What is that one homebrewing task you just refuse to do? Other than bottling...

[Mike_kever_kombi]

....Then there's the drinking...

That’s the only part of my process that remains consistent

 

[beersk]

I refuse to get a pH meter. That's been the one thing I've refused since I started brewing. Sure, I'm sure my pH isn't perfect, but close enough is good enough.

 

[Jerome Sidley]

I start my brews about 5am. Way too early to start drinking.

WHAT I'm not supposed to do that???

 

[jschein]

WHAT I'm not supposed to do that???

No, carry on with your process

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

I refuse to fly sparge. I just cannot fathom the value vs either no sparge or batch sparge. My day is long enough without adding a 45 minute long sparge process.

 

[Positronic_Matrix]

Conical fermenter because racking into a secondary is not going to happen.

 

[Soulshine2]

For me, it's multi-step starters. I happily make a starter with a 1.6 liter jar of canned wort, but stepping up a few stages of different sizes is just no fun for some reason. I'll compromise and use multiple packs of whatever dry yeast is close enough instead of doing that.

i dont make starters. I use dry yeast, no problems.

 

[Jag75]

Cold crashing

 

[rhys333]

I second that. No cold crashing. I don't need to though, as my beers turn out weirdly clear.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Cold crashing is great if it can be done under positive CO2 pressure. How many (most?) homebrewers do it is a disaster.

 

[day_trippr]

^that^

 

[rhys333]

Cold crashing is great if it can be done under positive CO2 pressure. How many (most?) homebrewers do it is a disaster.

AKA chilled carbonated beer?

 

[Qhrumphf]

AKA chilled carbonated beer?

Not necessarily. Just needs to be enough CO2 to prevent O2 being drawn in by the vacuum created during crashing as the pressure drops. Some people just use a balloon filled with CO2 from fermentation.

 

[friarsmith]

I'm pretty sure the pale I made earlier this month was fermented on lager yeast instead of the Notty it should have had, but it turned out great anyway. Pretty much just grab a jar, smell it, and if it doesn't smell "off" I'll use it, even if the beer I'm pitching it on isn't the same.

Hah Hah. Last fall I accidentally pitched a quart slurry of WY West Coast IPA yeast in a 10g fermenter of CZ Lager but didn't realize it until two days later when I went looking for the jar of the IPA yeast for another beer. Completed the fermentation in the 50's as planned with the ale yeast and the beer turned out great. No esters. Clean. Tasted pretty Czech to me...

 

[tellyho]

Hah Hah. Last fall I accidentally pitched a quart slurry of WY West Coast IPA yeast in a 10g fermenter of CZ Lager but didn't realize it until two days later when I went looking for the jar of the IPA yeast for another beer. Completed the fermentation in the 50's as planned with the ale yeast and the beer turned out great. No esters. Clean. Tasted pretty Czech to me...

Another arrow in the not-to-style quiver. What rules can't we break?