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  <h1>&#127866; Top-down Brew: Beer Engine Overview</h1>
  <h2>Beer Engine 2024</h2>
	<p>The Beer Engine is free, open-source brewing software that based upon percentage-driven calculations rather than physical weights and volumes. The calculations can be easily modified to meet the brewer's needs for volume, preferred units, and ingredient variations.  </p>
  <h2>Concise version</h2>
  <p>The <a href="beconcise.html" alt="Beer engine, concise version">concise version</a> has most of the recipe variables entered in a single field. Codes like m: for malt and h: for hops are used to code the recipe data. This version works nicely for recipes that are not meant to be altered, like clone beer recipes. Users can enter their own values for volume and similar batch variables. </p>
  <h2>Flexstyle version</h2>
  <p>The <a href="beflexstyle.html" alt="Beer engine, FlexStyle version">FlexStyle version</a> provides guidance for style-based recipe development. These meta-recipes are based upon <a href="https://www.bjcp.org/">BJCP</a> style definitions, quantitative analysis from <a href="https://www.beer-analytics.com/" alt="The beer analytics.com web site has a quantitative analysis of ingredients and quantities used in beer style recipes" target="_blank">beer-analytics.com</a>, and style guidelines written by experts. FlexStyle is a combination of "flexible" and "style." </p>
  <h2>Make your own recipe calculator</h2>
  <p>People who have basic HTML skills can easily <a href="bediy.html" alt="Make your own web page for recipe calculations">make their own recipe calculating pages</a> with this software. The default values in the fields can be modified to make sharing beer recipes with other homebrewers. The Creative Commons license allows for free sharing. Attribution to this web site is appreciated. </p>
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