New Years Brewolutions

[darkbright]

Was thinking about the year I've had the the grainfather and my brewing sucesses and failures.

Decided to do my new year brewing resolutions, well 7 of them at least....

1) To put the Greg Hughes book down and use it only as a reference book.
2) Concentrate on nailing my favourire styles and trying one new one. Saisons and IPAs with be my main focus. Might try some sours if I get a chance.
3) Be more organised with stock and tidying the brew shed.
4) Better understand the science behind brewing.
5) Pay more attention to water chemistry.
6) Drink more interesting beers
7) Harvest yeast

Was wondering what everyone elses might be....

 

[Clint]

Sort my garage out...get a brew fridge,try biab,try different beer types,stock up on lager and wheat beer for the warmer months,do some ciders.....get it down my neck!!!

Cheers

Clint

 

[Zephyr259]

Mine are quite straightforward.

1) Work out some standard brews now I have my grainfather, probably a pale ale and a bitter, maybe a mild.
2) Plan out some seasonal brews.

 

[braziliain]

Still very new to this hobby and my head is constantly buzzing with ideas. Think I should limit myself to some realistic goals

i) improve my bottling technique

ii) enter a HBF competition to get feedback

iii) finish my workshop build and incorporate a brew fridge

iv) practice and improve my BIAB process

Looking forward to 2017 already after typing that...

 

[Crystal_Ball]

Was thinking about the year I've had the the grainfather and my brewing sucesses and failures.

Decided to do my new year brewing resolutions, well 7 of them at least....

1) To put the Greg Hughes book down and use it only as a reference book.
2) Concentrate on nailing my favourire styles and trying one new one. Saisons and IPAs with be my main focus. Might try some sours if I get a chance.
3) Be more organised with stock and tidying the brew shed.
4) Better understand the science behind brewing.
5) Pay more attention to water chemistry.
6) Drink more interesting beers
7) Harvest yeast

Was wondering what everyone elses might be....

Im echoing quite a bit of your list:

1) - I know what you mean but there are still loads of recipes I want to try in the book
2) - I'd like to nail wheat beers. Plus I have 2 sours yeasts in the fridge that I have plans for in the next few weeks
3) - I pretty much have the garage to myself so no pressure for me there!
5) - Me too especially living in a hard water area its probably something that id like to explore
7) - Would like to do this if I have the time

I would like to investigate and read up more about yeast too. I always use liquid yeast at the moment with AG and have experimented with a few different types on the Rye Beer from the GH book with interesting success.

 

[MickDundee]

Perfect my steam beer

Stop being a stingey bugger and actually brew a hop bomb IPA

Try something I've never had before

 

[Gerryjo]

1,Finish my brew bench with fermentation cupboard.
2,Focus on some tried and tested recipes.
3.Make a mashtun.
4.Put my new pot & inkbird to very good use.
5.Stop thinking up crazy experiments until I can nail some processes and get into a regime.

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[suffolk]

One the one

2) Concentrate on nailing my favourire styles and trying one new one, every other brew

 

[darkbright]

We're really all quite close witha few variances for personal taste. I think I'll add "eneter a HB comp" as number 8.

 

[darkbright]

Im echoing quite a bit of your list:

1) - I know what you mean but there are still loads of recipes I want to try in the book
2) - I'd like to nail wheat beers. Plus I have 2 sours yeasts in the fridge that I have plans for in the next few weeks
3) - I pretty much have the garage to myself so no pressure for me there!
5) - Me too especially living in a hard water area its probably something that id like to explore
7) - Would like to do this if I have the time

I would like to investigate and read up more about yeast too. I always use liquid yeast at the moment with AG and have experimented with a few different types on the Rye Beer from the GH book with interesting success.

You're not far from me so can empathise with the water issue.

The Greg Hughes book has been a godsend and there are a few syles I would still like to do. Maybe one in three I will do a new one.

 

[yeastinfection]

3) Be more organised with stock and tidying the brew shed.
4) understand the science behind brewing.
try alittle harder to get it right.
and try to get my head around brew software.

 

[pms67]

Perfect my steam beer

Stop being a stingey bugger and actually brew a hop bomb IPA

Try something I've never had before

I fancied making the Greg Hughes Wheat beer,do you like it and is there anything you would change? Apart from the fact it's probably running out :thumb:

 

[pms67]

Sorry to go off topic.

1 to stop going of topic
2 to crack on with BIAB and perfect it (almost)
3 to finally stop buying expensive beers "just to see if they are any good"
4 start harvesting yeast (probably just trub tbh) and start saving money.
5 to spend more money and get a second thermometer and brew fridge,and maybe,just maybe a party star tap.

 

[MickDundee]

I fancied making the Greg Hughes Wheat beer,do you like it and is there anything you would change? Apart from the fact it's probably running out :thumb:

Yeah it was great, a few people said it's the best I've made. It does peak quite early though, which is no great surprise for a hoppy Wheat beer! I wouldn't make any major changes but I'll play about with different types of hop when I make it in future. I just have one bottle left which will be submitted for the December comp. No chance of winning since it was bottled in October but nice to get some feedback.

 

[Lord0]

1) Get into AG/BIAB
2) Get my stock up to "critical mass"
3) Get a beer fridge

 

[Covrich]

1) improve fermentation temp control (already plans in hand)
2)possibly investigate improving wort chilling solution or is I can convince myself to go grainfather..

3) try more belgian or german styles
4) make another ESB and improve it this time.

 

[DoctorMick]

1 - stop buying stuff
2 - try and come up with 1 or 2 "house" recipes which I can continually improve
3 - keep learning

 

[monkier]

1. Be more adventurous with brewing, been a bit too safe of late
2. Enter some competitions
3. Dial in my BIAB process to up efficiency
4. Move house so i've got more space for fermentation fridges and the like :P

 

[geigercntr]

Brew Beers Brewolutions. In no order.
1) Follow a recipe completely. Don't change my mind 3/4 of the way thru
2) Brew more
3) Scale up to 23l batches
4) Ease back on the Colombus
5) Take better notes
6) Make mistakes and learn from them
7) Move away from biab

 

[JFB]

1) Get that dam sour beer on
2) Use liquid yeast and harvest
3) Find a cheap fridge before June
4) Try a new Style ever month
5) Invite a friend to a brew day