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A brewing diary that stays in your pocket

Each brew is its own entry. You log parameters as you go; a month later you open it and see exactly what you did. That is how repeatable recipes are born.

Mash and rests

Every rest: 63–65 °C for fermentable sugars, 72–73 °C for body, 78 °C at mash-out. HopNote stores actual temperatures and times — you see where the brew left the plan.

Boil and hops

Each addition is its own line: variety, mass, alpha acid and minute from the start of the boil. The log remembers when the hops actually went into the kettle.

Fermentation and gravity

Readings with dates: OG, checkpoints, FG. HopNote calculates attenuation and ABV from what you actually got, not only from the recipe formula.

Free-form notes

“Yeast kicked off in 6 hours”, “raised to 20 °C”, “citrus and pine”. These details vanish first — and they make the next brew better.

HopNote — brew list

What one brew looks like in the log

Sample fields for an American IPA at ~20 L — the same ones you fill in during your own brew. This is a record structure, not an app screenshot.

Brew day

  • Mash: 63 °C — 45 min, 72 °C — 20 min, mash-out 78 °C
  • 60 min boil: Magnum 15 g (12% AA) from the start; Citra 30 g at 15; Citra 40 g at cooldown
  • OG: 1.052, fermenter volume — 21 L
  • Yeast: US-05, 2 packs, rehydration

Fermentation

  • Day 1: 17 °C, vigorous fermentation, OG 1.052
  • Day 4: 1.020, raised to 19 °C
  • Day 8: 1.012, activity dropped
  • Day 10: FG 1.011 — dry hop Citra 50 g

Start the log on your next brew

Record parameters as you go. After a couple of brews you will brew more precisely than from someone else's recipes.