fury_tea
Landlord.
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Similar to others here I have a little walking commitment, so it's hard to find time for a full day brew, but with planning I can do a 3 day brew. Helps that all my gear is in the garage and that's my domain, nobody touches it or goes in there and it's not in the way.
Day 1: Finalise the recipe, collect RO water, weigh and grind grain, weigh out hop additions, give everything a clean, add water and any treatments, turn Brewzilla to heat up to mash in temp first thing in the morning.
Day 2: Mash and boil (sometimes knock some time off these if in a rush, 40 mins each), then either chill or no chill, whichever I have time for.
Day 3: Transfer to fermenter and pitch yeast (if no chill), tidy the brew room/wash equipment etc.
This way it's only an hour or 2 per day, max.
Sometimes out of laziness day 3 (cleaning) can turn into day 4 - 6 and on occasion day 12, and then I am battling mould and smelly grain etc. I try to avoid that though!
Day 1: Finalise the recipe, collect RO water, weigh and grind grain, weigh out hop additions, give everything a clean, add water and any treatments, turn Brewzilla to heat up to mash in temp first thing in the morning.
Day 2: Mash and boil (sometimes knock some time off these if in a rush, 40 mins each), then either chill or no chill, whichever I have time for.
Day 3: Transfer to fermenter and pitch yeast (if no chill), tidy the brew room/wash equipment etc.
This way it's only an hour or 2 per day, max.
Sometimes out of laziness day 3 (cleaning) can turn into day 4 - 6 and on occasion day 12, and then I am battling mould and smelly grain etc. I try to avoid that though!
that far too long 
