tonkota
Well-Known Member
What information do you guys log about your beer? Can I just buy a log book? I was going to use a spiral bound notebook and divide it up, I just don't know what I should write down.
Honestly, I just put the relevant facts down on paper while I'm brewing.
Thanks for sharing! You like IPAs huh?
I like excel, but for brewing I'll probably use a notebook and then maybe I could transfer it to excel to share.
Kai has a quite in depth paper log available on his website, here:
http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php?title=Keeping_Log
I use BeerTools to track each brew session.
faux pas? don't you mean misteaks? =)
Quick follow-up: have you found that having refractometer readings impacts when/how/what you do? I have my hydrometer to get the OG and FG readings -- what would a refractometer (not cheap!) give me in addition to that? (that sounded argumentative, but I didn't mean it to -- I'm really curious about why people use refractometers?
Kai has a quite in depth paper log available on his website, here:
http://braukaiser.com/wiki/index.php?title=Keeping_Log
For those of you keeping computer based logs, the fact that I'm an IT guy makes me say.... BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP YOUR STUFF! Make sure you're backing that stuff up man! The only thing that can break a notebook is fire, water, or physical desctruction... but hard drives can die at any given moment. I've been in IT for 15 years and I've seen some (emotionally) devastating data losses. Don't be that person who calls your IT buddy sobbing because your 5 years worth of beer logs is gone asking him what to do! Get that stuff backed up in multiple places, on other computers, on the internet, thumb drives, CDs, whatever!
I found this http://www.beernut.com/Web_store/worksheet.pdf
if anybody is interested in using it.
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