Brew Meister: Measure & Manage

A well designed app both functionally and visually, but with a few small shortcomings. This app is clean and concise, smooth as butter, and has no problems connecting with both the EasyDens and SmartRef devices I own. I do however have a few suggestions to improve usability and to streamline workflow. I think we just gained multiple users which is nice, and I’m hoping that this also includes online updates so other users can check in on measurements, sort of like Google Drive applications. But aside from that these are some of my wishlist items. 1. More customizability for the beer icons - Instead of choosing from stock images, can you add a glassware category a colour category, and maybe even a foam category. This way we can make any variation we see fit that matches the colour, glassware for the style, etc. It may be useful to add an SRM value that would automatically choose the colour, but also to allow for us to pick any beer colour at the very least and any colour from the colour wheel to take it a step further. 2. Show/Hide certain measurements without deleting them - It would be nice to deselect measurements to clean up the charts without deleting the values. 3. Show/Hide certain beers without deleting them - Without a folder system you end up with a long list of items you have to scroll through to find something if it’s not easily searchable. 4. Folders - The ability to group together certain beers. 5. Sorting - The ability to sort by ABV, style, etc. (must add styles first). 6. Filtering - The ability to search based on the aforementioned sorting guidelines in order to show only relevant information. 7. Targets - The ability to set targets for at least the OG/FG and see variance from actual. 8. Comparisons - The ability to compare multiple fermentations to see how they stack up. 9. Predictive Analysis - If you have multiple fermentations of the same brand and load that profile, it should show you where you are likely to be during that ferment and how far from the standard trend line you may have drifted. 10. Device Support - The ability to connect with the DMA 35 so that upgrading allows you to use this interface.

Expensive but so much better than a refractometer.

Always take a while before it connects.

This app and device is so easy to use! No need to convert units, or wait for the right temp. It’s so fast too. I love it.

The app and hardware work great, but charging a subscription for basic functionality is a real bad look.

Wish I had bought this years ago. Love the features of the combo of the dens and refractometer. Wish it had notes per reading and could be synced with other brewing apps.

App is crazy counter-intuitive to use and the easiest method to record information is to connect it to an electronic hydrometer the app makers want to sell you.

For a $350-400 tool, I expect this app to be free and self-contained. They could store all your batches in iCloud, but instead are trying to upsell you on their own cloud storage service. Then they split the functionality into three separate apps so they can sell you three subscriptions. I would think twice before buying another Anton Paar product.

I like it more and more every time I use it makes brewing a pleasure

Awesome device! Worth the money honestly! Only thing I wish was available is an online account where you can pull the data up on your computer and save info. Also would be nice to change the date format as well. I usually take the data and convert it to a line graph and save it to the brew log, for a quick reference.