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I just started using Brewer's Friend. (I was previously using BeerSmith and BrewTarget.) I like that the software web-based, so I can reference it at homebrew club meetings or brew sessions at a friend's house.

Features:

  • Recipe calculator including expected OG and FG, IBUs, SRM color, and other common measures of a beer. (This includes multiple formulas/methods for calculating each.)
  • Recipe scaling.
  • Water conditioning calculator for areas with regionally variable water supplies.
  • Shopping and brewday checklists.
  • Batch logs for entering gravity, tasting notes, volume collected, etc.
  • Tracker for progress of batch.
  • Style guides.

Disadvantages:

  • The recipe base is rather scant at this point.
  • Unit conversions between imperial and metric (temp, volume, etc) are a little clunky.
  • No mobile phone interface.

Advantages:

  • Portable. Create a recipe at work, view it at home, brew it at a friend's house.
  • Under active development. New features seem to come around frequently.

Disclaimer: I'm a web developer who found this homebrew site through some of the web development siblings on the Stack Exchange network. I appreciate that Brewer's Friend is a small start-up site under active development and that probably colors my view.