Brew Timer Upgrade

The brew timer upgrade we talked about in our July 11^th post just went live. This is awesome because a separate clock timer is no longer needed on brew day.  We can’t wait to brew again!

• The timers are saved auto-magically by the system.
• The new design allows navigation inside the brew session page, even while the timers are running.
• If your laptop falls asleep or you accidentally close your browser, when you come back to the page the timers will be right where they should be.

The new timer bar appears at the bottom of the brew session page:

The ‘Open More’ button reveals a readout of the current step and the next step. The bar will hide itself when you switch the brew status to ‘primary fermentation’.

Known issue with the timer (fixed 8/1/12):

• On some older versions of Android’s web browser, the bar will not stay in the correct position in portrait mode. We are currently working on a fix for this. We didn’t want to hold up the release because of it.
  Update 8/1/12 – This is fixed! We also made some improvements to how dialogs perform on Android.

Given this is a newly released feature, and a rather involved one, there could be small issues.  Please let us know if you spot anything and we’ll jump on it.

Other items released, which came from feature requests in the forum:

• Boil gravity is now displayed by the Recipe Editor under the ‘More…’ dialog.
  See the topic in the forum.
• Recipe Editor displays all the matching styles based on the batch stats.
  See the topic in the forum.

Features Up Next:

• Support for metric units being added to stand alone calculators.
• Hydrometer temperature correction calculator will support temperatures up to 159F, and will allow for different hydrometer calibrations. This will go into the brew log and the stand alone calculator. (Update 8/3 – this is now live!)
• In design phase: group brewing, yeast pitching calculator.

Early release users – if you haven’t purchased yet, for each month you participated in the early release you will be granted an extra month of subscription time when you purchase. This offer expires August 31st, just a month away.