Cider Pressing and Batch Record
Keep the press day on paper, from which orchard's fruit to which vessel. The juice yield per load and the readings taken are all on one sheet.
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Fermentation Vessel Log
A free printable fermenter log sheet for a brewery, cidery or winery — one vessel and one batch, with what went in, a reading a day and what came out at the end.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
Follow a fermentation on paper from pitch to package. A stuck batch or an off-note then has a dated history to look back through.
Who it is for
Small breweries, cider and wine makers, kombucha and vinegar producers, and anyone running a fermenter for product they intend to sell.
How to use it
- Fill in the vessel, batch, volume, starting gravity and what was pitched.
- Write your own target finishing gravity in the blank — the sheet sets none.
- Add a row each visit with gravity, temperature, pH and anything added.
- Note the smell and look every time; that is often the first sign of trouble.
- Fill in the final gravity, volume out and where it was racked or packaged.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: One vessel, one batch: what went in and when, a reading a day until it is done, and what came out at the end.
Your targets, your readings. Finishing gravity, the temperature you hold at and what you add along the way come from your own recipe or process. Write the targets in the blanks and log the readings you take. Nothing on this sheet is a figure of ours.
Write-on lines: Vessel / FV no. · Product / batch · Batch no. · Filled on · Volume in · Starting gravity · Yeast / culture & lot · Pitched at · Target FG (yours)
Daily readings — one row per visit
Table, 12 rows: Date · Time · Gravity · Temp · pH · Added · Smell / look · Initials
Write-on lines: Emptied on · Final gravity · Volume out · Racked / packaged to · Vessel cleaned by
Questions
Why does the sheet not say what temperature to ferment at?
Because that is your yeast, your style and your process. The sheet records the temperature you found and the target you set; it does not tell you what to hold.
Is this for beer only?
No. The columns suit anything fermenting in a vessel: cider, wine, mead, kombucha, vinegar. The added column takes whatever your process puts in.
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