BeerBorg

I've got recopies I've been planning to make for a couple years. I research, ask, run it past Beersmith, etc, then store it on da hard drive. (Then I usually forget about them..... LOL). Otherwise, usually plan bout a month ahead of time. Been planning on a pumpkin brew.... for atleast a month or more now... gotta git-er-done.

mashani wrote:What is this schedule you speak of?

^This^

I have on rare occasion planned out a brewing schedule but it's not often. Earlier this year I brewed up a kolsch in February so that it would be ready in May but that's the last time I really did something like that. Usually, I'm more thinking "what do I want in the pipeline now" and its a seat-of-my-pants sort of thing.

I bounce back and forth on scheduling. That being said, what I intend to schedule never usually happens due to life and the like. But the beer drinks just fine out of season, or I just hold onto it until the next year in the season I intended (winter ale and oktoberfest are the best examples of this). The luxury of having a backlog of bottles, I suppose.

I plan this batch, the next one in three weeks, and sometimes the one three weeks after that. I don't sit down and say "I want to drink a Stout in November, so....:

I think about brewing most every day, when I have that elusive moment in between the tasks of life. I think that I enjoy planning just as much as actually brewing. I keep a running list of future recipes/styles/experiments and some beers are planned many months in advance. I am prepping now for my Spring 2014 Seasonal (a Spruce Ale - as soon as the new buds of Spring arrive on the backyard tree). I brew one batch of cider each month, and have a wishlist stretching into early 2015. I brew beer twice a month (typically 2.5 gallons at a time). Not to say that the schedule is written in stone. I reserve the right to change up my brew schedule as often as I please. But I love trying new things, and I like having something to which to look forward. So my calendar stays full. And I like it that way. Cheers!

I may conceptualize a brew but I don't really plan until about a week before brew day to make sure that I have all the ingredients I need. If I don't, then I still have time to go to the LHBS that's 3 miles from my house.

me I brew what I feel like when I get to brew. It all sorts out some how. Maybe the fact I brew mostly high ABV beers, for their keeping, has a lot to do with it. One or two beers a week they do tend to last awhile.