

I’ve played around with trying to keep everything together, separate, online, paper copies and have settled on a mix of a few different data sets. It can be a challenge trying to decide how to set up your data. I try to experiment with different ways to set up my data and make it work for me – both for entering data, and for analyzing it. This is personally one of my biggest challenges so I try to automate as much as I can with pivot tables and charts that automatically update from my main list of results. There’s no point in taking measurements if you don’t do anything with the data.


In this series of articles, Amy Todd, owner and operator of Zymology Labs, a third-party beer testing lab, who also works part-time in the lab at Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, gives us a detailed ground-floor view of the day-to-day lab routines that separate quality craft breweries from the pack.
