Beer Software

Richard · April 12, 2011, 02:16:35 PM

Gil: maybe, although I don't recall having seen it before. It's entirely possible I skimmed over your message without due diligence as I'm often real busy :oops:

Since it's free software, and it's a web application, that's two thumbs up for installing it. Better still -- being open source means we can bolt on our own tweaks as we see fit.

Here's hoping they throw in the inventory bit before I have to

Gil Breau · April 12, 2011, 04:02:29 PM

It looks really neat.

I've been blogging here and there with my brewing, but if we have the tools here I'd probably do it more consistently. But that inventory tool looks totally what we were looking for for easing bulk ordering

Richard · April 12, 2011, 06:07:05 PM

Ok I've installed it (www.craftbrewing.ca/brewblog) but there are a few things I need to change before I'm comfortable with taking users on... I'll let you know once I've managed to address these problems (mostly security and style related).

Richard · April 12, 2011, 06:29:39 PM

brew: are you a coder? I could use a hand (time rather than expertise, don't worry if you're newbie) sorting this out.

brew · April 12, 2011, 09:49:06 PM

Quote from: "Richard"brew: are you a coder? I could use a hand (time rather than expertise, don't worry if you're newbie) sorting this out.

Hi Richard - I have extensive experience with web apps - code and architecture and would be happy to assist if I can...

Richard · April 13, 2011, 01:09:27 PM

bloody excellent (that's my day job atm as it happens).

Got Skype? PM me your ID -- I'll be in touch

brew · April 13, 2011, 02:14:26 PM

Just some additional info - from the brewblogger forum on sourceforge. As a side note, the second response is from the author of http://www.brewcompetition.com/ - another interesting site and perhaps could inspire a club related activity?

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kmasaryk

2011-04-13 14:58:08 UTC
I'm currently in the middle of what's turned into a fairly significant rewrite to how ingredients are stored in the database. The overall goal to this is that it'll make extending the system to handle inventory management and tracking much easier. It's basically a first step to getting there so...it's in progress.
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gpzhumphreyProject Admin

2011-04-13 15:49:33 UTC
Kevin has been doing the heavy lifting in getting the next version off the ground as of late (thanks Kevin!), as my attention has been focused on the next version of BB's sister project, Brew Competition Online Entry (soon to have "and Management" added to its title). In any case, inventory management is being considered heavily for the 3.0 conversion release, if not sooner given Kevin's dedication to the project.

Gil Breau · April 13, 2011, 02:19:00 PM

Richard · April 13, 2011, 03:27:04 PM

I had a couple of concerns regarding the potential for security holes in a non-popular piece of PHP. I need to go through the code a little to convince myself that they've taken at least rudimentary measures to avoid that; I'm also running a new instance of mysql (essentially a jailed instance) for the database. brew: it was largely the auditing process I was hoping for help with, but also some style modifications (it's ugly as f***).

I've added you on skype; hit me up when you can.

edit: I suspect we could shorten this by talking to the authors directly.

JohnQ · August 29, 2011, 08:12:45 PM

Reviving an old thread here...
I downloaded BeerSmith2 and it seems to have a bucketload of tools embedded in it. I've used it for my competition ale and I've been quite impressed. Anybody use it extensively, just deciding if I should shell out the sheckles to use it beyond the trial period.

JQ

Richard · August 29, 2011, 08:16:06 PM

fwiw the BrewBlog is supposedly undergoing a re-write by its authors, which should fix some of the issues I'd previously whined about.

Hawoh · August 29, 2011, 10:23:22 PM

Quote from: "JohnQ"Reviving an old thread here...
I downloaded BeerSmith2 and it seems to have a bucketload of tools embedded in it. I've used it for my competition ale and I've been quite impressed. Anybody use it extensively, just deciding if I should shell out the sheckles to use it beyond the trial period.

JQ

I paid for BeerSmith 1.4 and have been very happy with it. I downloaded v2 and tinkered some, it seems pretty good too. Not good enough to warrant paying to upgrade 1.4 to 2.0, but if you're without software, I would give a good grade to the BeerSmith software and have no issue with the value-for-dollar.

Kyle · August 30, 2011, 09:51:11 AM

I use the free version of Beer Tools and it is good enough, but not great. I'll give something else a try before getting the full version of Beer Tools.

brew · August 30, 2011, 10:29:20 AM

I have been having pretty good luck with our Brew Blogger web site. I find between the water amounts calculator, and the strike temp calculator I do OK. If I need another temp calc, I often check with the beer calculus web site (multi-step infusion calcs are good for like protein rest I believe)... I think its nice to have the Brew blog site as it makes it easy to share recipes and see other peoples work... it could be better for integrating calculator output to a recipe though. The mash profiles are static as well - would be nice if it could be populated by the calculators...