Brewing knowledge MCP — beer styles, ingredients, off-flavours, water chemistry, recipes
Brewing knowledge MCP — beer styles, ingredients, off-flavours, water chemistry, recipes. The brewers mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 6 defined tools rather than through you.
brewers-almanack on npm is all you need. Most clients run it directly, so configuration is a few lines and a restart.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
search_styles — Search 85 BJCP beer styles by name, category, or characteristics. Returns vital statistics, overall impression, ingredients, and commercial examplessearch_ingredients — Search hops, malts, yeasts, and adjuncts by name, type, or characteristic. Filter by category or search across alldiagnose_off_flavour — Identify off-flavours from taste or aroma descriptions. Returns the likely compound, causes, prevention steps, and styles where it may be acceptablematch_water_profile — Find brewing water profiles by city name or beer style. Returns mineral composition (Ca, Mg, Na, Cl, SO4, HCO3) and style recommendationssuggest_recipe — Generate a recipe for a target beer style. Returns grain bill, hop schedule, yeast selection, water profile, and process parameterspairing_guide — Beer and food pairing suggestions. Search by beer style or dish name. Returns matches with complement, contrast, and cleanse principlesThis sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Brewers's toolset — search_styles, search_ingredients, diagnose_off_flavour and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by gregario; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| search_styles | Search 85 BJCP beer styles by name, category, or characteristics. Returns vital statistics, overall impression, ingredients, and commercial examples. |
| search_ingredients | Search hops, malts, yeasts, and adjuncts by name, type, or characteristic. Filter by category or search across all. |
| diagnose_off_flavour | Identify off-flavours from taste or aroma descriptions. Returns the likely compound, causes, prevention steps, and styles where it may be acceptable. |
| match_water_profile | Find brewing water profiles by city name or beer style. Returns mineral composition (Ca, Mg, Na, Cl, SO4, HCO3) and style recommendations. |
| suggest_recipe | Generate a recipe for a target beer style. Returns grain bill, hop schedule, yeast selection, water profile, and process parameters. |
| pairing_guide | Beer and food pairing suggestions. Search by beer style or dish name. Returns matches with complement, contrast, and cleanse principles. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"brewers-almanack": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "brewers-almanack"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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