Who has a brew book?

[Camo6]

I love the idea of this. I tend to use beersmith printouts for brewday and am probably not organised enough to adhere to writing it all down on paper but there's still an undeniable charm books have over digital copies.
If you can make them in embossed leather with the layout of a D&D character sheet I'll take two. Dragons would be a plus too.

 

[welly2]

This is mine. I got it from a mate, tidied it up a bit and just printed a load out on A4 paper. Covers pretty much everything I could think of.

View attachment BrewSheet.pdf

 

[Moad]

I moved my beersmith folder to my dropbox, I can edit recipes while at work (lunch break of course!) and on desktop at home. Then open it up on the laptop in the brewery and it is all in sync.

Also means accidental deletions can be recovered.

Be careful if you choose to do this, when you specify the location in beersmith it creates a new directory and removes whatever was there. Do it on your first computer and it will be created and your data shifted to dropbox, before you do it on the second and subsequent machines, rename the folder then change back once the new directory is created.

 

[Judanero]

I love the idea of this. I tend to use beersmith printouts for brewday and am probably not organised enough to adhere to writing it all down on paper but there's still an undeniable charm books have over digital copies.
If you can make them in embossed leather with the layout of a D&D character sheet I'll take two. Dragons would be a plus too.

I prefer books to digital, don't get me wrong kindle is great for travelling but for at home I prefer hard copies... and with brewing I do keep both.

I actually bought a leather hide with the view of binding my own book and keeping it as my master (tried and tested successful recipes) brewing book, I plan on embossing my "brewery" logo onto the cover and passing it down to my sons when the time comes.

This:

http://www.jennibick.com/antique-leather-italian-library-journal-large.html

is actually where I got the idea, but couldn't justify the price tag.

 

[Danscraftbeer]

Beersmith lets you copy your recipes into "The Cloud", so if your computer crashes etc. you won't lose your recipes.

Brewer's Friend is actually cloud based, so unless their server goes belly up, your recipes should be safe for ever.

I formulate and play with recipes on my computer and keep notes there, but once I've brewed a recipe a few times, fine tuned it and am happy with it, a copy goes up the cloud.

That is a good option too. I haven't committed to that yet only out of lethargicness to commit to the digital messia haha.
Lets face it. Anything you write or create is dependant of its recordability. That is the ponder.
Combination of learning and being able to literally write it down and record it like the true masters. B)

 

[Cervantes]

All good till they start charging you to access the cloud....and they will.

I don't mind paying for a decent service. The guys have obviously put in a lot of time and money developing these sites and should be entitled to some financial remuneration.

 

[Yob]

All good till they start charging you to access the cloud....and they will.

Totes..

I created a pdf a while ago that let's me record just about everything.. Printed a bunch of copies, used them and Then I decided I couldn't be arsed with any of it and I'm lucky if I scribble anything down..

I make a resolution each year to do better.. **** man, I barely even use software any more

I find it quite enjoyable just to wing ot on brewday.. I really do need to print out that sheet again, will see if I can't dig it up

 

[droid]

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[Mattwa]

I have one of these. I formulate my recipes in beersmith, then record the brew day in the journal.

I like having a physical book. Almost every other part of my life is recorded and organised digitally, so this feels a bit special.

 

[Dips Me Lid]

I use beersmith for recipes and keep a physical notes on each brew, the more data recorded the better, boil off rates, pre boil gravity, how many beers I drank while brewing etc.

 

[droid]

Hey guys,

As ive mentioned before, I'm doing a design project at uni for a home brewing kit and and idea to go along with that was to make a brew book. A book that has recipes (that you might have scribbled on and altered along the way), tasting notes, brew dates and things like that.

Does anyone already use something similar at the moment? what do you use it for? I'd love to see some photos of them.

my brew book with Tim Webbs advice on the cover ~ from his foreward in Stan Hieronymus's book "brew like a monk"

my first recipe to put in the book after 10years out of brewing

an early all grain brew day before using brewers friend recipe software and the calculators - a bit manic as you can see!

a more current/up-to-date brew day, once the numbers have been worked in the software, just a few notes are needed

 

[TimT]

If I kept my records on the computer I wouldn't ever refer to it.

I prefer writing the stuff down with pen. Helps me physically sort out the thoughts in my own head and commit ideas about brews to memory.

On to my second brew book now.

 

[LiquidGold]

This thread has given me the motivation to go through all my handwritten notes and organise them in chronological order and work out which batch number I'm on because I lost track a while back. Nowadays I generate a recipe in brewmate and write notes on paper on brewday but I think I can improve on my note taking after seeing some of the examples in here.

 

[rude]

I started with an exersise book & still use it but its full now need a new one also do brewmate, beersmith

 

[Vini2ton]

When I started I used ochre, charcoal and chalk on a cave wall. But those Neanderthals always drew dicks and tits and stuff on my recipes so a mate of mine put me onto cuniform on wet clay tablets. I put my back out moving that **** so I went with the papyrus scrolls. While trying to teach the chinese how to brew I discovered paper. Never looked back since then.