Inventory for ingredients#49

Wow, I just read some of the suggestions and well, unlike a bunch of other people, I like the new community interface and app. Sure there could be improvements, but it looks awesome. Well done guys!

What I would like is an inventory of ingredients I have in stock. This should get updated as the brews go and could even flag an item in the recipes when there are not sufficient stock.

At the moment I do this manually with a spreadsheet, but it’s a bit time consuming.

Thanks again for a great app.

Yes this app on Droid is working well, just have couple small things I assume your working on

Like adding a boil stage perhaps?

OP. Have you tried a brewday on it yet? Not sure you’ll be so impressed with it..

I like the design of it. It’s great.

It just doesn’t work in practice.

With respect, try a brewday… Then come back and tell me how impressed you are.

Hi Ash,

I have indeed done a brew day. Admittedly, it was only one, but without any issues.
You could check out brewfather.com. that seems to be a pretty solid system with a lot of features lacking from Grainfather’s, including the inventory this post was originally about. I will give it a go on Sunday to see how it goes.
Happy brewing!

I’ve got four sessions under my belt with the new app, and every single one has gone 6-8 hours rather than my usual 4. Ironically, the first thing I noticed when the new app launched for the first time was a blog post about shortening your brew day.

The only reason I use Brewfather alongside GF app now is for inventory control, having a good list of what I have, what its use by date is, costs, supplier, specific AA% for for hops, and EBC values etc is very handy to have in an electronic form. I manage all recipes and brewcontrol with GF, it’s just this one function keeping my BrewFather subscription alive.

Yes inventory is a must have for any morden app. Further more a more solid ingredients database is needed. Brewfather has really knock it out with this and for me is it’s excellence.

+1 to what Chris Watts and Michael T said