My days off are usually week days so it is the same as if it was a weekend day. I try to get things going by 11am and completely done by 5 or so PM.
Brewing on a Weeknight
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That's what it took me. I I don't know about you but I usually don't go to bed until 10 of 11, so starting at 5 or 6 worked for me.
I use a really well insulated cooler as a mash tun, so sometimes I'll either mash overnight or run home on my lunch break from work and heat my mash water and mash during lunch. Then when I come home one of the most time consuming parts is already finished. It works pretty well. Brewing in a bag with no sparge or just dunk sparging saves time and cleanup too, or you could even mash in your boil vessel if you have enough space. You could also even mash for 30 minutes instead of an hour.
I actually brewed every night for a week after work once just to see if I could do it along with the 50Gal of brew needing to get trucked to NJ for an event (which was a smash hit with my beer!).
I was brewing the same 2 beers that week..2 10Gal batches of an IPA and 3 10 Gal of my house blonde.
It was a LOONG week. I got home about 5:30pm and was brewing until around 11pm. After post-brew clean-up, I was in bed by 1am. It was certainly a learning experience and by Friday nights brew session, I was dead on my feet but I had an absolute blast doing it as my family and neighbors all came over to help..it became sort of a "thing" in the neighborhood that week. lol
It also gave me the confidence that if I ever did go pro on a small scale level, I could brew 2-3 times a week after work without a problem.
I was brewing the same 2 beers that week..2 10Gal batches of an IPA and 3 10 Gal of my house blonde.
It was a LOONG week. I got home about 5:30pm and was brewing until around 11pm. After post-brew clean-up, I was in bed by 1am. It was certainly a learning experience and by Friday nights brew session, I was dead on my feet but I had an absolute blast doing it as my family and neighbors all came over to help..it became sort of a "thing" in the neighborhood that week. lol
It also gave me the confidence that if I ever did go pro on a small scale level, I could brew 2-3 times a week after work without a problem.
