Even if it looks terrible I’ll put something up so I don’t have to keep using google docs to store my recipes. Keeping them in documents isn’t working out for me. Not enough structure and I lack the self discipline to force myself to do it in a free form document.

I just finished up being able to add steps to a boil and remove them based off the ingredients in the recipe. I’m going to muck with how hops work one more time, and possibly how the database is seeded and then I should be ready to launch something. woo.

In other news I’ve been brewing quite a bit and started doing beer reviews for another blog, beerporn. Lately I’ve been trying to make quicker beers since most of what we have in the fermenters is long term (a lambic and two Flanders reds). We bottled a pale that turned out really well, just bottled a porter and have a breakfast stout in the primary that I’m really excited about. The breakfast stout should end up with a low ABV and taste a bit like maple syrup.

Tonight I plan to get reaquannted and figure out where I’ve left off and what I want to pickup next. I’ll start working on the navigation tabs and whatnot I beleive.

In other news I found a hop plant that I didn’t realize we had, good news and now I have to figure out what kind it is. Should be ready to harvest in the next month or so.

Everything is from left to right.

Back: Grand Cru, Lambic and a Flanders Red

Middle: Brown Ale, Cherry Burbon Stout, Heff

Front: Urban 312 Clone, Citrus Thing.

def initialize(params = {}) #Not def initialize()
    super(params)
    ....
end

So anyway, users now compose inventories. Life is good for them. Still can’t enter recipies, because you know I got side tracked. But eh that’s how it goes.

I’ve got beer to rack & bottle (heff into bottles and racking a brown to secondaries) tomorrow night so I won’t get to work on the site for a day or two. When I get back to it I’ll finish up the recipe stuff and get it out there.

Like I said above, its going to be a rails site. I started playing with Ruby about a year ago. I took a rails seminar at school (I’m working on my masters) and thought “eh, what the heck”. It will run of mysql and whatever webserver godaddy puts in front of it. If someone other than me ever uses this… well we will cross that bridge when we come to it.

I’ve been home brewing for about a year now and this seemed like a good idea. There are a lot of tools out there that do some, and possibly all of what I’m anticipating putting on Brew Sessions. I’m not saying those tools are bad (I use a few of em), but for the most part they don’t meet my needs. This is aimed primarily at making me happy, but if you have a feature request feel free to drop me a line (josh at brewmanager.com) and I’ll consider it.

Here’s the feature list in case I get rid of it.

• Inventory Managment
• Brew Session Managment (it does the math for mash calculations, AAU etc
• Recipe Managment (build, save and search)
• Groups/clubs, with all of the above