Your 2011 Brewing Goals

[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

 

[Accemn]

1) Kegerator
2) All Grain 10g Batches
3) Fermentation Chamber via Freezer.
4) Grain Mill

All Should be completed within the next 2 months.

 

[TheGeek]

Here it is already 4 months into the year, about time some of us start by updating our original posts I suppose. Here are my originally posted goals for 2011:

1. Lock down a routine for my AG process
2. See how close to 80% efficiency I can get on a regular basis
3. Start harvesting/storing yeast to further reduce batch costs
4. Get my hops to grow this year
5. Finish adjusting my RedLight Irish Ale recipe

So far I can claim 1 has been accomplished.

Number 2 I am hitting off and on, however recently getting involved with decoctions had thrown off my average efficiency.

Number 3 I have the equipment for, and will be attempting for the first time on Wednesday when I secondary my Nut Brown Ale.

4 and 5 sadly I have not started on. However I do have cuttings of both cascade and mt. hood coming this week.


SO! That's my update thus far. How are all of you doing on your goals?

 

[MBasile]

My only goal is to nail down my APA recipe.

Well, the last batch is pretty tasty. It'll be going to comp next month so we'll see how much more nailing (hehe) is required.

 

[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.

Got numbers 1, 1a, and 5 complete... For not running out, that's going to be determined by my brew schedule. Hope to get back into brewing every 2 weeks (or so)... Looking good there.

#4 won't happen where I'm living now, but I hope it does where I move to next. As with growing my own hops.

Should change #6 since I'm not using the BIAB method anymore, since converting my large Coleman Xtreme cooler into a mash tun.

#7 will continue year after year, at least that's how it looks...

Might have #8 done, since I've brewed a pale ale for the second time, and it's in bottles now. Will know in another ~2 weeks (roughly) if it's a winner in that category.

I can brew 10 gallon batches, so I already have one of 2012's goals done.

 

[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!)

1 still trying
2 got some things sorted
3 its painted (well the top isn't yet )
4 got the plans draw up
5 filled a few from the keg with just a tube on the picnic tap and it went great, also the FIL was round on the weekend (I was at my brothers stag weekend) and basically finished my keg so this looks promising!

So to sumerise - I have done sweet FA really

 

[dfc]

I'm going to start kegging this year.

 

[Accemn]

1) Kegerator
2) All Grain 10g Batches
3) Fermentation Chamber via Freezer.
4) Grain Mill

All Should be completed within the next 2 months.

Everything completed. 20 gallons brewed in the last month. Starting off with 5g batches.

 

[trevor_b]

Newbie Goals

1) Continue reading and watching videos.
2) Buy a starter kit (or get one for my birthday )
3) Brew and gain experience.

 

[o4_srt]

1. Brew each and every time I have 6 free hours.

2. Repeat step 1

 

[Begin2Brew]

Control process variation. I want to make great beer consistantly. First step is to find out which variables I can control, and which ones I can't. I have yet to make the same recipe yet so once I work through my schedule I can start to repeat.

So really my goals are to make each of the 6 "house" brews at least twice this year.

 

[Mustangfreak]

I'm going to try to make a good APA and IPA that have mango's, going to start doing 2.5 gal batches to experiment more, and finally finish my keezer.

 

[gclay]

1. Brew a decent beer
2. start kegging
3. Build my electric brewery.

 

[lonepalm]

1. brew more beer
2. go to all grain
3. Build bar in basement
4. keezer/fermentation chamber

 

[l1ranger]

haha, lonepalm and me are close to the same.
I'm not shooting for all grain yet, but i want to brew more, build a bar in the new house with a keezer/kegerator and have a room in the house to be a ferm chamber

 

[Crinkle]

1. Brew first sour beer (check)
2. Get a keg fridge
3. Dial in APA recipe (just kegged the latest, we shall see)
4. Repeat Imperial IPA from last year
5. Brew coffee stout
6. brew alot when I feel like brewing, because I went 4 months without brewing and almost ran out of beer! (ok, so I had like half a keg and 3 cases of bottles left, but really, I like to have way more than that on hand.)

 

[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

got the pump
fixed the keggle problem

still no keezer
by my birthday I should have a mill. :rockin:

 

[cyraxx]

Since I missed this earlier in the year...

1) Overhaul my brewing, which includes: going AG, starters, temp controlled chest freezer for ales, temp controlled fridge for lagers, kegging
2) Get my process dialed in after all the changes from (1)
3) Enter my first competition

My friends and I have set the date of our first AG brew to July 16, so we want all of our new equipment by then.

Depending how my IIPA that's fermenting right now turns out, that will be going into a comp in May.

 

[two_hearted]

1. Brew an RIS
2. Find a way to regulate ferm temps that is portable
3. Find a place to live for more than a 6 mo lease
4. Brew outside
5. KEEZER
6. Brew with SWMBO (I keep striking out)
7. Bring keg of HB to 4th of July party.

 

[usfmikeb]

1) Return to the brewing hobby (check)
2) Turn my kegs into keggles (in process)
3) Build fermentation chamber
4) Increase number of available taps
5) Shift to AG brewing (in process)
6) Brew a lager

 

[dan09554]

1. Start making yeast starters
2. Learn to wash yeast
3. All grain
4. Keezer build
5. Kegging