# Welcome

### What's this all about

The BierBot Bricks brewing software aims to help you to brew great beer. You can add different devices (a.k.a. "Bricks")

* to control your equipment (the BierBot Brick), 
* to track your temperatures and 
* to track your gravity (TILT, iSpindel) 

... over time. You can import and create **recipes** using our recipe editor, you can view a **detailled brewing batch log** after your brewday and you can **invite fellow brewers to your brewery** to share all of the aforementioned stuff.

### Getting started

Let's say you simply want to "start brewing" and end up with a screen similar to the following. You might ask: "How do I get there?". Here's the answer:

1. [Register / Login](https://bricks.bierbot.com/#/register).
2. [Build or buy a Brick ](https://docs.bierbot.com/hardware/hardware/brick-101)(Easy option: Sonoff TH16 based, flexible option: Raspberry Pi).
3. [Connect the Brick to your brewery](https://docs.bierbot.com/getting-started/adding-your-first-brick).
4. [Assign the relay and temperature sensor of your Brick to a device](https://docs.bierbot.com/getting-started/setting-up-your-first-mashtun), i.e. mashtun.
5. [Create or import a recipe](https://docs.bierbot.com/getting-started/importing-recipes).
6. [Start the recipe to launch to automatic mode.](https://docs.bierbot.com/using-bricks/automatic-mode)

![A brew running in automatic mode.](https://972345729-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Mb-yazhyh6RzCW1gcvw%2F-MhsUeKyn_13-iQL2AEK%2F-MhsV45aGPreWDOz3OLw%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=68535e19-f885-45c7-a6fc-1e8b0fd141c8)

### Get involved / contribute to this documentation

If you want to help building this documentation: Please shoot us a message at hello \[ad) bierbot \[döt ] com. A free BierBot waits for you ;) Thanks!

### Cool links that might be interesting

* YouTube Video: How to build your own [Brick for just 25€ in 15 minutes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJEo5KyGwx4).
* Our Instagram page: New [features will be announced here](https://www.instagram.com/bierbotbrewing/).
* The official support forums: If you have a question worth sharing or a feature request you'd like to discuss in public, please reach out using [our support forums](https://github.com/BernhardSchlegel/BierBot-Bricks).

Last but not least: Our [privacy statement](https://bricks.bierbot.com/#/privacy) and [terms](https://bricks.bierbot.com/#/terms).