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BeerBot is a brewing calculation utility that assembles many useful tools for commonly performed brewing tasks and makes the calculation process much easier.
Features include:
- Unit conversion of 14 types of measurement including Color, Concentration, Diastatic Power, Duration, Energy, Gravity, Heat Capacity, Length, Mash Thickness, Mass, Pressure, Priming Rate, Temperature, and Volume.
- A color feature is useful in visualizing the approximate color of a beverage in units SRM or EBC.
- A suite of Mash calculators makes it a breeze to determine strike temperature and infusion
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later, and 256MB of RAM or more.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.2 or later, and 256MB of RAM or more.
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| Downloads:2,736 |
| Version Downloads:2,352 |
| Type:Home Personal : Cooking |
| License:Demo |
| Date:04 May 2005 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / OS X |
| Price: $12.95 |
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BeerBot is a brewing calculation utility that assembles many useful tools for commonly performed brewing tasks and makes the calculation process much easier.
Features include:
- Unit conversion of 14 types of measurement including Color, Concentration, Diastatic Power, Duration, Energy, Gravity, Heat Capacity, Length, Mash Thickness, Mass, Pressure, Priming Rate, Temperature, and Volume.
- A color feature is useful in visualizing the approximate color of a beverage in units SRM or EBC.
- A suite of Mash calculators makes it a breeze to determine strike temperature and infusion rates.
- The %Util. tab is a sophisticated graphical hop utilization plotter which considers such factors as wort density and boil length.
- The SG tab makes quick work of hydrometer reading correction.
- %Atten. gives the details of your yeast performance.
- Also included is a set of tools to take the mystery out of beer carbonation when priming or using forced CO2.
Anonymous reviewed on 04 May 2005
Secondly, there is not much here in this program, even if you paid for it. The only things it does are a very few very basic calculations, most of which are better suited as a simple table you can print out and put (for example) next to your CO2 equipment (in the case of force carbonation). Some of this, like the mash in calcs, are overkill. I mean, you would be better just to add 17 degrees to your strike water and go from there. If you are off a bit adjust grain or water a bit. Or, just use a spreadsheet. That is incredibly easy and you can find all your calcs on hbd.org.
There is nothing to log any of your batches, no database, only a very few calculations.
It ought to be a free program, but even then, wouldn't be that useful. Doesn't even begin to compare to a program like SUDS, unfortunately.
This is what we need on Mac OS X, a real brewing program, not a little app that does 2 or 3 routine calculations.
Anonymous reviewed on 04 May 2005