Add mead/wine?

[joshbowyer]

I hope this app isn't dead, it's a great idea! Adding mead and wine to the app would be really great, and adding it to F-Droid as well. If you added mead and wine I'm sure their respective subreddits would love to use it.

[caseydavenport]

@joshbowyer thanks for the suggestion! The app isn't dead, but I've been focused on other work recently so the time I can commit to this project is very limited.

I'd love to add mead / wine support, but to be honest I've mostly only done beer myself so I'd need some input as to what features are important to those communities, and ideally some help in implementing!

[joshbowyer]

Reddit would definitely be a good place to get that information, even the subreddit wiki has hard data you can use. I also learned of your project from some comments there a while back. reddit.com/r/mead Would be a great competitor to Brewsmith imo

[joshbowyer]

Posted in /r/mead and tagged you (/u/anything_for_dogs)

[pricelessbrewing]

From a software process standpoint, mead and cider are much simpler than beer. There's no mash, and really not much boil either. Sure there's botchet, but there's no isomerization of hops unless you include braggots, which from software should just be treated as a beer recipe with a honey addition.

The key points, as long as you have the basics of brewing covered, I don't have the app installed on my phone atm, would be the following:

1. Update styles to include the BJCP mead style guides,
2. Support misc ingredients, like fruit, yeast nutrients, etc at varying times during fermentation.

Ideally there should also be a way to function that will automatically calculate yeast nutrients according to the popular nutrient regiments (TOSNA, TOSNA 2.0), and a fermentation step that can be named so you can add a step "degas" or "1/3 sugar break" if you want to.