Manage and create beer recipes on your Mac

I made beer once, but it was a PITA because my apartment is too small. When I get a bigger apartment, I'm sure I'll try it again. Maybe it's about time I get a bigger apartment...let's see...pay Manhattan prices for a bigger apartment, or use that money for a new Intel MacBook Pro? Tough choice.

Good thing it's free, because no matter what I do, I won't have the money to spend on it. But then again, the money I save by making beer instead of buying it (a regular occurrence) would more than pay for the app and possibly a new apartment and computer or both. Let's see, $5 per beer (avg) x 6 per week (avg) x 52 weeks in a year = $1560. That's not enough savings for either!? Hmm...if you factor in that I would only save on beer drunk at home or someone else's home, not at bars, and that the tips at bars go up as the night gets longer, and that 6 per week is wishful thinking, and that the morning after a night out I try to remember if I gave the cabby a $20 for a $5 fare, then add in the McDonald's cheeseburgers as hangover medication (which for some reason is NOT covered by insurance)...add the 6...subtract a 4...carry a 1...square the 56...aww, screw it, my head is starting to hurt.

Maybe I'll just go buy a beer instead of worrying about all this.

I've use Beer Alchemy for a couple of years and like it a lot. I just downloaded Homebrew Formulator to try it out and it's pretty good; but it's not as complete or polished as Beer Alchemy. If you're a brewer here in the Boston-area, let me know.

Yup, I should have looked harder.

BeerAlchemy looks sweet.
BeerMeister (http://members.cox.net/mrstuffbm/shareware.htm) looks less sweet, but MIGHT be cross-platform (he says to email him for an OS9/Linux/Windows version). If it is, that'd be nice for trading receipes.
Homebrew Formulator looks okay.

I'm going to play around some more, and see which one I like best. I'd probably be willing to spend money on something like this, but free would be sweet too.

I've tried HBF, but it doesn't hold a candle to BeerAlchemy. And BA actually looks and acts like an OS X app.

My god, I've been looking for something like this. Me and two of my friends homebrew (a totally worthwhile hobby for anyone who likes beer), and while one of them runs BeerSmith (http://www.beersmith.com/), I've wanted a Mac solution for a while.

Now I just wish there was a cross-platform solution...

Finally, I can brew my very own opulent, velvety, rich-bodied Coors Lite.


PS-Laurie Duncan: Great prose

This is one fine piece of writing. Well done.

All the TUAWers are really setting a fine standard for blogging excellence these days.

Crack open a Red Stripe in honor of this blue-ribbon (Pap's, that is) post.

Hopefully it can tell me how to brew a nice Macness!

Finally!
A legitimate use for a computer!

I am sure the diggnation crew would like this app, well atleast Kevin.