Recipe Sheet

[Ranman481]

I was just wondering what, if any, method you folks use to keep your recipes and notes on your individual beers. I thought I would share the form that I use for my brewing notes. I try to keep super clear notes so that I can replicate the ones that turn out to be crowd pleasing.

 

[robert843]

I use Beer Smith with version control and a journal log that was given as a gift.

 

[unionrdr]

I still use the old, one subject notebook & started with. Now also use BS2 while keeping brew sheets I get with some kits I use occasionally as well. I gotta start saving my BS recipes to the cloud though.

 

[Psylocide]

Just plain old notebook for me right now... my first thought was, 'only two lines for hops?!'

 

[unionrdr]

Ha! I've done stuff like that in my notebook. I look at all that chicken scratch & sometimes do the WTF? bit.

 

[flars]

I use the front of my recipe sheet for boil timing and addition times, especially with multiple hop additions and the additions are not in full ounce increments.

The back of the sheet is for the yeast details and fermentation details.

You haven't added lines on your form for tracking fermentation temperature. I will track ferm temps daily, more often if I need to make adjustments with a swamp cooler or heater, for up to 12 days.
Start, lag time, and end of active fermentation is also tracked. To me lag time is important because it relates to the yeast vitality and pitch rate, especially when using generation 6+ harvested yeast.

 

[bobeer]

I keep the recipes I've brewed in beersmith but I also write them down in a notebook along with my brew day notes. I keep my future recipes in a folder in my email. Works well enough for me.

 

[m00ps]

Just plain old notebook for me right now... my first thought was, 'only two lines for hops?!'

Haha yeah, the hops section should be switched with the thoughts/impressions section that has like 10 lines

I like this one since its got a mash temp section
http://cdn2.brewersfriend.com/brewersfriend_allgrainsheet.pdf