Stealth Brewing

timcook · Dec 28, 2016

Anyone else sneak in brew days after your wife & kids go to bed? Doing one tonight, probably brew a few times a year like this. It's not as much fun as having the guys over, but I've got to keep the pipeline going.

rootster · Dec 29, 2016

i've done a couple, but they always seem rushed and inevitably i do something dumb or something goes a rye.

sky4meplease · Dec 29, 2016

rootster said:
something goes a rye.

I see what you did there [emoji23]

timcook · Dec 29, 2016

I ended up being really tired by the end. Glad I got it done, but not my favorite way to brew.

RM-MN · Dec 29, 2016

timcook said:
Anyone else sneak in brew days after your wife & kids go to bed? Doing one tonight, probably brew a few times a year like this. It's not as much fun as having the guys over, but I've got to keep the pipeline going.

Extract or all grain? Wort chiller? How long does it normally take you to brew a batch and is it the same after the wife and kids go to bed as it would in daytime?

oceanic_brew · Dec 29, 2016

You can stretch out your brew over three nights if you only have a couple hrs a night. I've done it while our band was recording/rehearsing an album.

Mash one night with mash out

Sparge the next with some hot water

And boil the next. Really helps if you do no chill but a boil and chill can be achieved in a 2.5 - 3 hrs depending.

You won't get a sour mash going in 24 hrs since for the first 8 hrs or so the wort/mash will be too hot for growth. I wouldn't push it anymore than that though.

MapleGroveAleworks · Dec 29, 2016

No I just brew when I get home.

Homercidal · Dec 29, 2016

I have done up to a boil once or twice. Just enough boil to sanitize then put the lid on and bring it back up to a boil the next day. It's a nice split for a brewday. 3 hours to mash sparge and quick boil. Next day 3 hours to boil and chill and rack to fermentor. Probably not even that much time, depending on your recipe and equipment and method.

timcook · Dec 29, 2016

It was 28 degrees last night at 1:45 am when the boil finished. I did a no chill. Racked to the fermenter this morning after making some coffee. Just got below 70 degrees (it's 4:00pm) and pitched the yeast.