Earliest Time it is "Acceptable" to drink on brew day...

[Gatoreye]

my dear old Great Grampa had a saying..............

It's hard to drink all day if you don't start first thing in the morning.

 

[jkreuze]

I enjoy the beauty of a fine spring morning, as the sun rises and begins to warm the evening's chill from the air, but I have found that it pairs particularly well with a beer.

 

[GryphonBrew]

I start once I've mashed in... then I stop once I'm mashed in...

 

[Demon]

10:15 this morning heating my strike water.

 

[hopsnbarley]

I enjoy the beauty of a fine spring morning, as the sun rises and begins to warm the evening's chill from the air, but I have found that it pairs particularly well with a beer.

Thank you son you have made my beer drinking/brewing day.

 

[bdeck02]

I start brewing usually by 8am and I always pop one open once my boil starts. The smell is too infectious not have one. Just pour a stout into a coffee mug and tell the wife and kiddo it's coffee ; )

 

[Demon]

Just pour a stout into a coffee mug and tell the wife and kiddo it's coffee ; )

Greatest idea ever!

 

[Shift]

After 2 brews it has become a tradition for me to drink tasteless 2.8 abv lager once the boil starts.
And when the yeast is pitched i RDWHAHB.

 

[Golddiggie]

After 2 brews it has become a tradition for me to drink tasteless 2.8 abv lager once the boil starts.
And when the yeast is pitched i RDWHAHB.

That's F'd up... Are you being punished for something? I'd rather drink water than that swill...

 

[Shift]

That's F'd up... Are you being punished for something? I'd rather drink water than that swill...

Sometimes they have it on sale, ~1$ for six tall boys, so I just fill up my inventory and so far it has been at the same time as brewing.
Usually I go for the same thing but with 3.5 abv, it's a lifestyle.

 

[Golddiggie]

Sometimes they have it on sale, ~1$ for six tall boys, so I just fill up my inventory and so far it has been at the same time as brewing.
Usually I go for the same thing but with 3.5 abv, it's a lifestyle.

Wow... I think my mash tun would be pissed off at me if I put that little amount of grain into it... Even a 10 gallon batch would look like almost nothing... Well, actually, it would be closer to MY normal ABV brew grain bill. I normally do about 12-15# of grain in a 'normal' 5 gallon batch. I'd rather drink less pints of stronger/full flavored brew, than two or three times as many of a lower strength brew. I sometimes think of making something in the ~5% range, but it always seems to come out stronger.

 

[Shift]

Wow... I think my mash tun would be pissed off at me if I put that little amount of grain into it... Even a 10 gallon batch would look like almost nothing... Well, actually, it would be closer to MY normal ABV brew grain bill. I normally do about 12-15# of grain in a 'normal' 5 gallon batch. I'd rather drink less pints of stronger/full flavored brew, than two or three times as many of a lower strength brew. I sometimes think of making something in the ~5% range, but it always seems to come out stronger.

Not sure we're on the same page here, or how grain amounts came into discussion but my brews so far have been around 10-11 lb for ~4 gallon.

My traditional brewing drink while boiling/cooling:

Altough thats the 3.5 version, but the 2.8 tastes just as little.

 

[BARBQ]

wow ive never heard of 2.8% beer.

I bet you could get more than 2.8% from standing over the wort while its boiling.

 

[nebben]

I have standards about how much I drink. I don't even drink every day. Sometimes, however, I will drink early. Beer goes well with pancakes as another poster already suggested, and it goes with brewing beer.

Of course one should be responsible too...don't drink so much that you wont be able to function and drop a carboy on yourself or burn something while boiling.

 

[spagyric]

A beer in the morning can be a beautiful thing. I think our culture has some pretty arbitrary standards when it comes to acceptable use of alcohol. To me it's less about the time of day and more about how you treat the alcohol in general. There are appropriate times to drink and inappropriate times to drink and those times have little to do with the rotation of the earth on its axis and a lot to do with where and why you're drinking. Just my $0.02.

 

[Golddiggie]

A beer in the morning can be a beautiful thing. I think our culture has some pretty arbitrary standards when it comes to acceptable use of alcohol. To me it's less about the time of day and more about how you treat the alcohol in general. There are appropriate times to drink and inappropriate times to drink and those times have little to do with the rotation of the earth on its axis and a lot to do with where and why you're drinking. Just my $0.02.

A glass of a modest ABV breakfast stout would go great with so many things... I really do need to brew one of those soon, so that I can at least enjoy it on the weekends.

 

[spagyric]

A glass of a modest ABV breakfast stout would go great with so many things... I really do need to brew one of those soon, so that I can at least enjoy it on the weekends.

I like that idea. You could use oatmeal and/or maple in it to legitimize it's use as a breakfast item. Has anyone made a bacon beer before? Hmmm...

 

[Golddiggie]

I like that idea. You could use oatmeal and/or maple in it to legitimize it's use as a breakfast item. Has anyone made a bacon beer before? Hmmm...

There's a coffee bacon stout recipe out there... I don't have the link handy, but I've read the site... Could be good... Personally, I'd rather EAT the bacon than drink it... I don't need breakfast in a glass...

Now, a nice chocolate coffee cream stout... mmmmmmmm WITH a nice stack of pancakes, bacon and sausages... I can almost hear my arteries clogging now, but it would be worth it.. Die with a smile on your face, and foam on your upper lip. :rockin:

 

[spagyric]

There's a coffee bacon stout recipe out there... I don't have the link handy, but I've read the site... Could be good... Personally, I'd rather EAT the bacon than drink it... I don't need breakfast in a glass...

Yeah, meat flavored beer might be where I have to draw the line. Not that I wouldn't taste it given the opportunity.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

The earliest I have a drink (brewday or not) is when a beer or other drink sounds better than the alternative. I think arbitrary times defining you as a drunk are dumb and refuse to abide them. Sometimes I drink right when I get up. Most weekends I am having a radlermaß or a beer before noon. I don't like soda, juice is expensive and I drink it much to fast, and I can't drink coffee all day. When a beer sounds good, I have a beer.

-I didn't read any of this thread...

 

[KevinW]

Yeah, meat flavored beer might be where I have to draw the line. Not that I wouldn't taste it given the opportunity.

Two words: cock ale! (look it up)

 

[spagyric]

Two words: cock ale! (look it up)

Haha, there's a recipe for that in one of my brewing books. I think I prefer the coque au vin route for dealing with an unwanted rooster.