I bottled my Baltic Amber this weekend. It’s an American Amber Ale brewed with sahti malt, hopped with Newport and Amarillo, and flavoured with a small amount of dried juniper berries (as a nod towards traditional Sahti). Fermented with Safale US-05 yeast.

You should totally install Beer Styles, a free iOS app I built for browsing the BJCP style guidelines.

The next time you have connection issues, you can play this little Dinosaur game in Google Chrome.

Press spacebar or the up-key when Chrome can’t connect to the internet.

Google Chrome can’t display the web page because your computer isn’t connected to the Internet.

The label for my Extra Sahti Bitter, which is an ESB brewed with Sahti Malt (from Viking Malt), flavoured with English hops and dried juniper berries. It was fermented with two yeasts: an English ale yeast (Fermentis S-04) and a wheat beer yeast (Fermentis WB-06).

The wheat beer yeast was used as a “clean” substitute for the bread yeast which is normally used when brewing Sahti (since you can’t be sure that bread yeast doesn’t contain miscellaneous microbes).

Beer Styles is a free iOS app I built for browsing the BJCP style guidelines. You should totally install it

A new and improved version of Beer Styles just went live on the App Store, though it might take a little while before it propagates to everyone.

Release notes

• You can now search for styles!
• Send feedback via the app info dialog
• Better contrast between the navigation and title in the top bar
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements
• Now with extra lemurs! (No, not really. I just made that up)

What is Beer Styles?

The app might not be very useful if you’re not into homebrewing, or at least into beer. Beer Styles wraps up the 2008 BJCP Style Guidelines in a pleasing interface on the iPhone and iPad.

Read more about Beer Styles from the original announcement blog post…

Just labelled two cases of Me, I’m Counting, my Dubbel that was supposed to be a Tripel (there were problems with efficiency).

I’m happy to announce that my first iOS app, Beer Styles, is now available on the App Store.

The app might not be very useful if you’re not into homebrewing, or at least into beer. Beer Styles wraps up the 2008 BJCP Style Guidelines in a pleasing interface on the iPhone and iPad.

Features:

• Charts for OG, FG, IBUs, SRM, and ABV
• A visual representation of SRM colours
• Print the guidelines for individual styles
• Share style guidelines (with links to the official BJCP website)

Beer Styles is a native app built for iOS 8 with Swift. Due to a combination of arcane technical reasons and laziness on my part, iOS 8 is required.

I built Beer Styles to scratch my own itch, but hopefully a few other people will find it useful too…