Brewmegoodbeer
Well-Known Member
The saying "work smarter not harder" just doesn't seem to stick with me when I do things. When brewing, I end up walking in and out of the house checking my ph, washing things/sanitizing, weighing hops and salts, grabbing equipment when needed from the garage, all making me walk back and forth through my house tracking dirt and mud in, and making brewing harder than it needs to be. I explained my frustration to my fiancé and she gave an obvious yet dumbfounded to me idea. Have EVERYTHING in your brewing space before you brew to where you dont need to leave for anything. I built a checklist of everything I need for brewing (like 25 things) to where I can have all of these at my disposal when needed quickly. I am going to use the outside hose to clean/ sanitzize right where I brew, check ph right there, weigh everything right there. The ultimate solution is to buy me a shed and to use it as my home brewery and have everything right there I need but currently my supplies are in the garage, my fermenter is upstairs in the closet and I brew on the back porch. Optimization seem so obvious yet so hard to do for me. If you have the same optimization issues, chime in!