Organizational Question

[Rypcord]

Starting to try to figure out my own organization and stuff and seeing what works, curious what everyone else does.


How does everyone else have their stuff organized?

How do you organize your recipes, files, papers, etc?

Trying to see what others do and learn what works best for me.

Thanks all.

 

[kh54s10]

I print out the Beersmith recipes and keep them in loose leaf binders, two so far. I also keep the files on my computer but had one die and I lost all my stored recipes. Paper back up. I have not figured out how to store on the Cloud yet.

BS cloud is limited and I don't want to pay for storage.

I have a corner in my basement for all the equipment. Hops and ingredients are in my refrigerator/freezer/kegerator. The brew sculpture stays out on my enclosed porch.

 

[TeamAshBrewing]

I use 2 plastic totes to store anything that will fit. Beersmith for recipes and a whiteboard for brew day. Kettles, etc stay with the brew rig in the garage.

 

[BigMack]

Beersmith stores all of my recipes. On brew day I use the app on my iPad as well as my brew journal to make sure I'm staying on track. All of my larger equipment and bulk grain is on a set of shelves next to my keezer, smaller equipment and non perishable ingredients go in a cabinet in my kitchen, and hops are all vacuum sealed in the freezer.

 

[IslandLizard]

I'm using Excel with a sheet each for Grain, Hops, Yeast, and various other info to keep track of inventory. After brewing a recipe I type the amounts used in a column on the sheet and it calculates the remainder in stock. I prefer to see those in pounds and ounces, so it does.

Yeast is still a bit harder to keep track of, at least in an elegant way.

All my recipes are done in Beersmith, and I keep the printouts with ample notes added.

 

[theDREWery]

Hard copy in a notebook for brewday and tasting notes. I put everything on the computer eventually, and it gets online backup from there. I do have an app for recipes, but I mostly use it for formulation, OG and IBU estimates, and as a shopping list.

I'm not much of a tech person, definitely like my hard copies. If I give a friend or relative an electronic file of a recipe, I'm sure they'll be more than happy, but a book gets respect. A cloud backed recipe wont have stains and finger smudges, it won't smell like brew day, and it won't have labels from strange ingredients for bookmarks.

Equipment stays in the front hall closet, next to the kitchen. Shelving and tool boxes are your friends. I don't keep much grain on hand, mostly just buy as needed. The wine OTOH needs some lead time if I'm aging 6-12 months. There's about twenty carboys of various sizes lining the hallway, and four shelving units filled with bottles as the living room "wine rack".

 

[day_trippr]

Recipes and inventory are all maintained in BeerSmith, water treatment is in Bru'nwater, brew/batch schedules are tracked in Microsoft Project, and everything is automagically backed up on our lan cloud nightly...

Cheers!

 

[jcav]

I still keep notes on all my brew days for each beer I make in a hard bound composition note book. It's good to go back and see what worked and if there were any issues that day and if the numbers were hit, how long the yeast took for active fermentation, how the yeast made the beer taste, etc. All my recipes for the last few years are kept in BeerSmith and some are stored in the cloud. I should print out the recipes I like the best to have a hard copy though. Maybe soon!

John

 

[d3track]

I really like pegboard

 

[Rypcord]

I'm using Excel with a sheet each for Grain, Hops, Yeast, and various other info to keep track of inventory. After brewing a recipe I type the amounts used in a column on the sheet and it calculates the remainder in stock. I prefer to see those in pounds and ounces, so it does.

Yeast is still a bit harder to keep track of, at least in an elegant way.

All my recipes are done in Beersmith, and I keep the printouts with ample notes added.

I love using Excel for just about everything (even things that really don't need to be used in it), I think its a holdover from the generation/time I was raised, Excel was THEE thing to use.

Would love to see your file (or a blank of it) if you wouldn't mind posting it. These things always intrigue me.

 

[Rypcord]

Love seeing pictures of people's organization, its great to get ideas. I like the swivel pegboards there, thats a cool/great idea.

Would love to see pictures/copies of peoples brew-day notes and see how you all do it.

 

[Rypcord]

Anyone else?

 

[jonny24]

Equipment is stored in a tote in my room, a shelf in the basement, a pile in the upstairs hallway, and the burner is in the garage.

I formulate recipes in Brewers friend, and when I'm done I take a screen shot and save it to my recipes folder on my computer. I then write it down onto a hard copy brew sheet that goes in my brew day book.

I also have an Excel sheet for inventory tracking, costing, efficiency calculations, and water volume calculations. It also keeps a running average of my past efficiencies, which is the number I plug into BF for calculations.