diff --git a/build/homebrew/create-homebrew-recipe.awk b/build/homebrew/create-homebrew-recipe.awk
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d01f234e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/homebrew/create-homebrew-recipe.awk
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Usage: awk -f create-homebrew-recipe.awk homebrew-metadata.txt
+
+BEGIN {
+    template = "kitops.rb.template";
+    recipe = "kitops.rb";
+}
+
+{
+  # Read relevant fields from input file
+  # (intended to be homebrew-metadata.txt)
+  shas[$3]=$1;
+  urls[$3]=$2;
+  version[$3]=$4;
+}
+
+END {
+  # Read a line from template, replace special fields, 
+  # and print result to recipe file
+  while ((getline ln < template) > 0)
+  {
+    sub(/url @@darwin-arm64/, "url " urls["darwin-arm64"], ln);
+    sub(/sha256 @@darwin-arm64/, "sha256 " shas["darwin-arm64"], ln);
+
+    sub(/url @@darwin-x86_64/, "url " urls["darwin-x86_64"], ln);
+    sub(/sha256 @@darwin-x86_64/, "sha256 " shas["darwin-x86_64"], ln);
+
+    sub(/url @@linux-arm64/, "url "  urls["linux-arm64"], ln);
+    sub(/sha256 @@linux-arm64/, "sha256 " shas["linux-arm64"], ln);
+
+    sub(/url @@linux-x86_64/, "url "  urls["linux-x86_64"], ln);
+    sub(/sha256 @@linux-x86_64/, "sha256 " shas["linux-x86_64"], ln);
+
+    sub(/url @@linux-i386/, "url "  urls["linux-i386"], ln);
+    sub(/sha256 @@linux-i386/, "sha256 " shas["linux-i386"], ln);
+   
+    sub(/@@version/, version["darwin-arm64"], ln);
+ 
+    print(ln) > recipe;
+  }
+
+  # Close template and recipe fields
+  close(recipe);
+  close(template);
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build/homebrew/homebrew-metadata.txt b/build/homebrew/homebrew-metadata.txt
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index 7a9f8b2e..00000000
--- a/build/homebrew/homebrew-metadata.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-"56cebc02a0ce8c2ddad0caf668226986398dfe84b4513b600a12b4797d1a0927" "https://github.com/brett-hodges/kitops/releases/download/v0.4.19/kitops-linux-arm64.tar.gz" linux-arm64 0.4.19
-"c8420c08e8731148f464e22b4c849232de7116ee04c4cc5c0e3bd1613b87cf36" "https://github.com/brett-hodges/kitops/releases/download/v0.4.19/kitops-linux-i386.tar.gz" linux-i386 0.4.19
-"f93c6d554d810c6587a952adf91d76a8f5b1ae96d5360bd9cf551a4cc09e59c3" "https://github.com/brett-hodges/kitops/releases/download/v0.4.19/kitops-linux-x86_64.tar.gz" linux-x86_64 0.4.19