BrewCipher 3.5

@FATC1TY did you get this working on the iPad?? If so what excel app will I need to download??

 

I got it worked just fine. The macro button to scale doesn't work, but not really needed.

Just download the normal microsoft excel app in the app store. It's free. Sign up for a microsoft acct if you don't have one, and it's all ready to go.

Takes a little bit to learn it, especially if you are familiar with normal excel, but it was nice having the iPad fired up and mobile while out brewing in the back.

 

I can't get the scale to even show up on Google Sheets.

 

Yeah, but it makes it much easier to move across work comp, 4 home comps, and my Android phone and tablet w/o emailing and then re-emailing with any changes.

 

@VikeMan is there a FW hop option?

 

Speaking of that.. what about mash hops?


I've been known to do it, and I KNOW I get some bitterness from it, and aroma. While that might boil off, I can taste the wort from the mash tun and it's bitter and aromatic. Even with the older hops I liked to use up.

 

Got Brewcipher3.5 on my I phone and iPad now via Google Sheets!!!!

Can't wait to start using it rather than I brewmaster. Thanks @VikeMan !!

 

Hmmm. Yea I have google sheets(free app) on my phone and I pad and it seems to be working just fine.

 

I use it all on Google Sheets, only thing I have found that doesn't work on it is the upscale feature. I will have to switch it over to standard Excel and move my recipes to it when I open the brewery so I can upscale the grain bills (sucks that it doesn't do it automatically for hops too).

 

You are taking it to the next level?

 

Hoping to in the next few years. Met with the Brewmaster at one of our 2 biggest local breweries, told him my plan, sampled some of my beers, and got a great response from him. Meeting with a couple other locals the next few weeks who have their fingers on the pulse of the beer scene to get there thoughts. I have relegated the year to basically brewing the same recipes over and over to get my beer recipes in order, also limited myself to 7 hops and 7 grains to think more like a pro than a home brewer (can't just go get a pound of this malt and oz of that malt). Name, logo, tagline, beer names/styles are done, ethos pretty much done, working on background info for business plan. Just realized a huge snag this morning, so trying to think around that one.

And I'm taking @VikeMan BrewCipher with me!

 

If you really want to think like a pro, develop a recipe that you can brew over and over, and then figure out how you will adapt that recipe when you can't source the same hops in subsequent years due to shortages, contract issues, etc.

Edit: didn't mean to sound like a big shot (as if I really know what it is like to be a pro). I've just sometimes been fascinated by how pros try to develop consistency with agricultural products whose quality and availability change from one year to the next.

 

Definitely. I'm actually developing my recipes using hops that no one is really clamoring for in the market, staying away from the newer and bolder hops. I've got a couple recipes in the stable that are designed as evolving recipes, changing each time, and those ones are for the fun new hops that come out and I can get just enough for a single 10 barrel batch.

I'm also revamping some of my brewhouse processes right now to dial in repeatability more. Using a digital thermometer with alarm so that I can know exactly when I am at temp, and monitor the temp through the mash. Stopped doing overnight mashing. Filling the kettle through the pickup tube instead of splashing it down from the top. Just built a CFC, going to be moving towards fly sparging, stuff that pros do (Whether from necessity or belief that one is better than the other is superfluous). Paying better attention to yeast management. Etc.

 

So, maybe someone already asked this, but I couldn't find anything definitive.

I'm doing a no boil Berliner and for the Hops addition I was thinking about mash hops. For predicting the IBU's, would setting the "Boil Time" to zero and utilizing the "Flameout/Whirlpool" section be appropriate?

 

I meant No-Boil Berliner.