Now available in the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yeast-p ... 70888?mt=8

Just picked up 3 day old pack of: Wyeast 1217-PC West Coast IPA https://www.wyeastlab.com/vssprogram.cfm?website=2 Will be brewing this weekend with it, a session IPA, should be pretty fun.

Update 9/12/2013 - The Brewer’s Friend iPhone app version 1.7 is now available on the App Store! The 1.7 release adds 70 new yeasts! Brands include: East Coast Yeast, Mangrove Jack, Real Brewers, Siebel Institute, and Brewferm. Two new stand alone calculators: Plato/Brix -> Specific Gravity...

Conversation in another section of the forum regarding extract batches and kettle losses resulted in some improvements to the water requirements section for extract and partial mash recipes. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=868 Batch size target (kettle or fermentor) which was previously available only for...

This thread was originally started in the recipe editor forum, placing here as well: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=863

From a user who contacted us by email: Anybody have a source for equations on this?

iPhone app 1.6 is out, and has several new stand alone calculators built into it: http://www.brewersfriend.com/iphone-app ... tion-page/ This release includes: Strike Calculator ABV Calculator Hydrometer Correction Calculator Priming Sugar Calculator

Doing a split batch to compare yeasts: Wyeast 2124 Bohemian Lager (same as WLP 830 German Lager) WLP 840 American Lager WLP 840 is supposedly Budweiser yeast. Should be interesting. I'm not a fan of Bud, but wanted to see how it compares to my favorite German lager strain...

The 1.5 release adds support for: hop stands (whirlpool and hopback hop uses), recipe CO2 level field, milliliters as unit in other ingredients section. Improves recipe listing view (shows snapshot indicator, index added).

Hop Shots are a concentrated form of hop oils, added to the kettle by the milliliter. http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/hopshot.pdf We'd need to allow ml as unit for hops, setup this new hop type, and figure out a good AA value for the hop shots that lines up with their table. The...

Feature request to allow for a batch to be split between multiple fermentors or blended, for the following cases: A) Brewer brews an 11 gallon batch, splits wort between two 5.5 gallon fermentors and pitches different yeasts. OG would be the same, but FG would differ. Allow for different split...

Volumes of CO2 will be added in the next release. Optionally it will support the unit 'g/l' for CO2. This will set us up for integrating with the existing priming calculators.

Brew day today! http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/r ... nnered-ale This recipe gets rave reviews on HBT: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f67/mild-ma ... -us-52776/ Only differences - went with Wyeast Whitbread 1099, adding 4oz of maltodextrin, and amped up the water profile to Balanced II...

According to my brew report for the last year, 12 brews total. Here are the top ingredients: GRAIN: 2-row - 66 pounds Pilsner - 39 pounds HOPS: Hallertau - 7.1 oz (all home grown) Chinook - 6 oz (all home grown) Amarillo - 6 oz (wish I could grow at home, 10 years left on patent...) You...

There are so many custom grains out there, we can't add them all to the list. In fact we try to keep the list as uncluttered as possible. The system has two options for taking care of the scenario where a grain is not in the list. A) Click 'add custom' in the fermentables section and fill in...

We now have a free iPhone app in the App Store: This fully functional version of Brewer's Friend contains all of the features of the full version, except it is limited to two recipes, two brews and sync is not available. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brewers ... 34488?mt=8 This way you can...

Went to Deschutes in the Pearl district in Portland this week. Had one of their seasonal IPAs - they used a Belgian yeast strain on it. It was okay but I probably wouldn't order again or try and brew it. When they brought it to me in this glass, at first I thought there was some mistake. They...

Brew session and brew log sync are now supported! Enjoy! Also includes full support for iPhone 5. Timers also play a sound when they go off. Details here: http://www.brewersfriend.com/iphone-app ... tion-page/

We just posted a Refractometer Wort Correction Factor spreadsheet: http://www.brewersfriend.com/how-to-det ... on-factor/ This thread is here for brewers to post the spreadsheet filled out with their observations so we can see if there are any trends with particular models. Should be interesting.

Recipe sync is now supported! A premium account is required to take advantage of this feature. The reason we require a premium account is the 5 recipe trial limit would interfere with sync capabilities since the iPhone allows unlimited recipes internally. Also the price increase went into...