2011 Brewing Goals

1. Brew a lager
2. Brew barley wine
3. Brew a sour
4. Reuse my yeast

1. Fine tune my processes
2. Brew more often
3. Read more books; continuous improvement
4. Try drinking more styles of beer; then try to brew the ones I love
5. Finish my basement so I can utilize my free fridge (future kegerator)
6. Enter a few competitions for feedback reasons
7. Join a local beer guild; expand my knowledge and meet more brewers
8. Possibly attend one of the large brew festivals or shows
9. Create my own beer recipe (will require steps 1-8)
10. Drink more beer; the rewarding part.

I just started home brewing in November and I have 3 5 gallon batches fermenting waiting to go into kegs.

The list is not in any particular order.

1. Finish all-grain equipment and start brewing.
2. Build an outdoor stand next to my natural gas source.
3. Build a fermentation chamber.
4. Build a keezer with 4+ taps and retire the 2 tap kegerator fridge.
5. Organize a brew day with local automotive enthusiasts that also like beer!
6. Buy a grain mill and organize an area for bulk grain storage.
7. Get more friends involved so we can do beer exchanges.
8. Grow hops for the first time!

LHBS has also sparked my interest in trying out wine, cheese and soda pop making.
We'll see if I have any time in 2011 for them.....hehe

3 goals this coming year

1. Go all grain
2. Brew a barleywine
3. Perfect my house amber ale

That should keep me more than busy enough.

2011 will be the year of learning about ingredients!
Basically I plan to brew lots of 2.5 gallon all-grain batches with the purpose of really learning the various grain and hop profiles. I plan to do a bunch a batches keeping the grain bill constant and focusing on a different hop for each beer, then do a bunch of batches keeping the hops bill constant and focusing on a different grain for each beer. Then compare and contrast the results! Not sure what to do about the yeast though.... I guess I'll have to keep a constant yeast for each beer, so I will need a "house" yeast.... That brings me to goal 2: start reusing and harvesting yeast!

In this order:

1. Start doing yeast starters.
2. Full boils (need to get a big pot, propane burner, immersion chiller for this)
3. Control my fermentation temperatures (my basement is at about 65 all summer long, which is nice and makes this less urgent)
4. Re-brew the first recipe I ever did (Northern Brewer American Wheat extract kit) to see if any of this has helped
5. Go all grain via BIAB
6. Install an actual top, coffin, and taps on my keezer.

That's probably enough for all of 2011.

Brew more small batches and experiment with different styles and ingredients.

Perfect my brown ale recipe. It's getting close, but needs some work.

Finish my electric brewery build. I'd have it done by March, but I celebrate a very special holiday called March Madness. So it will probably be April.

Continue to improve my "general" recipes, and continue to fine tune my base recipes which are already good.

Find a beautiful, skinny 5'11 woman with excellent metabolism (so she can drink a lot of beer and remain skinny and 5'11) who encourages some of my bad habits and ignores the rest.

1. Flanders Red, extra sour please
2. kegging.
3. Homebrew party, where I brew and they drink.

Win best of show at a competition.

1. Brew at least 36 batches.
2. Continue work on my pear wit and winter wit.
3. Perfect my house dry stout.
4. Figure out how to get cucumber into a beer.
5. Get a sour or two going.
6. Belgian Barleywine?

1. Make beers that don't taste like ass.
2. Make beers that don't taste like ass.
3. Make beers that don't taste like ass. Consistently.

I will be happy with any of the above. I currently have a 33.3333333 percent success rate. :-(

Jaysus said:

My 2011 goal is simple: Brew at least once per month.

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this will also be one of my goals as well, brew at least once a month.
other goals include:
1. start kegging instead of bottling
2. start making 1 gallon batches of wine
3. maybe try growing my own hops
4. buy a fridge for my beer, which leads to more room for beer in one and more room for food in other.
5. try making cider
6. buy each ingredient according to an actual recipe rather than buying ingredient kits where all ingredients are already boxed up together

Starting grad school in May, so won't have much brew time during semesters. So in May:

-Brew 2 sours.
-Brew a tripel or quad.
-Brew a RIS.

High gravity graduation party at my house in December of 2012! The sours might not be ready yet, but we'll drink the hell out of the belgian and RIS.

My goals this year are:
1. keep my pipeline up so I always have 2 on tap, no gaps
2. gain more yeast experience, starters, harvesting, etc
3. go from extract with specialty grains to partial mash to gain the mashing experience

-Start using computer to design recipes
-Organize equipment storage space
-Build fermentation chamber
-Build 1BBL brewhouse
-Build grain mill
-Perfect Kegging
-Brew twice per month
-Perfect current recipes

I have a lot to do...

1. Brew 10-20 batches
2. Have someone say truthfully that my beer is amazing.
3. Shoot in the 70's once. Okay, that's a golf goal....
4. Build my brew room up to the point I can keg or bottle.
5. Brew something my girlfriend can enjoy. She's not a beer drinker.

1. Find a house strain to ferment 80% of my beers with
2. Brew more mild
3. Start growing hops

4 goals this year.
1. Build a 2.5 gallon wall mounted gravity feed system for experimenting, and fine tuning my brews.
2. Brew twice a month on my 5 gallon system
3. Enter 2-3 comps for some feedback
4. Concentrate on recipes, ingredients, and flavors

1. Keep my pipeline full. Two of three taps on homebrew at all times.
2. Expand keezer to full 5 tap potential.
3. Find a cheap CO2 cylinder on craigslist to have a backup.
4. Convince SWMBO to let me build an electric brew system.

1. Win a gold medal in category 10.
2. Get/make a stainless brewstand to replace my wooden stand
3. Win a gold medal in category 10.
4. Name my brewery.

1. Upgrade to a 1/2 - 1bbl system
2. Finish my bar build
3. Convince SWMBO that my "hobby" isn't a waste of money

1. Move to all grain
2. Brew more than 100 gallons.

Rumor has it that Santa's bringing me a 15 gallon brew kettle. With that in mind, my goals are:

1) Scale up to 10 gallon batches.
2) Experimenting so that I get to know my yeasts a little better by fermenting the aforementioned 10 gallon batches with two different strains (5 gallons apiece) and documenting the results.
3) Attempt a parti-gyle.
4) After some time spent on goal #2, choosing a house beer that will always be on one of my two taps.

1. Get on a regular brewing schedule, timed for seasonal drinking (rather than seasonal brewing - making a Barley Wine in December is silly)
2. Enter a competition - get over the idea that it's throwing away beer
3. Get involved in the local homebrew club that just re-started
4. Bang out nine batches for the Yachtoberfest party! And not run out of personal supply.

did I say kegging? I think I did
cmon Santa, bring it to me
KEGS !!!!!!!!!

1. Brew bigger styles (Barleywine's etc) in time for next winter
2. Grow hops
3. Begin lagering mainly for Bock's and Rauchbier
4. Start formulating my own recipes
5? Maybe start slanting yeast again or washing

I just made the all grain plunge this week so that is part of 2011 goals.

1. Finish my tour in the Desert so I can go home and brew
2. Brew Ed's Haus Pale Ale, all grain
3. Keep a steady pipeline
4. Improve my skills

I've made a list of recepies I want to brew, and with all the time I have had to read... the list is long

1. Build my keggle.
2. Upgrade to 48qt. mash tun.
3. Brew a high gravity AG beer to age.
4. Get involved with the local HB club.
5. Build collar and get taps for my keezer.
6. Build fermentation chamber.

I am sure there will be more to come as I just cannot stop with this madness!!!

try all grain

got a few goals for the year:

1. Go all grain
2. Build a brew rig - right now the plan is 1/2 barrel (15 gallons)
3. Brew enough to always have homebrew on hand.
4. At least start work on the basement home-brewery.

1. Maintain the pipeline, very critical.
2. Talk with more Pro Brewers, this has been useful!
3. Convince SWMBO that a 10g Electric AG system is a good idea.

1. Brew 150 gallons.
2. Convince SWMBO that there is a difference between alcoholism and being obsessed about beer.
3. Establish a solid house beer and brew it at least once a month.

1. Yeast banking
2. Enter Competition
3. Start building a keggerator pending funds.
4. Get my American Amber Ale recipe the way I want it
5. Grow some hops

Ace_Club said:

1. Start All-Grain brewing - DONE
2. Build a 3-Tier Sculpture - DONE
3. Build a fermentation chamber - IN PROGRESS
4. Brew a Barleywine
5. Brew at least 100 gallons - IN PROGRESS

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Update to my goals for 2011!!

1. create a venn diagram for my brewing processes
2. pull together a committee to evaluate and revise my current brewing mission statement
3. initiate a strategic planning process for my brewing
4. drink more handmade beer, cider and mead

brettwasbtd said:

1) Figure out my mash temp (thermometers) inconsistencies so I can hit my numbers! *DONE Bought Thermapen *
2) Enter a competition *DONE*
3) Fine tune a recipe (thinking my brown right now, but maybe a blonde or pale ale)
4) Relocate to area that will allow for brewing! I am getting married on September 10, 2011 and will be moving out of the parents house sometime between now and then. I will probably have to live in a small apartment, but I want to try and be able to live somewhere that will accommodate my AG brewing setup.

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Updating as well :rockin:

logan3825 said:

1. Build a fermentation chamber -Not happening. I am just to lazy
2. Build a mash tun - move to all grain - Ditto
3. Refine a good summer brew recipe - Making good progress, might take til next year though.
4. Brew a blueberry stout for SWMBO - She settled for a Cream stout

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I have a lot of brewing time already lined up before starting something new.

Cool thread. Here are my goals:

1. Build Rubbermaid MLT
2. Brew first AG
3. Build Keezer
4. Keep Keezer Stocked
5. Start compiling tools and equipment to build rig
6. Read Brewing Classic Styles and Designing Great Beers
7. Visit 3 breweries
8. Keep pipe going
9. Perfect Lil Sumpin Sumpin Clone
10. Finish this list

these were/are goals for 2011;

1) wild brew (trapping yeast now)
2) brew a berliner weisse (tomorrow!)
3) barrel aged barleywine (next after BW)
4) brew a flanders red
5) brew 20 batches min & 100 gal min for 2011. (pretty much already hit this)
6) be bottling a sour every month by december. (getting close to this already)
7) brew a 100% brett-c beer.
8) create a realiable, funky, sour house yeast culture... (i think i have one but i haven't tried the beer yet)