BeerSmith2
BeerSmith2 is a home brewing recipe design and calculation software used by beer enthusiasts and homebrewers worldwide. It helps users formulate beer recipes by managing ingredients (grains, hops, yeast, water chemistry), calculating expected gravity, IBU (International Bitterness Units), color, and other fermentation parameters based on the brewing style. The app includes a searchable ingredient database, supports multiple recipe formats, tracks brew logs, and can scale recipes for different batch sizes. It is popular among craft brewers who want to design recipes without complex manual calculations or expensive laboratory analysis.
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1 suggestionWe could not find recent information about BeerSmith2's Apple Silicon support status — the search results were inconclusive and the developer's current plans are unclear. If you rely on this app for recipe management or brewing logs, contact the developer directly to ask whether a native Apple Silicon build is planned, as an Intel-only build will stop launching entirely when Apple removes Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028). In the meantime, the Intel version will continue to run under Rosetta, giving you roughly 27 months to plan an alternative. If the developer confirms no native build is coming, consider researching other actively maintained homebrewing recipe apps like Brewfather (a web-based platform with strong recipe and log features that runs natively in any browser on Apple Silicon) or BeerXML-compatible software that may offer more recent development.
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