Out of curiosity, what is your ratio of batches to years brewing?

[slym2none]

i brew 5 gallons batches and drin a pint about every day and I brew 5-6 times a year. How come some of you brew like 20 times ? Does your wife or older kids drink your beer ? Do you drink like 3 beers a day ?

Is there a problem here?

 

[day_trippr]

i brew 5 gallons batches and drin a pint about every day and I brew 5-6 times a year. How come some of you brew like 20 times ? Does your wife or older kids drink your beer ? Do you drink like 3 beers a day ?

fwiw, my daily intake is a solid 48 ounces. First pour is usually a wheat around 6 when I knock off design work, second pour will be a hoppy pale or an ipa 30 minutes later, around 10 or so the third pour will be an esb, dark, or trappist, and around midnite I'll drop the hammer with a double imperial chocolate stout. Saturday and Sunday there's an extra pint 'cuz I can start earlier

The spousal unit contributes a few pints over the week, if either of my sons come by they'll account for a pint or two and refill a growler to take home, and on average random friends will pull a gallon over a week.

It adds up to roughly four gallons a week. Twenty brew days times two five gallon batches works out perfectly, and fortunately the powers that be usually allow that to happen...

Cheers!

 

[paperairplane]

First 6 months made 50 gal. First full year made 100 gal. On pace for 120 gallons this year + 20 gallons hard cider.

 

[Bigstaubbie]

Drinkin' a Mad Elf clone now. Can't quite figgure out the ratio. Christmas(Merry Christmas everyone) will be three years. 2 batches with Mr Beer kit I got for Christmas, 2 mores batchesBAIB and jumped into AG for the next 97. It's Friday. You do the math. Cheers.

 

[paperairplane]

i brew 5 gallons batches and drin a pint about every day and I brew 5-6 times a year. How come some of you brew like 20 times ? Does your wife or older kids drink your beer ? Do you drink like 3 beers a day ?

I drank a 32oz growler of ten-fiddy stout the other night - and that's like 10.5%...

 

[paperairplane]

Drinkin' a Mad Elf clone now. Can't quite figgure out the ratio. Christmas(Merry Christmas everyone) will be three years. 2 batches with Mr Beer kit I got for Christmas, 2 mores batchesBAIB and jumped into AG for the next 97. It's Friday. You do the math. Cheers.

sounds like 30 ish batches a year to me

 

[Bigstaubbie]

Thank You

 

[m00ps]

i brew 5 gallons batches and drin a pint about every day and I brew 5-6 times a year. How come some of you brew like 20 times ? Does your wife or older kids drink your beer ? Do you drink like 3 beers a day ?

It helps to make A LOT of friends. SWMBO and all my extended family and a bunch of their friends enjoy mine.

 

[applescrap]

10 5 years 50 batches.

 

[ArkotRamathorn]

i brew 5 gallons batches and drin a pint about every day and I brew 5-6 times a year. How come some of you brew like 20 times ? Does your wife or older kids drink your beer ? Do you drink like 3 beers a day ?

Christmas is rough on my supply, first off just being around family means I need to drink very heavily to not call them idiots since it's an election year, also giving away 6 packs to assorted beer drinkers in my family will kill quite a few bottles. Add to that competitions at least two bottles a pop per entry per comp. Then "test" beers throughout the entire process to learn best when my beers peak and when they're most ready to drink and enter into comps.

I go in cycles of 3 weekends in a row brewing. Usually a small 5% or less beer, a medium beer in the 5-7% range, then lay in a big beer on the third week of the cycle. Brew small, ferment, transfer, bottle/brew, ferment, transfer, leave medium beer in secondary and brew big beer, leave big beer in primary till I'm ready to bottle medium beer. Take two or three weekends off from brewing to focus on cellaring duties, usually medium beer and small beer are both ready to drink at this point and the big beer I've bottled and squirreled away.

There's no right or wrong amount to brew. I am in a good groove lately and my last 7 batches this year have been hits (one placed second at a competition in Madison). I want to keep brewing at a high capacity since I hate brewing in dead winter in Wisconsin, January-February are awful to brew in, March through December I'll manage 12-20 batches.

If I brewed purely for personal consumption, I wouldn't get very far past 10 batches.

Also beer is delicious.

 

[charliethebum]

Twice a month on average, however I was brewing once a week for a while.

 

[balrog]

Proper multi-level regression mapping techniques probably require us to answer with all factors so the single number response isn't picked up by the rabid media web bots and misconstrued without taking account of batch size, number of friends, batch dump ratio, gifting ratio, leaky spigot conundrum, thirsty dog relation, relations that are dogs, amount sent for judging, and that sort of thing.

Oh, and my answer is: about 12, 5G, ~0.3, 1/34, 58%, 0, 0, >1, 0

 

[Alpotun]

8.5

 

[applescrap]

Out of curiosity. ..whats yours m00ps?

 

[LAHammer]

Do you drink like 3 beers a day ?

On a slow day...

 

[LAHammer]

Also beer is delicious.

This...

 

[Beerbeque]

232/8=29

 

[m00ps]

Out of curiosity. ..whats yours m00ps?

Ha! Youll just have to guess. Im too ashamed now

 

[BrewingTravisty]

Ha! Youll just have to guess. Im too ashamed now

200 batches a year! Am I right?

 

[m00ps]

200 batches a year! Am I right?

if I didnt have a full-time job during the week that would likely be the case. But then I'd probably run into a funding issue

 

[BrewingTravisty]

if I didnt have a full-time job during the week that would likely be the case. But then I'd probably run into a funding issue

Funding is definitely a big issue lol I'm on medical leave right now, and brewing every week or every other week is about all I can handle, financially and physically haha if I was rich I would rig up a system to help with the lifting, and spend my days brewing. I'd make a lot of friends lol because I would bottleneck at the consumption part of the brewing and need help. Either that or my liver would give out within 3 months.

 

[Psylocide]

First year in and I've got 16 brews (13 AG) under my belt. I plan to brew around the same amount of batches this coming year, but more 10 gal batches.

 

[m00ps]

Funding is definitely a big issue lol I'm on medical leave right now, and brewing every week or every other week is about all I can handle, financially and physically haha if I was rich I would rig up a system to help with the lifting, and spend my days brewing. I'd make a lot of friends lol because I would bottleneck at the consumption part of the brewing and need help. Either that or my liver would give out within 3 months.

Thats where Im at. So, confession - Im the bonehead that clicked the +75 button. Definitely bottlenecks at the consumption end of things. Made LOTs of friends though.

 

[Natdavis777]

Consistently brew 2x a month, so 24 brew sessions annually.

 

[MrAverageGuy]

11 small (2.5 gallon) batches since April, when I returned to this fantastic avocation.

 

[bkboiler]

at the moment 7 batches per year on average, been brewing 3 years, but try to brew at least monthly...
recently has been maybe closer to every two weeks... I took a break for a while when I moved around to a few different houses.

 

[grevengrevs]

Up until recently I was brewing about once every 5-6 weeks. At the time I only had a single tap kegerator but I have since moved to a 4 tap and have more keg space. As a result I have brewed 4 times in the last 6 weeks.

 

[m00ps]

Yay, someone else clicked the same answer! Now I dont feel so alone...