Tuesday 8 December 2020

A question for home brewers

Would you be interested in an add-on to BeerSmith with historic styles and ingredients? And. more importantly, would yo be prepared to pay for it?

I've contemplated this in the past and have customised my own version of BeerSmith. But, I've a lot of projects either current or in the pipeline. I'm not going to put in the effort unless I know that it will be worthwhile.

Thanks to Brian Welch for reminding me of this.

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes to both!

swigging-pig said...

Yes I would be interested in the BeerSmith add-on and yes I would be prepared to pay for it.

Alistair Reece said...

I don't use BeerSmith so I am not in the target audience, though if you built a decent recipe app that included the necessary information I'd certainly think about buying an app to download.

Most recipe apps are either too involved or too simplistic, and too reliant on BJCP style guidelines - though in the absence of anything more useful I guess we are lumbered with it.

Dan Klingman said...

Yes and yes, great idea.

Anonymous said...

Definitely.

Unknown said...

Yes, yes I would!

Raoul Duke said...

Sounds good to me..!!

Anonymous said...

Yes and Yes.

Frankbrew said...

I'm in!

Frankbrew said...

I'm in!

Jon C said...

This would be fantastic and I would be happy to pay for it!

Anonymous said...

I use Beersmith for all my brews but I don't see the need for a historical brews add on and nor would I pay for it. You can put any recipe you like into the machine and if the ingredients aren't in the database you can add them.You can get historical brews for free from resources such as this web site. If you can get something for free why would you pay for it?

BrianW said...

Great idea!

Bacon said...

Yes and yes!

hjhenn said...

Of course yes!

jordan b said...

Absolutely yes.

hjhenn said...

Of course yes!

Hans U. de Jong said...

Yes yeah hurry up ....
Hans U de Jong

Hans U. de Jong said...

What are you waiting for , of course I’ll pay for it

Guillaume said...

Yes, and yes but depends on price. Probably up to 10-15 euro.

Rostephirch Tyomith N'ylfn said...

absolutely

Morgan said...

I'd definitely pay for some beersmith add ons.

Steve N said...

Yes!

Adrian Febre said...

I'm interested, but two things come to mind:
- I'm personally interested near-exclusively in 18th century styles, but that may be just me
- The big issue for me is the massive hurdle in getting or making "true" 18th century Brown Malt, which makes the brewing of these styles a rare treat, limiting the utility of a plugin

Having said that, I'd likely buy such a package regardless

Duffbowl said...

I'd be happy to support an add on for the styles as you see them.
I've been adding them into BeerSmith and then "finding" a style that best matches.