The app assists you in all stages of beer formulation and brewing. BeerTools Pro is a comprehensive software tool to handle all aspects of beer preparation. It allows you to administer recipes, ingredients, beer styles, and equipment. All that information is stored and managed through the use of internal databases. In addition, the program allows you to download beer recipes from the author's website.
Even though you can download the trial version of this program for free, you will need to register on their website to do it as the trial requires a serial number to work. Its main window is demonstrative and easy to use. It includes a tabular panel on the top side where different information is displayed depending on the category you are working on. The most representative one is certainly "Recipes".
When you run the program for the first time, it takes you automatically to the panel on the right side of the screen to start adding new recipes. To do so, you must provide a recipe's name, an author name, a creation date and a type (which you can select from a large list of clearly identified standard types). You can also specify more technical information, such as the kettle volume at 212 ºF, the evaporation loss, the water volume added, and the efficiency and attenuation percentages, among others. On a similar panel, you will need list the recipe's ingredients, indicating their stage, quantity, and proportion. Ingredients will include grains, extracts, yeast, adjuncts, and others, but the program also provides you with a predefined database of ingredients that you can add to your recipe very easily by dragging and dropping them. Finally, you can put in even more technical information related to the recipe's style, analysis, schedule, and carbonation.
Undoubtedly, BeerTools Pro is a handy and useful application for all beer enthusiasts, both professional and amateur, that requires very low system resources. It is compatible with all versions of Microsoft Windows available nowadays, including Windows 7. Furthermore, Linux and Macintosh versions are also available.
v1.5 [Nov 2, 2008]
The interface has experienced numerous improvements that make working with BTP easier than ever. One example is how 1.5 handles units of measure. BTP 1.0 combined a text field and a popup menu to store a value and its corresponding unit of measure. This was a very flexible way to handle units, but 1.5 greatly improves on it by eliminating the units popup menu. How are units entered now? One way is to type the unit abbreviation after the value. If the abbreviation is omitted the current unit is used. Additionally, unit conversions can be done even easier now. Simply right-click on the value and a menu with list all of the possible conversions appears. Converting the value is just a matter of selecting from the list! To match the power of the new method of unit conversion, we have implemented a few more enhancements:
• New toolbar with buttons for managing recipe files, folders, and printing.
• New assets library for storing recipes, ingredients, equipment and other items just a mouse-click away.
• Contents list for displaying the contents of assets folders.
• New info panel for immediate access to recipe and ingredient specifics including detailed descriptions and analysis data.
• Values can be edited directly in the ingredient, equipment, and other lists.
• Fully drag-n-drop capable for moving ingredients in and out of recipes.
• The graphs next to fermentables and hops can be dragged to change their respective ingredient proportions.
• Recipe management within BeerTools Pro.
• Inventory tracking, comparison and recipe deduction.
• New dilution tool.
• Demo version licenses.
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