Early Morning Brews

[K5MOW]

We are doing a brew tomarow.

Roger

 

[brokebucket]

Good morning early risers! Relatively chilly morning here in Virginia, but no wind, great brewing morning, going to try a mirror pond clone.

 

[K5MOW]

Out brewing now.

Roger

 

[Oginme]

Mashed in a Dry Irish Stout at 6:10 (slept late this morning).

 

[Oginme]

This morning's brew is Mandarin Breeze Amber Ale. Mashed in at 5:40 AM and just about ready to pull the bag out.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Mashed in at 6 am. Brewing a Hobo Stew.

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[dchmela]

Any New Years Day batches being brewed? Don't really dig staying out all night, so I have a Holiday Red I will have ready to brew first thing in the morning. Start the year off right!

 

[Oginme]

Same here. I don't do the "amateur night" thing on New Year's eve, so I'm set to start my Margarita Visions Pale Ale first thing in the morning. Grains are weighed out and will be ground tonight, everything is cleaned and sanitized, and the yeast starter is spinning.

 

[doctormiah]

Got a MoreBeer Kit - Fire in the Hole from my in-laws for Christmas. Starting my mash in a few!

 

[Oginme]

Starting the boil! Nice way to usher in a new year.

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

6am. Chilling the wort down on the first batch of the new year for me.
5.5gallons of chocolate cherry bock.

 

[mjdonnelly68]

Want an am brew this weekend - but it's not looking good. -11 degrees here in Albany, NY this morning. Have to try again tomorrow.

 

[brick]

I'm under the same air mass. I couldn'd to it at my usual time, either, but I'm finally going for it now. The mash is going in the kitchen now, and it should be close to 20F by the time I get outside to start the boil. I might call this my last batch until it starts to get a little more spring-like in these parts.

 

[mjdonnelly68]

I'm under the same air mass. I couldn'd to it at my usual time, either, but I'm finally going for it now. The mash is going in the kitchen now, and it should be close to 20F by the time I get outside to start the boil. I might call this my last batch until it starts to get a little more spring-like in these parts.

I hear you. We haven't had a winter this consistently cold for a couple of years - I got spoiled. Might need to look into an electric BIAB setup to get me from December to March.

 

[Glynn]

Going to my first brew of the 2014 season this monday morning and im not going let the fact that its going to be -13 with a wind chill of -50 stop me.

 

[RLinNH]

Not mashing in until around 10:00ish. You guys won't kick me out of the club, will ya?

 

[Oginme]

It's early morning somewhere on this planet, I think you're safe

Getting ready to transfer my Brown into the fermenter.

 

[BansheeRider]

Smokin BABY!!!! I got a 10-12 hour smoke today....oh yeeeeah

 

[Toy4Rick]

My early morning brews are almost always done in 4-4.25 hours, more consistent ... Wonder why, oh yeah I haven't started drinking yet since it's too early

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

Heating my strike water now. Anyone else up?

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

Heating my strike water now. Anyone else up?

Yeah. At work for another 1.75hrs then home to rack my chocolate bock onto cherries and see how the carb level of my hard root beer is progressing.

 

[BikerBrewer]

Almost through with the boil on my saison now, bottled my Kentucky common yesterday morning at this time.

 

[reuliss]

I'm up too. Just mashed in on my American Amber. It's my first recipe that I consider really damn good and am repeating what worked for the first time today. Wish me luck!

 

[brewkinger]

I meant to post this yesterday morning at 545am as I was heating strike water for MO-Willamette SMaSH.
Great day for brewing in Northern Vermont.
Miserable rain, mid 40's.
87% mash eff
78% brewhouse!

My best ever!

 

[JonM]

I wish I was because it would have been the perfect day for it. Today it's 40 deg. (up from -20) and *sniff* there is no Packer football to distract me. Next weekend, though!

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

This has probably been the smoothest brew day yet. Slight chill in the air, no distractions, and grits and coffee for breakfast.

Gotta love the early morning

 

[brokebucket]

Brewed yesterday afternoon (boooooo) because I was doing a wort share contest at local brewery. Even with the late start, things still went smooth (yeah!)

Definitely not converting me to early morning brewing though.

 

[JonM]

Mornin', early birds! I had planned to get up at 4:00 and get going, but somehow woke up 45 minutes early, so here I am. Strike water is heating for my latest batch of Jim's Oatmeal Stout.

 

[Oginme]

Nice, Jon. I woke up late (still recovering from the flu). Started my Scottish 80/- around 6:40 AM. Getting ready to sparge!

 

[JonM]

Ugh. Having an enormously frustrating brewday. Struggled with the mash temp, struggled with the mash pH, struggled with the pump, and SWMBO came down to the kitchen to give me the evil eye about something.

Hopefully I've exhausted my glitch quota for the day. Guess I'm paying the price for all those smooth perfect brewdays I've had recently.