Brew Year Resolution - 2012 Brewing Goals

[dougdecinces]

I'd be willing to take some of that Porter off your hands, and trade for some of my brews.

I have some of Yooper's Oatmeal Stout now and probably will make some Gumball Head soon.

I live on the westside of Indy near Speedway.

New Year's resolution:

First Post!!!! After three all grain beers (From awesome recipes on here) , 2012 will be the year of the HomeBrew

A Gumballhead clone would be cool. That would save me having to make an APA or IPA. Is it Great Fermentations' clone recipe or one of your own?

 

[craigger64]

Brew at least one batch per month.

Grow my own hops.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I'll go ahead and do these in the chronological order

1. Move, so that I can...
2. Obtain 10 gallon kettle and propane burner so I can finally full boil
3. Build MLT and stop with BIAB
4. Obtain additional fridge so I can replace the swamp coolers so I can...
5. Brew some lagers (probably bocks)
5. Obtain another fridge/freezer so I can...
6. Start kegging
7. Brew a lot more than I did this year (only did about 100 gallons, but hey, money was tight)

 

[Kosch]

1. Move to all grain (even if small batches)
2. Design and brew my own recipe
3. Build a keezer
4. Brew more beer (out of 63 gallons since September 19th, only 15 has been beer, with the rest being wine/mead/cider)
5. Build a proper storage area for fermenting (basement stays cool enough, but would like some shelving and insulation to keep it even and organized)
6. And finally, start growing my own hops!

 

[jiggs_casey]

1. Get to a point where I don't buy beer. Being a session drinker, I think this will be tough...
2. Finish the kegerator.
3. Finish the 'brewroom'.

 

[seabass07]

1. Mount my corona mill and start using it.
2. Turn the bottom half of my pantry into an insulated temp controlled fermentation chamber.
3. Buy some 55gal stainless and hdpe barrels with my brew buddies to make a nanobrewery in one of their garages.
4. Perfect several recipes for use in said nanobrewery.
5. Start kegging!
6. Figure out where the hell I can even fit a kegerator in an apartment with kids.

 

[step]

6) Enjoy every minute of it.

I think I need to make this #1

Sometimes I get wrapped up in cranking out some beer to get on line and I feel like am missing out on the whole experience.

I also think I need to avoid buying anymore gear for this year... except for maybe completing my keezer (just need some taps/shanks)... oh and maybe build my milling station (already have the mill and motor)... damn it there I go again more more more

Cheers to all brewers this next year! I'll admit I have never read Papazian but don't forget to RDWHAHB!!!

 

[Oddball]

1. Make the move to partial mash and eventually all grain by the end of the year.

2. Make room in my garage for a designated brew space.

3. Brew at least two batches per month.

4. Experiment with growing my own hops.

 

[Challenger440]

1) Brew once a month
2) Convert mini fridge to kegerator/fermentation chamber
3) Design good gluten free beers for the wifey
4) Get the wifey involved in brew days
5) Enter a competition
6) Partigyle

 

[Bmorebrew]

1. Develop from scratch and perfect at least two house ale recipes.
2. Become yeast self-sufficient (i.e. sustainable yeast ranch - two or three strains is enough).

 

[Piratwolf]

1. Keg beer
2. Make keezer
3. Build ferm chamber to fit 15 gal fermenters
4. Enter several BJCP contests to get "pro" feedback on my beers
5. Make side-by-side test batches to gauge FWH vs. 60-min bittering, 1056 vs. 1272, 3711 vs. Ardennes, etc.
6. Make lots of Belgians
7. Continue making new-to-me beer styles

 

[MPOWELLJR]

1. Progress on my 3 tier setup (unless I hit the lotto and get a single tier).
2. Start brewing 10 gallon batches.
3. Build a fermentation chamber (under work bench).
4. Build a planter box in the backyard and plant some rhizomes.
5. Brew and enjoy beer

 

[frozenfish]

1) Get a small freezer for lagering
2) Spend more time enjoying watching my friends enjoy my homebrew
3) Get my brewing room more organized
4) Enter more competitions

 

[smcmil88]

1. Brew first all-grain batch (just finished making equipment)
2. Brew all of the recipes I have been coming up with over the past 2 years
3. Start brewing more than 1 5 gallon batch per month
4. Experiment with more hop combinations
5. Give out more beer

 

[Reno_eNVy]

1) Upgrade to high pressure burner
2) Start a yeast bank
3) Brew more

 

[MaxSpang]

1. Brew an all-grain giant Imperial Stout
2. Enter a home brew contest
3. Brew a sour beer (nervous about this one!)
4. Learn about water chemistry
5. Brew "The One". The beer that I would spend top dollar on if it were a commercial beer.
6. Brew some high ABV beers (over 12%)
7. Make a mead!


It's gonna be a fun year

 

[Steelers77]

1.Finish my Brutus build
2.Start building my 1.5bbl nano system
3.Use all the hops I want to use but don't have the time to use.
4.Duplicate the Rosemary Rye Saison I brewed last summer.
5.Finally Lock down 6 recipes and brew them on a regular basis.
5.Open my retail loacation in Southern Wisconsin!

 

[chrislehr]

1) Hit 200 gallons in 2012. I didn't make this goal this year.
2) Enter at least 3 competitions. I entered my first this year, and took second place
3) Finish my indoor kegerator build. I was forced to play hurry up to get the outside one ready for the wedding, and the keezer is really just a big fridge for me right now. Time to make better use of that.

 

[Steelers77]

3. Brew a sour beer (nervous about this one!)

Don't be nervous read this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f127/easy-way-make-sour-beers-1-gal-wort-dregs-189748/

I started doing this with every beer now I have two all Bretts going and one plambic. I've been capping the mash of every other beer for the last 2 months and pulling 4 gallons of wort, Boil then ferment. I've used all pure strains (either an individual or a blend just depends on what I have on hand) with the first three. The outlook is promising

 

[snooky]

1) Build single tier brew system
2) 100+ Gallons
3) Re-roof garage and build a door for it (It gets pretty cold in winter brewing in there)
4) Brew a sour beer

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I started 2011 wanting to become more precise and technical as a brewer. I felt like I didn't do a good job because I ended up with a few infections that I could have prevented. I didn't brew as much as I had hoped to this year because I went on a tear brewing fall 2010 and a bit in Jan/Feb this year and just ended up with too much beer in the house to keep brewing.

For 2012 I want to pick up with trying to be more technical and nail down my processes. I have a lot of beer I hope to brew in 2012 as my supply of 2010/2011 beers goes down. I have a lot of one gallon batches to work on recipes so that's an easy way to scratch the brewing itch without adding several gallons to my supply.

 

[1971hemicuda]

1) Dial in my Pale Ale and Milk Stout (my 2 favorite styles!)
2) Enter at least 1 competition (after 3 years i've never entered one!)
3) Finish my temp controlled fermentation room
4) Get a stout faucet/nitro tap installed in my keezer. Then nitro my IPA!

 

[ldepaoli]

1) brew at least once a month
2) improve my process and have at least one top 10 beer at the national home brewing competition
3) build my brew rig and add another keggle and pump for the sparge watter
4) build and organize an area at home for by brewing equipment
5) brew at least 3 new styles

 

[JuanKenobi]

1) Brew more beer than 2011 (My 2011 resolution was brew 20 batches. Done!)
2) Dial in the new 10 gallon system
2) Build Fermentation Chamber
3) Get an actual yield from my hop plants

 

[Danbreeze]

1. To brew a batch at least every other week to keep up with demand.

2. As someone posted previously, make more IPA's. Every other batch will be a pale ale in some form.

3. Get back into a learning curve-spent most home brewing time this year on recipes and not on technique.

4. Enter more competitions-constructive criticism is worth it's weight in gold.

5. Attend more brew days on the east coast-you dont know what you dont know (as dumb as that phrase may sound).

 

[EdWort]

1. Brew twice a month
2. Finish the Brewhaus
3. Build Electric Brew System.

 

[Minjin]

Get these kegs fitted up and make my first brew.

 

[RichmonS]

I would like to go all grain and enter at least one competition. Maybe get into the forum swap as well if there is one for 2013.

 

[solbes]

I would like to go all grain and enter at least one competition. Maybe get into the forum swap as well if there is one for 2013.

Good idea on forum swap. But lets not skip a whole year of brewing. It's 2012 next year

 

[bkorver]

1) Set up a 2 keg system and cut out so much bottling

2) Expand my recipe book

3) Have at least 1 of my 3 buckets fermenting at any given time