Your 2011 Brewing Goals

[tjpfeister]

1) Put a baby inside a piece of brewing equipment and use it as a profile picture
2) Brew at least twice a month and repeat more recipes with small changes for improvements sake
3) Keep experiments and new beers to 25% or less of total brewing for #2's sake

 

[Whut]

I achieved all my goals last year but it was at the expense of actual brewing.

In no particular order.

1. Brew more - only 70 gallons last year.
2. Enter a competition for feedback.
3. Start saving for a MoreBeer 2100 with full digital package.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

I really think I want to grow hops this year............gotta get off my butt and do it

 

[MBasile]

My only goal is to nail down my APA recipe.

 

[mtngoat]

Get a pump
fix one of my keggles (hole drilled for new bulkhead is a tad to big)
solve the keezer problem (don't have one)
grain mill

 

[heywolfie1015]

1. Perfect my house ESB recipe
2. Brew that Allagash Curieux clone I've been tweaking for months
3. Get a fridge and temp controller for fermentation (no more swamp cooler)
4. Perfect my house APA recipe

 

[mattd2]

1. Brew more - get my pipeline up and running = more fermenters
2. Finish (actually start) my E-Keggle
3. Finish (actually start) building my keezer
4. Get a grain mill (build or buy)
5. Cashflow ingredients by building a BMBF and "gifting" beers to my FIL (I try to tell him a cheap price but he seems to be wanting to pay nearly what he would at the bottle shop - just means I have a drive to make the best beer I can!)

I really think I want to grow hops this year............gotta get off my butt and do it

Can I add that one to my list as we have just bought our first house so now we are settle into a long term home (well we will be once we move in!);
6. Grow hops - We are pretty limited for supply from companies for hops in NZ so I'll also have to make some homebrewing freinds this year

 

[oregonparamedic]

1. Finish building the single tier AG brew sculpture.
2. Attempt a parti-gyle.
3. Brew on the new stand like a mad man!

 

[yummybeer]

my goals for this year:

1. start kegging instead of bottling
2. start making wine
3. brew another batch as soon as i can after bottling/kegging a batch (brewing at least once a month)
4. i've been guilty for brewing mostly with the ingredient kits and not as much by recipes (maybe just because of the convenience of the kits); so i'd really like to start brewing via recipes more often.

 

[BlackForestBrewery]

Hmmm... goals goals goals. No real order here.

1. Prepare + Age 15-20 gallons of Apfelwein for next Christmas to share at a family get together. I'm hoping for at least a 9 month age before sharing with the family.
2. Grab a new wort chiller.
3. Build + Start kegging more brews.
4. Start more hops rhizomes (goal is around 20-30 for this next season).
5. Brew a lambic.
6. Build a small cellar to age brew in, if funds allow. I'd love a little 12' (high) x 8' (long) x 8' (wide) cellar underground to age + ferment my brews in. Not to mention the lower temps might allow me to homebrew lagers more often.

 

[tnbrewer371]

1. Finish my AG setup
2. Get my AG processes down
3. Convert my house IPA recipe to AG and perfect it, very close with my extract version
4. Put my kegerator together, got the fridge and parts just gotta do it
5. Learn how to keg my brew.
6. Brew BM's Centennial Blonde and Cream of 3 Crops
7. Brew a Belgian Beer
8. Perfect the recipes I have and not brew anything new or untested.
9. Brew at least twice a month
10. Build a fermentation cabinet so SWMBO will embrace this hobby a little better when the beer fermentors and bottles are out of our guest room closet.
11. Oh yah and finish perfecting my house hard cider recipe.

 

[electrichead]

1. Brew Monthly
2. Build keezer, start kegging
3. Perfect my house Dubbel and IPA recipes.
4. Relax and enjoy my beer more often, I deserve it.

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

When we get moved into a new house this summer, I want to go all electric with a new tun and boil kettle.

 

[bullinachinashop]

Finish my all electric, 3 tier, full gravity system for my basement bar. Most of the parts are together, now I just need the time to finish it. 65 degrees year round and no carrying carboy's up and down the steps!

 

[PanzerBanana]

Go all grain and reformulate my beers accordingly.

Perfect my Top Secret brew. Version 2 will be my first all grain.

Revisit and improve my Irish red.

Brew with black walnuts or acorns.

Brew my habenero beer.

Finish researching the ingredients for my next top secret experiment brew.

Refine my malt smoking and develop my own liquid smoke.

 

[Haputanlas]

Perfect my Top Secret brew.

What's the recipe?

 

[Haputanlas]

- keg system
- 11-11-11 gun stock ale
- Perfect my BOB oaked RIS
- parti gyle BIAB
- increase avg efficiancy to 80+
- Brew enough to NEVER RUN OUT OF HOMEBREW IN THE KEGS. I hate having to buy commercial when i really want my own. I only want to buy commercial for research
- Dark Night of the Soul

 

[Golddiggie]

For 2011:
1. Get grain mill/crusher.
1a. Set aside space to store ~3 sacks of grain.
2. Build keezer (and enough kegs to fill, as well as have a few in reserve).
3. Build fermentation chamber for summer time brewing (taking over kitchen closet for this).
4. Secure aging space in basement (harder than it should be with my current landlord).
5. Get enough primaries to always have enough brews in process so that I won't run out.
6. Perfect my AG processes (BIAB rocks) to get stable efficiencies. Should be much easier once I have my own grain mill.
7. Continue to dabble with mead.
8. Create a house ale (not sure if it will be a pale ale, but it will be full bodied).

For 2012:
Whatever I missed from above plus:
1. Grow my own hops.
2. If living where it's possible, set up to brew 10 gallon batches.

 

[Seabee John]

I was just going to say "All of the above"...

But If I get the chance I'd like to develop a good non-alcoholic recipe... I've got a couple of friends on the wagon who used to love my brew and have asked me to attempt NA homebrew.

oh yeah... all of the above too.

 

[Burgs]

1. Brew at least once a month
2. Brew an Imperial Stout that conditions for all/most of 2011
3. Brew a Barleywine that conditions for all/most of 2011

 

[EddieWess]

1: Bi-monthly brewing
2: Begin buying necessary equipment to go AG
3: Start formulating my own recipes
4: Give son and his buds 2 tap fridge and prepare 3 tapper.
5: Make and bring 2 great brews to Song School / Folks Fest this coming August (Come to Cheeses is calling!)
6: Start using home brewery name

Strum Hollow Brewery

 

[jer204]

1.Keep IPA in the house for the wife.
2.Keep mama happy...see number 1

 

[millsware]

1. Grow hops.
2. Take better notes/keep data on beers.
3. Create my own recipe from scratch.
4. Create/adapt 3 great house beers.

5. Crack open the Tripel that I brewed when I found out my wife was pregnant. (Only ~5 months to go).

 

[rtichota]

1. Brew a Barleywine for next Christmas
2. Put RIMS together when the last of the parts arrive (this week!)
3. Make an Irish Red that's actually red
4. Work with the water a bit

 

[rustbucket]

1. Brew at least once a month
2. Assembly my brew rig
3. prefect my AG process
4. brew a barleywine
5. all of the above and then some

 

[tmneyer]

convert mini fridge to kegerator

 

[DirtyPolock]

1) Always have a lager lagering
2) Brew with another homebrewer
3) Get a pump and plate chiller
4) Brew a winter warmer style beer
5) Get a bulk grain storage container to buy a sack of 2-row (or maybe two for Marris Otter)

 

[Lost Pirate]

1. Go all grain and have a 3 tier systme set up by spring
2. Build a fermentation chamber
3. Brew at least one batch a month

 

[AdamPDX]

1. Make a great Marzen.
2. Solid IPA recipe.
3. Draft

And a million other things, but those have been on my mind most recently.

 

[Mustangj]

1. Run natrul gas to garage
2. Build single tier brew rig
3. Make sour and lambic beers