BrianBrews
Free homebrew recipe calculator

Dial in your brew,
down to the last gravity point.

BrianBrews turns your grain bill and hop schedule into the numbers that matter — ABV, color, and bitterness — updating live as you type. Save your recipes and pick up right where you left off.

  • No account needed to calculate
  • Live results
  • Save & reload recipes
5.6%
ABV
9.8
SRM
38
IBU

Everything you need to design a batch

Standard, well-known brewing formulas — transparent and ready to swap for your own spreadsheet math later.

All-grain & extract

Switch modes anytime. OG, FG, ABV, color, and bitterness are computed from your bill.

Brian's spreadsheet math

Grain & hop references

90 fermentables and 150+ hops with tooltips — pick from the list or type your own.

Per-line efficiency override

IBU from utilization table

Bitterness from the gravity-vs-time utilization chart, shown live per hop addition.

AA% × util × 75 × oz / gal

SRM color in the glass

Your grain bill becomes a real beer color, sampled from the standard SRM scale.

1.4922 × MCU^0.6859

BJCP style fit

Pick a style and see live in-range indicators for OG, FG, IBU, SRM, and ABV.

BJCP 2021 vital stats

Save, XML & brew-day sheet

Save to the cloud, export/open XML files, and print a brew-day sheet with log fields.

Cloud · XML · PDF

Your next batch starts here

Jump into the calculator — no sign-up required. Create an account only when you want to save a recipe.