Turn your ideas into your next favourite brew.
Brew Compass helps you recreate a classic style or invent something new. It analyses your ingredient choices. It identifies the closest classic beer style. Choose your ingredients, build your recipe, and let Brew Compass do the rest.
How Brew Compass Works
Brew Compass analyses every ingredient you choose, including:
🍺 Malt Base
🎨 Malt Grains
🌿 Hop Profile
⚖️ Bitterness
🍯 Booster Selection
🧪 Yeast
These ingredients are compared against an ever-growing library of classic beer styles developed specifically for the Dark Rock Brewing Build Your Beer system.
More Than A Recipe Builder
Unlike traditional recipe generators, Brew Compass doesn’t simply follow a fixed recipe. Instead, it analyses the character of your beer and compares it with recognised classic beer styles. That means you can experiment freely while still understanding what style your recipe most closely resembles.
Four Levels of Recommendation
⭐ Excellent Match
Your recipe closely matches a recognised classic beer style.
👍 Good Match
Your recipe shares many characteristics with a classic style.
🍺 Inspired by Classic Styles
Your recipe combines characteristics from several classic styles.
🧪 Brewer’s Creation
Some of the world’s best beers began as experiments.
If your recipe doesn’t closely match a recognised style, Brew Compass celebrates your originality while suggesting similar styles for inspiration.
Designed For Home Brewers
Brew Compass has been developed specifically for the Dark Rock Brewing Build Your Beer system. Rather than comparing against every beer style ever created, it compares your recipe against styles that can realistically be brewed using the ingredients available within the Build Your Beer range. This means every recommendation is practical, achievable and relevant.
Always Growing
Brew Compass will continue to evolve. As new hop blends, speciality grains, yeasts and brewing additions become available, Brew Compass will learn to recognise even more beer styles. Today’s recommendation engine is only the beginning.
Why We Built Brew Compass
We believe brewing should be about creativity. Sometimes you’ll recreate a classic style. Sometimes you’ll discover something entirely new. Either way, Brew Compass helps you understand your recipe and gives you the confidence to keep experimenting.
Because some of the world’s best beers began as experiments.
Ready to Build Your Next Beer?
Design your own recipe, discover its closest classic beer style and start brewing today.
