Couple things about the reports. Gotta remember, these are lab conditions (that we don't have), brand new yeasties brought from their home straight to whatever vessel used for the test (no way possible for us, unless we take our wort there..problematic at best), impeccably monitored control conditions (yeah, even the most anal uptight of us cannot reproduce that), and the list goes on.
Whether it's Q's amazing grain to glass speed (well done, sir, impressive!:rockin
, Yooper's too! the parroted 4 weeks (whatever), or your own experience with your own brews on a perfected repetitive schedule, variables
will introduce themselves and you cannot control them.
For my own personal scheduling purposes, so I can relax with things,(OH, The HORROR, my beer is not ready!!) and keep the pipeline reasonably well stocked at any one time, I just figure 3 months. That way if I get a brew that just freaks out, and my poor little yeasties are having a tough time for some unknown reason, (i.e. I boofed somethin' up along the way) then I will still have homebrew to drink until the new one is 'done'. If I do all the hydro tests, and it tastes good, meaning it's done sooner, and I have the time to package, great! BONUS!!!
This may or may not work for you or anyone else, but it works for me, so that's what I go with.