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ProMash Revision History - V1.4.A

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Version 1.4.a Upgrade
Posted 07-12-2000

Ingredient Additions
  1. 15 new WYeast yeast strains.
  2. 16 new White Labs yeast strains.
  3. 4 new Lallemand/Danstar yeast strains.
  4. 15 new Extra Specialty ingredients.
View new Strains and Extra Ingredients.


New Features and Enhancements:

  1. In previous versions of ProMash, the maximum potential extract of grain could only be represented as Specific Gravity per Lbs per Gal. With this version of ProMash, users can select to both enter and display the potential gravity as SG per Lbs per Gal, Points per Lbs per Gal or IOB-HWE (Hot Water Extract typicaly used by European malsters).

    You set the type of gravity potential display in the System Settings - Measurements and Sizes section.

  2. For those who use the EBC color values as opposed to SRM, there are now 2 methods you can choose from to calculate EBC. These are the Traditional EBC Method and the New EBC Method.

    Previous versions only allowed for the New EBC Method, but since the majority of European malsters and brewers have not moved to the New method (and it is unclear if they ever will) the Traditional method and numbers have been made available.

    You set the calculation you would like to use in the System Settings - Mash System, Color, Evaporation section.

  3. Previously, the amount of wort shrinkage calculated in the water needed calculators were hard-coded to 4%. This is the approx. amount of shrinkage you can expect from a near-boiling kettle to pitching temperatures. However, many brewers noted that they take the final measure somewhere in-between before topping up. To accomodate for this, the Wort Shrinkage amount is now a system setting, and can be found in the Mash System, Color and Evaporation section of the System Settings. The default remains 4%.

  4. When printing a brewing session simple mash schedule, the grain temperature and mash tun thermal mass were not printed with the report. This has been corrected. These items were printed correctly in the complex mash schedules.

    Additionally, when printing a competition form from a brewing session, the grain temp and thermal mass of the mash tun are no longer printed. These entries were irrelevant for competition forms.

UI Modification:
  1. Within a brewing session, water needed calculator, you can no longer change the boil time for the recipe being brewed. The boil time can now only be set from the 'Edit Ingredients' dialog. This change does not affect the stand-alone water needed calculator.


Bug Fixes:
  1. There was a font selection problem on a few systems when printing a mash schedule graph, causing the printer to use the 1'st available font that matched the correct size, whish led to some symbol fonts possibly being picked. This has been fixed.

  2. The thermal mass set in the defaults was being passed in recipe files and locked in a brewing session using that recipe. This means a brewer using another brewer's recipe would be unable to set the thermal mass (permanently) to correctly reflect his system's thermal mass. This has been corrected.

  3. Slight correction in Pro-Scale rounding and bbl/gallon conversion.

  4. In the brewing session imbedded water needed calculator A slight error in determining additional mash infusion water (and hence total mash water) was present, if the brewing session also used the simple mash designer. If you had pulled up the mash dialog prior to the water needed dialog, the error would also self correct.

  5. In both the stand alone and brewing session imbedded water needed calculator, if you went to the Mash and Sparge water totals, the amounts would always default to ounces, even if your system was set to metric measure. This problem has been fixed.

  6. In the system settings, in the "Mash System, Color, Evaporation" section, if you switched from American to Metric measure, the Grain Absorption rate (L per kg) was not the equivalent to the American (Gal per LBS) setting. Note that IF you had manually set the metric figure correctly, the calculations used in the program would work correctly as well.

    This problem has been corrected. However, if you use metric settings, and you had manually reset the grain absorption rate to the correct metric rate, the water absorbed in the mash would be in-correct. Also, your setting may have changed and need to be reset in the system settings.

    If you are unsure of your setting, we suggest using the default metric rating of 1.01, which is the American equivalent to 0.12 Gal per LBS.