Mash step order bug?

[WhiteWhale]

Hi,

I?m not sure if this is a "bug" or if I am using Beersmith 3.1 Desktop in the wrong way?

This is what one of my Mash Profiles could look like:

  1. Infusion step "Mash in": Add x water at y temperature...
  2. Temperature Step: Heat to x over y minutes...

If I close the app and open it again, the order of the mash steps are reversed.
Not a super big deal, but shouldn?t Beersmith remember in which order I have put my steps?

Thanks for a very nice app!

 

[Oginme]

What are the specific temperatures you are trying to get to?  One thing that BeerSmith does is it defaults the steps to a continuing rise in temperature, so that if you try to do a reverse temperature step (i.e. mash at 156F and then lower the temperature to 148F) it will swap the steps to do the 148F rest first.

 

[BeerSmith]

Hi,
The program will automatically sort steps into increasing temperature order - in part to prevent it generating "negative" mash volume infusions.  Most systems are not designed to cool/lower temps during the mash.

Brad

 

[WhiteWhale]

OK, that?s the problem then.
I usually loose 2 C over an hour and had set a temperature step to decrease from 67 to 65.
I will work around it.

 

[Kevin58]

Ignore those small temp losses. (almost) Everyone experiences a few degrees of temp loss over the length of the mash and I honestly don't know of anyone who factors that into their mash schedule. Your mash conversion is for all intents and purposes complete within the first half hour anyway.