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BeerAlchemy aims to make creating great beers easier. It offers recipe formulation tools that give the brewer immediate feedback on how changes they make will affect theirfinished beers. The program supports all-grain, partial mash and extract brewing as well as bothfly and batch sparging. It also helps the brewer keep organised by storing all their recipes andbatches in a familiar folder-based system. Brewers can export their recipes as web pages, PDFs or in the BeerXMLand .rec file formats to share their recipes with others.
An extensive ingredients database as well as many
An extensive ingredients database as well as many
What's New
Version 1.8.22:
- Improves import of incorrectly formatted BeerXML files.
Requirements
- PPC / Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later on PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later on Intel
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| Downloads:14,360 |
| Version Downloads:108 |
| Type:Home & Personal : Cooking |
| License:Demo |
| Date:17 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.95 |
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BeerAlchemy aims to make creating great beers easier. It offers recipe formulation tools that give the brewer immediate feedback on how changes they make will affect theirfinished beers. The program supports all-grain, partial mash and extract brewing as well as bothfly and batch sparging. It also helps the brewer keep organised by storing all their recipes andbatches in a familiar folder-based system. Brewers can export their recipes as web pages, PDFs or in the BeerXMLand .rec file formats to share their recipes with others.
An extensive ingredients database as well as many predefined mash schedules are included andmay be edited to suit the brewer.
The program also includes inventory management tools and an integrated shopping facility with built-inweb browser and Skype support.
The application also includes quick brewing calculators for beer colour, bitterness, specific gravitycorrections, mash calculations, refractometers and pitching rate that continue to function afterthe demo period has finished.
An extensive ingredients database as well as many predefined mash schedules are included andmay be edited to suit the brewer.
The program also includes inventory management tools and an integrated shopping facility with built-inweb browser and Skype support.
The application also includes quick brewing calculators for beer colour, bitterness, specific gravitycorrections, mash calculations, refractometers and pitching rate that continue to function afterthe demo period has finished.
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pcharles reviewed on 18 Jun 2007
The main problem I have with this software is how you enter the recipes:
1. Choose New Recipe from the menu and you would expect it to open a recipe blank to work on, but unfortunately you have to rifle through your recipes to find the new recipe and then double click to open.
2. Entering ingredients requires selecting from a menu, which I found to be incomplete in both the grains and the hops, and it was not immediately obvious how to change those.
3. Once a recipe is entered, if you want to make minor tweaks to the volumes or ingredients you can work with sliders for the ingredients, which is nice, but it is much more tricky to work with the volumes.
There are several other problems, but this are all generally minor and you can learn to adapt to them, or you can take a look at Beertools Pro. Although I have a registered copy of BeerAlchemy and use it for importing and viewing a list of recipes, I fear that the new unreleased version of Beertools Pro will trump all of BeerAlchemy's current advantages. It already trumps Beer Alchemy in terms of Usability and available recipes.
TheCheatOSX reviewed on 16 Jan 2006