🍺 Top-down Brew: Beer Engine - DIY Make Your Own

Make your own recipe calculator web page

People who have basic HTML skills can easily make custom recipe calculating pages with this software. The default values in the fields can be modified. This makes it easier to share beer recipes with other homebrewers. The Creative Commons license allows for free use of the software. Attribution is appreciated.

Download the web page template and javascript

• Concise version: a nearly blank concise page, BeerEngineConcise2024.js, and BeerEngine2024.css
• Flexstyle version: a blank recipe with guidance, BeerEngine2024.js, and BeerEngine2024.css

Edit to enter your recipe values

Edit the blank page with a text editor to make changes to the default values. I use Notepad++ on Windows or Emacs on Linux.

The files can be run from your computer's hard drive by opening the pages in a web browser. Be sure to include all of the files in the same directory.

Host your edited pages on a web site to make the pages public.

Other useful development tools

• A supporting calculator for conversion of hop recipe weights to percentages.
• A supporting calculator for conversion of grain bill weights to percentages.
• Estimate the fermentables needed for a clone beer recipe

Other beer engine possibilities

• BEConcise: This compact variation of the beer engine has the recipe variables entered in a single field to ease the communication of beer recipes.
• FlexStyle: The FlexStyle variation gives suggestions for brewing a particular beer style.

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