No reason not to!
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:57 am
My brew schedule got messed up this weekend, and I'm skipping a brew day. But it'll all work out; as heretical as it sounds, sometimes you have to take a break from brewing, and although I really like to brew every Sunday during the winter and take a short break in the summer, I do need to rest from nearly everything this weekend.
So I was looking at my brew schedule over the next couple of weeks and realized that I had intended to brew a new recipe - Rye-Guy Rye IPA - next week. Now, I usually test my new recipes out in a 2.5 gallon batch before deciding if I want to keep them in the stable and start making fivers out of them. But then I figured, hey, this should be a good recipe anyway, and even if it's not exactly what I want in a rye IPA, there's no reason not to have five gallons of it around. Besides, I'll have an Irish Red and an Amber Lager in the keezer already, so I really should have a lighter, hoppier beer in there, too, for variety.
So that's what I'm going to do. Next week, instead of making a 2.5 gallon batch, as I would have in the normal rotation, I'll brew five gallons of an experimental recipe, and work the rotation around that.
So I was looking at my brew schedule over the next couple of weeks and realized that I had intended to brew a new recipe - Rye-Guy Rye IPA - next week. Now, I usually test my new recipes out in a 2.5 gallon batch before deciding if I want to keep them in the stable and start making fivers out of them. But then I figured, hey, this should be a good recipe anyway, and even if it's not exactly what I want in a rye IPA, there's no reason not to have five gallons of it around. Besides, I'll have an Irish Red and an Amber Lager in the keezer already, so I really should have a lighter, hoppier beer in there, too, for variety.
So that's what I'm going to do. Next week, instead of making a 2.5 gallon batch, as I would have in the normal rotation, I'll brew five gallons of an experimental recipe, and work the rotation around that.