BeerAlchemy Touch 2 App Reviews

They are consistently upgrading an adding ingredients. Good format easy to navigate.

I really liked the previous version, but this rewrite is almost an entirely new app and still a little rough around the edges. Sync (over WiFi only) is frustratingly manual and prone to overwrite data. The numerical input boxes are frequently confused and need to be completely cleared before entering a value. The inventory/order tracking functionality often seems to drop orders or fail to mark them as shipped. In general, this is a promising rewrite, but it definitely needs work before I would consider it to be a solid app. That said, a little cleanup may be all it would take....and it works well enough that Im still using it.

I keep dabbling with other apps but this one is still the best.

Ive been consistently happy with the results out of Beer Alchemy. My only gripe is the difficulty of fine-tuning the percentages in an existing recipe with the slider bars. Please give us a field for entering the percentages directly.

Ive been using beeralchemy for several years now. Its always been a great tool, buggy here and there, but nothing terrible. Use it to keep track of the grain room and also allows me to see how much waste there is in the grain room. Calculators preform great, and the sync feature between iDevices is great.

I use both touch and full version of beer alchemy. Have about 25 batches stored now. Main complaint related to both versions is that there is NO manual. Not in the app and not on the site. Second issue with the touch version I wish it included the see all batches screen that I can see on full version. This would be helpful because I sequentially number each batch at bottling. So if somebody wants to know what hops were in batch 23, that is easy to find on Mac, a bit more difficult mobile.. Overall great software. I believe it may be missing some of the features in main competitor but I cant complain about how it works on my apple based tools...Mac, iPhone and ipad... Updated...manual now available. Very good choice if you are a Mac user. Would like to be able to see all batches like you can in the full version, and would like to be able to sort batches by name, date bottled, date brewed etc...

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Having both the desktop and ipad apps has made planning and executing my brews much easier and streamlined. Not difficult to use yet provides a lot of options for the brewer. Highly recommend.

I bought this app because it had the best user interface of all the other brewing apps I had tried. Then they went and updated it for the worse. The recipe modification tools are difficult to navigate and it crashes frequently. To make matters worse, when they updated to v2 I was forced to pay again. Not only for the mobile version, but I had to upgrade the $30 desktop version too. I paid up and regret it fully. This software has taken a turn for the worse and I am back in the market for a better option.

Been using this app for about 2 months and it is truly helpful when brewing. All calculations can be done within the app. Syncing is a breeze. I have this app on my iPad and on my MacBook Pro. When I brew I take my iPad with me and put all my notes in it. Then I can sync it with my MacBook and my iPhone. I can pull up my recipe stats at the brew club meetings if anyone has a question about my beer. So easy to use. Keep up the good work with this product!

Not perfect but definitely the best choice for Mac users. Great tool to design recipes, track brew stats, and keep tabs on inventory in the storeroom. Buggy at times, but nothing crippling. Pricey.

I find this app extremely useful and not overly complicated. As someone new to all grain and just starting to be concerned with infusion steps,adjuncts,and choosing the right hops, I found it easy to adjust recipe items and immediately see what changes to color, bitterness and ABV to expect. This not only syncs well with the Mac version but has full features on its own.

Easy for beginners too!

This is an extremely versatile and effective program for developing recipes and tracking your brewing experience. It is very flexible and adaptable to your particular approach and ingredients. It does all of the requisite calculations, most in the background without your involvement. And, importantly, the developer is present and responsive to bug complaints, user confusion and requests for changes or additions. I use it on the Mac and the iPhone. All around a Great program!

Ive been using a version of beer alchemy for iOS and Mac for about four years. I love most everything about this suite of apps and I use them for each recipe and each brew day. A couple of relatively minor criticisms that prevent me from awarding 5 stars: 1) I would so much prefer syncing in a cloud instead of over wifi. If Im creating a recipe on the phone, I want it on my mac when I get home. Or, more importantly, I dont want to get to the LHBS only to find that I forgot to sync a recipe from my Mac to my iPhone. 2) on the Mac version, in the library list there is a selection for "batches," which brings up a chronological list of all of my batches. I would like to see that list view provided on the iOS version. Having used these "new" versions since they came out, thats pretty much all I can think of that I dont like.

I use this app for every brew and it helps me a great deal, especially for creating recipes and tracking what deviations I had on a batch. I dont use the calculators very often, I have felt more comfortable with the accuracy of some of the online calculators. Maybe if I had a better understanding of them, Docs? The ingredients list seems UK in focus and I have had to adjust or substitute on occasion for what I think the US varieties represent? Though this was only work initially, a bit of a learning curve, and it does not impact my ability to use the program on a daily basis. For this release I really like the addition of adding the ability to track warm whirl pooling for its impact on hop additions. The new dialogs for entering values less so, but there is no loss to the function of the program from the change.

BeerAlchemy has changed my brewing process by teaching me to collect more data before, during, and after brew days. I primarily enter recipes in the Mac version and enter batches on iOS. Im not aware of any other brewing software on either software that is as comprehensive, attractive, and easy to use. Things Id like to see but love the app regardless of: 1) batch sparge calculations (grain mass, temps, strike volumes and temps, expected boil off volumes, etc) built into batch sheets. 2) effortless sync. 3) sharing to external services like Evernote (disclaimer: I am an Evernote employee). 4) alarms given a mash strike time and a boil start time. 5) better (e.g. Non-cropped photo integration).

Great!

A true home brewers delight! Very full featured and nice import and export options.

Fantastic. Versatile, incredibly powerful and feature rich. Not cheap, but well worth it in my opinion--especially given the excellent exporting options. Didnt quite realize it when I purchased it, but it really is a full featured inventory system, recipe book/designer, brewing journal/batch log, unit converter, and more. It certainly does it all. Overall a great brewing companion. Couple of issues I wouldnt mind seeing addressed (running on iOS 8 iPhone 6 plus): • Inventory amounts often incorrectly read as "insufficient" when amounts needed exactly match amounts in inventory • Cannot re-enter certain "drop down" lists immediately after closing them, without first backing out/returning It would also be cool to see the addition of hopped malt extracts as well, though I can see why they may have been omitted--not sure how accurate the IBUs could be?