Brewing a recipe together

A recipe can have more than one brewer. When you invite someone to edit it, you both work on the same recipe from your own accounts: a change either of you makes shows up for the other within a moment, and each of you can see who else has it open. It is for the people you actually brew with, a partner, a brew buddy, the two or three of you who split a batch.

Inviting someone

Open the recipe, then Invite to edit… in its overflow menu. Type the address of the person you want to brew with and press Send invite. They get an email with a link; the invite works for 14 days, and until they accept it you can withdraw it from the same dialog.

Inviting comes with Brewmaster and Beerwright. The people you invite don’t need a paid plan, and a recipe someone shares with you never uses one of your ten free recipes: it counts only against the plan of the person who shared it.

A recipe can have five co-brewers besides you. The invite is tied to the address you typed, so whoever opens it has to be signed in with that address to accept.

Editing together

Once someone has accepted, their initials appear at the top of the recipe while they have it open, and a colored edge marks the row they’re working on. Their edits arrive as they make them, and yours reach them the same way. It works offline too: what you change without a connection is kept on your device and sent when you’re back.

Notes are the one place two people can’t type at once. While someone is writing in them you’ll see “their name is editing the notes”, and the field waits until they finish. Everything else, the grist, the hops, the schedules, the water, you can both change freely.

Undo is your own. ⌘Z takes back the last change you made, and never writes over something your co-brewer changed after it.

The recipe’s history shows who made each change, so “who moved the dry hop?” has an answer.

Whose equipment

The numbers on a recipe depend on the equipment it’s brewed on, and the people you brew with don’t always share a kit. So a shared recipe has a shared default, and each of you can choose your own instead.

In the recipe’s equipment picker, Just for me lists your own equipment profiles; picking one changes the numbers on your screen and nobody else’s. Use the shared default goes back to the recipe’s. Make profile the shared default copies your profile onto the recipe for everyone who hasn’t chosen their own.

A batch you start from a shared recipe freezes the equipment you were using, so your brew log always matches your kit.

Leaving, removing and deleting

Nobody who helped build a recipe loses it.

• Leaving. On a recipe someone shared with you, Delete becomes Leave…. You keep a copy as it is at that moment, in your own recipes, and it’s yours from then on. Changes the others make afterwards won’t reach it.
• Removing someone. The person who shared the recipe can remove a co-brewer from Invite to edit…. They keep a copy the same way.
• Deleting for everyone. The person who shared the recipe can delete it for everyone. Each co-brewer keeps a copy as it is now, so anything they changed offline and haven’t synced yet won’t be in it. The shared recipe and its history are gone.
• Closing an account. If the person who shared a recipe closes their account, everyone else keeps a copy.

Batches you brewed from a shared recipe point at your copy afterwards, so your brew log never loses track of what you made.

Related

• The recipe editor, for the overflow menu the invite lives in.
• Sharing a recipe, for a read-only link instead of a co-brewer.
• Recipe history and versions, for who made each change.
• Plans, billing and trial codes, for what Brewmaster and Beerwright add.
• Profiles, for the equipment a shared recipe’s numbers depend on.