Brew your best beer EVER. Start your Free Trial of Brewer's Friend today! Sign Up ×
Homebrewing photograph
Photo by Brewer's Friend member - jmetzger

Helping you brew awesome beer!

Brewer's Friend is a set of tools and homebrewing information to help you brew your very best, every time. Easy to use for beginners with powerful features for advanced brewers.

Upgrade Now! Start New Recipe!
Also available for your mobile device: Brewers Friend - Available on the App Store Brewer's Friend Android app on Google Play
Beer Recipe Search Beer Recipe Builder Beer Brewing Blog
Want no ads? Go Premium and unlock all our brewing tools!

New Recipes

Whale Spit IPA

American IPA by Lunabrew

OG: 1.068 FG: 1.014 ABV: 7.0% IBU: 76

33 minutes ago

Brewer profile picture

After Sun Ale

Special/Best/Premium Bitter

OG: 1.048 FG: 1.014 ABV: 4.5% IBU: 34

4 hours ago

Brewer profile picture

Saison 2 (invert syrup)

Saison by John Cowan Beer Recipes

OG: 1.050 FG: 1.010 ABV: 5.3% IBU: 25

5 hours ago

Brewer profile picture

Lucky 13 Smoked Polish Wheat

Classic Style Smoked Beer by Plymouth Backyporch Brewing

OG: 1.034 FG: 1.008 ABV: 3.3% IBU: 11

5 hours ago

Brewer profile picture

German Wheat Beer - B&A

Weissbier by Bill Ramos

OG: 1.052 FG: 1.013 ABV: 5.1% IBU: 13

5 hours ago

Brewer profile picture

Chico Pale Ale

American Pale Ale by JGWentworth877

OG: 1.050 FG: 1.011 ABV: 5.1% IBU: 44

6 hours ago

Brewer profile picture

Sunday Driver

International Pale Lager by nomad119

OG: 1.042 FG: 1.008 ABV: 4.4% IBU: 20

6 hours ago

Brewer profile picture

2026-05-23 Club Wort Share

Blonde Ale by kearlnc1

OG: 1.059 FG: 1.015 ABV: 5.8% IBU: 0

9 hours ago

Brewer profile picture

What's New On Our Blog

Fresh Brew: Your Monthly Digest of Top Forum Discussions – May 2026

Thursday, May 14th, 2026

What’s Brewing at Brewer’s Friend – May 2, 2026

Friday, May 1st, 2026

What’s Brewing at Brewer’s Friend – May 1, 2026

Thursday, April 30th, 2026

Fresh Brew: Your Monthly Digest of Top Forum Discussions – April 2026

Thursday, April 16th, 2026

What’s Brewing at Brewer’s Friend – April 1, 2026

Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

Fresh Brew: Your Monthly Digest of Top Forum Discussions – March 2026

Monday, March 23rd, 2026

More Home Brewing Resources

Why Brewer's Friend?

Elevate Your Craft Beer Brewing Experience with Our Expert Tools and Resources for Homebrewing, from Grain Brewing to Extract Brewing, and Everything in Between.

Helps Beginning Brewers Get Started

  • Walks you through the brewing process step by step.
  • Know exactly what you brewed, and how you did it.
  • See how ingredients factor into OG, FG, ABV, IBU, and SRM - the key stats of every beer recipe.
  • Replicate and build on your success.
  • Provides a place for detailed notes about your brews.
  • Start designing your own recipes and match to style.

Powerful Tools For Advanced Brewers

  • Accommodates a range of brewing processes: Extract, Partial Mash, All Grain, BIAB, No Chill.
  • Scale recipe batch sizes up or down.
  • Tracks water volume and mash process.
  • Select your preferred equations (eg Tinseth, Rager).
  • Keeps track of your inventory.
  • Calculates actual ABV and apparent attenuation based on measured OG and FG.
  • Four types of efficiency: conversion, pre-boil, ending kettle, and brew house!
  • Hydrometer correction and calibration.
  • Supports Plato or Specific Gravity extract scale.
  • Target 'to the fermentor' or 'to the kettle' batch sizes.
Upgrade Now!

What brewers are saying

Upgrade now!
Want no ads? Go Premium and unlock all our brewing tools!