Home brewing beer requires a lot of hot liquid and keeping a note of the quantities can be tricky. This post gives you a checklist so you never make a mistake with measurements again.
Why need a tick chart?
The stock pot that I use for home brewing is quite a beast. Filling it with various quantities of boiling water, from 6 litres to 17 litres, takes a bit of coordination. I am using my kettle and pans on the cooker to heat up water before adding to my stock pot. With lots to remember when brewing with grain I have forgotten how much water I’d added to the pot. And, being somebody that is all about the planning, I thought a checklist would help.
My first home brewing checklist
The first version of my home brewing checklist was a quick sketch on a notepad. The images below show the versions I used to track measuring, preparing, and adding to the stock pot.
Your home brewing tick chart
I created this checklist on Google Sheets that is free for all to copy, use, and improve.
Explaining each column in the checklist
- Container 1 = Keep track of the amount of liquid you have measured and are heating up
- Container 2 = Keep track of the amount of liquid you have measured and are heating up
- Container 3 = Keep track of the amount of liquid you have measured and are heating up
- Complete = As you transfer liquid, remove the amount from ‘container’ and add to ‘complete’
- Note = I used this to make a note if some of the water was cold
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