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26-01-2024, 07:10
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I stuff the information I harvest from brewing records into a spreadsheet. OG, FG, malts, sugars, hops, boil times, length of fermentation. But nothing about mashing details.
When I started the spreadsheet, it had far fewer columns. I've added extra ingredients and other stuff. Boil and fermentation details. I avoided mashing, because I wasn't sure what I'd record, brewing records being very inconsistent in exactly which details they noted down.
Whilst dodging the dogs and raindrops while walking along the lake, my mind turned to this topic. What would I record?
I'd need a column for each action in the mash tun. Every mash, underlet and sparge. Early 19th-century Porter mostly had four mashes. I've seen plenty of examples of five-step mashing schemes. Best add at least one or two columns to be on the safe side.
What to record for each step? That is, the number of sub-columns. Not all appropriate to every step. And rarely all present in a brewing record.
Action (mash, sparge or underlet)
Volume of water
Strike heat
Initial heat
Time mashed
Time stood
Tap heat
Tap volume
Tap gravityNine sub-columns times six or seven columns is far to fucking many. No chance of me retrofitting it to my spreadsheet. It's less work for me to simply look at the brewing record when I need the information, such as when writing a recipe.
Oh. And this is just for UK-style mashing. No use at all for decoction schemes.
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I stuff the information I harvest from brewing records into a spreadsheet. OG, FG, malts, sugars, hops, boil times, length of fermentation. But nothing about mashing details.
When I started the spreadsheet, it had far fewer columns. I've added extra ingredients and other stuff. Boil and fermentation details. I avoided mashing, because I wasn't sure what I'd record, brewing records being very inconsistent in exactly which details they noted down.
Whilst dodging the dogs and raindrops while walking along the lake, my mind turned to this topic. What would I record?
I'd need a column for each action in the mash tun. Every mash, underlet and sparge. Early 19th-century Porter mostly had four mashes. I've seen plenty of examples of five-step mashing schemes. Best add at least one or two columns to be on the safe side.
What to record for each step? That is, the number of sub-columns. Not all appropriate to every step. And rarely all present in a brewing record.
Action (mash, sparge or underlet)
Volume of water
Strike heat
Initial heat
Time mashed
Time stood
Tap heat
Tap volume
Tap gravityNine sub-columns times six or seven columns is far to fucking many. No chance of me retrofitting it to my spreadsheet. It's less work for me to simply look at the brewing record when I need the information, such as when writing a recipe.
Oh. And this is just for UK-style mashing. No use at all for decoction schemes.
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2024/01/mashing.html)