New Website Feature - Brew Blogs

[mwedge]

We have a new website feature called "Brew Blogs". It has similar functionality as ProMash. It has recipe creation and it has what is called a "Brew Blog" which is the same thing as a brew session in promash. So when you brew a recipe you can create a Brew Blog and track all the info about the beer (what state it is in, any awards, reviews, bottle label, etc) on the website. It also has a calendar function so you can schedule your brews.

It also has reference charts and brewing calculators. You can print the recipes and brew blogs along with downloading the recipes in BeerXML format. For those that use programs that will export BeerXML you can import those recipes directly. For ProMash users there is a converter. I will get the details on how to use it soon.

I have created a few recipes and brew blogs for the last 2 batches of beer I have made so you can see what it looks like. I encourage everyone to use the tool. Once you sign in to the website click the "Brew Blogs" link in the main menu or go here

http://www.capandhare.com/index.php?pageid=brewblog

If you want to add content click the "Admin" link in the top right of the Brew Blog header.

I had to do quite a bit of work to integrate it into the website as it was a stand alone web app. If you find any issues with it please let me know so I can fix them.

[arkador]

I have no "Admin" link.

It looks like a pretty cool tool though.

[mwedge]

ok looks like i will need to debug this a bit. I had to build a connector between the main website and the brewblogs application and looks like it is not working 100%.

[mwedge]

Can you try again?

[arkador]

admin button is there now, I will post a recipe.

[arkador]

Sucessfully posted a recipe under the Club Recipe section.
Bavarian Wheat/ Hefeweizen Hybrid
I'll be bringing a growlerful of this tomorrow night.

[TurboBrew]

Thats a seriously awesome tool. Organizes the recipes very nicely.

[mwedge]

Sucessfully posted a recipe under the Club Recipe section.
Bavarian Wheat/ Hefeweizen Hybrid
I'll be bringing a growlerful of this tomorrow night.

Excellent. Thanks for the contribution.

[jayellis]

Thanks, Mark. Looks like a very valuable addition to the site.

[BeerSawks]

This is a great addition to the site!!

All of the calculators seem to kick me back to the home page when I click calculate.

[arkador]

This is a great addition to the site!!

All of the calculators seem to kick me back to the home page when I click calculate.

I tried the carbonation and priming calculators with the same result. I am pretty sure I used the priming calculator about 2 hours ago with sucess...

[mwedge]

Ok. I will check on those items when I get home tonight, i imagine i missed a few links, should be easy to fix.

[mwedge]

The Calculators are now fixed.

[arkador]

Found a bug in the recipe section. Not sure if it is something Mike can or will fix.... but the Notes: and Enter Step By Step Instructions: will give you an ugly SQL error and make you retype your whole recipe if you inclide an asostraphey '

I retyped up my Requiem Raspberrie twice before i figured that out.... Hope to save someone else the trouble.

[mwedge]

Yeah that is one problem I had noticed. I should have mentioned it. When the script is inserting the info to the database the sql syntax has quotes (') around each field. If you have a quote (') in the text it invalidates the sql command. If I get around to it I could look into filter the fields and escaping the quotes.

For now I think I will add and information line near the fields that mention not using quotes.