{"id":259,"date":"2026-01-31T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaprior.com\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:40:58","slug":"beer-tasting-journal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dianaprior.com\/?page_id=259","title":{"rendered":"Beer Tasting Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Beer Tasting Journal is your essential companion for exploring and documenting the world of beer. Whether you&#8217;re a casual enthusiast or a dedicated beer lover, this journal helps you record, compare, and refine your tasting experiences with professional-quality tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This beer tasting journal is created in Scotland for people who want to pay closer attention to what they enjoy, without rigid rules or pretentious language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside, you&#8217;ll find 85 structured tasting scorecards suitable for a wide range of beer styles, from lagers and ales to stouts, IPAs, sours, and experimental brews shaped by different malts, hops, yeasts, and brewing techniques. Each scorecard provides space to record essential details such as name, style, brewery, location, ABV, IBU, date, price, appearance, aroma, flavour impressions, body and carbonation, finish, and overall assessment, alongside a single integrated flavour checklist made up of 44 named tick-box flavour prompts. These prompts allow you to quickly mark what stands out while building a clear visual record to sit alongside your written notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The journal includes two separate beer flavour wheel reference pages, designed to reflect the breadth of beer styles. One wheel focuses on malt-driven and balanced characteristics including oak\/barrel, malt, caramel\/toffee, roasted, nutty\/toasted, sweet, dark sugar, and subtle hop notes. The second wheel covers hop-forward, sour and expressive characteristics including funky\/wild, citrus, tropical fruit, stone fruit, floral, pine\/resin, herbal\/grassy, and sour\/tart notes. The wheels are intended as orientation tools rather than prescriptions, helping you identify dominant characteristics without imposing a single &#8220;correct&#8221; interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To support confidence and clarity, the journal also includes straightforward explanations of beer tasting terminology, covering concepts such as aroma, flavour balance, body, carbonation, and finish. These explanations are practical and accessible, offering guidance without overwhelming detail or technical jargon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional index and notes pages make it easy to track favourites, build wish lists, note gift ideas, and reflect on how your preferences develop over time. Whether used during brewery visits, beer festivals, or quiet evenings at home, the layout supports intentional tasting while remaining flexible and personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created in Scotland and using British spelling throughout, this journal reflects a thoughtful beer culture while remaining suitable for recording beers from around the world. It is designed with balance in mind: structured enough to be useful, and open enough to stay personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This journal is part of The Tasting Journal Series, a growing collection of thoughtfully designed notebooks for whisky, gin, beer, coffee, and other craft beverages and artisan foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-5 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dianaprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Beer-Tasting-Cover-website.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"87\" src=\"https:\/\/dianaprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Beer-Tasting-Cover-website-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Beer Tasting Journal front cover with beer glass illustration on dark background\" class=\"wp-image-87\" 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