Wheeler's Beer Engine

[delboy]

Had a play around with beer engine, very easy to use, great work graham

[Digby Swift]

I find the imperial measurements useful but if I am the only one then I can do the conversions seperately, my scales are in lbs and oz. But I suspect most people have modern scales. I like the journal planner idea. Good work graham, where is your website in your overall plans? Its looking like it will be very handy.

[flytact]

I've yet to try out the program, but I agree with an option for measurements. I often weigh my grains in pounds and hops in grams.

Some one here enlightened me on the ctrl-e and ctrl-m key combinations to switch between english and metric whilst in Beersmith. Haven't a clue how it's done but it has saved me a lot of headache.

[Bryggmester]

I would like the imperial measurements to stay as well, please.

[subsub]

Just palying around with V1.05. Very nice piece of kit Graham. The ability to save recipes and switchable measurements would be a good addition. Absolute genius doing things by percentages it makes everything so easy

[joostan]

Hey mate great app.

Running fine on Windows 7 64bit and the recipe to browser is ok on internet Explorer 8 beta, I was thinking on tinkering around myself but you saved me the trouble. Well done

[subsub]

Under the printing option you can select 'recipe to brower' . It will display the recipe in your internet browser which you can then save as an HTML file.

Maybe I don't want an HTML file. Ever thought of that

[edit1now]

Open the HTML file in Word or OpenOffice and save it as something civilised?

[Graham]

I've put up another interim release of Beer Engine.

The major changes are the ability to save and retrieve recipes, and there are now ingredient editors.
One or two minor enhancements as well. Notification of bugs gratefully received.

Usual place: http://www.practicalbrewing.co.uk/

G.W.

[Graham]

don't forget to uninstall the old one or both versions stop working

Oh! I wonder why that is?

[Graham]

I see the hop and grain editors are functional now , is there anyway to restore them to the default values after playing with them ?

Not if you hit the "save to database" button, but it is no big deal to put it in.
I very, very nearly put a restore everything to defaults function in there, mostly to stop me sending out revisions with my own personal settings in rather than more usual typical settings, like Tinseth for example. But a rush to get it out in a more usable form, and rapidly dwindling enthusiasm, caused me to skip that idea.

[Graham]

It doesn't do it when you reinstall the same version on top of itself so to speak but it does if you go from v6 back to v5 or v5 back to v6 if that makes sense.

I can't see why it would do that, but I'll investigate.

I notice there isn't a licence agreement option this time round.

Nobody ever bothers to read them, so I thought that it was just another pretentious irritation for people.

[Graham]

I see there's now a save recipe option

I think it might be buggy though. I had a couple of instances where the recipes did not load back properly, then for ever after it worked okay, so I did not get the chance to track it down. It might just have been me though.

You've not found the efficiency calculator yet

[Jim]

Nice one, Graham!

[subsub]

I like it