Brew schedule or not?

[nickjdavis]

my schedule extends into 2022...mixture of rebrews (including subtle refinements) and new beers*

Vienna Lager (Mexican style) *
Spiced Lemon and Lime Saison *
English Golden Ale
German Pilsner *
Belgian Dark Strong Christmas Beer*
Kolsch
Biere de Garde
Christmas Beer (Mild base)
Mexican Style Lager
Munich Dunkel
Vienna Lager (traditional)
Dark Saison*
Belgian IPA *
Trappist Single
Brown Ale *
American Amber*
Smoked Porter *
Belgian Stout*

 

[jayk34]

Only just started this weekend but ordered enough to do 5 brews of 2 x brown porter, 2 x dry stout and 1 X Northern brown ale.

The first brown porter is currently going like the clappers in the fv at the minute.

 

[Cestrian]

my schedule extends into 2022...mixture of rebrews (including subtle refinements) and new beers*

Vienna Lager (Mexican style) *
Spiced Lemon and Lime Saison *
English Golden Ale
German Pilsner *
Belgian Dark Strong Christmas Beer*
Kolsch
Biere de Garde
Christmas Beer (Mild base)
Mexican Style Lager
Munich Dunkel
Vienna Lager (traditional)
Dark Saison*
Belgian IPA *
Trappist Single
Brown Ale *
American Amber*
Smoked Porter *
Belgian Stout*

Well I admire your organisation Nick! I am usually looking through the freezer on a Friday night to see which hops I’ve got to see what I’m going to brew on Saturday morning.

 

[Oneflewover]

Gotta have a brew schedule! I tend to plan 5 brews ahead and as others have said buy in advance for them.

Planning tends to focus on what I fancy now rather than in the coming months though. This time I've thought ahead though to what I'm likely to want to drink in late spring and summer
- AIPA
- Spring Stout
- English pale
- Hefeweissen
- Tripel

That should see me reet!

 

[Gerryjo]

I usually would have ordered for a recipe but always made sure I had plenty of base malt then ended up Brewing something completely different with exception of a few.
Going to be changes as with the new brew room and I have started inventorying my grain,hops,yeast and equipment on Brewer's Friend I intend to start from a clean slate be it in a week or two but have enough in stock for around 15 to 20 brews...

 

[cushyno]

It's always a bit of both. Buy a sack of pilsner, sack of pale and a random selection of hops with a clear idea for the next 3-4 brews. Get maybe two of them done, change tack on a whim to do a couple of random ones, then spend the next 4-5 brews doing user-uppers with hops like Bramling Cross. This last phase is where the learning happens, learning what goes together and having to actually think about recipes instead of following someone else's plan.

Until two weeks ago I had a 5kg bag of Chateau Belgian pale and 500g of candi crystals sat in my garage for over two years. sometimes other brews (like maybe 30 of them) get in the way, but eventually things even themselves out.

 

[scomet]

My biggest problem with brewing is matching the Production / Consumption curves, the C curve always seems to be wining so yes now weekly and then hopefully fortnightly. The C curve decides that…..

 

[An Ankoù]

Gotta have a brew schedule! I tend to plan 5 brews ahead and as others have said buy in advance for them.

Planning tends to focus on what I fancy now rather than in the coming months though. This time I've thought ahead though to what I'm likely to want to drink in late spring and summer
- AIPA
- Spring Stout
- English pale
- Hefeweissen
- Tripel

That should see me reet!

I'm fascinated by Spring Stout. What is it?

 

[Horners]

I usually would have ordered for a recipe but always made sure I had plenty of base malt then ended up Brewing something completely different with exception of a few.
Going to be changes as with the new brew room and I have started inventorying my grain,hops,yeast and equipment on Brewer's Friend I intend to start from a clean slate be it in a week or two but have enough in stock for around 15 to 20 brews...

However meticulously I think I have updated my BF inventory it catches me out - normally as I am looking for 10 minute addition. That said I quite enjoy doing a half yearly stock take and truing up the records.

 

[An Ankoù]

My biggest problem with brewing is matching the Production / Consumption curves, the C curve always seems to be wining so yes now weekly and then hopefully fortnightly. The C curve decides that…..

Mine's quite the opposite. An idea comes into my head and I've got to try a small batch. I saw a recipe using potato as an adjunct in a historical book and I've been wondering about it for some time. Might give it a go this weekend.

 

[Oneflewover]

I'm fascinated by Spring Stout. What is it?

It's @Pennine recipe, entered into the June dark beer comp I judged last year. It came runner up, but was the beer I most wanted to brew. The T-58 did something really interesting with the Chinook hops in a stout

5.00 kg
Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC)
72.5 %
0.56 kg
Caramunich I (Weyermann) (100.5 EBC)
8.1 %
0.50 kg
Carafa I (Weyermann) (630.4 EBC)
7.2 %
0.50 kg
Oats, Malted (Thomas Fawcett) (3.9 EBC)
7.2 %
0.20 kg
Chocolate Rye Malt (492.5 EBC)
2.9 %
0.14 kg
CHÂTEAU CAFÉ LIGHT® (250.2 EBC)
2.0 %
50.00 g
Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min
31.6 IBUs
30.00 g
Chinook [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10.0 min, 100.0 C
16.3 IBUs
30.00 g
Chinook [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 2.0 min, 95.0 C
2.7 IBUs
1.0 pkg
SafBrew Specialty Ale (DCL/Fermentis #T-58) [23.66 ml]
-
30.00 ml
Vanilla Extract (Bottling)
-

 

[An Ankoù]

It's @Pennine recipe, entered into the June dark beer comp I judged last year. It came runner up, but was the beer I most wanted to brew. The T-58 did something really interesting with the Chinook hops in a stout

5.00 kg
Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (5.9 EBC)
72.5 %
0.56 kg
Caramunich I (Weyermann) (100.5 EBC)
8.1 %
0.50 kg
Carafa I (Weyermann) (630.4 EBC)
7.2 %
0.50 kg
Oats, Malted (Thomas Fawcett) (3.9 EBC)
7.2 %
0.20 kg
Chocolate Rye Malt (492.5 EBC)
2.9 %
0.14 kg
CHÂTEAU CAFÉ LIGHT® (250.2 EBC)
2.0 %
50.00 g
Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min
31.6 IBUs
30.00 g
Chinook [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 10.0 min, 100.0 C
16.3 IBUs
30.00 g
Chinook [13.00 %] - Steep/Whirlpool 2.0 min, 95.0 C
2.7 IBUs
1.0 pkg
SafBrew Specialty Ale (DCL/Fermentis #T-58) [23.66 ml]
-
30.00 ml
Vanilla Extract (Bottling)

Thanks.
You don't give the batch size or the OG, but I'm expecting somewhere around 1065-1070? Is it quite a light-coloured stout, even if it's weighted towards an Arctic spring? That mix of coloured malts looks very interesting indeed. Where do you order your Château Café light from?

 

[chopps]

I had the next 4 planned usually, but not rigid and often they got swapped out a bit.

I have over-ordered most ingredients for previous brews, over a year or so, and now have a ridiculous variety of base adjuncts and hops. I can knock together all my favourites with no notice.

Also, we do this forum group buy for malt too, and a group of 8 of us locally have chipped in for quite a few sacks of lesser used speciality malts that we can access by calling Obadiah. Same day service!

 

[MmmBeer]

My brews usually alternate between English style ales (bitter/ESB/pale ale/strong ale) and US style ales (pale/IPA), with the occasional 'curve ball' style thrown in. I'm not the biggest fan of lagers, stouts, porters, wheat beers, saisons etc, so usually only brew them on request from others,

 

[Oneflewover]

Thanks.
You don't give the batch size or the OG, but I'm expecting somewhere around 1065-1070? Is it quite a light-coloured stout, even if it's weighted towards an Arctic spring? That mix of coloured malts looks very interesting indeed. Where do you order your Château Café light from?

Apologies. Here is what Pennine said ".....this is for a 15l batch I brewed in my robobrew.
OG 1.100 FG was 1.030
9.5% abv". Haven't ordered ingredients yet, I'll have to get looking. first stop will be geterbrewed, but I expect HBC will have a wider selection of malts

 

[An Ankoù]

Apologies. Here is what Pennine said ".....this is for a 15l batch I brewed in my robobrew.
OG 1.100 FG was 1.030
9.5% abv". Haven't ordered ingredients yet, I'll have to get looking. first stop will be geterbrewed, but I expect HBC will have a wider selection of malts

Wow. That is a hefty one. I was expecting something light and fluffy as we trip around the Maypole. Mind you as every morning since the beginning of Spring has started just under 0C, something warming is a good idea.

 

[muppix]

Mixture of planning and whimming (that's a word now) for me. I'm fairly new to AG and kegging but going forward I like to have a selection on tap, which means one golden ale or a session IPA, one porter or stout, and something a bit funky like a wheat or a dubbel. At least that's been the approach where bottles are concerned, seems to have served me well. [hic]

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Planned

April
1. Pilsner Urquell 21 L ➡36 MJ M54 1/4/21
2. Preachers Ale 21 L 36 Beoir 5/4/21
3. Betty Stogs 21 L 🛢 Midland 10/4/21

May
1. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 21 L CML Five
2. Kolsch 21 L 🛢 CML Kolsch
3. Tokyo Pilsner 21 L MJ M54
4. Summer Lightning 21 L ️🛢 Midland

June
1. Hoegaarden 21 L Gretel
2. Tribute 21 L 🛢 Midland
3. Helicopter Pale Ale 21 L 🛢 Five
4. California Common 21 L ️ Cali Common

 

[muppix]

3. Helicopter Pale Ale 21 L ➡🛢♻ Five

Had to Google that and found ... Magical Helicopter Tears.

https://www.eebriatrade.com/products/beer/steam-machine-brewing-co/15925-magical-helicopter-tears

 

[Oneflewover]

Wow. That is a hefty one. I was expecting something light and fluffy as we trip around the Maypole. Mind you as every morning since the beginning of Spring has started just under 0C, something warming is a good idea.

Aha! With this one I'm planning even further ahead and anticipating what i may want to drink in the autumn!