Brewtility News
News about Brewtility development and site annoucnements.
Many of you may have notced that there haven't been a lot of changes to brewtility in last couple of months. Well that's because we've been concentrating on getting the brew session tracking part of the site finished up and ready for its debut.
There are a lot of great things to be on the lookout for with this upcoming update. The brew session tracking features will include:
A mash designer
Helpers to calculate water amounts for mashing and sparging
Efficiency calculator
Areas to track fermentation with...
Along with several bug fixes and other enhancements, today's update to Brewtility includes functionality for specifying a partial boil when creating a recipe.
So, when creating a partial mash or extract recipe you'll now see a field labeled "Boil Size." (Shown below)
Setting the boil size equal to the batch size would indicate a full boil and the rest of the recipe will be unchanged. However, if you're an extract or partial mash brewer and you only boil, say, 3 gallons of liquid and then top off to 5 gallons after the boil, you'd set the Batch Size to 5 gallons and the Boil...
A new round of updates to Brewtility brings a host of fixes, enhancements and new features. Among them is an all grain to extract converter.
This doesn't work for all recipes, but when viewing any recipe with base grains that have extract equivalents you should see a new icon (shown below.)
Clicking this icon will convert the base grains to extract equivalents and automatically adjust the amount to keep the same original gravity.
Currently this converter assumes that you're doing a full boil, so it doesn't adjust the hopping schedule at all. Eventually there will be an option for a full or...
With today's site update we've included support for importing and exporting of beerXML files to the beer recipe database here at Brewtility.com
With beerXML support you can now upload all of your homebrew recipes directly from your desktop brewing software packages if it supports beerXML. You can also export your recipes from Brewtility.com and use them with any desktop-based brewing software that supports beerXml.
ProMash doesn't natively support beerXML If you currently use ProMash you can use this converter on Windows to convert ProMash exports to beerXML and then upload them here.
We'll be working on a better way to import ProMash beer recipe files, but until then the...
Welcome to Brewtility.com. We're just ramping up and about to finish the first phase of the design. In this first phase our goal is to have the best homebrew recipe formulator on the web. As part of that, we will have a recipe library where brewers can share and find recipes to brew. We also hope to begin building a community of brewers with library of knowlegde and helpful tips in the forums here.
So please Sign-Up and start brewing. We will be completing and improving the site as time goes on and the more feedback we get, the better...