2011 Brewing Goals

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ReverseApacheMaster

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Get them out there!


My goals will be fairly limited because 2011 will be a very busy and very cash-strapped year.

1. Brew the oud bruin I've been working on for several months
2. Start my lambic solera
3. Grow hops
4. Fine tune several of my own recipes
5. Fine tune my processes
 
2011 Goals

1. Move to an all grain setup
2. Enter at least one competition for constructive feedback
3. Get at least 3 personal recipes(that are good) into a steady rotation
4. Try a wild yeast brew
5. Start harvesting yeast
 
1. Get a 10 gal kettle
2. Brew a barleywine
3. Brew a Goose Island Sofie clone
4. Buy more kegs
5. Make some mead
 
Hmkay!

1. Start kegging (we will get our first kegs for christmas!).
2. Get a bigger pan, so we can brew more AG.
3. Throw a party with our own homebrew.
4. Build a huge brick bbq so we can cook outside every day of summer while enjoying a homebrew.
5. Combine point 3 & 4.
6. Start brewing our winterbeer on time, so we will be able to enjoy it next christmas/new year.
 
1. Convert a Keggle (already have the keg)
2. Move to All-grain in the spring.
3. Start kegging my brews.
4. Keep the pipeline going...
 
1) Get some more books and learn more about beer.
2) Acquire better equipment.
3) Brew a Barleywine
4) Work on a few custom brews/names. Brew a few of them.
5) Start washing yeast and making starters.
6) Buy more in bulk.
7) Try as many hop varieties and beer styles as possible (Craft of course)
8) Don't kill the dog if I decide to grow hops. :)

Edit:

9) I should say I need to try more craft beers and styles of beers.
 
1) Move to an all grain setup (hopefully Christmas helps with that)
2) Refine a couple recipes I've been working on to be where I want them
3) Keep my pipeline strong (no empty taps!)
 
My 2nd year brewing!

1. Get all grain going
2. Perfect my favorite styles to brew
3. Win a 1st place ribbon for a catagory
4. Stop missing Bears games due to brewing schedule!!!
 
Well if the Hop Back and March Pump make it under the Christmas tree this year as expected, I am going to try to NOT buy any new piece of equipment next year.

Since starting this hobby in January, my stove-top brewery has grown into a 10 gallon AG system with a 7 cubic feet keezer setup. I don't want to add up what I have spent in this short time and feel that I can brew just fine with what I have now.

Problem is, I love buying stuff and refining processes. Maybe I'll just try to give up smokes instead.......
 
2011 Goals

1) Build the 3 tier brew tree I've had designed for a while
2) Upgrade to a keggle to start 10 gallon batches
3) Build a fermentation chamber
4) Brew the beer for my wedding reception at the end of June.
 
1) Try and brew once a month
2) Begin to transition to partial mashes (with a 2012 goal of AG!)
3) Enter a competition
4) Begin designing my own recipes
 
1. Figure out why my efficiency sucks
2. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because of crush
3. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because of pH
4. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because I'm just a ****ty brewer

Oh, and re-join the local HB club, and brew more *interesting* beers.
 
1. kegging
2. upgrade tailgate setup to include a few draught beers
3. get a fermentation fridge and generally improve processes

hopefully 2011 will be the year of the keg for me.
 
1. Figure out why my efficiency sucks
2. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because of crush
3. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because of pH
4. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because I'm just a ****ty brewer

Oh, and re-join the local HB club, and brew more *interesting* beers.

Sometimes peoples' efficiency sucks because of their math.
 
1. Figure out why my efficiency sucks
2. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because of crush
3. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because of pH
4. Figure out if my efficiency sucks because I'm just a ****ty brewer

Oh, and re-join the local HB club, and brew more *interesting* beers.

yeah i'd probably add this to my list. 70% with batch sparging is my ceiling. doesn't "suck", but...

I think my math is accurate....
 
1. make better beer
2. make more beer
3. start kegging (stuff is on its way)
4. have a successful crop of hops
5. start a yeast bank
6. perfect some of the recipes I've been tinkering with
7. actually make it to a club meeting
 
1.) Move to all-grain
2.) Build/Buy a single tier sculpture!
3.) Enter a competition
4.) Begin construction on my brew pub
5.) Work on recipes
6.) Not miss a single NFBL (North Florida Brewers League) Meeting.
 
1. Brew more consistently so I dont have to brew 8 batches in 2 months to catch up.
2. Perfect my brown, IPA, pale, and porter.
3. Brew a RIS
4. Grain Mill
 
1. Brew 199.957 gallons of beer/wine :drunk:
2. Learn more about how grain additions/substitutions affect beer in order to better tweak recipes.
3. Enter a competition.
4. Drink more - LOTS more (to gain knowledge about beer and wine, of course) .
5. Plant hops.
6. See if barley. oats, wheat can be successfully grown here.
7. Drink more - :tank:
8. And more................!
 
1. Keezer build (parts bought now, waiting for snail mail)
2. Perfect kegging (never done it but ordered all parts)
3. Become a decent AG brewer (first one coming soon)
4. Find a nice working rotation of at least 2 beers whilst experimenting/trying new beers in the other two slots of keezer.
5. Learn about what effect different grains/yeasts/hops have on final product.
6. Harvest yeasties and start a library.
7. Pitch on a yeast cake.
8. Finish 62qt cooler MLT.
9. Cut/weld up my two kegs into HLT $ BK.
10. Learn even more about brewing.
11. Perhaps get into Beer Smith.
12. Perform a double--maybe even triple--brew session (30 gallons)!
 
Well, since I'm new to doing this on my own, I would like to gain a better understanding of brewing in general. I know the concepts and how to do it, but I'm not much informed on how the different strains do different things to the beer, something I'd like to know. Also, I'd like to see some all grain brewing done, that interests me greatly. I've been assisting, or more watching, a neighbor brew for quite some time and I've finally got the stuff to brew on my own. So, hopefully I can get a few tasty batches made.

Pretty simple goals for me!
 
Get a better schedule of brews and develop a calendar to have them come out on time. My Oktoberfest beers are really getting great right now. I'll have 4 new beers in the keezer at the end of the week after, and had virtually nothing for all the guests on Thanksgiving. Didn't get a Xmas beer at all this year.. etc.
 
1. Get better at yeast harvesting and start my own personal bank of yeast
2. Motorize my grain mill
3. Not screw up my Oud Bruin
4. Not screw up my 10g of pLambic
5. Figure out a better chiller for my apartment situation
6. Try not to spend too much money doing 1-5
 
1. Build a fermentation chamber
2. Build a mash tun - move to all grain
3. Refine a good summer brew recipe
4. Brew a blueberry stout for SWMBO
 
1. Add another Keggle to my single tier AG rig
2. Yeast Harvesting/Banking
3. Some level of automation with AG rig
4. Win a first place in a competition (two thirds and two HM in my first year brewing)
 
1) Perfect my beer engine and a few corresponding recipes.
2) Fit my beer engine cooler with a ball valve for gravity fed kegs.
3) Brew an Oktoberst this March and host a huge-ass fest party when it's ready.
4) Finally move my AG set-up beyond ale pails and my sh**ty fryer kettle.
5) Wort chiller
6) Do more relaxing, not worrying, and enjoying of homebrews.
7) Re-up my membership to Homebrewtalk.com when the time comes.
 
1. Refine my process and cut my all-grain brew days down to 3 hours.
2. Finish my bottle filler and send bottles as belated Christmas gifts.
3. Use up all my old grains and hops in a "surprise" beer.
4. Buy a mill and go bulk.
5. Upgrade to 10-gallon brews.
6. Enter a beer competition and take 1st in at least one category.
7. Brew one brett beer and one oaked beer.
8. Add 2 more kegs to my system.
 
1. place in a homebrew competition
2. reduce water consumption (cleaning/chilling)
3. better fermentation control (lager anyone?)
4. teach someone how to brew
5. try to streamline brewday so it doesnt consume 7 hrs.
 
1. Move to all grain
2. Continue Bi-weekly Brew Tuesdays
3. Finish my Keezer
4. Finish my fermentation closet
5. Oak age something
6. Pipe Gas to the backyard so I dont have to keep paying so much for propane
7. Plan a little further out on my brew schedule
8. Beat this years gallons brewed by 2.5 times
9. Build a bottling system
10. Grow Hops and other beer additives

**11. start building the brew cellar?
 
1.) Move to all grain
2.) Lagering
3.) Participate in a few competitions
4.) Double the size of my current pipeline
5.) Build a hop-back.
 
1) Learn to stagger my brews so that I'm always drinking something.
2) Perfect my Pale Ale and Hefeweizen recipes that I am writing.
3) Do my first AG batch as the first batch of the new year
4) Become a good AG brewer with efficiency in the 70-80% range
5) Enter a competition
6) Brew and drink more beer
7) Not spend money on equipment (save for maybe one more used corny and a 5 gallon PET carboy for secondary)
 
1) Become a better homebrewer than my brother in law
2) Keg beer like a champ (first round of keg hardware orders are in)
3) Move on to Partial Mash BIAB brewing (Not enough space in my condo to do AG, if I were ever to move to the burbs and had a garage though I would probably go nuts and buy conicals and get a ridiculous setup along the lines of a Sabco Brew Magic)
 
1.) Master the fine art of brewing Koelsch... Five batches in, I am still not quite "there".
2.) Brew at least two batches of lagers during the January/early February timeframe (to facilitate temp control).
3.) More consistently save my yeast for repitching in future batches
4.) Work on my "ClusterFuggle" beer experiments (beers with uncommon ingredients, or at least uncommon combinations of ingredients)
5.) Not breaking any more Better Bottles!!!
6.) Not lose another $50 worth of grain to weevil infestation!!!
7.) Get a sour beer pipeline going
 
1) Brew that bourbon barrel-aged tripel I've been planning
2) Brew that experimental nutty amber I've been planning
3) Perfect my American pale ale recipe
4) Get a fermentation temp control setup
 
1. Brew more often
2. BJCP certification
3. Switch to all grain
4. Become more involved with the brewing industry
 
2011 Goals

-Movie to an All Grain process (But maybe keep some partial mash)
-Enter at least 2 competitions, but also medal at least 1 of them
- Start kegging, but use bottles for "bigger" beers
-Develop my Keezer & Brutus
-Develop more of my own recipes then changing clones

And the big one
-Don't stop homebrewing when the Marines ship me!!
 
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