Thinking about getting back into homebrewing after a ~9 year hiatus.

I assume the software situation as evolved significantly and I don’t even remember what I was using back then.

So what’s everyone using these days and why?

  • Skua@kbin.earth
    5·
    3 天前

    Uhhh… a text document?

    I am not doing this in a very sophisticated manner, I could probably stand to learn some things from this thread

    • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      3 天前

      If you’re not creating or tweaking recipes, a paper notebook is fantastic. It gives you something to do while you’re waiting on the boil.

      I have a notebook with a page for every brew session: date, full recipe, steps, observations, and things I fucked up. Update it until the beer is done and there’s tasting notes. It’s fun to reread in later years. I have a few early brews that I noted got “infected” - and after some experience I had a good laugh because the “infection” was the shitty recipe I designed.

      If you’re building a recipe you really need to use software (unless you don’t care about calculating estimated alcohol or IBU up front). The alternative is a level of referencing tables and doing arithmetic that exceeds what I want to see in my hobbies.

      But if you aren’t trying to be scientific or you’re just following a basic kit? The only technology that should be involved is your phone playing music!

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        3·
        3 天前

        I’ve got a very similar approach to what you describe doing yourself there! I started off with other people’s recipes, but I’ve adjusted them to my tastes and equipment

        your phone playing music!

        The brewing tunes are essential, you are absolutely right

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        2·
        3 天前

        That is true! Although I’m not too worried about the notion of a tool to plan brews on provided it’s not, like, required to connect to a server to work or trying to be a social media thing

        • xylol@leminal.spaceEnglish
          2·
          3 天前

          The trick is to run your own server and self host your own software and social media instance before you can begin to ferment anything. Its all about putting hurdles in front of yourself while you’re alive and able

          • ccunning@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            4·
            3 天前

            “If you wish to make beer from scratch, first you must invent the universe”

            – Carl Sagan, I think

          • Skua@kbin.earth
            2·
            3 天前

            Fuck, I knew I should have learned to code properly before I bought any grain