Your brew plans for 2018

[svenito]

might try a porter, never done one..

Ah yes, I am hoping to get a blackberry porter in sometime too. Plenty of blackberries across from where we live.

 

[IainM]

That sounds ominous as a Belgian is first on my hitlist!

You'll be fine. They were my first AGs, and I used T-58. Nasty yeast that.

 

[Gunge]

You'll be fine. They were my first AGs, and I used T-58. Nasty yeast that.

I've got some CML Belgian yeast - if my experience with their other offerings are anything to go by then that's one less parameter to worry about.

 

[AdeDunn]

To finally get rid of all the bottles of ruddy awful kit brew to make room for a decent amount of AG brew.... Fed up of trying to fit it in amongst all the twangy generic garbage. :lol:

Then:-

Golden glow clone (aka fuggles/maris otter smash)
Patersbier
Some kind of sessionable golden ale (again.... lol)
Lots of saison
Maybe another patersbier, but with just saaz...
More saison....

When summer arrives, lots of saison....

You get the idea. :twisted: All made with too clean dried yeasts so I only have the quantity of esters I like. I'm not a beer gourmet, but I know what my wife and I enjoy, so that's what I plan to brew. :thumb:

 

[krispn]

Since I got my Grainfather (thank you brewdog shares) and more importantly my brew fridge aka 'The Chamber of Secrets' and Inkbird controller I’m feeling more confident about the beer I’ve been making. I’d like to get more involved in bottle swaps and want to nail a really good stout and a pale ale that I can recreate for any occasion. The next brew will be an altbier and my focus over the first few months of 2018 will be on some pale ales and what makes a good one.

I've heaps to learn and look forward to expanding my knowledge over the coming year helped along by the great brewing community on here.

 

[Leon103]

A milk stout
Some sort of saison
Another crack at a neipa
A 60 minute ipa.

That's all I can think of for now. Oh and a weiss

 

[ElvisIsBeer]

New kitchen = zero brewsdays.

The mancave must be converted.

 

[Kman]

I’ve got lined up for next year so far..
Czech pilsner (ag)
Wheat beer (ag)
Oatmeal stout (ag)
Punk ipa clone (ag)
2x double ipa (kit)
Belgium dark strawberry beer (kit)
As I’m not able to get time to do all grain much the kits will be in between to keep stocks up, the kits are beerworks kits and I’ve never had a bad brew from them.



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[Honk]

Set up brew fridge then mainly English Ales, but also the odd lager and maybe a Belgian Quad as a longer term project. Continuous improvement and try to get more into developing my own recipes as I try to learn what effect each ingredient has. Discover the perfect beers (for me) and brew them.

 

[dan125]

I usually have the next 5 or 6 brews planned, but apart from the batch to get in over chrimbo, my brewing year is a blank canvas.
Think I need a change from pale & hoppy for a brew or two though, to try and reset the hop sensors, so maybe a new year porter :hmm:

 

[Oneflewover]

1. Better understand water chemistry
2. Start using liquid yeast / understand yeast management
3. Brew s***-loads of beer!

:thumb:

 

[chthon]

• Further culturing yeast from bottles. I have Westmalle which I want to culture further, and I want to raise some from St. Bernardus too
• Brewing a Dunkelweizen. Seems I bought once a kg of Munich wheat, need to use this up
• Doing something English with pale malt and brown malt
• Further brewing my house recipe blonde beer with Westmalle yeast
• A quad and a tripel variant of my house recipe blonde beer
• Making invert sugar again, but let it colour some more
• A hoppy amber beer, ingredients still to be determined

 

[BeerCat]

I plan on brewing more Lagers and IPA's. Going to see if i can get the best out of kveik yeast as well.

 

[geigercntr]

I've a list of things, some may never see the light of day, some are already in the planning stage.

A Barley Wine.
An adjunct lager using a cereal mash.
Heritage EIPAs
A spontaneously fermented beer.
A Brittany/Normandy style cider.
Mixed fermentation beers.
Raw Ale/Kveik

I'm having similar ideas myself. As I like to over analyse stuff, have you come across any useful sources of info regarding raw ales? (books, blogs, podcasts etc.)?

Cheers!

 

[Sadfield]

I'm having similar ideas myself. As I like to over analyse stuff, have you come across any useful sources of info regarding raw ales? (books, blogs, podcasts etc.)?

Cheers!

So far I've not done that much research. Mainly the blog of Lars Marius Garshol and the odd YouTube video, and IIRC there was a thread on this forum a while back.

http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/331.html

I had a mildly successful attempt at a raw Saison earlier this year, where I just mashed with a load of hops and then cooled, before pitching a Saison yeast.

Edit: Adopting the mindset of a peasant farmer might be the best approach.

"Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind" Louis Pasteur

 

[Duxuk]

I just intend to keep the homebrew flowing in sufficient quantities. In the summer I will do some Saisons but not drink them 'til next winter. I'd better make them additional brews to my pale ale schedule or they're unlikely to see the autumn!

 

[geigercntr]

So far I've not done that much research. Mainly the blog of Lars Marius Garshol and the odd YouTube video, and IIRC there was a thread on this forum a while back.

http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/331.html

I had a mildly successful attempt at a raw Saison earlier this year, where I just mashed with a load of hops and then cooled, before pitching a Saison yeast.

Cool, cheers. Lars' blog aside, there doesn't seem a huge amount of info available (online. In English)

Edit: Adopting the mindset of a peasant farmer might be the best approach.

That's pretty much my life philosophy...

 

[krispn]

@ geigercntr
I believe David Heath on his you tube channel talked about a Norwegian kveik forum in his kveik brews videos. He is a great resource on all things brewing and is very receptive to brewers keen to get involved in the kviek brewing

 

[meirion658]

I'm going to concentrate on Belgian style ales. Just finished a saison and a Witt which I'm happy with. Would love a bash at a westvleteren 12 or a rochefort style beer.

 

[geigercntr]

@ geigercntr
I believe David Heath on his you tube channel talked about a Norwegian kveik forum in his kveik brews videos. He is a great resource on all things brewing and is very receptive to brewers keen to get involved in the kviek brewing

Great, I'll check it out. Cheers for that :thumb: