As I keep fooling around with this I just find more and more foolishness. The "Other Ingredients" section has been neutered as well. No Irish Moss or Campden Tablet in the drop down menu.

 

Yep it looks nice and tidied up in the fermentables, yeast and hops drop down list great job BF!

 

Nope not you it's me putting my 2 bob in when I shouldnt na the fermentables drop down is a delight in both beta and current version I just double checked you want to select a pale ale malt just type in pale all of them come up just scroll down and click on your one. You want cara-malt down drops all the listed caramel malts and various lovibonds you want rye pop that in the title bar down drops all the rye malted options. Yep I'm a happy chappie.
You touched on it in a post above JA we just gotta get familiar with the changes. It's like all things computers it's a new language you've just gotta learn if not your left with pen and paper (which is sometimes the best option). It's a fail safe in my department looking at screens too long makes my head hurt and makes me wanna drink more beer!

 

I'm picking up what your putting down now. Looks like BF have their work cut out pleasing everyone but as you know that ain't possible.

So custom fermentables ain't working.
Select the nearest base malt or specialty malt from the drop down list selection and call it done. The malt specs change from harvest to harvest anyhow. For me at my brewing level a generic near enough lovibond base malt with there abouts Diastic power will do for my recipie be it One from Finland or New Zealand.

The main thing I'm looking for from the brewersfriend recipie creator app is a near enough level of predictability from one brew to the next. If I use X amount of base malt X amount of colour malt X amount of bittering flavouring hops and certain Type of yeast then as long as the recipie calculator gets me withing the ballpark of what I'm aiming for then im a happybrewer.

But I understand different horses for different courses.

 

When I first started using this excellent site I used the stored recipes - from everyone's contributions - as a source of ideas as to how to put together a brew based on the experience of brewers from all over the world and the styles they liked to drink. The recipe builder allowed me to select different ingredients from the supplied "lists" to see what happened. The Inventory option allows you to enter your own, LOCALLY sourced ingredients to see what effect that made to the recipe and that it stayed "true" to the original idea.
Once I got to understand how it all worked I progressed to crafting my own ideas based on what I like to drink and the Inventory option allowed me to enter what I could buy and what I had in my cupboard.

Once the system allowed you to enter your LOCALLY derived ingredients into the GLOBAL list forced the system to include all the details that made your ingredient unique - Country of origin, Manufacturer, exact PPG, DP and Lat /Long of the cropped field (sorry being facetious here!) - for what ultimate purpose? Unless someone in Australia want's to import that specific 25kg bag of 2-Row barley from Farmer Giles in Ottowa (which I doubt!) it serves no purpose other than complicate the system with unnecessary detail - which is where we are now.

I honestly feel great empathy for the developers (and Administrators) here as they frantically try to serve everyone's requests and feed the beast they are in charge of.

I personally would favour STANDARD ingredients held in the Global list and a detailed local Inventory list to pick from - as that is what I will be using to make a brew. As it is I have, recently, found a supplier in Ireland that, despite delivery charges, have ingredients that I have to input into my Inventory list with all the details just so I can distinguish them from all others. Just "Pale Malt" doesn't seem to be sufficient.

The reason I am saying all this is that I am just about to post another fault I have found brought to light by the "complications" of the ever-expanding Fermentables list. I would hate to have to organise all this on a small phone - all that scrolling would drive me nuts and put me off using it.

 

I tend to like this approach as well.

 

And forget about using Gluten Free grains. Theres also this passive-aggressive code built into the site where it knows what you want but doesn't let you actually use it. Im looking at you CaraMillet Malt. If you try to search for it..nothing. But if you create a custom fermentable, it fills in all of the information including gravity and diastic power and yet it still doesn't let you add it by searching or from the custom fermentable tab. What gives?!?

 

I thought it was super weird to. Heres the proof

Also side note; apparently if you use an apostrophe in a custom fermentable it crashes the whole thing...

 

Yes I found that ages ago and thought it was fixed..