As good as 1.4 was, I thought Brad would hit a home run with this version and become the uncontested defacto software for homebrewing. I don't think that happened.
While the tools are almost all there, the user interface is maddening. I think this version is fairly inaccessible to anyone who didn't use the previous version. I'd be reluctant to refer it to new brewers.
There are lots of subtle changes that I like.
- Adding a pic of your beer,
- adding ingredients by percentage,
- various graphs that I'll probably grow to appreciate,
- boil-off rate bug fixed,
- FG changes with mash profile (!),
- selectable fields in the recipe tab,
- easy printouts with drop-down list of formats,
- version number on recipe
I've got it figured out (I think), and I'm gonna grit my teeth and continue using it. But I sorta hope that a 2.1 is in the works already.