I think I am missing something. I have a recipe for a pale ale. I save this recipe as Pale Ale. It includes a date and ingredients and schedule, OG and TG and all that.
later, I want to make the same recipe. I will use te same ingredients, but perhaps the OG will be different. Perhaps I get lazy and leave it in the 2ndary fermenter longer.
How do you re-use a recipe - same ingredients, same name, same schedule, but then track the individual brew session data separately? Does that make sense?
Right now, I am printing out the recipe and entering dates and gravity stuff by pen. Should I be saving the recipe as a new receipe each time? So PaleAle_20070907, then PaleAle_20070930, etc? Should I be using templates?
Thanks. Sorry, I've read through some of the documentation, but couldn't quite figure out the vocabulary of some things like "session"
scott
How to track individual brew sessions
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Change the name of the file slightly
Use "Save As" and change the name of the recipe slightly by adding either the date or a sequential number or whatever.
Eg.: "Bill Velek Pale Ale" = original recipe
"Bill Velek Pale Ale -2" or "Bill Velek Pale Ale - 07-09-09", etc.
That's what I do, and sometimes I'll add other info like "Pale Ale w HG Fuggles" -- with homegrown fuggles.
Cheers.
Bill Velek
Eg.: "Bill Velek Pale Ale" = original recipe
"Bill Velek Pale Ale -2" or "Bill Velek Pale Ale - 07-09-09", etc.
That's what I do, and sometimes I'll add other info like "Pale Ale w HG Fuggles" -- with homegrown fuggles.
Cheers.
Bill Velek
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i do the same
same as bill
i open the recipe on brew day, and immediatly 'save as' "[recipe name] as brewed [date]" make my notes, and go. my big problem is that i don't go back and rate the finished beer in my as brewed notes.
my problem, not btp.
i open the recipe on brew day, and immediatly 'save as' "[recipe name] as brewed [date]" make my notes, and go. my big problem is that i don't go back and rate the finished beer in my as brewed notes.
my problem, not btp.
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