Beersmith update 2.3 announced with optimized interface and water calc. tools.

Changes to V2.3:

Major: – Support for above HD window scaling and 200% font size on windows – New “Session” tab consolidates overlapping data related to a session, and session data can be reset so you can track which data was entered for a given recipe – Better Recipe Editing (see below) with focus and keyboard shortcuts – Added mash pH estimator (based on water profile and grain bill) as well as a pH acid adjustment feature (for lactic, phosphoric or acid malt) based on measured pH on the Recipe mash tab — Also added a separate stand-alone mash pH adjustment tool – Corrected a variety of focus issues so keyboard focus is saved as views/dialogs are changed – Water can now be priced, inventoried and added to the shopping cart – Added water profile stats to water profiles including recommended brewing ion levels, Residual Alkalinity, hardness, chloride/sulfate ratio, bitterness profile of water – now available for all water profiles. – Added field for Mash Water Addition to equipment profile to allow for equipment that may have a significant recoverable volume under the mash screen and need more mash volume – Increased custom field display to 26 fields in Design view (up from 13) – Can now lock/unlock recipes to prevent them from being changed (currently desktop onlY) – Late sugar and extract additions now work properly for all grain, and partial mash recipes – Significantly modified late extract calculator to more accurately estimate IBUs as gravity changes over boil – You can now navigate folders via the title bar when viewing subfolders of My Recipes – Added options in equipment profile to allow carry over of remaining boil hops to whirlpool (for utilization) — This feature can also be used for “no chill” as it does a hop-by-hop calculation of IBUs added while cooling – Allow override of “Another copy is running” error to account for case where crash on Mac creates stale lock file – Added support for CO2 Hop Extract as well as Isomerized Hop extract in recipes (in ml) — CO2 extract should be boiled – use alpha content for alpha percentage (typically 35-70%) — Isomerized extract need not be boiled – use iso-alpha percentage as the alpha percent for hops (typically 40-60%) – You can now record detailed fermentation gravity and temperature and graph it against age profile planned on session tab – New “Recover from Backup” command (File menu) lets you view or recover from automatic backups made – Corrected issue where change of options (units) were not reflected in open recipes/dialogs, causing a variety of problems – Yeast viability can now be set for each yeast record allowing more accurate handling of White Labs and other yeast packages

Recipe Editing: – You can now add multiple items when adding ingredients by choosing the “Add Ingredient Without Closing” button from within the add dialogs – Added duplicate button to duplicate ingredients in recipe design view – New Hop Adjust button lets you adjust individual hop IBU contributions all at once – Ingredient editing now uses simplified dialogs with detail buttons — This feature can be turned off (use old dialogs) from Options->Look and Feel->Simplified Recipe Editing box – Flexible sizing of recipe design view – now allows wider ingredient list on wide screens – Undo button below ingredient add buttons can undo last ingredient change in design tab — Also allows undo of scale, convert, adjust gravity and adjust bitterness functions when recipe open – Added key shortcuts to recipe design view – Del=Delete, Ctrl-h = Add hops, Ctrl-M=Add Misc, Ctrl-Y=Add yeast, Ctrl-G=Add grain, Ctrl-W=Add water, Ctrl-D=duplicate, Ctrl-s=Substitute, Ctrl-A=Select All +/-/==Increment/Decrement amount, Ctrl-z=Undo Last Item, [ or ] will decrement or increment time for item – You can now cut/paste ingredients within the design view – use Ctrl-c (copy), Ctrl-v (paste), Ctrl-x (cut), Ctrl-A (Select All) – In-place editing of ingredient amounts from within recipe editor (Windows) – Fixed focus issues so focus remains on ingredient list as adds/deletes are done – Ingredients can now be multi-selected for delete/duplication and incrementing/decrementing – New field for carbonation based on measured final volume is below the carbonation estimate (based on est final vol) – Altered formats on recipe design pages to allow ingredients, notes, mash to expand with window size – Added brew date to starter page and also calculator to estimate Dry Malt Extract needed for starter (tool and starter tab) – Corrected discontinuity in mash temperature adjustments to FG estimates – now handles mash temps < 144 or > 159 properly

Lesser Features – Disabled undo button when dialog editor is open – was causing confusion for many users – Enter/Escape key now saves/cancels most dialogs and there is a look/feel option to allow closing of tabs also – All dialogs make better use of wide screens now – larger fields and graphs scale – Corrected “Ctrl-z” to undo edits within a field (Windows only – previously it did not work properly) – Buttons can now be activated using the space bar keyboard shortcut (Windows only) – Corrected bug when adding mash step from recipe mash tab that could cause crashes – Corrected bug in cloud that could cause errrors on cloud account above its recipe limit – Allow “not fermentable” to affect FG for all grain types (previously was sugar, extract, dry only) – Adjusted color schemes to be more neutral – Added “color” indicators and recommended ranges for water ions to water profile tool – Corrected bug in water profile tool where selecting a water profile (base, dilute, target) did not update totals – Add of a folder in My Recipes now has an “undo” button – Corrected minor math error with boil cool percent that could throw off pre-boil volume for very large cool percentages – Fixed ‘&’ bug on Mac where using an ampersand in the recipe name could cause a crash – Corrected Water Avail from Mash to reflect tun deadspace (previously not reflected in displayed value) – Program now gives you an option to upgrade your cloud space (if desired) when cloud space fills up – You can now set the number of digits after decimal (Precision) for the Currency under Options->Units – Corrected rounding issue where values were sometimes shown as “x lbs 16 oz” when showing pounds and ounces – Added feature to allow “lock file override” if the program has a copy that did not close properly. – Improved mouse wheel propagation for dialogs (however if you use the scroll wheel in a list it will still scroll the list) – Removed black background from style sheet that was messing up many people when printing – Made BJCP 2015 Style guide the new default style guide – Incorporated 2013 and 2016 yeast and hops add-ons in the default add-on – Fixed minor issue where water additions for boil were showing twice on the brew sheet – Added yeast attenuation to the stats page – Corrected backup file code to handle/store backups better, and also autosave them better – Added option to turn off “updated version” check (advanced options tab)

Fixes in 2.3.5 – Fixed issue with scroll bars not appearing as tabs changed (windows) in a recipe – Added time to display/edit of session fermentation temp/gravity data for more complete recording – Changed button fonts in an attempt to give proper retina display of these fonts (Mac) – Added help file updates – Corrected bug that prevented edit of the water/grain ratio within a mash profile

UPDATES/Fixes for 2.3.4 – Corrected pre-boil OG to not include late extract/sugar additions – Fixed return key (was not working) in multi-line fields – Major fixes to keyboard focus (windows) – not maintained across tabs – Corrected date display on session tab (previously was shifted on windows) – Disabled drag/drop of colums (windows) which conflicted with regular column order editing – Removed mash thickness (dup) from session tab (was in l/kg fixed) – Corrected issues with enter key closing some tabs without option being set – Corrected duplicate display of inventory field when customizing columns in design view – Corrected fields so changes to one tab carries over to others properly – Added grams of dry yeast to starter calculation – Added acid amounts and pH to recipe report, added acid amounts to brew sheet – Added carbonation profile edit to session tab – Added post mash gravity/efficiency to mash tab – Corrected tab order so new recipes opened are placed in tab order next to folder tabs (better behavior on close) – Updated sparge water acid calculation to include water pH (more accurate) as well as bicarbs (both recipe and tool) – Fixed “double click” in choose dialogs so you can select a recipe item by double clicking – Corrected crash when emptying shopping cart

Mac Specific Fixes for 2.3.4 – Attempted to add “Retina” versions of all graphics and enable Retina display support (not fully tested yet) – Corrected a huge number of focus issues – program now changes focus much better as you navigate windows/views – Corrected “Edit details…” buttons on the simplified edit dialog – previously it locked things up – Key shortcuts for adding/editing ingredients now work as long as you are focused on the ingredient list when you enter them – Now prevent edit of ingredients if a recipe is locked (previously you could still edit these) – Corrected “clear field” on session tab so it now clears field that currently has focus (resets just that field)

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