Brewers don’t all measure the same way. A homebrewer in Texas works in gallons, pounds and specific gravity; a craft brewer in Mexico City in liters, kilograms and Plato; a cider maker with a refractometer in Brix. Foambyte lets each of them work in their own units and their own language, without converting anything by hand.
Who it’s for
For homebrewers anywhere who want to keep the units they learned with, and for nano and small breweries in Latin America, Brazil and Canada who want brewing software in Spanish, Portuguese or French, not just in English.
How to set your units and language
- Open Settings. Your language and unit preferences are on the same page.
- Pick a language. Choose from English, six regional versions of Spanish, French (Canada) and Portuguese (Brazil).
- Pick a preset. Metric (kg, L, °C), imperial (lb, UK gallons, °C) or US (lb, US gallons, °F).
- Adjust any measure. Change gravity, color, temperature, carbonation or water chemistry on its own, or open the advanced settings for batch volume, masses, times and more.
- Brew. Recipe Studio, batches and the calculators all show values in your units.
What you can do with units and languages
- Choose your gravity scale. Specific gravity, Plato, Brix, gravity points, Balling or Oechsle.
- Choose your color scale. SRM, EBC or Lovibond.
- Choose your carbonation unit. CO₂ volumes, psi, bar, kPa or atm.
- Mix units freely. For example US gallons with Brix and °C; Foambyte marks the combination as custom.
- Work in your language. Screens, help and messages in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese, with regional versions of Spanish for Mexico, Latin America, Argentina, Chile, Colombia and the US.
- Share recipes across systems. A recipe written in liters and Plato shows up correctly for a brewer who works in gallons and specific gravity.
A worked example: one batch, three ways to read it
An Irish Red Ale with an original gravity of 1.044 is the same wort whether you read it as 1.044 SG, 11.0 °Plato or 10.9 °Brix. Its color of 16 SRM is about 31.5 EBC. A brewer in the US, one in Germany and one using a refractometer each see the beer in the scale they know, and the recipe underneath doesn’t change.
To convert a single value, use the free gravity converter, beer color converter or brewing unit converter.
Units, languages and the rest of Foambyte
Your preferences apply across Foambyte: Recipe Studio, Batch Tracking, Fermentation Tracking and the brewing calculators. Because Foambyte stores every value in one standard unit, changing your preferences never alters a recipe or a reading.
Create a free account and brew in your own units and language.