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

[rycov]

at the beginging it says

just don't erase anything before that ] and i think your good

 

[chaydaw]

i think you just don't erase there name after the first quote=

ahhh like this?

thanks!

 

[rico567]

I brew alone, and a tube is never cracked until the wort is in the fermenter and everything's cleaned up and put away. As far as I'm concerned, it's a safety issue.

 

[Bpts_finest13]

Remember, it's 5 o'clock somewhere!

LOL.. was doing some plumbing work at a buddy's house yesterday and it was a lil after 9am.. he said we havent drank together in a long time and its 5pm some where so he opened 2. I still had a lrge full cup of DUNKIN

 

[yummybeer]

If you're brewing, you should be drinking!

While brewing I always crack a brew. I don't care what time it is, and the wife knows it...

agreed...if you're brewing you should be drinking a brew.
although i will say, i brewed yesterday morning (started about 9:00-9:30), and yesterday's brewing session didN'T include drinking a brew (for the first time since i don't know when for me).

 

[overflow]

I too, wait until the boil. Then it's open season. Too easy to mess up the hop additions, etc. after you've had a few. All of my brewing mistakes have been when I had some brew before the boil... just speaking from experience!

 

[Firebat138]

Safety issue? that sounds like a drinking problem.

 

[Monstar]

If you're brewing, you should be drinking!

Yesssss! When you start heating strike water, thats what I would say!

 

[jiggs_casey]

I drink all throughout brewday. Just stay this side of ****ty until you're done. :cross:

 

[asidrane]

You should start drinking at midnight, which is technically the night before. It is important to get a good night's rest before brewing and I find that having a homebrew helps.

 

[TXCrash]

I've started brewing as early as 630 am. I've been half lit as early as mash out. You do the math.

More than once I've been drinking a bit earlier than 8. As long as you don't need to go anywhere and don't make a habit of it - drink as soon as you want to. Think the time stops the fishermen from drinking their piss water at the buttcrack of dawn?

 

[TheBroonery]

Saturday morning my brother in law and I brewed a batch... We each had 3 pints before noon!

 

[Pick]

My mother once told me, that if you drink before noon, you are an alcoholic. I do not know what her basis for this was, but after she said that, I opened a beer up at 11:55 AM one day in front of her. She was not amused.

 

[Dome555]

My rule's always been as long as it's after 8AM you're good. Exceptions are easy to make though. For instance, if you're hungover then a homebrew can be considered necessary for medicinal purposes. Or, if you're just getting off of work for similar reasons. Also, this rule does not apply to stouts or porters; there's coffee there, if anything there should be a time at night when these cease being drank, not a time where they become acceptable in the morning. Other possible exceptions include but are not limited to holidays, birthdays, sporting events, and the wanting of a beer before 8AM.

 

[kgfitz]

I only use glass carboys so I hold off drinking until the boil on brew days. Other then that I work 3rd shift so I will have one or two brews before 7 AM. There is nothing wrong with have a beer after work

 

[Chuginator]

Now I feel bad. I just realized that for the first time ever, I actually didn't have a beer when brewing yesterday. I'll have to make up for it next time.

 

[Conan]

I no longer drink while brewing. Still tweaking my system, so I want to remember to write down everything as it happens. I forget easily enough without a beer. That said, I see no reason to wait 'till noon or after for a beer if you want one. Kyle

 

[chaydaw]

I only use glass carboys so I hold off drinking until the boil on brew days. Other then that I work 3rd shift so I will have one or two brews before 7 AM. There is nothing wrong with have a beer after work

Is there a better reason to switch to better bottles?

 

[bad coffee]

Too early is before the alarm goes off on a brew day. After it's good.

B

 

[Caboose]

I see nothing wrong with have 1...or 5. When I run my smoker, its not uncommon for me to run it for 24 hrs to get the meat nice and tender (little overkill but always worth it) I am usually drinking a beer through the night. On one occasion I was check the temp of the smoker around 7 am drinking a beer and my neighbor came out to get the paper and gave them the strangest look. I just raised my bottle and gave a smile.

 

[Acoma]

I personally feel its bad luck not to have a brew while brewing. I've purposely waited to start brewing til closer to noon so I dont feel like an A word (either one). That being said if the circumstances called for it and I had to brew earlier I would still have at least one as to not displease the beer Gods and tilt the world off its axis.

 

[Golddiggie]

I think it's in the home brewing laws that you have to have at least SOME home brew while making more home brew. Even when I was sick, I had some home brew while brewing. If I'm vertical, and not venting out of too many orifices at one time, I'm brewing (and drinking during the process)... It is better if you are brewing with someone else, so you can share the home brew on that day.

Only issue I tend to have, right now, is making sure I have some home brew on hand to have on a brew day... Although if you're brewing with someone, chances are you'll have enough home brew to make it through the session... Just be smart about it if you're driving after brewing...

 

[edmanster]

if you're brewing, you should be drinking!

+1

 

[Golddiggie]

If you're brewing, you should be drinking!

If you're breathing, you should be brewing... :rockin:

 

[jfowler1]

First of all, when I brew at my friend's house, we usually start firing up our systems around 10 am, and start sampling beer at 10:15 am. I seems like enough time for the coffee taste to subside from the drive over.

Secondly, my wife and I honeymooned in Ireland last May, and our original flight was cancelled due to the volcanic ash cloud. We caught a flight the next day, but we had a stopover in Frankfurt on the way to Dublin. We had just enough time to grab a hefeweizen and a pretzel in the airport, so we couldn't resist. For the record, it was midnight EST, but 7 AM in Frankfurt. No one blinked when I placed my order. So I agree, it is a combination of your biological clock and the culture around you.

Joe

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

For me, it's when the yeast is pitched. I really want good control over my brewing process and having a beer is a big risk on my process.

Once the yeast is pitched and I'm cleaning stuff, then I'll relax and have one.

M_C

 

[edmanster]

I like to sip coffee from a mug in one hand, and sip a homebrew from a mug in my other!

This is why I have a session coffee pale ale on tap.. After a couple I can't tell if it's the brew or the bean giving me a buzz... Most likely the bean since it's at least a cup worth coffee to a pint..

 

[chaydaw]

This is why I have a session coffee pale ale on tap.. After a couple I can't tell if it's the brew or the bean giving me a buzz... Most likely the bean since it's at least a cup worth coffee to a pint..

I'd like to see that recipe. Sounds pretty good on morning brew day.

 

[edmanster]

I'd like to see that recipe. Sounds pretty good on morning brew day.

It was an experiment with sum 10yr old LME from a brew in a bag from england that my sis gave me.. Tasted the malt and it was total molasses and I wanted to brew it up anyway.. The only thing I could think to cover the taste was coffee.. The kit was ment for 22ltr but I wanted to keep room for the coffee so I only brewd it to be 3 gallons with no extra hops because coffee is bitter anyways.. Fermented it with safeale-04 and it took off like a rocket.. Never got the OG since I didn't care but it did ferment all the way to 1008.. After fermentation and a month it tasted hot and like watered molasses.. I cold brewed 3 gallons of strong coffee and I remember having a cup and wanting to go run a mile it was so crazy strong. Put the brew in my keg and topped it with all but a third gallon of the coffee and carbonated for week.. It gives one of the best heads I've seen and I can only guesstimate it to be around 3.5 to 4% since the brew in a bag said 4% for the full 22ltrs.. Next time I'm thinking of doing some parti-gyle and using my first 3 gallons of runnings for it and keeping a record. So far most have liked it but I do get the occasional it's to bitter for me crap... Hope I made for some lite reading..lol

 

[Slowfro]

My typical brew day starts at 8:30am. Heat strike water, dough in, eat breakfast during the conversion, and usually switch from coffee to homebrew sometime around 2nd batch sparge. Every now and then I'll pretend like I'll hold off until noon but then I stop kidding myself. I don't need a clock to tell me when it's OK to have a beer - after all, it's just a beer.