Any update on this? This is an extremely annoying bug, and it's been over a month now since last post to this thread. It's not just the sort settings that are lost - all customized columns in the Recipe view are lost. It's pretty time consuming and painstaking to select the several extra columns that I use beyond the 4 default ones (Name, Style, Type, Batch Size), so it is very frustrating to have it be reset to those 4 original columns every time BeerSmith is restarted.