BeerBorg

I'm a bit short of what I usually have on tap, so I'm only around 22-24 gallons. But I have a brew day in mind Saturday, doing a Steam beer for LHBS Brewers Forum recipe that was decided on at the last meeting and if he finally got some WLP004 in, a batch of Traveling Red.

Hmm.. Not much of a pipeline for me, I've got probably 2 boxes of 8 Liters (4G+ counting extra bottles of other recipes) ready to be consumed, probably 3.5G conditioning, and another 6G fermenting. So I'm getting there, but I keep drinking it so I've got to make more....

I don't have the time to brew as much over the summer. I brewed 3 batches back in April that let me have 3 full kegs for my BDay part at the end of May. I still had beer in those kegs that I also drank on the 4th of July. I brewed a batch since then for a friend and I brewed an Oktoberfest which is lagering now. I think today I will keg it to get it off the yeast and let it further lager while I start to cabornate it.

So at this point my pipeline is bone dry. I have been drinking up whatever I have a taste for at the time.

I win!

I got like 30 gal in various stages of fermenting and conditioning 7 of it is drinkable

Look Y'all Rick is clearly drowning in beer at the moment and needs our help! We must all rush to his assistance!!!

Can one of the moderators please post his address here so we can race to hie aide?!?!?!

First Birdie, I would be happy to share a brew with you and BB2. Stop by any time (oh, you live too far away...)

My son says the same as you - "oh, we have plenty of beer, let's chug some...".

As I type we are sitting here drinking brews having spent yet another day packing crap up in my in-law's cottage. Torrential rain came through just after we pulled the F-150 into the garage for the first time ever (i.e. there was finally room). He's had 2, I've had one so far. U of M vs. Utah at 8:30 so have to pace myself.

While it does SEEM like I have a lot, my goal with brewing is SELECTION. I have 13 beers to pick from right now, highest I've been is 17. Even at my in-law's cottage we have 10 different beers, 4 of each in the fridge all the time (1/2 the fridge is full of beer). List is in my signature. In a normal week my wife and I don't drink a sixer, although during the summer working at the cottage we probably do 50% more or higher, and with my son helping us we can do 3/4 of a case a week if we're busy (like shoveling and spreading 34 yards of mulch over 4 days). So having 15 cases available to drink is anywhere from 5 - 15 months of beer, probably close to a year. Brought 5 cases to the cottage in late June, and we have 1/2 of it left (maybe here 40% of the time).

I like having the selection, so I brew ahead of our needs. And I schedule rebrews of existing beers when I hit 18 bottles of the prior batch, spreadsheet gives me an alert. Just rebrewed Fruit Wheat base (where we add flavors to the glass) so we'd have plenty into early Fall. Added one more new beer - a clone of Great Lakes' Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, which is in the fermentation fridge along with a rebrew of Finally Graduated, Mom and Dad Are Over The Moon, a Blue Moon clone (I can fit 4 LBKs easily, 6 if I jam them in). A rebrew of Ring Your Bell Brown, a clone of Bell's Best Brown, is on deck.

I suspect being King of the Pipeline is my only standout trait on this forum, probably rank near the bottom for consumption, near the bottom for originality (I brew mostly all clones), and technique (all steeping grain, extract, and hop recipes).

KING OF THE PIPELINE. I like the sound of that. I have the biggest pipe...

I keep 10 gallons of beer going at all times. and 5 gallons cider. I have a small pipe























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RickBeer wrote:I suspect being King of the Pipeline is my only standout trait on this forum, probably rank near the bottom for consumption, near the bottom for originality (I brew mostly all clones), and technique (all steeping grain, extract, and hop recipes).

But we love you just the same. You know how it is - it doesn't matter if you brew once a year or every weekend.

Good for you for having that type of selection on hand. I'm so OCD sometimes that if I have a lot of beer on hand I feel like I need to drink it all quickly so I can get something else. But my consumption is typically <6 pack per week as well.

In my smaller pipeline I do have at least 15 different beers to choose from at the moment. Some of them only a few bottles left though, stuff I'm aging. Probably 10 types that I can just consume at will without pondering if I should or if drinking the last bottles will make me sad.