Brewer's Friend Legacy User Reviews

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Soooo Handy & Helpful

Use all the time with every batch I create.

Missing The New App

I really miss the new app that was released last year then taken down. It became almost unusable after its removal from the store but if i was quick enough with selecting the recipe i could make it in before it would crash. Pls bring it back šŸ»

Beware

All my sessions and recipes randomly disappeared today. Don’t trust this app

Handy app

Nice to have recipes at your fingertips. Great app to create recipes with.

The best one out there

I used this for years, I’ve tried others but always come back to this one

Works fine

App works fine. The interface is a. It outdated. Some other interactions could be streamlined. Only issue is that tells me there is a new version available, but it’s nowhere to be found in the App Store.

I love this app

This is a great app to use when making beer recipes and having it handy to save the creative boozy inventions.

Perfect for electronic brewing notes

Nice app to help with recipe design and to store a library of previous brewing recipes

Great app with little room for improvement!

Only reason I had to give this 4 stars and not 5 is because, I run my phone in dark mode, when dark mode is enabled the text fields are also dark along with the text. So unless I switch to light mode I can’t see the text fields. Other than that I love using this app! Hopefully this issue can be solved in a later update.
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Needs Tweaking to Work with Dark Mode

It’s a great app, but I have to switch from dark mode to light mode to be able to type in or read some fields.

New update breaks dark mode display on iPhone X

After the new update, all input fields appear blacked out, rendering any text entered into said fields invisible on iPhone X. Did not have this problem before the update.

Please fix app

The 2.0 and 2.0.1 versions you released are still causing trouble with the iPhone if it’s in dark mode. All fields to fill out in a recipe or a calculator have black fills with black text so you can’t really see anything.

Calculator issues

Hello, the calculator boxes are completely black. I can no longer see what I am typing. The calculator still computes the information but I cannot see what I typed in. I am not sure if this is a known issue.

What happened??

All of the data from my previous brews has been blacked out? It’s there- but I have to copy and paste all of my notes and values to a note or other text interface to see it.

The update ruined the app. I have a lot of valuable data that is now difficult to access.

When the new app is released I’ll be leaving this ecosystem because this is evidence that our data is in limbo using this publishers tools. This is beyond frustrating.
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Cool app

But a glossary of brewing terminology would be nice.

No iPad layout, tiny iPhone layout only use

the web app honestly

Want more fluid access across platforms.

Works well to store info but I wish it would allow me to access my info across multiple devices. Have an iPhone and iPad but it won’t share info between devices with same account.

Great App for smart phone- internet connection, but works well internet-free

A great handy App for Brewers, both for composing recipes to a BJCP STYLE and to have at hand on brew day. I learned about it from Brewer’s Friend Free, and it’s well worth the $5.00 USD. It could use updates (no kveik yeast options), but quite handy when away from internet connection. Other brewing software may give estimates (OG, FG, IBUs, SRM, etc.) a little different, but this App puts the recipe design in the ballpark. Brewers Friend has a Gold level with $/ month to give access to web-based support, but this valuable App can store recipes locally, very handy to look back to ā€œhow I brewed it last timeā€, without going back to one’s brewing logbook. If the stand-alone app ($5.00) is imperfect, it is well worth the one-time investment. It was initially recommended to me by a home brewer of longer standing, and is well respected by many in homebrewing circles.
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Great simple brewing tool.

First the associated website is amazing and in depth providing any tool a home brewer could want. The app is a much slimmer tool but provides the means for creating and logging effectively no matter how advanced or new to brewing you may be. My complaints are a lack of ability to save created/custom ingredients so they’re reusable in another recipe vs having to recreate x-ingredient in the new recipe. Additionally the ingredients don’t seem to have been updated in quite some time. A ā€˜save as’ function would also be appreciated to aid in creating new iterations of a beer, example: turning an ipa into a mango ipa.
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Neglected app

If you use the brewers friend website and enjoy it that is great. But do not use this app. It is ok until you realize how neglected it is. The bjcp definitions need updating, so do ingredients, and first wort hop additions.
It’s great to be able to come up with a recipe while you are on a plane without an internet connection, but keep in mind you’ll likely have to make adjustments in another app or in your journal.
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