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Alan
Posted on our old message board on 20 Aug 2003
by Alan
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OK, installed it and at a first glance very nice!
You've nailed the GUI hands-down. I like it better than StrangeBrew and ProMash. And your concept of 'profiles' for mashing schedules, equipment used, and other things is just brutal! And I mean brutal-good, not brutal-bad! I don't think any of the other guys do that - I never would have thought of it but I really like it!
One thing I really like about StrangeBrew though is that it allows me to enter ingredients in any unit I like lbs, g, kg, etc, all mixed in the same recipe. Most of my recipes have a few pounds of this, a kg or so of that, and a few hundred g of something else. Whatever tick mark on the scale ends up being closest. I think most Canadians will be like this, in fact, since we use both systems interchangably.
I find the entering of grains to be a bit clunky the way you have to keep hitting "increase amount" to get the amount you want. You should be able to just enter the amount you want.
And I cannot figure out how to get it to tell me how much water to add in a step mash to get to mashout. It seems to want me to enter the amount of water to add, but that's what the program is supposed to do for me. I tell it how much grain I have, what grain/water ratio I want, and what temperatures I want to hit, then it tells me how much water to add for each step, and at what temp the water needs to be. I figured out a way to get it to do the first step, but not the following steps. Am I missing something?
Alan
by Alan
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OK, installed it and at a first glance very nice!
You've nailed the GUI hands-down. I like it better than StrangeBrew and ProMash. And your concept of 'profiles' for mashing schedules, equipment used, and other things is just brutal! And I mean brutal-good, not brutal-bad! I don't think any of the other guys do that - I never would have thought of it but I really like it!
One thing I really like about StrangeBrew though is that it allows me to enter ingredients in any unit I like lbs, g, kg, etc, all mixed in the same recipe. Most of my recipes have a few pounds of this, a kg or so of that, and a few hundred g of something else. Whatever tick mark on the scale ends up being closest. I think most Canadians will be like this, in fact, since we use both systems interchangably.
I find the entering of grains to be a bit clunky the way you have to keep hitting "increase amount" to get the amount you want. You should be able to just enter the amount you want.
And I cannot figure out how to get it to tell me how much water to add in a step mash to get to mashout. It seems to want me to enter the amount of water to add, but that's what the program is supposed to do for me. I tell it how much grain I have, what grain/water ratio I want, and what temperatures I want to hit, then it tells me how much water to add for each step, and at what temp the water needs to be. I figured out a way to get it to do the first step, but not the following steps. Am I missing something?
Alan