I wrote the software that runs my own brew day.
Kettle Command is the app I brew with: the recipe, the mash and the boil, the controllers on the kettle, and the weeks of fermentation after.
It isn't a big company product. It's one brewer's tool that grew up batch by batch, and I brew with every page of it.
What to do right now, at the top, big enough to read with wet hands
The whole plan in brewing order, so nothing gets forgotten
Readings come straight off the kettle controller
How it started
From milk jugs to a brewhouse that talks back
- 2010
My first batch was Apfelwein in one-gallon milk jugs, under the bed. Then all-grain, and I never looked back.
- 2013
Started BrewTech, the first version of what's here.
- Since
Brew day pages, water chemistry, a yeast lab, inventory. Each one came from a brew day where I wished I had it.
- Now
I build my own controllers for the kettle, and the app runs them. I don't weld, so metal parts get cut by SendCutSend and bolted together.
What it does
The parts I use every batch
Recipes that fit your gear. Scaled to your own batch size, efficiency and vessels, with gravity, color and bitterness checked against the style as you go.
A brew day that keeps up. Mash, sparge, boil, whirlpool and pitch with timers, targets and the next step, on the laptop or the phone.
Water, worked out. Salts and acid from your own source water to the style, with the mash pH before you strike.
Yeast you can plan around. Starters step by step, harvests, viability over time, and pitch rates for the batch you're brewing next.
Hardware that reports in. Kettle and fermenter controllers, probes, Tilt and iSpindel readings land on the batch on their own.
Gravity against where it should finish
Dry hop day shows up on its own
It tells you when it's actually done, not when the calendar says
If you brew all-grain and this sounds like how you'd want to brew, ask for an invite. I read every one.
Cheers, Evan