Here is my method for Managing Your Brewing Schedule using a Gantt style chart

[hausofstrauss]

Here is my method for Managing Your Brewing Schedule using a Gantt style chart in a spreadsheet

Full post on my blog:

Managing Your Brewing Schedule

I really love Gantt charts and how they can help you to be organized. Microsoft Project is either a really good or really bad tool to use (depending on who you ask). I actually like it for projects that I manage at work, but I don’t get into the fine details. I just use it for basic timelines, since it really helps me see the big picture. I started looking at using it for my fermentation schedules, but in brewing, your yeast are on a 24/7 schedule and I was finding all sorts of roadblocks in using 24 hour schedules in Project.

I ultimately decided to go back to my old trusted Excel spreadsheets for this task. This format has served me well for the last two years. I don’t claim that this is the ultimate way to do it, but it might at least serve as inspiration for someone else to create something grander.

 

[day_trippr]

Looks pretty well done from here. Might have to look into that more

Bidness required me to use MS Project since the late 90s, and I still use it for managing my brewing schedule. Managing dependencies is probably the one thing it can do pretty well that's typically out of scope for a spreadsheet solution. Realizing there's a resource issue in the pipeline before it actually happens has value

The graphics are typical mid-90s MS clunky, but it works pretty well just the same...

Cheers!

 

[bobeer]

Hey now this is pretty sweet! I'm still of the old school mentality, even though I work in IT, and still use pen and paper to track beers in my brew day log. Maybe I'll print off a blank sheet of this and use it on a clipboard in my basement. Thanks!