The Brew Ledger
A journal that helps you track your espresso and waste fewer beans.
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Never waste coffee re-dialling in beans again
If you’re an espresso lover you might have anywhere from 2 to 8 or more different beans at any given time.
One evening you decide you want a decaf. You only have about 60g left, but you’ve forgotten what grind setting, temperature and dose you used for it last time to dial in perfectly. So you just guess it’s around a 12 on your grinder’s dial. You grind out 18g and pull your shot, but it comes out in 12 seconds and tastes like lemon juice…
By the time you get to the last beans you pull a passable shot and put up with it, but you remember that bean tasted amazing just last week when you had it dialled in, and wish you could have remembered all your settings to replicate that delicious flavour.
Sound familiar?
Well now you have The Brew Ledger, where you can keep your notes in a beautiful way to quickly refer to when switching beans, and get the same perfect shot you got last time.
Better tasting coffee and less waste!
What do I get with the brew ledger?
Beautifully designed espresso dial in layout
The layout gives space for all of your most important variables like grind, dose, yield, time, temperature and more. There’s a comments box for you to add any other details, a section to write what gear you are using and of course a section for tasting notes and comments.
If you like a particular coffee a lot, every corner has a little star you can fill in to remind yourself of your favourite beans.
High quality materials and printing
The cover is made of faux crushed leather with gold foil, so picking this up every day to take your espresso notes will be an mindful and calming part of your morning routine.
The main writing pages are 120gsm cream coloured paper, so you can write on them even with a fountain pen without bleeding through.
Each standard layout page gives you space to write all the details of your coffee to help you not only keep your dial in notes, but over time improve your ability to dial in coffee quickly and get the most out of your coffee beans.
There is a ribbon to keep your page, and a little star at the top you can fill in to find your favourite coffees faster.
Espresso Techniques, Ideas and Tips with beautiful photography
When I first started making this book, I wanted to bring in some of my thoughts about making espresso better, so I wrote sections about how important the grinder is for espresso, how to dial in faster, what gear to use, what water to use and other interesting and useful topics.
And to present this beautifully I took photographs to illustrate these interesting and complex parts of the espresso making process.
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How is this better than just using an app or a notebook?
Satisfying experience
If you find an app more convenient, I am not against it. But this book is for people who love their slow coffee routine, taking notes by hand, in a book that feels weighty and traditional.
A simple elegant layout
No need to draw lines and columns in a notebook like I used to do. You can pay full attention to your espresso process and take as detailed or as few notes as you like.
Beautifully designed
With black faux leather cover and high-quality 120gsm paper, The Brew Ledger is a joy to write in, and very quickly becomes a comfortable part of your espresso routine.
Features of the book
This book took many iterations and a lot of fine tuning to design and I really hope you like it.
The final version of the book has:
- 112 pages on 120gsm cream paper for main layout and start and end pages
- 12 full colour technique explanation pages with photography by Charlie
- A black faux leather cover with gold foil title
- A yellow ribbon to mark your page
- Landscape format bound so it lies flat to be easy to write in
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Can it be shipped to [my country]?
The book will be available anywhere that Royal Mail posts to. Please check the Kickstarter when it goes live to see shipping rates.
How is this different from the free SCA cupping sheet you can download online?
SCA (and other) cupping sheets are more about giving you a framework for your coffee tasting and for grading the qulity of different beans. But I have never seen anything like The Brew Ledger, which is more about a dial in sheet for you to keep track of your own coffees and settings.
This is much more focussed on your own thoughts and assessments, and keeping a note for your future self to refer to rather than trying to objectively score your coffee.
Why isn't there a digital version?
I really wanted this book to be a physical thing. I don’t like being constantly attached to my phone and I love my morning routine of pulling a shot and tasting the first sip of espresso. I felt like a high-quality physical book was much more in line with that philosophy of enjoying your coffee and taking your time with it than a digital product.
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