Your 2011 Brewing Goals

[mcbethenstein]

1. Get into home-brewing. - check
2. Expand set up (more fermentors, chiller, etc) - check
3. Get into all grain - check
4. Buy a bigger brew-pot so I don't have to split boils.
5. Malt my own grains - in progress (by necessity, there is a HUGE lack in gluten free beer ingredients)
6. Get a grain mill.
7. Enter a few contests and see how well we do.

 

[MBasile]

My only goal is to nail down my APA recipe.

Well, got BoS in my first competition! Guess I need another brewing goal.

 

[phenry]

1) Brew a great tasting batch from extract (hoping the IPA I have in primary will fulfill that one)
2) Start brewing all grain
3) Build a fermentation chiller
4) (Hopefully) come up with a good house session blonde or cream ale

I'll be a busy boy this summer

1) It turned out alright, realized it was more the recipe that wasn't too much to my liking. I'm my own biggest critic, but other people liked it, so I guess that's a success.
2) Yep. 2 batches down so far.
3) Got all the pieces of foam cut, I just need to get a thermostat.
4) Nope. Too busy brewing IPAs for my dad and stouts for my mom. They help fund this whole hobby, so I have no problem brewing what they want. It really helps when my favorite two styles are IPAs and stouts too.

 

[jeepinjeepin]

I just got into homebrewing earlier this year. I have made it all grain already. My goals are to brew on a schedule and to work my recipes to use mostly the same grains so I can buy all my base malt and most/all my specialty malt in bulk.

 

[macsyrinx]

Brew AG.

 

[Nightbiker]

SWMBO gave me the green light (more like a strong suggestion -I love her!) to enclose half of the carport and turn it into my brewery-in-a-cave (?a BEERCAVE?).
I'll start a thread and post pix once the project really gets underway.
I also want to set up a small lab to monitor my yeast health.

 

[beerloaf]

1. Brew these... Oktoberfest, Saison, Strawberry Blond, Rochefort 10 clone, maybe a few others.

2. Finish my keggle project

3. purchase more Cornie Kegs. Only have 1 right now which sucks.

4. Build a dedicated brew rig of some sorts.

5. Get equipment ready to transition to AG.

that should cover it.

beerloaf

 

[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.

#3-so far i've been right on my goal of brewing at least once a month. brew 7 batches so far this year. :rockin:
may have to maybe push some of my goal to later this year or next year.

 

[remilard]

1. Cashflow ingredients by working.

Hey! I accomplished this. We also accomplished a real goal, a second round NHC medal. The other goal was to win a BOS this year and, we got pretty close at NHC, we were in the last five and in the top three of a couple of judges. Always a bridesmaid though, similar situation (top 3) at two smaller regional comps so far. The same brewers (another husband and wife pair) beat us at both of those regional comps.

Probably 3 more to enter this year so it is still possible.

I'll make BJCP Master this year, which was a goal. The points are earned, they just need to hit the books. I need to double check but I may have earned the last little bit to make Master at a competition in Tokyo that I judged yesterday. That would be awesome.

Also doing good at making more mead, which was a goal. Another goal was doing better with cider, that comes around in a few months. We have a lead on some Kingston Black apples, just need to go and pick/juice them.

 

[remilard]

Well, got BoS in my first competition! Guess I need another brewing goal.

*******

Way to go!

 

[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

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