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It took me a bit but I have now released Brewers Tool Belt 2.0 on the App Store. Just search for "Brewers Tool Belt". Since it is now free, I'm hoping to get more brewers to try out the app and provide feedback on how I can make it better. A bit about me: I'm an avid homebrewer and won gold...

I've been an avid follower of the Brew Science section with the occasional contribution and it seems like my new Water tool would be of interest. I built a tool online a while back based on Kai Troester's (Braukaiser) work and D. Mark Riffe's analysis of that work and after working out most the...

With this new 1.3 release, I have added Water support in the Recipes tool which allows for pH and Ion calculations / adjustment as well as a User Profile so you can set your defaults to make using the tools that much faster. The Water section is built on the work done by Kai Troester...

I'm hard at work trying to keep the new features for Brewers Tool Belt rolling out. With this new 1.2 release, I have added an email feature which makes it easy to print your recipes or import them as BeerXML. Build a recipe while bored at work or laying by the pool and then load it into...

A big update for my IOS App - Brewers Tool Belt 1.1 (aka BTB) With this new release, I have added Recipes which allows for complete recipe formulation +Includes General Settings( like Style ), Mash, Boil, Fermentables, Hops, Yeast, Misc and Notes +Extensive Ingredient Databases +Clean...

I've been using my colorado brewing systems 15 gallon eBIAB setup for the last few months and decided to do a writeup on how it's been going including a brew session video. http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/?p=324

I'm psyched to announce that Brewers Tool Belt 1.0 for IOS has been released on the App Store! I have posted a write up of the features including short overview videos here: http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/?page_id=259/ Brewers Tool Belt (BTB) is a collection of tools that make some tedious...

I did another Hefeweizen (WLP300) experiment, this time varying the fermentation temperature. My write-up is here: http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/?p=164 did an interview with James @ Basic Brewing Radio which you can find here: http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=radio it's...

I have put together a set of tools for recipe formulation and on the fly adjustments in html/bootstrap/php that runs on a standard LAMP server that I have called brewdesign. i have it running here (you can go in as guest to just poke around but you can't save anything)...

I ran an experiment to test the impact of different pitch rates with White Labs 300 Hefeweizen and thought some people might find it interesting. Write up is here: http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/?p=154 Recently did an interview on Basic Brewing Radio going over the results which is here...

I’m trying to build an easy to use tool to calc mash pH. i know there are a lot of tools out there but i’d like to build one so i understand how it works and make it work the way i want :) i've built a bunch already and have saved the most difficult for last! here is one example so you can...

Just wrapped up another lacto experiment. I tested these three sources this time: 1> Natures Bounty Acidophilus Pills 2> Wyeast 5335 3> Solaray Acidopholus Pills I also did a big late hop to see how that worked in a BW. Full write up here: http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/?p=129

I've been testing out different lactobacillus sources and wrote up my findings so far. I thought others might find it helpful / interesting: Experiment 1 (grain, probiotic sources) http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/hommel-homebrew/berliner-weisse-experiment-1-lacto-sources Experiment 2...

11 gallon single vessel electric Brew in a Bag (eBIAB) build is complete so I documented what I did and posted it up on my blog. Hopefully someone finds it useful :) Any thoughts on how to improve the system or the documentation is definitely welcome...

I had a hard time getting all the o-ring sizes for my Perlick 545 faucets so I measured all of them using digital calipers and ordered 100 packs from mcmaster carr. Full write-up here: http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/1/post/2014/03/perlick-545-rebuild.html Here is what i ended up ordering...

I recently finished building an automated HLT setup and wanted to share. Full writeup including overview video of it in operation and details on strut based stand, gas and electrical system is here: http://www.hommelhomebrew.com/1/post/2014/02/automated-hlt.html overview pic: