[Calefaction Wiki] Update of "HomeBrewing" by SteveKillen

[Steve Killen]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org>wrote:

> Clinton Ebadi <clinton at unknownlamer.org> writes:
>
> > Steve Killen <steven.f.killen at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> The time approaches rapidly. I request your feedback concerning the
> structure
> >> of the brewing schedule for the next couple months. Some specifics: I am
> not
> >> tied to a particular day on any given week, but we must be doing
> something on
> >> most weeks. The blue cells indicate where the action is, and the yellow
> weeks
> >> are weeks where all fermenters are in conditioning.
> >>
> >> I timed it to give the saison the most total time. I rather enjoyed the
> early
> >> stages of the porter, so I don't mind one batch having longer time in
> bottle,
> >> but the saison most certainly needs every week it can get to be at peak
> delish
> >> by wedding time. I tried to do a two-fermenter schedule, but I'm not
> pleased
> >> with how little time it gives overall.
> >
> > plz post a file in an acceptable Free format and not google documents.
>
> Just a few warnings:
>
> 1. HCoop board meeting is at 1 p.m. on the 24th so you lose both bpt and
>   me until at the earliest 3 p.m. Alternatively there is Saturday, but
>   uhhhh look at the weather forecast.
>

If we get a late start I won't sweat it. My aim is to be flexible.

>
> 2. No brewing can happen here whenever it is that we move. I assume this
>   for some multiple day period August 25th -> September 6th or 11th.
>
>
BPT, can brewing occur at Chamberlain Ave during that window? If not, we can
try to sneak in a brew/bottle just before.


> 3. I have a slate of relatives visiting starting August 1st. Between the
>   1st and 8th every room will be occupied (bonus room included) and so
>   I really have nowhere to store a fermenter that needs the fan without
>   pissing someone off. Given that it'll be 100F+ for the next week or
>   three ... the fan has to run at full power to keep everything even in
>   just the upper 60s... after the first set leaves it's just my aunt
>   kathy's kids and I can tell them to stuff it.
>
> 4. Glass is off limits right unless I want to do one small batch because
>   moving that is unsafe.
>
>
Better Bottles are a-ok with me; I cannot pretend to detect any difference
in taste :)


> 5. I don't really have a way to move beer even in Better Bottles. I can
>   ride in the backseat of a car protecting two fermenters however.
>
>
I will provide all necessary transportation of fermenters. We can host them
here while fermenting and conditioning (and even do the bottling here when
we are not simul-brewing). I don't expect we'll need to transport more than
one fermenter at a time, though.


> My schedule is looking like:
>
>  - Tuesdays are all off limits (slashdot scheduled every afternoon for at
>   least the next five weeks)
>  - I cannot commit to Sunday only brewing. I have to install a new
>   server for HCoop among other things /sometime/.
>  - MOVING
>  - I may very well have the Friday morning slashdot shift
>
>
I fully expect to have non-Tuesday weekdays off, especially as I transition
to school again.


> Another thing, most of the time I let people leave without cleaning up
> everything. Starting now I don't want to be doing most of the cleanup
> unless it is for my beer. If we brew on a Friday when I have a slashdot
> shift except little assistance from zombie Clinton.
>
>
We'll play the actual schedule by ear; I just used the Sunday of each week
as a convenient date anchor. I'm not too pressed about the specific days as
long as we have a day that is feasible on any given week. Not doing this has
become not an option for me.

To that end, I intend and expect to be doing about 95% of the work on this,
including bottle scrubbing and cleanup; the only things I absolutely can't
do by myself are the last bit of bottling (tilting the bucket) and dough-in
at mash, and even those I can hack if need be. I will be grateful for any
and all help y'all wish to provide, and will compensate you handsomely for
it with beer, but I am certainly not trying to recruit you as beer slaves.
:) I'm a practiced hand now.



> Summary: scheduling is hard.
>
>
T


> p.s. bpt still has a beer to brew and I need to brew at least one more
>     batch of beer somewhere in there because I'm going to run out. The
>     ginger-chamomile wheat needs bottling when we brew next as well.
>
>
We should have fermenter space for this for the next couple weeks, but we
must act rather than dally. If you need me to buy another fermenter I can,
though. At most I wish to have the porter and both saisons in fermenters in
3 weeks' time, and if that means owning 3 6-gallon fermenters, then by Jove,
I'll do it :)


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