I'm an impatient gamer, but am not too dissuaded by the pouring mechanic. Ingredients like grains, extracts, yeasts, and such pour quick enough to be playable, but slow enough to maintain the immersion. But spices, in the name of everything holy, these needs to be fixed.

I was brewing a contemporary gose for the first gose job. It requires 25g of coriander. Cool, I thought, no problem. I went to grab the coriander from the cabinet—1g at a time. And we have 8 inventory slots... Ok fine, I can do this three times, no problem.

Click to shake in. Then click to shake. 1mg. Click to shake. 1mg. Click and hold, 1mg. WTF, I thought, I've got to do this 25 times?? I put down the shaker to see if I missed a Removed Lid instruction. Nope. Ok fine, let's see how long it takes to empty the bottle. Click click click click click click click click click click click click click. How much did I put in? 30mL... what's that in grams??? Nope, just hard nope. I'm doing playing an auto-clicker, I'm not going to do this 25 times.

I think like everything else, spices should be able to be pulled from the shelf in intervals. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8mg at a time or something. And the lid needs to be removable and poured in quickly like other ingredients. This was a shocking and abysmal deviation from the normal play of the game up to this point. I'm going to brew beers with spices in them as infrequently as possible due to this mechanic.