Version 1.8.a Upgrade
Posted 03-08-2002
Grain Additions
- 3 New Entries for Australian Pale, Munich and Pilsener type malt.
Extract Additions
- 6 New Entries for Alexander LME
- 5 New Entries for Briess DME, 5 New Entries for Briess LME
- 4 New Entries for Coopers LME
- 3 New Entries for Muntons DME, 3 New Entries for Muntons LME
- 3 New Entries for Generic DME, 4 New Entries for Generic LME
(LME=Liquid Malt Extract, DME=Dry Malt Extract)
Sugar Additions
- 3 Forms of Candi Sugar, Demerara Sugar, Maple Sap, Maple Syrup, Molasses,
Rice Solids, Rice Syrup, Treacle, Turbinado Sugar
New Features and Enhancements:
- Decoction Mashing Enabled
Decoction mashing is finally a reality to ProMash! The decoction features are
very unique in that a separate water/grain ratio is applied to the specific
decoction pull (ie for thick or thin decoctions) for a more accurate
determination of volumes pulled. Developed by A.J. deLange, John Palmer and
Jeffrey Donovan for ProMash.
To see a complete tutorial for using the mash designer and an overview of the
new decoction features click here,
or for an advanced tutorial on the use of the new decoction functionality
click here.
- Efficiency Locking!
The Grain bill may now be locked to the efficiency setting, much the same way
that all ingredients can be locked to the batch size for automatic ingredient
scaling. This makes it much easier to scale a circulated recipe to match
your system's efficiency. To see how to use the Efficiency Scaling feature
click here.
- Color Color Color! ProMash now has color swatches to show the beer color
based on the Estimated SRM!
These color swatches are shown in the recipe's ingredients section, next to the
SRM Color Field. They are also printed in printouts and HTML exports. Alpha
blending can also be enabled and there is a Color Calibration Utility and A
Color Spectrum Utility (for modifying the color tables). The resolution of the
swatches is to 0.10 SRM, with a total range of 0 - 40 SRM.
To see some of the new color features click
here.
- Mash Volumes are displayed on all Mash Schedule dialogs.
Now you can quickly and easily determine how much capacity your mash tun needs
to be to accommodate any given mash. To see the volume number on the Mash
Designer window click here
- JPG Export!
All charts (Mash Chart, Water Profile Chart, Hop Degrad Chart) can now be
exported directly to JPG Files, either as stand-alone JPG images or as JPG
images imbedded in HTML export files. To see some examples of the new JPG
charts click here
- HTML Export of Recipes and Brewing Sessions!
ProMash now offers an easy to use HTML export feature, with several default
themes and a full "theme" editor so users can modify the output to
their liking. This will allow users to easilly upload ProMash recipes and
Brewing Sessions to a website for easy viewing by others. JPG charts are also
automatically created and the appropriate tags imbedded to view the JPG's
within the HTML file.
To see some examples of the new HTML exports click here.
- Clipboard Export of Recipes and Brewing Sessions!
Copy a formatted recipe or a brewing session to the Windows clipboard and
simply "paste" it to your favorite word processor!
- Hop Time Degradation Functionality and Chart Enhanced!
The Hop Time Degradation calculator now allows you to degrade hop alpha acid
values up to 5 years out (previous versions only allowed for 1 year). To see
the new hop degradation dialog using an extended time frame
click here
- Decoction and Infusion Spike charting capability in Mash Graphs.
Now you can see the temperature of a water infusion or decoction pull within
the Mash Charts. To see a chart with the new infusion/decoction spikes
click here
- Default File Folders can now be specified by the user for every all
ProMash file types.
While ProMash can be set to work as it previously did, by auto-saving the
default location from were the last file operation occurred, the user may now
turn this "atuto-saving" off and specify exact folders that will
always be used for saving and loading defaults, for all ProMash file types. To
see a the System Setting dialog where these folders are set
click here.
- Window Position Saving.
Now you can enable ProMash to save the position of any ProMash dialog or window
so that it will open in the same location previously saved to. You do this by
enabling "Save and Use Window Positions" in the System Settings
Dialog, Printer and Misc. options (click
here for a screen shot of this settings dialog). From that point
forward your window positions will be saved whenever you press "OK"
to exit a dialog. The window position will be restored when it is
re-opened.
- New Hop Formula (Generic) based on Ray Daniels Basic Hop Utilization
table.
Bug Fixes:
- Within the complex mash scheduler (in a recipe or brewing session, not the
stand-alone), grain amounts would be shown in accordance to what the system
WATER amounts were set to (IE American or Metric), not the grain amount type.
This has been fixed.
- When printing recipes or brewing sessions to text files, the name of the
mash schedule did not print correctly. This has been fixed.
- If a user was in a brewing session and deleted a malt within the
ingredients section, then exited the session without saving the changes, a
crash may have occurred. This has been fixed.
- In Previous ProMash printouts, the default top margin of the printer
setting was not being correctly used. This has been fixed. This also caused
problems some user experienced with printing over-runs and missing
sections.
- Previously, when you chose to view the Potential SG in %Yield, Fine Grind
(default setting for pro-scale), there may have been an erronous warning
message about using different efficicncy settings when creating a new brewing
sessions and initially picking the recipe. This has been fixed.
- Misc. extremely minor bugs found by single users.
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