Work continues
Work is continuing on brew manager, although not at the pace I’d like. I was not able to take the extra week off I had been hoping for, perhaps later in January. I have been able to get recipe creation in good enough shape that I think it can be used. This means I’ll probably launch it in some limited form in the next few weeks. I’ve been working on trying to get the look and feel to not suck. Thus far I’ve been unsuccessful on these fronts, but I’m reading more and working on it so we will see what comes of it. Designing things that look good turns out to be harder than I’d anticipated. I’ve been mucking with CSS positioning and really just trying to learn how to do things with CSS. I’m picking it up, but slowly for sure. Maybe its time to go buy a book.
Even if it looks terrible I’ll put something up so I don’t have to keep using google docs to store my recipes. Keeping them in documents isn’t working out for me. Not enough structure and I lack the self discipline to force myself to do it in a free form document.
I just finished up being able to add steps to a boil and remove them based off the ingredients in the recipe. I’m going to muck with how hops work one more time, and possibly how the database is seeded and then I should be ready to launch something. woo.
In other news I’ve been brewing quite a bit and started doing beer reviews for another blog, beerporn. Lately I’ve been trying to make quicker beers since most of what we have in the fermenters is long term (a lambic and two Flanders reds). We bottled a pale that turned out really well, just bottled a porter and have a breakfast stout in the primary that I’m really excited about. The breakfast stout should end up with a low ABV and taste a bit like maple syrup.