Perhaps the site’s standout feature is the sheer range of tools it provides to help budding brewers get the most out of their home kits.
For instance, on the calculators page, you’ll find tools that allow you to build recipes, measure alcohol by volume, calculate the actual specific gravity of your beverage, calculate your IBU, measure your dilution and boil off, convert Brix to specific gravity, and many more.
The actual list of tools is enormous and covers practically every topic to do with homebrewing. There are bottling, priming, and kegging calculators, calculators for all-grain brewers, and even tools for making wine if you decide to branch out.
Brewer’s Friend also offers brew day sheets and checklists that help you keep track of your brews by hand.
It’s not quite as sophisticated as some of the apps that we’ve seen in recent years. But many people prefer to do things the old-fashioned way, keeping track of progress using pen and paper. You simply go to the site, download the sheets, print them out, and fill them in.
Brewer’s friend has been quite innovative here. For instance, you get all the usual printable resources you’d expect, like all-grain recipe templates and templates for partial mash brewers. But you also get fun stuff, like beer tasting sheets for parties.
Additions like this make it obvious that Brewer’s Friend actually listens to its audience.