August 2026

Beerwright launched on 17 August. This is what changed between then and the end of the month, in the order a brewer would have met it. Not every commit; the things you would notice.

In the fermenter

• Live fermentation charts. A Tilt, RAPT Pill or iSpindel posts to a URL you mint in Settings, and the batch page charts gravity and temperature all the way down, with your own readings on top. A TILTpi’s form-encoded posts are read the same as the app’s JSON. See Fermentation devices.
• Cleaning up telemetry. Drag to zoom the chart and the buttons under it act on what you can see: move the readings to the batch they belong to, or delete them for good. A second tab’s chatter no longer redraws the chart, and dark mode gets its own color steps.
• Fermentation alerts and batch reminders. Two emails, both off until you turn them on: one when a fermentation stalls or looks finished, one the evening before your calendar has something on it. Neither carries a batch name or a gravity.
• A subscribable brew calendar. Every batch’s brew day, fermentation stages, dry hops and packaging day as a feed your phone’s calendar can read. See The calendar.

In the editor

• Keg conditioning joined bottle priming and forced carbonation in the Packaging panel, and a keg gets the bottle dose, with the argument for why. A scale can now say what is in a keg from its weight.
• The mash schedule drives the final gravity. A warm mash leaves more behind, and the prediction moves with it.
• A yeast starter calculator, on Kai Troester’s growth model, with the dry-yeast branch that tells you to buy another sachet instead. Starter volumes stay in liters whatever your units.
• A decoction planner. The pull is sized against the mash it comes back to, the water it boils away is counted, and every rig in the catalog says how fast its mash cools. The brew-day step says how much to pull rather than “pull a decoction”.
• Scaling a recipe onto your own brewhouse efficiency, not the author’s.
• Sort the grist as a view, and keep the order only if you ask. Moving a malt up stopped moving it straight back.
• Hop times get a unit and a days-or-hours toggle, so a dry hop is not a bare zero.
• Searching “saaz” stops scrolling past Saaz. A list sorted A to Z no longer opens scrolled to the W’s.
• Specs one tap away. A recipe row’s catalog record opens from its menu without leaving the recipe.

Water

• The assistant reads any water report, PDF included, and says no with a reason when it cannot. A “< 1” on a lab report is read as zero, and an ion the report never printed is no longer read as zero.
• One water report, typed once, in a form that holds all of it, with alkalinity accepted as bicarbonate or as calcium carbonate.
• The salt solver reaches only for the salts on your shelf, and forty percent RO becomes liters in jugs, strike and sparge each.
• An accepted acid dose is a starting point, not a verdict, and every acid on the list is one that counts.

Batches, inventory and the cellar

• Batches keep photographs, and only their brewer can see them.
• Tasting notes on a BJCP scoresheet, and Insights can ask whether the beer was any good.
• Yeast lineage. The yeast remembers which batch it came off and how many generations it has been.
• Lot prices in your currency, and a batch’s cost frozen at the moment you deduct. A brew that never happened puts the grain back.
• The lot you typed by hand, joined to the ingredient it is, and the add dialog looks at your shelf before the catalog.
• A brew you planned on Tuesday can catch up with Friday’s edit to the recipe, until brew day starts.
• Whirlfloc, ALDC, Clearzyme and ellagic acid weigh themselves out at the catalog’s published dose.

Insights, the gallery and profiles

• Insights: seven panels over your own brew log, then a second wave with strain curves, terminal days and the cost of beer.
• The public recipe gallery, with bylines on shared pages, a claimed display name and a picture, likes, and a style filter in the order brewers read codes.
• Profiles: one page, four tabs, for equipment, water, mash and fermentation. Apply one, save your own, copy a built-in rig, and let the assistant name one. Mash tun deadspace split into what you get back and what you lose.
• The equipment page shows what each rig actually measured, and offers to update the profile.

The catalog

Bestmalz in full, Blue Ox, Valley Malt, Grouse, Epiphany, Sugar Creek, Riverbend, Mecca Grade, Root Shoot, Two Track, Maltwerks, CNC, Great Lakes, Murphy and Rude, Troubadour and a dozen more maltsters read off their own sheets; the Briess caramel line; eleven alternate and ancient grains, fonio among them; five British hops; more Fermentis, Lallemand and White Labs; a cellar shelf of nutrients, wood and the gruit three; and 578 malts, hops and yeasts that now link to the page their numbers came from.

Account and the app

• Passkeys, beside magic links, never instead of them.
• Install it on a phone or a desktop; the app has an icon and a manifest, and a new version reloads the tab instead of needing a shift-refresh.
• In-app support threads, with email as a doorbell, and screenshots on messages.
• Docs, this site, linked from the app and the front page.
• On a phone: dialogs are drawers, the catalog fits, the top bar reaches the tap-target floor, and the vitals wrap whole.
• The plans were repackaged: assistant allowances of 5, 15 and 200 messages, with fermentation charts and Insights on the Beerwright plan.
• The app’s copy found its voice. The people came back into the sentences.