Water analysis has also been added to the Tools->Water Profile tool which lets you take a base water profile such as your local water source and develop water additions associated with a target water profile to brew another beer. In addition John Palmer’s analysis of recommended color range for an unadjusted mash, as well as sulfide/chloride bitterness balance is included in the water details dialog. From Ingredients->Water you can add your own local water profile and get an instant estimate of Alkalinity, Effective Hardness, Residual Alkalinity and the Sulfide to Chloride Ratio. Water analysis is now built into the water ingredient profiles. Use the Select Fields button on the bottom right section of the design tab for any recipe to add new fields to the listed ones to customize what you are seeing when building a recipe. The space for custom fields on the bottom right of the design tab has been doubled to 26 fields (two columns). This makes it easier than ever to quickly balance your hop bill including boil and whirlpool hops. You can click on the new Hop IBUs button next to the various add ingredient buttons on the recipe design tab to adjust individual IBUs for all of your hop additions at once. Ctrl-X = Cut, Ctrl-C = Copy, Ctrl-V = Paste, Ctrl-D=Duplicate, Del=Delete selected, Ctrl-Z=Undo last ingredient changeįinally the escape and enter keys now work properly to close dialogs and can even be enabled for recipe tabs (if desired) by going to Options->Look and Feel and selecting the Close Tabs on Escape/Enter checkbox in the top section of the dilaog.As mentioned you can now select multiple ingredients by holding the Ctrl or Shift keys when selecting ingredients. +/-/=Increment/Decrement amount, Ctrl-z=Undo Last Item, and the “” keys will decrement or increment time for itemĬopy, paste, duplicate, and an undo button are now active on the ingredient list making it easier to handle small changes. Del = Delete, Ctrl-H = Add hops, 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.The Mac Control- combos were added in 2.3.6 On Mac you can use either the Control or Command key for most shortcuts, though Ctrl-H must be used to add hops since it is a reserved “Hide window” combo on the Mac. Here’s the full list – these are active only when the ingredient list has keyboard focus. Keyboard focus issues were corrected and shortcuts have been added so you can easily add ingredients using the keyboard (Ctrl-Y for yeast, Ctrl-W for water, etc…) as long as the ingredient list has focus. You can also now select multiple ingredients and delete them all at once. The new add ingredient dialogs all have a button that lets you add the currently selected ingredient without closing the dialog so you can enter a bunch of hop additions or grains quickly. Enter the name of a unit after the number to convert units (for example “3lb 2 oz” or “2.3 kg” works in any field)Īdding/altering ingredients is easier too. You can now change the amount of an ingredient by editing the amount column directly on the ingredient list by clicking on it – never even opening a dialog. The old style of editing is still available from Options->Look and Feel – Simplified Recipe Editing checkbox if you want to turn this feature off. You can still get the full details by clicking on the Edit Details… button a the bottom of the ingredient. When you open an ingredient for editing, BeerSmith now shows a simplified dialog with focus on the amount of that ingredient which makes it much easier to quickly adjust it. Near the bottom of this tab I’ve also added support for fermentation tracking and you can enter fermentation gravity and temperature readings and graph them against your planned fermentation profile. A Clear Session Data button near the top sets all of the values equal to the estimates so you can easily reset for another batch, or you can clear the current field with the Clear Field button. Each field is color coded yellow until an actual value is entered making it easy to track the items you have entered from the ones still to be done. The Session TabĪ new session tab replaces the old fermentation tab and lets you record session readings in one place to you can compare measured and estimated values. Here’s a summary of some of the new changes and how to use them! Note that you can download the new version here. This is a big update, so this will be a pretty long post. Follow BeerSmith 2.3 update features some significant changes to the user interface as well as powerful changes in the brewing engine.
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