Where do you record your recipes?

[CPooley4]

I use my Brew Chart

Thanks for the plug MX1 and PB. The next version will be out sometime in the near future as well which will should be a very nice improvement thanks to many ideas in the thread linked above.

 

[PGHBrew]

I print out each recipe and notes from beer tools and place them into a 3-ring binder. I also make a spreadsheet that's like a table of contents for each year. Its list the name/style of beer, OG, FG, IBU and ABV. It really helps in finding recipes that I brewed before.

 

[VABeerSnob]

Add me to the old-school group that uses lined paper in a three-ring binder. I'm now in my second binder. The binders have pockets inside the front and back covers for other important papers like the owner's manual to my malt mill, some label designs, etc.

I number my brews, and initially give them a reference name. As I brew, I take copious notes including not just the grain bill and the yeast brand/type, but even stuff like how I cleaned/sanitized equipment, how the tap water smelled, etc. The notes are updated thru fermentation, bottling, and finally, tasting. I want as much info as I can get if the beer was a success or a failure.

Coincidentally, I am doing brew number 48 today. I started in 2008 with an extract kit and moved through partial-grain to all-grain.

 

[biochemedic]

I see a lot of beersmith users here, but I use promash...one of the things I like about the session files is there's a section to type notes built right in! It's broken up into sections for mash/brewing, fermentation, and tasting.

I used to take notes on the fly, but I found once I did my first all grain there was enough going on that it was easier to have my recipe printout with all the calculations/volumes, etc. in front of me...I take written notes on that then transfer to the session file later...

Oh, and the best thing I ever did was to set up a networked RAID drive on my home network...I have automatically scheduled backups to that from all the familys' laptops.

 

[logan3825]

I made an Excel spreadsheet when I started. I still print one off every time I brew and put it in a three ring binder. It has been changed a couple times since I started. I also enter everything into Beersmith. I run Beersmith off of a thumb drive so I can use it on any computer.