GIFTS: Beer Tasting Notes [Paperback]

Got a nice little present the other day in the shape of a Beer Tasting Log book, it's called Beer Tasting Notes and is published by cicobooks.

The RRP on the back of the book is 9.99 UKP but this one was found in HomeSence in Somerset for 2.99 UKP

Book Description

Fans of craft beer will love this unique journal to record the characteristics of their favorite brews. The recent explosion of outstanding beers made by exceptionally talented brewers has been a dream come true for anyone who appreciates a well-balanced beverage. But with thousands of new beers coming out every year, it's hard to keep track of what you've been drinking and what you thought about it - especially if you've drunk quite a few! That's where this journal containing the following comes in: Specially designed pages to record the key characteristics of over 100 beers A section for home brewers to plan their recipes A craft-paper envelope to store the labels, bottle caps or beer mats of any particularly good ales

 

The book or log, is split up into Four sections,   

Understanding Beer which gives a short four page description  of different types of beer styles. 

Tasting Notes, which is where you can log beers that you have tried, there are 114 pages in this section and make up the bulk of the book/log and includes a few pages where you can write a few notes (8 pages)

The Brewing Your Own section is where you can record your own recipes and contains enough room to record the details, but only to a limited level of detail, but has all the sections you might require to recreate the brew at a later date. Unfortunately for myself and other home-brewers it only contains room for recording 25 of your own brew recipes.

The last part of the book/log is Keeping Organized, this section allows us to log Favorite Bars & Pubs (6 pages), Favorite Brewers (4 pages), Favorite Beer Stores, with areas on each page for names and addresses of each. Right at the end of this section is a 3 month per page beer diary called A Year in Beer, where you can record when and what you drank over the whole year.

 

Overall quite a handy little log, the only down side for myself is the recipe section being a little small to record my own home-brews, 25 is a little limited, but my plan is that I just use that section to record my own personal recipes that I have made up myself and to use the note section to record page numbers and the book of any that I make from the growing collection of beer brewing related literature on my bookshelf.

It's certainly going to be used quite a bit and very handy to have on my bookshelf