Thinking about upgrading from 1.4 to whatever the latest version is. Anybody using it? I really would like it if when you brew something it automatically removes the ingredients you use from your inventory. I have probably 175 lbs of grain and around 15 lbs of various hops and I don’t always remember to remove what I use from my inventory after I brew.
I got BeerSmith 2 for Christmas and I’m about to set up the inventory for the same reasons you stated.
From what I can tell, you can’t see that on the mobile app (which would be very helpful) but at least I’ll know what I got in stock. It’s starting to turn into a homebrew shop down there… :
There is a button (actually it was on the 1.0 version as well) called “remove from inventory” in the middle of the top menu bar. does exactly what you are asking.
My problem has become forgetting (read: being lazy) to log in new ingredients as they are purchased…
Ive been meaning to set up the BS2 inventory but that hop fridge is just to damn cold to stick my hands in for 10 minutes. maybe come summer :
Or not thinking and double clicking the button.
Even if you click the ‘Mark as brewed’ button the appropriate number of times, there are some other potential problems that can bite you if you’re not careful.
Several times, the ‘Mark as brewed’ button gave me fits because it thought I didn’t have the ingredients in the recipe on hand. Usually it’s because I had slightly different varieties specified, like ‘Hallertauer Mittelfrueh’ in recipe vs. ‘Hallertauer’ in inventory, or ‘Pilsner (Weyermann)’ in inventory instead of ‘Pilsner (2 row) Ger’. When Beersmith complains that I don’t have enough of an ingredient in stock, I’m never sure if it correctly decreased the amounts of the other ingredients, and I have to manually adjust what was actually in inventory. After hitting that problem about three times in two months, I gave up using the inventory feature.
but that’s not a problem with the software. that’s user error. if you entered your inventory differently than the recipe you can’t really expect the software to get it right. no software will be able to do that.
I was thinking about reestablishing my inventory in BS as well. I have the same problem remembering to remove inventory after a brew session or not remembering if I have already done it.
The software should have something that tells you whether you have removed the items from inventory already or not. That would be very helpful. I “try” to move my completed brews to a separate folder and remove the items from inventory at the same time but I am rarely successful.
I love the inventory feature. I especially like being able to limit choices when designing to what I have on hand
I agree it would be nice if there was a “flag” indicating if inventory had been issued or not. One of the very last notations I make on my “Brew Notes” is the date that I “Removed Inventory”. If there is no note, I know I still need to.
I believe at some point he added a feature where you couldn’t remove from inventory more than once because people would forget if they had and would double/triple remove things. So I’m guessing there is an internal flag, maybe if you rewqurest Brad would make it visible
Agreed, there’s no way for the software to work around this situation, but it’s an easy mistake to make, especially if you brew the same recipes frequently and one day you switch suppliers. I’m just holding myself up as an example of what NOT to do 
gotcha, it would certainly seem like a reasonably simple mod to add a little flag to each item on the recipe to indicate if it has been removed from inventory but I have not seen the database behind the curtain so I hesitate to say that for sure.