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ProMash Revision History - V1.0.G

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Version 1.0g Upgrade
Posted 12-15-98

  1. ProMash now has 2 modes of operation: The Home Brewer Mode and The Pro Brewer Mode. You set this in the System Defaults, Measures and Sizes dialog. When in the Home Brewer mode, ProMash functions as previous, with QTS, Gallons and Oz as the typical unit types (along with their metric equivalents). In the Pro Brewer mode however, the standard units are now Gallons, Barrels and Pounds (or metric equivalent). There are many items that need manual adjustment for the levels when the modes are changed. For this reason, ProMash can be downloaded in either the Home Brewer mode set as the default or the Pro Brewer mode. Each has been set up (including example recipes, brew sessions, system defaults, etc.) to accurately reflect the different scale of the systems.

  2. ProMash now allows you to specify the form of a hop, ie Whole Leaf, Plug or Pellet. While all entries default to Whole, you can easily change them in the Hop Data editing dialogs, and add new hop types as you see fit. Like the Malt dialogs, where you can choose to see All, Grain, Sugar, Other entries by simply pressing the appropriate button, so to can you view the different hop types.

    Additionally, since many believe that additional kettle utilization is had by plug and/or pellet hops, there are 3 new System Settings in the Hop section. The first is simply a choice to use the additional utilization obtained from plug/pellet hops, the second is the amount of extra utilization you will achieve from plug hops (I recommend 2 % for plugs) and the third is the amount of extra utilization you will achieve from pellet hops (I recommend no more than 10%).

  3. The Malt and Hop list boxes in the main Recipe and Brewing Session-Recipe dialogs have been expanded. Within the Malt list box, the Origin is now listed along with the name of the malt. In the Hops dialog the Form of the hop is now listed (if you use extra utilization for these, you're going to want to know!). The dialogs have also been re-arranged ever-so-slightly.

  4. ProMash now ships with both AHA (American Homebrewers Association) and BJCP (Beer Judge Certification Program) style guidelines. You may choose which one is the default and in typical ProMash fashion may swap between the two in the style dialogs. Special thanks to Jim Liddil for his significant data entry contribution! Jim had most of the BJCP styles entered in when I was ready for the implementation. Thanks Jim!

  5. The System Settings Dialog has been completely re-vamped. With new system settings to accompany the new functionality, the existing dialog was just out-of-hand. The settings are now broken into 6 easily identifiable groups.

  6. Pressing 'Cancel' in the Brewing Session Water Needed Calculator would have no affect, and the values would stay preserved as modified. This has been fixed, pressing Cancel now preserves the values prior to any modification.

  7. Word wrapping was not working in a Brewing Session-Recipe-Extra Notes and Awards entry boxes. This has been corrected.

  8. If for any reason a ProMash recipe or brewing session file was marked as Read-Only (possibly by transferring over the net, and the receiving program marking it as read-only), then trying to load the file would result in a file-not-found message and if you could get it to load, saving it would hang ProMash completely. This has all been resolved and ProMash will now read files marked as read-only. Should the user try and write out a Read-Only file, ProMash will now display a nice warning message, suggesting that the user try a new file name.

  9. Previously, in the complex mash schedules and mash designer, the first step's infusion amount would also read 0. This was because the first step's infusion amount was always equal to the mash water amount, shown on the same dialog. I have modified this so that the first step's infusion amount WILL read the mash water amount as well, so as to eliminate the confusion. However, previously saved mash schedules will not show this immediately. They need to be loaded, and have any parameter modified 1 time, then back. This will force the first entry to recalculate and be re-displayed. Save the mash schedule again for permanent fixing. Note that either way, the infusion amounts and temps have always been correct.

  10. Many, many print errors have been fixed throughout the program. Most of these errors involved not printing the info correctly while using metric measures.

  11. Many other very minor system oddities and bugs have been fixed.