Share your recipes. Follow other brewers.
Put your recipes on a brewer profile, follow the brewers you like and cheer their beers. One link sends anyone the full recipe and how the batch turned out, no account needed.
A brewer profile you control
Your profile starts private. Open it to other BrewForge brewers or to everyone, add a few lines about you and your brewhouse, and pick which recipes go on it.
- Only me, BrewForge brewers, or everyone (no account needed to view)
- Bio, location, brewing since and brewhouse; your email is never shown
- The recipes you list, with style, ABV, IBU, brew date, cheers and how many brewers brewed them
- Activity from your brew days and packaging, and you choose what followers see
- Hide single entries, remove followers, block brewers
Follow brewers, cheer their beers
Your feed shows what the brewers you follow brew, package and share. Cheer a beer you like, or find new recipes and brewers in Discover.
- Feed of brew days, packaging and shared recipes from brewers you follow
- Cheers on recipes and activity, one per brewer and beer
- Discover: search recipes, styles or brewers, popular recipes, brewers who brew your styles
- Inbox notices when someone follows you, cheers or brews your recipe
One Share dialog for every link
Everything you share about a brew sits in one dialog: put it on your profile, send the recipe page, or ask friends for an evaluation. Stop a link and it stops working for everyone.
- Show on my profile, with one switch
- Recipe page link to copy or open
- Stop sharing at any time; sharing again gives a new link
- Evaluation link for friends and judges (Pro)
A recipe page anyone can open
The recipe page shows the whole beer and how this batch went. Whoever opens it can save the recipe to their own recipe book and brew it.
- Opens without an account, in the brewer's language
- Fermentables, hops incl. hopstand, yeast, mash and fermentation charts, water
- This batch: OG, FG and mash pH against target, efficiency, tasting notes
- "Save to my recipe book" with a free BrewForge account
Link previews that show the beer
Paste a BrewForge link into a chat or a forum and it unfolds into a card: the glass in the beer's color, its numbers and who brewed it.
- Recipe cards with style, ABV, IBU, OG and color
- Brewer cards with recipes, brews and followers
- Tap list cards with what's on tap now
- Invite cards for evaluation links and "bring a beer" tap list links
Brewer profiles, the feed, Discover, cheers, recipe pages and link previews are included in every plan, Free too. Saving a shared recipe uses one of the Free plan's 20 brews. Evaluation links are Pro.
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Profile and sharing questions
Is my profile public?
Not until you say so. Every profile starts as "Only me": no profile page and no activity. You can open it to signed-in BrewForge brewers or to everyone. Recipe links you've sent keep working either way.
Do people need an account to see my recipe?
No. A recipe page link opens for anyone. Your profile opens without an account if you set it to "Everyone"; with "BrewForge brewers" visitors are asked to sign in or create a free account first.
Can other brewers copy my recipe?
Yes, that's the point of sharing it: "Save to my recipe book" on the recipe page puts a copy into their recipe book, which needs a free account. You see how many brewers brewed your recipe and get a notice in your inbox (you can switch that off).
Is there a public recipe library?
Signed-in brewers find shared recipes in Discover, by recipe name, style or brewer. Outside BrewForge, recipes are reached through their links and through profiles set to "Everyone".
Will my profile show up on Google?
Only if you turn on "Let search engines show my profile", which works with the visibility "Everyone". Without it, profiles are not indexed.
Which plan do I need?
None: profiles, following, cheers, Discover and sharing are included in every plan, Free too. Only evaluation links, where friends score your beer, are Pro.
Your next batch starts here.
Free for up to 20 brews. No credit card.