Recipes
Each beer's house recipe and its variations, how a recipe sets a beer's grain to glass, editing, versions, and BeerXML.
Recipes are grouped by beer. Each beer has one house recipe, the one PintDeck plans with when it works out the beer's next brew. Its other recipes are variations, kept for test batches or seasonal takes. A recipe can also sit on no beer yet.
The Recipes tab
Four numbers across the top: Recipes, the Next brew day planned from a recipe, how many beers are Due to brew, and how many batches were Brewed · 90 days.
Needs you lists what's waiting on someone:
- Brew Cutline IPA by Oct 14: a beer due soon. Click it to plan the brew.
- Pick Cutline IPA's house recipe: a beer with recipes but no house recipe.
- Dry Creek Pale: brewed 4×, no recipe yet: click it to start one.
The list groups recipes by beer, house recipe first, with each one's numbers, batch size, Grain to glass, Last brewed (and whether that batch is still in a tank) and Next brew. Search, filter, save a preset, or turn off Group by beer in Customize. A row's ⋯ menu has Open, Edit recipe, Plan a brew, Duplicate as a variation, Export BeerXML and Delete.
Add a recipe
New recipe
Click New recipe and pick the Beer it brews, or Not on a beer yet.
House recipe or variation
The house recipe is on when the beer doesn't have one yet. When it does, the switch starts off and the recipe is added as a variation; turn it on and the new recipe takes the old one's place.
Start from how it has brewed
For a beer you've brewed before, Start from how it has brewed fills in its fermenter and brite days from its last batches, so its grain to glass doesn't jump when the recipe becomes the house recipe.
Name, style and size
Then Create and add ingredients. The editor opens on Ingredients.
Already have it in BeerSmith or Brewfather? ⋯ › Import BeerXML… takes the .xml file they export.
Read a recipe
Click a recipe and it opens in a panel. The same panel opens from a batch's Open recipe and a beer's Batches tab. Across the top: OG → FG (and how many numbers sit in the style's range), ABV · IBU, Batch and Grain to glass.
| Tab | What's on it |
|---|---|
| Overview | When its beer runs out and when to brew it next, with Plan it. Its batches On the tank schedule, its Last batches against the recipe's OG and ABV, and Details you can edit in place. |
| Recipe | Grain bill with each malt's share, Hops and when each goes in, Yeast, Other additions, Water and Mash, the way a brew sheet reads. |
| Process | Grain to glass drawn as if brewed today, every stage and the tank it needs, and the Brew day steps, with Start one now. |
| Batches | Every batch planned or brewed from it, measured OG and ABV against the recipe, and Add a past batch. A house recipe also lists the beer's batches from before the recipe was in PintDeck. |
| Versions | What changed since the last version, and every version with what changed in it. |
The header has Edit recipe and Plan a brew. Its ⋯ menu has Start a brew day now, Make it Cutline IPA's house recipe (or Stop being the house recipe), Save as a new version, Print brew sheet, Brew-day schedule (PDF), Scale to another size… (a preview; the saved recipe doesn't change), Duplicate as a variation, Export BeerXML and Delete.
Edit a recipe
Edit recipe opens the editor across the tab. Its sections:
| Section | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Ingredients | Grain, hops and yeast |
| Water | Chemistry and salts |
| Mash | Rests and equipment |
| Fermentation | Days, dry hops, carbonation |
| Brew day | The steps the iPhone runs |
| Costs | Per batch and per pint |
| Notes | Tags and notes |
The bar at the top sets the Beer, House recipe, Style, Batch size and Boil. Every change saves as you go (Saved shows when it has). Done takes you back to the recipe.
Grain to glass
A recipe knows how long its beer takes, from its Fermentation section:
- Fermentation steps: primary, secondary, cold crash and conditioning, each with its days and temperature.
- Dry hops: the day each goes in. Left blank, it's counted back from the end of primary by the hop's contact time.
- Carbonation and conditioning: Where it carbonates (In a brite tank, In the fermenter, In the keg, or Naturally (bottle or keg conditioned)) and for how many days. Where it carbonates decides whether a batch needs a brite.
Together they give the days in the fermenter, the days in the brite, when it's ready to package, and grain to glass. Every batch planned from the recipe books its tanks for exactly that long, and its cellar tasks come from the same steps. A recipe with no fermentation steps uses your How you brew defaults.
Versions
When a brew day starts from a recipe that changed since its last version, PintDeck saves a new version (v2, v3…), and the batch remembers which one it brewed. A recipe that's changed shows edited next to its version.
On Versions, a changed recipe lists what changed, and Save as v4 (the next number) saves it now, with an optional note on what changed and why. Restore puts an old version back and saves it as the newest, so nothing is lost. A batch always keeps the version it was brewed from.
On the iPhone
Open Cellar › + › Brew day for your recipes by beer. A recipe has the same tabs: Overview, Recipe, Process, Batches and Versions. Recipes are read-only on the phone; change them on the web. Plan a brew books its tanks, and Start brew day starts the day from it.