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Reguest for Feature - Bottle count

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Delmar Hill

I was wondering if there were plans to include in the recipe a section to record the actual bottle count and bottle size. Maybe even allow multiple bottle sizes and counts per recipe. I often bottle with 2 or 3 different bottle sizes and sometime, on large batches, a keg as well.

Thanks
Delmar
 
Delmar,
 It is certainly a possibility - as always the issue becomes screen space (the recipes are already cramped).

 I am considering an expanded area (perhaps a popup dialog) for more detailed bottling/kegging information.

 In the meantime, you could include this information in the notes section.

Cheers!
Brad
 
Was just thinking about this kind of feature tonight.

Add your keg and bottle numbers to the inventory, and then in the recipe have a button to fill/check out the storage options. You now know what you have cellared, and how many kegs and bottles you have free. You could even give a break down of the total volume of the kegs and bottles you have free so you know if you have enough storage space for the next brew.
This would be a great addition. :D

Then at a later date you could include an inventory of purchased beer, for a complete beer cellar overview.
 
Chad,
  Just thinking through this - would you propose a separate view (like the various ingredients have) where you could record your kegs and bottles and then some kind of tie in to allow you to fill them when brewing or mark them empty after drinking?

Brad
 
Exactly, a view name like "Kegs/Bottles" or "Storage". Under this view you could have it laid out as so;

Name        Type        Quantity        Full        Empty
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
19L          Keg              4              2            2
500ml      Bottle          23              10          13
750ml      Bottle          54              22          32

And then another view called "Cellar" which would be something like;

Recipe        19L        500ml        750ml
--------------------------------------------------------
IPA            1              0            0
Lager          0              2            25

The Storage types (19L, 500ml, 750ml) would be variable based on what was in the "Kegs/Bottles" list. Each recipe in the list would be linked back to the brew sheet. And you could decrese the storage count either from the Cellar or the Brew Sheet. Once a recipe is 'empty' it is automatically removed from the Cellar list.

Just some ideas.
 
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