Equipment
An equipment profile stores the brewhouse numbers your recipes calculate against: batch volume, boil-off rate, vessel losses, and efficiency. Set one up once and every recipe that uses it inherits the same values, so its water volumes, gravity, and bitterness are based on your real kit rather than a generic default. The screen lives at /profiles/equipment and has two halves: a list of every profile you can reach, and a slide-over that opens beside it for reading or editing one.
Stock and your equipment
Every profile is one of two kinds, and that determines what you can do with it.
Stock systems are templates homebre.ws maintains, covering common rigs with sensible numbers. They are read-only: you can assign one to a recipe or make it your default, but you can’t edit a stock profile in place. To change one, Customize it, which copies it into your own library as an editable profile and leaves the original untouched.
Your equipment is everything you build or customize. These are fully yours to edit, duplicate, set as default, or delete.
The actions available on a profile:
- Set as default
- mark a profile as the one new recipes start with. You get one default at a time; setting a stock profile as default first copies it into your library.
- Customize
- copy a stock template into an editable profile of your own. This is the only way to change a stock profile's numbers.
- Edit
- change any field on one of your profiles. Stock profiles have no Edit action; they route to Customize instead.
- Duplicate
- clone any profile into your library as a fresh copy, named
… copy. - Delete
- remove one of your profiles. A two-step confirm guards it, and recipes that referenced it fall back to your default.
Browsing equipment
The list at /profiles/equipment shows every profile you can reach, stock and custom together.
Header. The title, a count chip (the number shown, or shown / total when a filter narrows the list), and an Add equipment button that opens a blank profile form. A one-line description sits below.
Filter and search. A segmented All / Custom / Stock control narrows the list to one tier, each segment showing its own count. The Search box filters by name, description, or category.
Table columns. On wider screens the profiles appear as a sortable table; on narrow screens they collapse to cards.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Profile | A vessel glyph, the profile name, and its one-line description. A Default badge marks your default; a yours badge marks your own profiles. |
| Category | The vessel archetype as a chip: All-in-one, Three-vessel, BIAB, or Cooler tun. |
| Batch | The finished-beer volume the rig is set up for, in L. |
| Boil | Boil length in min. |
Every column is sortable: click a header to sort, click again to reverse. Your default profile always sits at the top of the list regardless of sort order. A footer line shows how many profiles are displayed out of the total, and how many are stock versus yours.
- 1Filter to Custom or Stock, or type in Search, to narrow the list.
- 2Click any row to open its detail panel.
- 3To use a profile in a recipe, open the recipe and pick it on the Setup card.
The detail panel
Clicking a profile opens a slide-over beside the list with its full specification.
Provenance. A stock profile shows a lock banner noting it is read-only and maintained by homebre.ws. A profile you customized from a stock template shows a “Copied from stock …” line naming its source.
Spec strip. Four glanceable numbers across the top: Batch (L), Boil (min), Mash eff (%), and Brewhouse (%).
Grouped specs. Below the strip, the rest of the numbers are laid out in labeled groups (mash tun, kettle and boil, and hot liquor), followed by any Notes and a last-updated line.
Actions. The bar at the bottom depends on the tier. A stock profile offers Customize a copy and Set as default. One of your own profiles offers Edit, Duplicate, Set as default, and Delete…. Deleting is a two-step confirm: the destructive button only appears once you arm it, and recipes that referenced the profile fall back to your default.
Equipment fields
You edit a profile in the form that opens in the slide-over, whether you’re creating one, editing your own, or customizing a stock template. The fields are grouped into sections. Every physical quantity is stored in metric and shown in your preferred units, so a batch volume you enter in gallons is kept internally in liters.
Identity.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | What the profile is called. Required. |
| Description | A short one-liner — vessels, power source, where it lives. |
| Category | The vessel archetype: All-in-one, Three-vessel, BIAB, or Cooler tun. Sets the glyph shown in the list. |
Batch & efficiency.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Batch volume | The finished-beer volume you're targeting, in L. |
| Boil time | Default kettle boil length in min. |
| Brewhouse efficiency | Overall sugar yield from grain to packaged beer, as a %. |
| Mash efficiency | Sugar extracted in the mash, as a %. |
Mash tun.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Mash tun volume | Capacity of the mash vessel, in L. |
| Mash tun deadspace | Volume below the outlet that can't drain, in L. |
| Mash tun loss | Wort left behind in the tun after the mash, in L. |
| Water-to-grain ratio | Mash thickness, in L/kg of grain. |
| Grain absorption | Wort retained by the grain, in L/kg. |
Kettle & boil.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Kettle top-up water | Water added directly to the kettle, in L. |
| Boil-off rate | How fast the kettle boils off, in L/hr. |
| Trub/chiller loss | Wort left behind with the trub and in the chiller, in L. |
| Kettle diameter | Inside diameter of the kettle, in cm. |
| Kettle opening Ø | Diameter of the kettle opening, in cm. |
| Hop utilisation | A scaling factor on hop bitterness for this rig, as a %. |
| Cooling shrinkage | Volume lost as the wort cools, as a %. |
Hot liquor.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| HLT loss | Water left behind in the hot liquor tank, in L. Feeds the sparge-water calculation. |
Notes. A free-text field for anything worth remembering next time: pump settings, sparge temperature, the fudge factors that make your numbers land.
- 1From the list, click Add equipment for a blank profile, or open a stock profile and click Customize a copy.
- 2Fill in the Identity fields, then work through batch, mash tun, kettle, and hot liquor.
- 3Click Save profile. It lands in your Custom list.
- 4Optionally Set as default so new recipes start with it.