Brewzor

What is Brewzor Brewing Calculator?

The goal of this application is to provide a set of tools a person could actually use during their brew day.

I appreciate other calculators that provide things like SRM calculation and Alcohol calculators, but I don’t need those while I’m brewing.

What calculators are included?

Gravity Correction: What do you do when you miss your pre-boil gravity? Not correcting gravity before adding your hops can affect the hop utilization and perceived bitterness of your beer. If your gravity is too low, the calculator will tell you how much extract to add to your kettle to bring the gravity up to your pre-boil level. If the gravity is too high, the calculator will tell you how much water to add to dilute your wort to the desired pre-boil gravity.

Cylinder Volume / Cylinder Height: Accurately measuring volume can be difficult. Since my kettle has a flat bottom and is round (a cylinder), I can use a calibrated stick (like a yard stick or a marked wooden dowel) to measure the liquid height and the diameter of my kettle, making it easy to calculate the volume.

Strike Temperature: Used to determine the temperature of your initial mash strike water for a given amount of grain and a given amount of strike water.

Batch Sparge: Computes the amount of water to add to the mash for batch sparging.  Adjusts volume for grain absorption.

Boil Off: Helps determine evaporation and cooling loss for a boil.

Alcohol / Attenuation: Calculates the ABV%, ABW%, Apparent Attenuation, and Real Attenuation.

Refractometer: Several calculations for determing gravity when using a refractometer.

Carbonation:Calculates the required priming sugar (bottle conditioning) or PSI (kegging) required to carbonate a given volume of beer to a number of volumes of CO2.

Hydrometer Correction: Don’t feel like cooling your sample down to 60F to take a gravity measurement? This calculator determines the corrected gravity for a sample based on the temperature.

Unit Converters: Converters for gravity, mass, volume, distance and temperature are included.

What units are supported?

Mass: Gram, Kilogram, Ounce, Pound

Volume: Milliliter, Liter, Quart, Gallon, and many others

Gravity: SG, Plato, GUs, Brix

Temperature: Fahrenheit, Celsius

Length/Distance: Inches and Centimeters (Used for calculating kettle volumes if set in Preferences)

Pressure: PSI, kPa, bar, atmosphere

I found a bug.  Now what do I do?

Bug reports should be emailed to bugs@brewzor.com. If the bug resulted in the application crashing, a crash report is optionally sent the next time the application is started.

I  have an idea for a new feature!

Requests for additional functionality should be emailed to features@brewzor.com.

Why is this free?

I really enjoy homebrewing as a hobby and would love the opportunity to give back to the community. I think something like this will only help people make better beer. That’s never a bad thing.

Credits:

Application Icon: psylux.com