Once a batch has been started, it will move from the status of 'Planned' to 'Brewing', and will be given a tag of In-progress. You will now be able to use your electronic brew sheet by selecting one of the three highlighted buttons.

Your brew sheet reflects what has been entered into your recipe, with any checks, readings, additions, notes, etc, displayed here. You can also choose to have readings from the Fermenting or Post-fermentation stages passed onto the Analysis tab on the batch, for example, your OG. Our Recipes & brew sheets guide explains how to add a reading, which you can then select to have passed on to your analysis tab on the batch.

Your brew sheet will reflect the brewing stages included in your recipe and the type of stages that these are. In this example, the main 'brewing' stages are listed under 'Turn 1', and we simply have Mash, Boil, and Collection. By selecting Post-brewing stages, you will see stages such as 'Fermentation' and 'Cellaring'.

Your required recipe additions, checks, readings, etc., will be displayed on your brew sheet.

The virtual brewsheet will follow your recipe's steps and stages when it opens. (The more built out your recipe is, the more you can get out of the brewsheet).

All ingredients the recipe calls for will show with an 'Add' action row, like in the screenshot above. If you have chosen not to auto-allocate stock when setting up the batch, you will now see an option to add the ingredient manually or ask Breww to auto-assign that ingredient. If you have auto-allocated the stock, then Breww will have drawn this from stock when starting the batch, and this will show as having been added on your brewsheet.

If you add an ingredient using the dark blue or green buttons (or auto-assign when starting the batch), this will be taken from your inventory and impact your stock level.

You can mark each action as 'complete'; this may be after adding exactly what the recipe calls for, more, less, or even nothing at all. It's simply to confirm that you've moved on from this action and that it is complete. Ticking the 'complete' box itself has no direct impact on stock levels. If you do not make an addition and mark that action as complete, a notice will pop up to tell you this has been “Marked as complete without using any stock”; you can ignore this if this was the intention.

The main point of ticking the 'complete' box is to help you keep track of where you've got to in your recipe steps, keeping you up to date with what you've completed. The next recipe step for each batch is also shown on the production dashboard and is based on what you've ticked off.

Whether you have auto-assigned ingredients or manually added them, you can, within your brewing page, make changes to the batches used and the quantity used. (If you need to, for any reason, change the ingredient used completely, this is covered in the Batch ingredient substitutions help guide.) When you have your brewsheet open, on any add action, you can add an ingredient batch using the + button or edit the ingredient batch already assigned using the edit button.

The add batch button will simply allow you to add more of the ingredient or stock item from any batch. If you choose the same batch as has already been added, it will simply be merged with the current addition, but if you add more from a second batch, a second batch line will appear, as well as a total quantity below.

The edit button will allow you to edit the quantity of that ingredient or stock items added from that batch. (To remove a batch addition completely, you can simply set the quantity to 0.) If you want to add the same ingredient addition but a different batch, setting the quantity to 0 first will allow you to re-add the addition with the correct batch.

If you have built calculations by using reporting tags in your recipe, you will be able to use the virtual brew sheet to simply enter your data readings, which will automatically display the calculated results for you. Our guide Recipes & brew sheets covers these in more detail

You can visually reflect your brewing system vessel movements on your brew sheet to help track your progress. You can transfer from vessel to vessel by using the -> Turn 1 actions button. This example shows two separate turns in my brewing system at the same time, with Turn 1 currently in the boiling stage, and Turn two in the mashing stage.

To find out how you can transfer a batch into a primary vessel from your brewing system, please see the guide: Transfers from brewing systems.