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BeerAlchemy for Mac

Recipe formulation tool for brewers.

$25.00
In English
3.4
Based on 4 user rates

BeerAlchemy overview

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 organized 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.

What’s new in version 2.1.4

Version 2.1.4:

Note: Now requires OS X 10.10 or later.

  • Resolve issues seen with iCloud Documents enabled.
  • BeerXML compatibility improvements.
  • Fix some 2015 beer style errors.
  • Some crashing bugs fixed.
  • BeerAlchemy requires Mac OS X 10.10 or later.
View older BeerAlchemy versions

BeerAlchemy for Mac

$25.00
In English
Version 2.1.4
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3.4

(6 Reviews of BeerAlchemy)

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jeremydjerome
jeremydjerome
Mar 30 2022
2.1.4
0.0
Mar 30 2022
0.0
Version: 2.1.4
Is there any way to recover my old recipes that are now un-openable in my Beer Alchemy software?
arbayley696
arbayley696
Aug 25 2021
2.1.4
0.0
Aug 25 2021
0.0
Version: 2.1.4
disappointed that the paid version I have for the iPad is no longer upgradable. Come on guys, support your clients
t-horst
t-horst
Jun 29 2015
2.0.22
1.0
Jun 29 2015
1.0
Version: 2.0.22
In the old Beer Alchemy, if I wanted to upscale (or downscale) a recipe it only took entering the numerical amount I wanted and indicating if I wanted to scale the water amount. So easy and so useful. I loved it. Finding that I paid $20 to "upgrade" to a new version that does not have this amazingly useful tool makes this new version essentially worthless to me. I cannot say how disappointed I am. This was the single best reason for using Beer Alchemy over Beersmith.
zero-1
zero-1
Mar 1 2015
2.0.22
4.5
Mar 1 2015
4.5
Version: 2.0.22
good
pcharles
pcharles
Jun 19 2007
1.5.2
3.0
Jun 19 2007
3.0
Version: 1.5.2
This is a pretty credible piece of brewing software, although it really could use a little work on the usability front. Its real strengths over other Brewing Apps, for the Mac, is its ability to import recipes into a database, suggest recipes from ingredients if you have a recipe, export to a web page, and send to your iPod if you want to brew with your iPod. 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.
t-horst
t-horst
Jun 29 2015
1.0
Jun 29 2015
1.0
Version: null
zero-1
zero-1
Mar 1 2015
4.5
Mar 1 2015
4.5
Version: null
pcharles
pcharles
Jun 19 2007
3.0
Jun 19 2007
3.0
Version: null
Thecheatosx
Thecheatosx
Jan 17 2006
5.0
Jan 17 2006
5.0
Version: null