covered it in your video and I missed it, but is there a tab that removes grain, hops, misc etc? I assume there is I just cannot seem to locate it.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi, yes there certainly is. Here are the details:- docs.brewfather.app/inventory

[@JohnnyReverse]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Thanks David!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Cheers 🍻🍻🍻

[@evanmackenzie5401]

I wish I could use this app but unfortunately if you’re using piece-mealed equipment like I am, it is too confusing to setup. All these parameters like “hlt deadspace” “boil off” “mash tun loss”... how am I supposed to calculate all these? Wouldn’t these change per recipe based on how much maly you’re ysing? Also, I don’t understand the difference between choosing the target volume for either fermenter or kettle. What is the purpose of this feature? Can someone recommend a more complete guide for someone who has never used this app and does not have one of the complete brew systems supported by the app?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Did you watch the video I mentioned in this video about equipment set up? I think this will help you. Once you have this done then this guide should give you all you need.

[@Brewfather]

docs.brewfather.app/getting-started/setting-up-your-equipment-profile

[@beardnmuscles1811]

hey, do you know why the difference of IBU calculator in the Brewfather App an dthe Grainfather App is so big? mostly the GF App Calculates much more IBU than the BF App. The AA of the Hop is in both same same. thx a lot

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

You will note that there are differences between the various recipe calculators. Most are not hugely different though. I recommend Brewfather for its accuracy, ease of use and features.

[@Mr_Daso]

How have you found the water additions to be compared to something like Bru N Water? I've tried both, but they come up with rather different numbers. Is one better/more precise than the other? Thanks for the video as well! I picked up a few tricks I'm going to use for sure.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Ive been using BF for my water for quite some time now. I have been happy with the resulting beers :) Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@Ciiran]

I don't get the bar for BU/GU ratio. Is there an option somewhere that I have missed?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

No problem. Just click on BU/GU in the hops section and it toggles it on/off in the style guide :)

[@drdouglaswilde4514]

Hi, PLEASE HELP! I'm having trouble getting the right outputs in Brewfather when adding the EBC & IBU data for Black Rock extract products. Where/how do I put in the Brix? Some feedback/instructions, please. Many thanks.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Sorry to hear this. Ive never used BF for extract products, I think in this case you would be best contacting Brewfather directly.

[@drdouglaswilde4514]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew How do I contact them directly David?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

If you go to brewfather.app on your browser you will see a messaging icon on the bottom right.

[@spinaway]

Great video David, Thanks.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Jimmy, much appreciated :)

[@laschaboy]

Hi. I have a grain father i just did buy. tho i got consentrated malt insted of malt. soo i did made beer from that (not in the grainfather still a virgin). now my question is. everything is ok. og and stuff put 1 carbon tab in the 50cl bottle. put it in the frigde. gone 2 weeks beer is omg wonderful in taste but still no carbon in it. what did i do wrong. did order a co sodastream cornelus today for my real brew. tho still need too know what i did wrong on my first brew. 2 weeks in refigerator should make the sugger tab go too carbon. or did i over yeast it eaven if og is ok before bottle?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi :) For the yeast to be able to work and give carbonation you will need to take the bottles out of your fridge and into a room with regular ambient temperatures. This will usually take from 1-2 weeks.

[@slodigger]

Thanks for the great video. Quick question .. how would I input a recipe that I find online then scale it to my brewing set up? Is there a default to enter all variables, then scale it?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great. Enter the recipe as is with you equipment scaled to the recipe volume. Then you can either go back into the equipment section and change then volume and say yes to scaling or use the scale recipe button on the left. Hope this helps :)

[@2moon4moon]

Thanks for the video! I am just making the change from Beersmith to Brewfather. I like the feature to sort my recipes by tags - I just haven't found the perfect system for it yet. What kinds of tags do you use to sort your recipes?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks, glad you found it useful. Personally I use tags to show recipes I have shared publicly , recipes that are still being worked on and recipes that I plan to brew. It can be used any way that suits :)

[@fotodogg]

Hi David I am struggling to find CaC03 on my water report. would the calcium given mg/l work? Thanks for all your help and great videos.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

If this is a report from your water company then I would not suggest using it anyway. Check this video out for more information and a money friendly solution:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6SXcpp6pM2BiLc

[@fotodogg]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Thanks for gettig back to me so quickly. I've ordered a kit. Do you test water before every brew or periodically?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I think the best approach is to contact your water company and ask how often they switch reservoirs. They might even have a time table for it. This response can be your guide.

[@fotodogg]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew thanks so much for your help. Keep up the great work on the videos!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

No problem, any time :)

[@Nagellan]

Great 👍🏻

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thank you :)

[@DENIEL1908]

Yeast starter tool confuses me a bit. What is overbuild? Do i need to make 4l starter for this batch? That's a lot. :o

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

First you need to set up the pitching rate and starter size you wish to use. Overbuilding is where your yeast starter is larger than needed for your recipe. Some do this to have spare yeast for future brews.

[@DENIEL1908]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew thank you very much, I understand now! 0,75 seems a bit short to me. I would rather go for 1, since I have bad experiences with MJ M21 wit yeast... It is dry yeast, tho and also wheat beers go well with underpitching, but it makes me really sad, when my batch stalls. That's why I decided to use starter, even if I read some where, that dry yeast is not so good for making starter, because of losing glycogen.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Great. With regular yeast it is fine to do some over pitching :)

[@sangamassawe5837]

Hi David i really appreciate your videos a lot. I have always been wondering what i need to do when i have a smaller brewhouse and bigger fermenter which forces me to mash and boil several times to fill my fermenter. What do i select for batch volume target? I have 100L brewhouse and 300L fermenter.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi Sanga, personally I would suggest getting a much smaller fernenter. Failing that you are looking at brewing 2-3 100L batches back to back, which is for sure going to prove lengthy. For some lower alcohol beers you could brew a concentrated wort that is topped up in the fermenter. Pretty limited though.

[@sangamassawe5837]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Surely it is lengthy. I think would have been ideal if brewfather develops something to track the brewhouse batches separately from the target fermenter volume. I appreciate your prompt response.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Im not sure how popular that would be. Most homebrewers brew a single batch to suit their fermenter.

[@developer581]

Great vid again Dave! btw: i created a Facebook profile just to join groups (Drk Kssng). I could join Thomas's group, but it seems i was rejected from yours without comment. Now i can't even find it anymore. Don't know why. Just because i use Drk Kssng as name? I really like to join your FB group!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Many thanks Dirk. Yes, it looked a little suspicious :) You shoud be able to join and get accepted now. Sorry for the trouble, we just have had some spam advertiser issues before.

[@developer581]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Great, thx!

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Good to see you got into group :)

[@makuseitse]

If premium subscription ends will I lose my saved recipes?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I know that the free version allows a total of 12 recipes saved maximum. What happens to the excess if you stop subscribing I do not know. I would suggest emailing the developer :)

[@albacore_lyfts]

Is there a new version I am missing? Lots of the features you’re demonstrating is not available to me neither in a browser nor on iOS apps or Android apps...?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Certainly should be. Try on the browser, what are you missing?

[@albacore_lyfts]

David Heath Homebrew Hi David, I’ve tried the browser already... For example I don’t have the bu:gu ratio spectrum indicator.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

No problem. Just click on BU/GU in the hops section and it toggles it on/off in the style guide :)

[@albacore_lyfts]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew thanks a bunch David. I'd have never found that out haha

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

No problem :) Once you click it once you have it always, I totally forgot about this, so sorry that it was not in the guide! :)

[@Louz_Drumz]

Is it possible to install the brewfather app on a pc to use offline like beersmith? I've been trying to figure that out but not having any luck

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

No, Brewfather is an online web browser application.

[@Louz_Drumz]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew dang. i dont have the best internet connection in my neck of the woods. maybe he'll adapt it for offline at some point. thanks for your quick reply

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Well there is some support for offline if you have some connectivity in the beginning. This is described in the documentation as follows:- Offline Support Deactivated by default because it can lower performance on some older devices. When active, all your data is cached persistently in a local database for offline use and synchronized when you get back online. When deactivated, your data is cached in local memory, but is not persistent across application reboots.

[@tomnicholas8247]

Shit your content is valuable and relevant. Thank you.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Tom. Great to hear :)

[@757Poppy]

Hello David, nice vid, am now considering using this. One question, if you would be so kind, how could you adapt this for reiteration mashing?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Right now you cannot but I would love to see it implemented. Its not within any software right now.

[@757Poppy]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew ok thanks David

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I talked with the developer today about this, it is possible that it could be added in the future :)

[@757Poppy]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew very good, especially for me who specialises in big beers

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I am partial to a strong one myself :)

[@nannakraghhansen9398]

@david heath home

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Hi :)

[@JuannJimenezz]

You have an ASMR voice

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thank you :)

[@ronnyskaar3737]

What is breweficiency? 75% of what?

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

75% Brewhouse efficiency.

[@ronnyskaar3737]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Thanks, David. But what is it 75% of? The total brew? The mash? The what? 🤣

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

That is every element combined from mash to the final volume in your keg or bottles. At 75% this should be easy for most to achieve.

[@ronnyskaar3737]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Ok. Thanks. Your videos are just great! Hilsen fra Fana 😊

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Thanks Ronny, much appreciated :)

[@mkeysou812]

What happens if Thomas gets hit by a bus? We need to wrap this guy in cotton wool

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Very true!! 🍻🍻🍻

[@mirogrgic7089]

You sound like brewfather..

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Haha thanks 🍻🍻😎

[@curtpick628]

Clear as mud

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Anything I can help make clear Curt?

[@curtpick628]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew Just getting frustrated before I even start . Water chemistry, software, arghhh

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

I more than understand. I would suggest going through the documentation that Brewfather has first and following it with it the software open. Once you are a little familiar that my guide is designed to walk you through the different steps with tips and shortcuts to use. I hope you find it useful :)

[@curtpick628]

@@DavidHeathHomebrew I bit the bullet early on with beersmith mobile. Quite the cluster... Brewfather seems very polished compared to it.

[@4figgis957]

Stopped watching after the 3rd advert

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

3rd? Should be just one at the start! I will look into this.

[@DavidHeathHomebrew]

Ive fixed this now, thanks for letting me know. KZbin just added it.