Manual › 29

How do I… (quick answers)

Short answers to common jobs, one after the other. Each one is a few steps; the full explanation is in the part of the manual it points to. The Help box in the top menu reads these first.

29.1Start a new recipe

  1. On Home, press New recipe.
  2. Type the beer's name and pick its style.
  3. Or start from a template: type the recipe name, then pick one of your templates.

More: Start a new recipe.

29.2Save a recipe as a template

  1. Open the recipe.
  2. Choose File → Save as Template.
  3. Give the template a name and its tax name (the recipe code, 仕込記号, the brewing mark). The tax name is required.
  4. A template can't be changed afterwards. To change one, make a new template and delete the old one.

More: Templates.

29.3Add an ingredient to a recipe

  1. Open the recipe. On the left panel, press + Add.
  2. Go through the grains, hops, yeast and miscellaneous. Pick the ingredient and put the amount.
  3. Add any notes you want, then close the add window.
  4. Check the recipe numbers on the left (gravity, bitterness, color, ABV). They update as you add.

More: Add the ingredients.

29.4Add a hop to a recipe

  1. Open the recipe. On the left panel, press + Add.
  2. Go to the hops. Pick the hop and put the amount.
  3. Choose when it goes in. For a dry hop, choose Dry hop and then which one: 1, 2 or 3.

More: Add the ingredients.

29.5Add a dry hop to a recipe

  1. Open the recipe. On the left panel, press + Add. Go to the hops, pick the hop and put the amount.
  2. Choose Dry hop and then which one: 1, 2 or 3.
  3. Under Tools, press 1, 2 or 3 to see the hops in that dry hop.
  4. Set when it goes in: Not set, At final gravity, or Before final gravity (choose how many °P before).
  5. Put a temperature if you like (a guide only) and any notes.

More: Dry hops 1, 2 and 3.

29.6Add a dip hop to a recipe

  1. Open the recipe. On the left panel, press + Add.
  2. Go to the hops. Pick the hop and put the amount.
  3. Pick Dip Hop as the use, and put the dip temperature.
  4. The recipe then shows a Dip hop circle on the left, next to the dry hops.

More: Dip hop.

29.7Work out the dip hop temperature

  1. Open the recipe and press the Dip hop circle on the left, next to the dry hops.
  2. Put how many liters of hot wort you dip with, its temperature, the total wort and your pitch temperature.
  3. It tells you what temperature the rest of the wort has to go in at, so the whole batch lands on pitch temperature.
  4. Check with a thermometer before you pitch.

More: Dip hop.

29.8Use recycled hops in a recipe

  1. Open the recipe and press + Add. Add the hop with the use Boil or Whirlpool. Recycled hops never go on a dry hop.
  2. Tick Recycled. It sits next to Time and WP Temp.
  3. Under Recycled from, pick the recipe the spent hops came from. The list shows your 40 most recently brewed recipes, tax batch number first.
  4. Don't know the recipe? Press + and type the blend yourself: the hop varieties and what percent of the slurry each one is. It should add up to 100%.
  5. Put the full wet slurry weight on the ingredient row.

More: Recycled hops.

29.9Add yeast to a recipe

  1. Open the recipe. On the left panel, press + Add and go to the yeast.
  2. Put the Amount (grams for dry, liters for liquid).
  3. Choose the pitch profile (or Other to type a pitch rate), and dry or liquid.
  4. Type the target pitch temperature, fermentation temperature and target pitch pH for brew day.
  5. At the bottom, check the cells you need against the cells you have.

More: Add the ingredients.

29.10Use harvested yeast in a recipe

  1. Open the recipe and press + Add. Add the yeast and choose Harvested.
  2. Pick your jar from the harvested stock. Only jars with yeast in them are listed.
  3. Put the cell count. Average slurry fills in a standard count when you haven't counted; Count it opens the cell counter.
  4. Put the Amount in liters.

More: Add the ingredients.

29.11Add an ingredient that isn't in your library

  1. In the add window, type its name and press Add to the library. The full library form opens.
  2. Fill in the name, maltster, supplier, whether it's a base malt, malted or unmalted, fruit or spice, price, yield and origin country. The yield is required, or the recipe can't be worked out.
  3. Tick Does not ferment or Added to the kettle, not the mash if they apply.
  4. Save it. It has to be in the library so the recipe can connect to ordering and inventory.

More: Add the ingredients.

29.12Change the batch size of a recipe

  1. Open the recipe. Next to + Add, press Tools.
  2. Press Scale and choose the new batch size.

More: Tools.

29.13Make a beer stronger or weaker (change the ABV)

  1. Open the recipe. Next to + Add, press Tools.
  2. In OG / ABV, press + until the target reads the strength you want.
  3. Press Apply. It adds more grain, keeping the grain bill at the same percentages.

More: Tools.

29.14Change the grain bill by percent

  1. Open the recipe. Next to + Add, press Tools.
  2. Press Grain % and type the percent for each grain. Each percent is taken of the grain total you started with.
  3. Press Apply. It only works once the percents add up to 100%.

More: Tools.

29.15Change how much bitterness a hop gives (IBU)

  1. Open the recipe. Next to + Add, press Tools.
  2. Press Hop IBUs and type the IBU you want from that hop.
  3. Hakkotome works out the new amount of that hop.

More: Tools.

29.16Set up the water for a recipe

  1. Open the recipe's Water tab.
  2. Pick your source water, then your target ion profile.
  3. Press Calculate minerals. You can still change any amount by hand.
  4. At the bottom, type your target pH to see how much acid to add.
  5. Press Save to recipe. If you don't, the salts and acid are not added to the recipe.

More: Water.

29.17Choose beer or happoshu for a recipe

  1. At the top of the left panel, choose Beer or Happoshu.
  2. Leave it on Auto and Hakkotome decides for you.
  3. To decide yourself, press Beer or Happoshu. It shows Manual in red. Press it again to go back to Auto.

More: Beer or happoshu (発泡酒).

29.18Make a cereal mash

  1. Open the recipe and press Cereal mash in the mash section. The calculator opens.
  2. Set the water ratio, the rest temperature and time, and how long it boils.
  3. Choose which grains go in it, for example corn plus 5% of a base malt.
  4. At the bottom it tells you the strike for the cereal mash, the rest, the boil, and what to add to hit the first step of your main mash.

More: Equipment and mash.

29.19Put a beer on the production schedule

  1. Open the recipe. On the left panel, under Schedule, press Production.
  2. In Edit brew, pick the Vessel (the fermenter), the Start date (brew day) and the Duration in days.
  3. To move the beer to another tank, pick the date and the tank under Transfer and press Transfer.
  4. Press Add action for a Dry hop, Cold crash, Transfer or Custom job, and assign a person if you like.
  5. Add any notes and press Save.

More: Put it on the schedule.

29.20Put a beer on the yearly schedule

  1. Open the recipe. On the left panel, under Schedule, press Yearly.
  2. Choose Every year or One-off, then pick the months.
  3. Press Save. Press Open in planner to add tags, the flavor map and more.

More: Put it on the schedule.

29.21Print the brew day sheets

  1. Open the recipe and press Print at the top.
  2. Choose Prep sheet, Brew day sheet, Fermentation and packaging sheet, or Full packet (all three, each on its own page).

More: Print the sheets.

29.22Save a beer to Google Drive

  1. Open the recipe and press Print, then Save to Drive.
  2. It makes a folder named by year, tax batch number and beer name under Hakkotome, then Made Beer, with the recipe and brew sheets in it.
  3. Google is connected once for the whole brewery, in the Sales Hub: Settings → Google → Connect Google.
  4. To get a zip file instead, press Print, then Download as zip.

More: Save the beer.

29.23Set a recipe's brand line, series and tags

  1. Open the recipe. At the bottom of the left panel, press Brand.
  2. Pick the Brand line and the Series, and add any Tags.
  3. All three are optional. Brand lines and series are kept in Settings → Lines.

More: Branding.

29.24Share a recipe with other breweries

  1. Open the recipe and press Share.
  2. Press Publish this version. It goes to the shared catalog, where any brewery using Hakkotome can get it.
  3. To see recipes other breweries shared, press Shared in the Recipe Explorer.

More: Share.

29.25Declare a recipe to the tax office

  1. Open the recipe and press NTA on the top row. The recipe submitter opens.
  2. Press Check recipe. If nothing matches it says No match — safe to submit as a new recipe. If one matches, use that declaration's recipe code (仕込記号) on your recipe instead.
  3. Press Submit and enter the name you're giving the tax office. Every declared name must be different.
  4. Look over the ingredients it lists and press Print submission sheet (the CC1-5610-6 form). Check it's accurate, then send it.
  5. Once it's sent, press Mark as submitted.

More: Submit it.

29.26Check whether a recipe is already declared

  1. Open the recipe submitter: press NTA on the recipe, or Recipe submitter on Home.
  2. Pick the beer under Select a beer and press Check recipe.
  3. No match means it is safe to submit as a new recipe. A match means the beer is already covered: use that declaration's recipe code (仕込記号).

More: Check it against what you've already declared.

29.27End a production method

  1. Open the recipe submitter and press Submitted register.
  2. Open the method and press End production.
  3. This only records your decision; it does not send anything to the tax office. Pressed by mistake? Open it again and press Undo end of production.

More: Ending a production method.

29.28Record usage on brew day (take ingredients out of stock)

  1. Open the recipe's Brew Day tab and press Record usage at the bottom.
  2. For each ingredient, pick what you used from the list (ingredient, supplier, lot). Check the bag and pick the one that matches.
  3. For harvested yeast, leave the jar ticked to empty it, or untick it to keep the rest in the jar.
  4. Not enough in stock? Press Go back and adjust, press Adjust beside the ingredient, type how much you really have and press Update. Then record the usage. Don't use Record anyway.

More: Recording usage.

29.29Mark brew day complete

  1. On the Brew Day tab, finish the closing checklist and record usage.
  2. Tick Mark Brew Day complete.

More: Mark brew day complete.

29.30Log a fermentation reading

  1. Open the recipe's Fermentation tab and press Add.
  2. Put the date, gravity, pH and the rest. Hakkotome draws the chart from your readings.

More: Daily log.

29.31Record a dry hop on the Fermentation tab

  1. Open the recipe's Fermentation tab and press Dry hop 1 (or 2, 3). Its window opens.
  2. Pick the right date, and put the temperature and any notes.
  3. If what you actually added was different, change the actual amount. Carry to DH2 moves the rest to the next dry hop; That's all means you dry hopped short on purpose.
  4. To add more, press Add Hop or Add Adjunct.
  5. Press Record to Inventory. Recorded by mistake? Restock puts it back.

More: Dry hops.

29.32Harvest yeast

  1. On the Fermentation tab, under Harvest, put how many liters you harvested and the container's name.
  2. Press Log harvest to inventory. Check the Log harvest window and press Log harvest.
  3. Enough for two beers? Press Add a jar and put each jar with its liters.
  4. A jar that still has yeast in it can't be used: empty it first, or pick another jar.

More: Harvesting yeast.

29.33Mark fermentation complete

  1. When fermentation is done, open the recipe's Fermentation tab.
  2. Press Mark Fermentation complete.

More: Finish fermentation.

29.34Move a beer to another tank on packaging day

  1. Open the recipe's Packaging tab and set Transfer to Yes.
  2. Put the transfer date and the tank it's going into. They're normally already filled in from the production schedule.
  3. Put the dipstick reading (mm) of the tank it went into. It shows the liters.

More: Transfer.

29.35Record cans and kegs

  1. On the Packaging tab, put the Keg date. The Can date fills in from it.
  2. Cans: put the can size and how many cans.
  3. Kegs: put how many kegs of each size you filled. Add keg size adds a size for this beer only.
  4. Fill in the packaging waste.
  5. When you're done, press Mark packaging complete.

More: Cans and kegs.

29.36Print the label check sheet

  1. On the Packaging tab, press Label check sheet and print it. There's one page for each container you fill.
  2. Check each item against your label and tick the boxes by hand.
  3. Fill in the lines that are the same on every label once, in Settings → Brewery → Label check sheet.

More: Label check sheet.

29.37Dump a beer (pour a batch away)

  1. On the Packaging tab, press Dump on the Dump beer row. The form fills itself in from the beer.
  2. Change anything that's wrong, then type the date and time, Why it was dumped and What happens to it next.
  3. Press File the record. It prints the loss notice (亡失・腐敗届出書, CC1-5613), which goes to the tax office before the beer is thrown away.
  4. A dump can't be changed or deleted afterwards. If you get it wrong, file another one.

More: HACCP on packaging day.

29.38Record a bacteria test

  1. On packaging day, press Sent on the beer's Packaging tab.
  2. When the lab's result comes back, open HACCP → Test results → Canning bacteria, type it in and press Save.
  3. It works on a beer that's already closed out.

More: Test results.

29.39Record a vessel swab (ATP)

  1. Open HACCP → Test results → Vessel swab (ATP).
  2. Pick the vessel and the day.
  3. Type the number the meter shows (RLU), then press Pass or Fail by your meter's own guide.

More: Test results.

29.40Do the opening and closing lists

  1. On Home, press Opening list or Closing list. The HACCP page opens.
  2. Tick each thing as it's done.
  3. To change the list, an administrator presses Edit list. At the bottom is the weekly check-off, which someone else signs each week.

More: The opening list.

29.41Record a failed HACCP check

  1. On the HACCP page, press the red Failed checks — corrective action needed box.
  2. Fill in what you did about it.
  3. Choose what happened to the beer: No product affected, Held — not released, Reworked / re-treated, Released after checking or Dumped.
  4. File the record. Once filed it can't be edited; if you got it wrong, file another one.

More: When a check fails.

29.42Send a beer's tax records to Tax Master

  1. Open the recipe's Tax tab and check the classification is right: Beer or Happoshu.
  2. Press Update from recipe. If anything is missing, it tells you.
  3. Check all the numbers.
  4. Press Record to Tax Master.

More: The Tax tab.

29.43Add a tasting

  1. Open the recipe's Analysis tab. In the tasting panel, put your overall score (out of 5) and bitterness (1–5).
  2. Pick the tasting wheels that suit this beer.
  3. Press Add tasting, then Start tasting. Press a wheel and score each flavor from 1 to 5, in half points. Fill in every square: anything left blank counts as zero.
  4. Answer Brew again?: yes, no or maybe.

More: Tasting panel.

29.44Close out a beer

  1. Open the recipe's Checklist on the far right. Everything should be ticked.
  2. If something is missing, press Go → and it takes you there.
  3. When it's all done, tick Complete & Archive. Untick it if you did it by mistake.

More: Close out the beer.

29.45Brew the same beer again (new batch)

  1. Find the recipe and open it. Press New batch.
  2. Check the brew you're repeating and the brew number in the Start new brew window.
  3. Press Archive & Start New Brew. The last brew is closed out and locked, and the new one starts.

More: New batch: the same beer again.

29.46Make a new version of a recipe

  1. Open the recipe and press New version.
  2. Choose Amounts changed (a small step, like 1.1 → 1.2) or Ingredients changed (a new full version, like 1.7 → 2.0).
  3. Put a quick note in Version note about what changed.

More: New version: you changed the recipe.

29.47Try changes without losing the recipe (Play)

  1. Open the recipe and press Play. You get a play copy.
  2. Change anything you like. The real recipe doesn't change.
  3. Didn't like it? Press Throw away. Want to brew it this way? Press Make this the next version.

More: Play.

29.48Make an order

  1. On Home, scroll down to Order planner and click it. In the upper right corner, click New order.
  2. On the left, click the beers you're ordering for. Their ingredients go into the middle column with suggested amounts.
  3. Click the suggestions you want and click Add Selected to Order →.
  4. To order a different amount, double-click the ingredient in My order and change it.
  5. Click the ingredients that come from one supplier, pick the Supplier and the delivery date, and click Apply to selected. Repeat for each supplier.
  6. Click Print if you want the sheet, then click Create order.

More: Make an order.

29.49Receive a delivery

  1. On the order planner, click Orders.
  2. Tick the boxes of the ingredients that came in.
  3. In the bar that appears, choose received and click Apply.
  4. In the Receive delivery window, check the date it arrived and the amount of each, type the lot number (and for hops the crop year and AA %), and press Receive.

More: Your orders, and when they arrive.

29.50Receive a delivery on your phone

  1. Go to More → Receive a delivery.
  2. Tap the day, then tap the ingredient.
  3. Check Amount that arrived (change it if a different amount came in) and Arrived on.
  4. Type the lot number if there is one. For hops, type the AA % off the sheet too.
  5. Press ✓ Received.

More: Receive a delivery on your phone.

29.51Change an order or its delivery date

  1. On the order planner, click Orders.
  2. Click the ingredient. Edit order opens.
  3. Change the amount, the supplier, the delivery date or the notes, and press Save.
  4. To move a whole delivery, change the date on its group.

More: Your orders, and when they arrive.

29.52Take inventory (count your stock)

  1. On Home, press Take inventory.
  2. Press Print for the count sheet if you want to count in the cooler on paper.
  3. Choose Malts, Hops, Yeast or Adjuncts at the top.
  4. Type your real count into Count for each ingredient. The Δ column shows the difference.
  5. Type Why is the count different?, then click Apply corrections.

More: Count what you have.

29.53Correct the amount of something in stock

  1. Open Inventory and press Correction to fix the amount on hand of anything, outside of a count.
  2. To add one entry by hand, click Tax ledger, choose the ingredient and click Add entry.

More: The Inventory page.

29.54Empty a yeast jar

  1. Open Inventory and choose Harvested in the section chooser.
  2. In the jar table, press Empty beside the jar. The rest is discarded and goes in your tax records as a correction.

More: The Inventory page.

29.55Plan next year's malt quota

  1. On Home, click Tariff Reduction and pick the Fiscal Year (April to March).
  2. On the Annual Planner tab, add your planned brews: tick the months and pick a template or a recipe, or press Yearly planner and click the beers.
  3. Read the Malt Totals Summary: Actual used, Planned and Total est., to set against your quota.

More: Annual Planner.

29.56Record a malt quota reservation

  1. On Tariff Reduction, click the Reservations tab, then + New Reservation.
  2. Choose the supplier, put the date you sent the reservation, and any notes.
  3. Press + Add Malt for every malt you reserved from them, with the kilos.
  4. When the quota malt starts arriving, press Mark received (or type the date received). Until you do, nothing is counted.

More: Reservations.

29.57Print the monthly malt report for the tax office (需給表)

  1. On Tariff Reduction, click the Monthly Report tab.
  2. Check the figures. To change one, press the small pencil beside it, type your number and press Enter.
  3. Press Print NTA form. It is filed with the tax office by 15 January.

More: Monthly Report (需給表).

29.58Run the monthly backup

  1. On Home, click Monthly backup (administrators only).
  2. Press the button. It backs up the month before.
  3. A zip file named for the month lands on your computer. Open it and check it looks right.

More: Back up last month.

29.59Add a new beer to the yearly planner

  1. Open the Yearly planner and click New Beer.
  2. Type the beer name. Pick its category, brand line, series and style if you want.
  3. Add tags if you want: type one and press Enter.
  4. Pick Every year or One-off, and click the months it goes in.
  5. Add notes. For an idea with no recipe yet, the name and notes are enough.

More: Add a new beer.

29.60Link a beer on the yearly planner to a recipe

  1. On the Beers tab or the Scheduler, click the beer to open it.
  2. Click Link to a recipe…. Or click Make recipe to open a new recipe with this beer's details filled in.
  3. If it's already linked, Open recipe shows the recipe.

More: Scheduler.

29.61Find a beer on the Scheduler

  1. Open the Yearly planner and the Scheduler tab.
  2. Type in the search box: a beer's name, style, tag or award name.
  3. Every month that doesn't hold it is hidden.

More: Beers.

29.62Show only the beers that won an award

  1. Open the Yearly planner. Press the trophy button at the top right of the Beers tab, the Scheduler or the Flavor Map.
  2. To list recipes instead, type award in the Recipe Explorer's search box.

More: Beers.

29.63Add an award to a beer

  1. On the yearly planner, open the beer and press + Add Award. Or open its recipe's Analysis tab and use the Awards box. It is the same record in both places.
  2. Put the award's name, the year, and gold, silver, bronze or other.

More: Add a new beer.

29.64Change category names (yearly planner)

  1. Open Settings → Yearly planner.
  2. Under Categories, click the name you want to change, type the new name and press Enter.
  3. To reorder, drag a category by its grip. To remove one, press ×. Beers in it are kept but lose their category.
  4. To add one, type in New category and press Add.

More: Brand lines, categories and holidays.

29.65Change brand line or series names

  1. Open Settings → Lines.
  2. Under Brand lines or Series, click the name you want to change, type the new name and press Enter.
  3. Drag a brand line by its grip to reorder it, and click under its name to write a note about it.
  4. To remove one, press ×. To add one, type in New brand line or New series and press Add.

More: Brand lines, categories and holidays.

29.66Add or change holidays

  1. Open Settings → Yearly planner.
  2. Under Holidays, click a holiday's name to change it, and type its month and day.
  3. To remove one, press ×. To add one, type in New holiday and press Add.
  4. Then connect a beer to the holiday when you add or edit the beer.

More: Brand lines, categories and holidays.

29.67Make someone an administrator

  1. Open Settings → People.
  2. Tick Admin on the person. They need an account first.
  3. Only an administrator can change someone's role or reset their password or PIN.

More: People.

29.68Change the language or the date style

  1. On Home, press Settings in the top menu.
  2. Under Everywhere, press Appearance.
  3. Choose the language, EN or 日本語 (Japanese), and the date style.

More: Choose how it looks.

29.69Change your units (color, gravity, carbonation)

  1. Open Settings and, under Everywhere, press Units.
  2. Choose the color unit (EBC or SRM), the gravity unit (°P or SG), the carbonation unit (vols or g/L) and the display precision.

More: Choose your units.

29.70Set up a tank

  1. Open Settings, and under Brewery press Tanks.
  2. Name each tank exactly what you told the tax office, and choose Unitank or Conical.
  3. Choose how the volume is worked out: the Cone calculation (cone height, cone volume, liters per mm above, maximum) or a Filed chart (press Set up chart…).
  4. Use the figures you filed with the tax office.

More: Tanks.

29.71Set up your brewery's name, logo and official details

  1. In Settings, under Set up once, press Brewery.
  2. Type your Brewery Name. To add a logo, press Add logo.
  3. Under Official details, fill in your company, address, representative, license number, tax office and corporate number.
  4. Under Liquor sales manager, fill in the sales manager's details and the date of their last training.

More: Set up your brewery.

29.72Add a recurring task

  1. Open Settings → Recurring Tasks.
  2. Add the task and how often it happens: once a week, once a month, every few months or once a year.
  3. When it's due, it shows in the Recurring box on the Whiteboard, where a manager assigns it.

More: Recurring tasks.

29.73Install ready-made ingredient packs

  1. In Settings, under Set up once, press Packs.
  2. Press Import a pack, then press Install on the one you want.
  3. Tick the items you want and press Import.

More: Install packs.

29.74Import your library from BeerSmith or Brewfather

  1. In your old program, export your library: BeerSmith as a .bsmx or BeerXML file, Brewfather as Inventory BeerXML.
  2. In Hakkotome, open Settings → Packs, press Import library, then Choose a file.
  3. Choose the file. If it has stock amounts in it, they come in as your opening stock.

More: Import your whole library.

29.75Add your own beer style

  1. In Settings → Packs, press Add or edit a custom style.
  2. Fill in its ranges (gravity, ABV and the rest) and notes about it.

More: Add your own style.

29.76Start a meeting and add items

  1. On Home, click Meetings, then New meeting. Put in the date.
  2. Type an item and press Enter. Click it to add details, a due date, who it's for and what has been said.
  3. At the meeting, choose for each item: Done, Carry over, Dropped or Take to combined.
  4. At the end, write what was decided in Wrap-up, and an administrator presses Close meeting.

More: Start a meeting.

29.77Give a job to someone (Whiteboard)

  1. On Home, open the Whiteboard (managers and administrators).
  2. Click the empty circle beside the job. Pick who, the date, and any notes.
  3. If a beer needs a job that isn't there, click Add a job.

More: Jobs and assigning them.

29.78Add an other job to the schedule (like keg washing)

  1. At the very bottom of the production schedule, find Other jobs.
  2. Click a date, type the job, and add notes.
  3. Choose the person it's assigned to (administrators and people allowed to assign work).

More: Other jobs.

29.79Print the production schedule

  1. On Home, click Production schedule.
  2. Press Print and choose one month or two months.

More: Print it.

29.80Add a personal task

  1. On Home, click My tasks.
  2. Press Add and type your task. Only you see it.
  3. Tick it when it's done. You have a few seconds to undo.

More: Your checklist.

29.81Find a recipe

  1. Flip the switch at the top of the left panel from Home to Recipe Explorer.
  2. Type a recipe's name or an ingredient in Search. It looks in every folder.
  3. Click once to see its outline, or double-click to open it.

More: Search and filter.

29.82Put recipes in folders

  1. In the Recipe Explorer, your folders are on the left.
  2. To make a subfolder, click a folder and on the right press New Subfolder.
  3. Drag recipes into folders, and drag folders onto other folders to arrange them.

More: Folders.

29.83Add water when the gravity came out too high (liquor back)

  1. On the Brew Day tab, press Calculations at the top and open Liquor back.
  2. The target gravity and wort volume are already filled in. Put in the gravity you measured.
  3. It tells you how much water to add.

More: Boil.

29.84Use a brew day calculator

  1. On Home, press Calculations. Or, on a beer's Brew Day tab, press Calculations at the top to get the brew-day ones with that beer's numbers filled in.
  2. Tap a calculator to open it: hydrometer correction, liquor back, short on gravity, sugar addition, mash off temperature, refractometer, IBU → hop addition, salt addition, attenuation & ABV, carbonation, yeast cell count or beer calories.
  3. Every box can be changed. Reset puts it back to how it started.

More: Brew day.

29.85Sign in on a shared device with your PIN

  1. Press your name.
  2. Type your four-digit PIN. The first time, make one up and type it twice.
  3. Choose how long to stay signed in: 10 minutes, 1 hour or All day.

More: Sign in with your PIN.

29.86Find something in the manual

  1. Open Help → User manual (on the phone, More → Manual).
  2. Type a word in the search bar. It lists every place in the manual that mentions it.
  3. Tap one to open it. Two words give only the places that mention both.

More: This manual, inside the app.

29.87Get help when something goes wrong

  1. Open Help → Ask a question (pop-up) and ask in plain words.
  2. If the answer didn't work, press No, it did not work, then Get help by email.
  3. Choose Send a copy of this chat, or Write a new message. Your own email program opens with the message ready to send.

More: This manual, inside the app.