Homebrew: the notebook
A brewing notebook in your name
A coil-bound A4 notebook for your brew days, with your name and logo on the cover, a spread for every batch, your water and your year. You set it up in the builder, and the preview beside the form shows the finished book page by page as you change it. We print it and post it anywhere, or you can download the whole book as a PDF at no cost and print it yourself.
What is inside
- A spread for every batch
- The plan sits on the left page, with the fermentables, the hops by stage, the mash and the ferment, the water and the yeast, and the log is on the right, with what happened on the day, the gravities and the tasting. There are twenty-four spreads in the one-year book, each numbered and listed in an index at the front.
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- Your year
- There is a calendar spread for each year the book runs, with the days you choose ringed or dotted, club nights set by a weekday rule, and a brew plan beside the calendar for the year ahead.
- Your water
- The water you brew with, its salts and the targets you brew to go on a page that the batch spreads refer back to, or there is a blank profile to fill in by hand.
- Reference pages
- A style quick reference, the New Zealand hops with their alphas and what to swap for each, yeast, a brew day checklist and a gravity table, and any of them can be left out of the book.
- The cover and the owner page
- Your name and logo go on the cover in your colour, or a monogram drawn from the name if there is no logo yet, with an owner page inside the front cover and a club edition that names the club.
The book's loose sheets, a batch sheet, a brew day checklist, a water card and a tasting sheet, are on the journal at no cost, and the builder sets them in your own name.
How it is made
- Choose the shape, one, two or three years or batch sheets only, and the page count and the price follow from it.
- Put in the name, the colour and a logo if you have one, then the year the book starts, the days you want marked and your water.
- The preview beside the form shows the book spread by spread as you go, and you can save a link to the draft to finish it on another device.
- Have it printed and posted, with the price quoted for your country and the number of copies, and your card charged only when the book goes to print.
- Or take the whole book as a PDF at no cost, covers included, ready for double-sided A4 and a coil at any copy shop.
The shapes
- One year: 24 batches, the year, your water and the reference pages. About 72 pages.
- Two years: 48 batches and two year spreads. About 120 pages.
- Three years: 72 batches and three year spreads. About 168 pages.
- Batch sheets only: an index and 24 batch spreads, nothing else. About 56 pages.
What it costs
From about 27 AUD a copy with the pages in black and white and the cover in colour, or about 33 AUD with the pages in colour, plus postage, which is priced for your country on the last step. The book is printed to order and posted by the print partner, in a laminated card cover, gloss or matte. Ten copies to a club come to far less each: postage is shared and the price per copy falls.
Charged in Australian dollars, the printer's currency, with the figure in your own shown beside it. Nothing is taken until the book has been checked and goes to print; a book that cannot be printed is never charged.
The builder
notebook.traineffect.co.nz. There is no account to make, and the draft saves on your device as you go.
Get in touch.
A club edition, a larger order than the builder takes, or a question about the book: email, with the club or the name on the cover.
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