Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:27 am
I like a lot of the new features, but I might hold off til 2.1. It's a little buggy, and missing some of the niceness it had in version 1
There are some good things
It adjusts final gravity based on your mash schedule
It's got some really cool new tools
I like that you can plot your whole fermentation schedule
You can (to a degree) customize the display for the parameters you want to see
It gives you a predicted post-mash/preboil gravity right on the display so you don't have to calculate it yourself
A couple other things bug me
My main problem that the screen is very cramped/busy, whereas version 1 was easy to read. Some of my statistics can't show all digits as it's laid out (e.g., it shows .013 for gravity instead of 1.013 because the 1 gets cut off by the narrow box for the output)
There are too many ways to get to each option (sidebar/topbar/traditional windows menu) and it leads to a very cramped screen. I'd like a little more space
You can't set your mash volume by thickness anymore
Smaller problems:
Also when Import all my old recipes it created a problem in the calendar. In 1.0, I'd keep a brew log in the brew log folder. In 2.0, it keeps your log in the calendar. Having a section both for original recipes and for brew long created duplicates all over my calendar that I had to manually delete.
When I exported BeerXML documents from 2.0 they weren't received well by other programs (claimed formatting errors) but they were received well from BeerSmith1
Some of the features (like measured efficiency) don't seem to be giving me the right outputs
A couple features I'd like to see that aren't put in:
Adjusting carbonation to the volume you package, as opposed to the original batch (i.e., I usually boil 6, ferment 5.5, and keg or bottle 5 gallons). You can do that in a separate tool, but it'd be a nice feature to have with recipes
Showing percentages by extract instead of weight (10% sugar by weight leads to very different beers in a 60% and 80% efficiency brewhouse)
EGADS! 3 MONTHS WITHOUT BREWING? MOVING YOU SUCK.... NEVER AGAIN
In Kegerator - Hopfen Weiss, Best Bitter
In Primary - Baby Baine Barleywine
Next up: Petite Saison
