Brewer's Friend Legacy App Reviews

The newest update (June 10) has rendered it useless. It wont even open now. Up until now I really liked it, even more so then Brewsmith.

Easy to play with to create and alter new recipes

Very useful app for tracking my batches...a sorting function by style etc would be nice...but all in all great app...must have for home brewers

I purchased both Brewers Friend and beer smith. I find this program much easier to use and understand. I wish When you enter the hop amounts the rest of the page didnt disappear.

This app is great. The IBU calculation seems a little high at times, but that could just be because my hops varieties are on the lower end of alpha acid content. My one big complaint is that you cant make a copy of a recipe (in order to change part of but not all of a recipe), so you either tweak the recipe and hope you have the old recipe written down, or you re-input EVERYTHING, and add your changes.

Upgrade ASAP, its well worth it!

Useful, but having Snapshot Recipes and regular recipes on the same tab is annoying. Just using a camera icon doesnt cut it. Especially if I have many snapshots of one recipe. Instead of "snapshots" just use brew dates or batch codes or a separate tab for snapshots.

Great app! Love the ease of tweaking recipes on my phone whenever ideas come to me. Worth every penny if youre serious about your beer.

The default app you should have to home brew. Very easy to use.

Agree with a previous reviewer that it would be nice to be able to copy a recipe within the app to allow modification while retaining the original recipe. Also, sync seems to have some issues from time to time when modifying a recipe on both a computer and iPhone. Overall a great app.

This is the app that I use to brew all the time. I love how easy everything is to setup and brew. It has a ton of features that allow me to really have fun and keep my beers flowing. Has a few minor bugs from time to time. One that really sucked was I switched from the app to XM Radio to stream it. When I went back to the app the timer had reset so I had to adjust my timers for how long was left for the boil. I always keep two clocks. The only thing it seems that this app wont do is brew the beer for me. ;)

Great to keep track of my brews. Calculations seem to help reaching my goals on taste. It appears the colors are darker then I projected.

Yeah I have a bone to pick. "Cloud" sync? Dont think so, you people need to look up the use if the term "cloud" because your app, while nice in some respects, does NOT sync with anything unless you pay some ridiculous fee to a website that isnt even maintained.

I no longer keep manual journal for recipes, notes, brew logs, etc... It is all right here in one awesome app. Thank you.

This a great app. They did a nice job with the interface and ease of use. I used beersmith for a bit but I found this one more user friendly and intuitive. However, if you want to use the sync feature not only do you have to buy the app, you must pay $9.99 a year for an online subscription. This price is not clearly stated within the app upgrade info or app description. Only says premium account required which is easy to miss without a $ sign next to it or a "paid" tag next to it. Thats not so much money but I feel like it needs to be more clearly stated that you pay twice for full functionality. A good stand alone app otherwise.

You can sync and get your recipes and brew sessions on any device. But you can just as easily link to their web site from any device, where for a separate fee you have access to the full range of resources including various calculators and recipe searches. Which is more useful,so I have no actual need for this app, so it was a waste of money.

Ive used this app for a few months now and it worked fine. Now I have a problem that keeps recurring and it is impossible to get an answer. They want you to contact them through their forum and then they do not respond. I cant recall ever getting an update, either.

Ive used the website for three brews now and its a great site for recipe building and brewing. The app leaves something to be desired. Not all of the functionality from the site is there and for a required subscription service I expect a lot more.

Not worth the money !

No need to write your recipes down anymore put them in on the computer or your phone and go from there!