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Keeping Beer Notes
General Beer Discussion by CYRENAICA
When you are trying out a new beer, be it at home, be it at a bar, wherever............what do you use to keep your notes to enter in your review? When at home I find myself entering the review onto a Word document (I know - very sad) and once I like what I have written, paste it onto the site. When I am out with friends, or at a bar....I write little notes on the back of ATM receipts which I then enter when I get home. Everything is tracked in an Excel Spread sheet too. The data on my beer hobby may be getting out of control whereas the beer drinking isn't (I know - very very sad, probably more sad than my low Orval rating!))!
17 years ago
PAULCARDOM
10850
I started in the ear;y 80s and used a stenopad, and now I use a laptop - yes....people stare when I'm in bars!
UPSTATEDAVE
13900
If I am out where I know I will be doing some tasting I take a memo book with me. The notes I make are short handed enough Only I know what they mean. Yes I get questions in the pub but nine times out of ten I can get another convert to the world of beer geekdom
I used to keep a notebook with me to write down everything I tried. But now I have so few new beers that even in a 50 beer tasting I only have 2-3 new ones on average that I can easily remember them until I get home, It doesn't hurt that I have a photographic memory.
STOUTLOVER72
46900
Does that really help you rate beer? No wonder I take so many notes at our tastings. [;)]
quote: Originally posted by aspidites
It doesn't hurt that I have a pornographic memory.
True Dat, and Ditto!.........[:D]........ Merry Christmas
quote: Originally posted by cyrenaica
When you are trying out a new beer, be it at home, be it at a bar, wherever............what do you use to keep your notes to enter in your review? When at home I find myself entering the review onto a Word document (I know - very sad) and once I like what I have written, paste it onto the site. When I am out with friends, or at a bar....I write little notes on the back of ATM receipts which I then enter when I get home.
PHISHPOND417
59322
I can't wait to read some of those ratings! :)
quote: Originally posted by aspidites
I used to keep a notebook with me to write down everything I tried. But now I have so few new beers that even in a 50 beer tasting I only have 2-3 new ones on average that I can easily remember them until I get home, It doesn't hurt that I have a photographic memory.
Yeah cause he has so many[:p][:D][}:)]
quote: Originally posted by Phishpond417 I can't wait to read some of those ratings! :)
quote: quote: Originally posted by aspidites
I used to keep a notebook with me to write down everything I tried. But now I have so few new beers that even in a 50 beer tasting I only have 2-3 new ones on average that I can easily remember them until I get home, It doesn't hurt that I have a photographic memory.
FERTHALANGUR
722
Whatever paper is handy when I'm at a beer bar or tasting. I've learned through bad experience to (a) Put the date and place at the top of the paper; (b) Number the pages; (c) Write the name of the beer down right away and leave blank space for the tasting notes -- especially important if people are handing you tastes of different beer from all over the table and you have to defer tasting some (a felt tip pen for numbering tasting glasses to correspond with tasting notes is also useful). When I get home, or some time later [currently, my backlog goes back to 2002] I key in the notes into my online tasting notes. I also have a spreadsheet of beers tasted, which I try to update before the next foray to the bar.