BeerSmith 2 has been redesigned from the ground up to make it easier to navigate and use.
New Look and Feel
| o | The entire program was rewritten from the ground up to support tabbed and windowed browsing - making it easier to work with multiple recipes and tools. |
| o | You can open recipes, tools and other views in either a new tab or window |
| o | A ribbon and integrated toolbars make all of the functions and tools more accessible |
Macintosh Support
| o | BeerSmith 2 is now available for the Macintosh, and both versions have compatible file formats and are nearly identical |
New Recipe Design Tab
| o | A beer glass shows you the color of the beer in real-time as you add new ingredients |
| o | The style guide comparison includes graphical bars to show which items are in or out of style |
| o | The expanded ingredient display can be sorted and now shows the current inventory of each item |
| o | A section is dedicated to user selectable fields - rather than fixing a few fields in the display we let you choose the ones you want most when designing a recipe |
| o | You can now adjust grain percentages using the Grain Adj button next to the ingredients list |
New Recipe Tabs
| o | Within the recipe editor, we've added tabs to help you focus on individual pieces of the brewing process including extended session data |
| o | The Yeast Starter Tab can help you estimate the right size yeast starter to use with your liquid yeast |
| o | The Mash Details Tab lets you adjust and record details of your mash session - and includes a visual graph of the mash process |
Brew in a Bag Support
Profiles for Carbonation and Fermentation
| o | BeerSmith recipes now support profiles for both carbonation and fermentation, making it easy to select the perfect bottling and aging profile to match your beer. |
New Data Format
| o | BeerSmith now uses *.bsmx format files, an extended XML format that is easier to extend and add to as new features are added to BeerSmith |
| o | BeerSmith can still freely import and export BeerSmith 1.x (*.bsm) files as well as BeerXML open format recipe files |
New Tools
| o | The Water Profile Tool now has a button that will calculate the ideal water additions to match a given target water profile |
| o | A number of other tools have been updated, revised and improved |
New Add-ons
| o | The new add-on tool lets you download and manage ingredient and recipe add-on packs from the BeerSmith website |
