QBrew0.4.1

QBrew is a management program designed specifically in order to help individuals with their home brewing hobby. Import is supported for XML and QBREW formats, while export is possible in HTML, XML, PDF, TXT and QBREW files.The minimal and intuitive interface allows both experienced and novice users to work with this utility, without facing problems. Moreover, the UI consists of a plain window in which you can add information pertaining to your recipe.This software tool contains quite an extensive database of grains, hops and styles of brewing, so that all those just starting in this domain can get an idea about how to create their own recipes. It is also possible to edit items and add new ones to these lists.When it comes to new recipes, there are a lot of details you can input, including tile, name of brewer and style of beer (German Pilsner, Generic Ale, Irish Stout etc.). Characteristics of the latter option are going to be displayed in the main window, so as to guide you. For example, you can see the minimum and maximum gravity, bitterness and color, as well as estimate FG and alcohol by volume and weight.The settings panel enables you to choose between skins, enables backup and autosave of all the data at user-input intervals, change measurement units (metric, US), apply Tinseth bitterness and Morey color calculations, and control hop type (pellet, plus, whole).It is possible to control the sample and calibrated temperature in order to get the correct hydrometer reading, as well as the original and final gravity, to obtain alcohol by volume and weight (expressed in percentages).In conclusion, QBrew is a piece of software which proves to be useful through the many options you can access, minimal CPU and memory usage, and good response time.