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About this app

Access all the tools, calculators and recipes that empower every level of homebrewer to create amazing beer at home!


Get the confidence to experiment with step-by-step notifications that will guide you through your brew. Choose from bazillions of recipes or get creative and design your own with our feature-packed recipe creator. Plus, brew more efficiently with all the tools that you need by performing quick and accurate calculations without leaving the app.


Simply download the free app, create an account today and keep your new brewing partner in your pocket!


FEATURES
- Personalise your brewing experience according to your level of homebrewing and favourite beer styles, and get step-by-step notifications to improve your knowledge and brew confidently.
- Designed to be used with a variety of brewing systems, not just Grainfather equipment, and you can create detailed profiles for each system that you use.
- Provides the ultimate connected experience when used with any Grainfather G Series product. Connect your mobile device to your equipment's controller via a wireless connection, and manage your brew from the app.
- Connect with fermentation tracking devices such as Tilt, Brewbrain, iSpindel and PLAATO, and keep your fermentation data within the app.
- Explore bazillions of recipes or create your own with our unique recipe creator. You can be in command, experiment with ingredients and challenge yourself to master your own creations.
- Brew confidently with all the calculators that you need. Our water calculator allows you to closely replicate particular styles of beer and with our mIBU calculator you can accurately calculate the IBU contribution in modern-day beers.
- It's multilingual with 10 different languages available: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Norwegian and Swedish.


Please view our privacy policy for information on the data we collect and marketing messages you may receive when providing us with your details: https://grainfather.com/privacy-policy/

Ratings and reviews

The app might be useful for people who want to enter into beer brewing competitions. Otherwise, it's far too much work to be worth the effort. For example, it demands specific information about the malted barley that I couldn't even get from the manufacturer. That makes it very hard to use. I can't even fill out the details about final gravity and stuff like that without plugging in the grain father and connecting to it. Also, I don't appreciate the demand for full time location permissions.

New UI is broke things! With the latest version 4.0.10, the refractometer calculator is completely unusable. It hangs or outright crashes. This is one of my most used calculators. EDIT: Stuck in manual mode. I can't get a session started. I start a session and nothing happens. No steps or timers offered. Just connection to the controller showing temperature and access to heat and pump. There is NO instructions on how to use the new app. Will muddle through on brew day but complete FAIL!

I don't understand why I need an account and an internet connection to communicate with a Bluetooth device in the next room. This is the third grainfather app I've seen released. Each one seems to be less and less useful. I wish you would document the Bluetooth protocol, and let the brewing community write software like tilt did. That way you could focus on hardware.

What's new

- Fixed real/apparent attenuation calculation issue
- Fixed priming sugar rate calculation issue
- Fixed recipe PDF file share functionality
- General bug fixes and improvements