# Recipe Help - Reporting Tags

**URL:** <https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-help-reporting-tags/5480>\
**Category:** Help & advice\
**Created:** [23 January 2025 11:35 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-help-reporting-tags/5480 "2025-01-23T11:35:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Langers](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/langers/32/2973_2.png) [@Langers](https://community.breww.com/u/Langers)\
**Post date:** [23 January 2025 11:35 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-help-reporting-tags/5480/1 "2025-01-23T11:35:16Z")

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I am trying to improve my recipes/brew sheets and standardise them all, as they all have subtle differences as I’ve made changes through the year.

Is there any way of ‘testing’ a recipe without starting an actual brew to check that all the calculations and reporting tags work properly before hand? (maybe a feature request?)

Also, I have a number of reporting tags attributed to some ‘readings’ to carry out calculations later in the day, but how does applying a reporting tag to a ‘check’ work?

My understanding is that a ‘check’ on a brew sheet is just a ‘tick box’? (to which you can enter some notes). But if you apply a reporting tag to it, when does it get its information/number/value from? So does having a reporting tag on a check not really work (in the same way as a ‘reading’ does)?

For example, I have Target OG as a ‘reading’ currently, with an expected value of 1.0450 - 1.0450, to which we have to type in 1.0450 every brew. But my ‘Target OG’ is the same every time for that particular beer/brew.

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**Author:** ![ben-collard](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/ben-collard/32/1560_2.png) [@ben-collard](https://community.breww.com/u/ben-collard)\
**Post date:** [23 January 2025 16:12 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-help-reporting-tags/5480/2 "2025-01-23T16:12:18Z")

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Hi Chris, Thanks for your comment! Currently, there isn’t a way to test a recipe without starting a batch; however, I can definitely understand how this would be useful. We do have a feature request for [Recipe Preview and Testing](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-preview-and-testing/1720). It would be great if you could add your vote to this!

When you apply a reporting tag to a ‘Check’, then this can be reported on in **Reporting** → **Pre-built production & inventory reports** → **Recipe reporting tags records**. This will report back data regarding the check, such as whether it was ‘Done’ and the time it was taken.

You’re right; currently if you would like to use a figure to calculate on, then this would have to be entered as a ‘Reading’, even if this value is ‘fixed’ on each recipe. It sounds like the [Recipe-level variables for Calculated Fields, e.g. allow “Add ingredient” quantity to be the result of a calculation](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-level-variables-for-calculated-fields-e-g-allow-add-ingredient-quantity-to-be-the-result-of-a-calculation/521) feature request may be close to what you need here; if you agree, then it would be great if you could add your vote to this! Let me know if you need any more help. Cheers!