2010 Brewing goals

Not much for making "resolutions", but I do have a few goals for 2010....

Beer/brewing goals, in no particular order:

1 - Not to purchase any beer from stores
2 - Brew an average of 25 gallons per month (shhhhh)
3 - Kegging - need to get into this
4 - enter at least a few competitions
5 - buy/build some sort of fermentor for 10-12 gallon batches

Anybody else have brewing goals for 2010?

I am resolving to have my brewery room complete by the end of 2010. That entails

1. Patching cracks in the walls.
2. Painting walls with drylock paint
3. Installing ceiling panels
4. Leveling the floor with concrete.
5. Epoxying the floor.
6. Installing new doors, electric, lighting, and plumbing.

Yes, I have a few:

1. Improve quality of my beer
2. Buy barley crusher and bulk grain
3. Buy more kegs to build pipeline
4. Enter more competitions
5. Send at least 5 beers to NHC and Longshot

Boerderij_Kabouter said:

I am resolving to have my brewery room complete by the end of 2010.

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Amen, complete the brewshed and brew like a mad ape.

1. Start kegging
2. Go all grain
3. Start lagering
4. Enter at least 3 competitions

Goals for 2010:
1) Get into all grain brewing
2) Kegging and serving through the soda fountain I just got
3) Home malting experiments
4) Getting at least 6 all grain batches done (I am the only one in the family that drinks the stuff, so that is a lot of beer drinking)

Lager at least one batch
Build Stand
Go All Electric
Start brewing indoors by next December
Barley crusher.

1. Barley Crusher
2. Upgrade to larger system
3. Brew Barleywine
4. Fill a barrel

Yep...

Brew twice a month.
Enter 3+ competitions.
Do a few lagers (especially Bocks).
Properly clone Henry's for my bride.
Keep a pipeline of Apfelwein going.
Make some Meads & Wines.

Go AG
Start kegging
Do A LOT of stuff from Brewing Classic Styles

For Durango - I've been drooling over this fermenter: http://frugalconicalfermenter.blogspot.com/ and will probably build one or two after the new year.

Inexpensive, and cuts the need for having separate primary, secondary and bottling buckets.

Develop a house pseudo lager. Make my beer more clear. That's it.

As a new brewer I have one main goal...keep making beer and make it better each time hopefully.

Some others:
Build my outside kitchen/ brew room/ bar
Go to keg
get a pipeline going
brew at least once monthly

My personal brewing goals for 2010

1. Start my kegging set up at least one tap - equipments on the way
2. Enter at least one competition
3. Go all grain by the end of the year, or at least partial mash
4. make a really good wine and mead
5. Come up with my own unique label
6. at least 10 gallons every month
7. Make my own house recipe that everybody loves!

1. Brew 1-2 times per month
2. Step up to All grain
2.5 Build a MLT
3. Try lagering at least once
4. Learn how to convert recipes from AG to PM to Extract and back again.

DurangoHomeBrewMafia said:

Not much for making "resolutions", but I do have a few goals for 2010....

Beer/brewing goals, in no particular order:

1 - Not to purchase any beer from stores
2 - Brew an average of 25 gallons per month (shhhhh)
3 - Kegging - need to get into this
4 - enter at least a few competitions
5 - buy/build some sort of fermentor for 10-12 gallon batches

Anybody else have brewing goals for 2010?

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I like all of those goals (and share them in a similar fashion), except for number 1.

I think, even once I get my kegging setup going, I will still by store beer. I want to keep involved with the craft brew/home brew scene, and I think it's good practice to know what the professionals are brewing. I'm always excited to try new releases from my favorite breweries. To me there's joy in stopping at my craft beer store and picking up a few bombers of something new.

That being said, I would like to get my craft as consistent and frequent enough to not "have to" buy commercial beer. So maybe that sort of is your #1 and #2 in a way.

I really only have 2 goals this year since both won't be able to even be considered till after I figure out where I am living after graduation.

Goals:
1. Countertop Brutus
2. Kegging

Only one, really. Everything else that might make the list is easily achievable.

Found an AHA recognized club in my area to try and draw out local brewers.

2010 Brew Goals:

Build a Kreezer
Brew at least twice a month
Grow my own cascades
Enter a few competitions
Win the lottery

Improve process
Get a clue

- Finish going all electric (that should happen this month, though)
- Build a brewstand
- Finish portable sink
- Build a conical
- Buy more kegs
- Build new keezer
- Start automating

(I already brew twice a month to keep the pipeline full)

:rockin:

Enter Nationals.
Brew more sour beers.

As a long-term brewer I have one main goal...keep making beer.

Secondary goal: Get a decent hop crop or rip the &^&^%*)_*(*&%^ out! I'm tired of fighting the weather here.

1. Buy more Kegs
2. Plant Hops
3. Motorize grain mill
4. Upgrade MLT
5. Finish Son of a Fermentation Chamber
6. Finish Kreezer
7. Replace faucets with Perlick's
8. Win Lottery

Locate off site space for all brewing and brewing related activity including tasting lounge.

Brew Flanders red.

Donate more beer to charity.

I'd like to lager for the first time and hopefully get a used barrel from Russian River to fill up. I'd like to get a few brewery tours under my belt and start planting the seed in people's heads that I want to work for them in a little over a year. And I guess I'll enter another competition.

Mine are only....

1- Be happy enough with a beer to consider entering it for competition
2- Try to go at least to PM brewing (really only a financial hurdle)
3- Complete kegging setup
4- Build larger fermentation chamber so I can do at least 3 brews at a time.

work on consistency (means brewing the same beer multiple times)
start doing 10 gallon batches
explore more complex brewing methods (decoction and step mashing)
save/work towards building/buying a quality brew stand
think of a good brewery name

Build a single tier rig
Start fly sparging
Do more 10 gallon batches
Increase the pipeline from 4 to 6 kegs
Place in a competition
Develope one house recipe and be able to reproduce it

All Grain brewing...(which leads to the next)
Complete my rig (one piece at a time).
Build/buy a keggle or kegging system
Fully understand the affects of each ingredient to be able to make predictable taste in my brews
Make a No Waves Brewery house brew and being able to reproduce it..

Oh what I do every day... ATTEMPT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD PINKY!!

My goals are:

1. Go all grain (just built my mash tun today!)
2. Start lagering (hopefully there's a freezer under the Christmas-tree)
3. Master a few session beers

Make a Mead (instead of planning it for a year)
Make a beer my mom & dad will drink (not easy...)
Buy less than $300 of new equipment
Get a kegerator setup going
Make a "How to Brew Lazy Style" video

in order of preference:

fat tire clone
widmer clone
build keezer
fence my propery
epoxy garage and driveway to keep new concrete a virgin of oil spills
paint house
redisign brewery

ghpeel said:

Make a Mead (instead of planning it for a year)
Make a beer my mom & dad will drink (not easy...)
Buy less than $300 of new equipment
Get a kegerator setup going
Make a "How to Brew Lazy Style" video

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Less than $300 AND a kegerator. Brave.

1. Bottle my first beer.
2. Brew at least once a month.
3. Make a recipe i want to perfect and become consistent with.
4. Make a friend go This beer is amazing.

Yes, I have three:

1. Improve the quality of my beer
2. Improve the quality of my beer
3. Improve the quality of my beer

1. All Grain
2. Perfect my House Amber Ale Recipe
3. Bottle 250 1/2 liter bottles for my wedding of my perfected House Recipe!

1.) Brew more sour beers
2.) Perfect my Wit, Koelsch and Mild recipes
3.) Cut my turnaround time from brewing to drinking from 6-7 weeks (on average) to 4-5 weeks for average-gravity ales.
4.) Just keep having fun doing it

1. Start making my own original recipes
2. Get my Girlfriend to Like IPAs (she hated beer now loves it except IPAs but shes getting there)
3. Build a Brew Rig (brutus 10) and go Electric
4. Temp Controlled Fermentation
5. Build conicals (stainless and maybe plastic)
6. Enter some Competitions

Looks like I should also add to my list get another job...

soon as you make a list, more gets added to it.

new priority:

find cure for my laziness/procrastination issues