Fermentation Friday was started by Adam over at Beer Bits 2, and it’s a chance for all homebrew bloggers to sound off on a singular theme at a set date – the last Friday of each month (check out Adam’s post explaining the origins).
So, happy 2009! I think I am still hosting Fermentation Friday this month, so it would be a good idea to get a topic out there! In the spirit of the New Year, your assignment is to give us your ‘brew year’s resolutions’ for 2009 (sorry for the horrible wordplay). Was 2008 a good brewing year for you? What can you improve on or change that will make 2009 even better? Any promises to yourself, like brewing a certain style for the first time, going all-grain, or upgrading your system? Put it all out there, and we can all convene over a brew in 2010 and see how we did.
Posts should be submitted by Friday, January 30, 2009 – you can email them to me or leave them as a comment. Just a note – if it is your first time commenting on the blog, it holds the comment until I approve it. I don’t like doing this, but it stops the enormous amount of comment spam that winds up here every day. Anyway, if you comment and it doesn’t immediately show up, fear not – it is probably just queued for approval. If you want to be extra sure I received your link, email it to me and I’ll reply confirming I got it.
Thanks to Adam for letting me host – I am really looking forward to reading everyone’s posts!
Fermentation Friday – Brew Year Resolutions for 2009!
Hmmm…. that’s a difficult one to say, since its 2009 I thought I would be cliché and come up with 9 resolutions for the rest of this year!
And here they are:
1.To dial in my procedures to consistently the flavour characteristics from the raw material that I want.
2.To continue to explore different malts & hops and determine what flavours they have and try to imagine where I can put them in batches in the future.
3.To try and get more and more people that I know into the craft beer movement, if you can be drinking better beer than why aren’t you?
4.Get into wood aging and sour beers, maybe starting with an Oud Bruin
5.To get setup for lagering before the end of the year
6.To help someone get started in All-Grain brewing, its so much better…..it just is.
7.To use more wild crafted seasonal ingredients in my beer
8.To do more collaboration beers with fellow homebrewers
9.To exchange homebrew with some fellow bloggers!
And for all the extract brewers who I have irritated with #6 :-) Happy New year!
Jake
1. Do two more batches of ales
2. Do some lagers
3. Start all-grain brewing
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Here is my post, which is just passing ’08 goals to ’09.
http://www.brew-dudes.com/looking-back-at-2008/406
My post is up…
http://beerbits2.blogspot.com/2009/01/fermentaion-friday-brew-years.html
Thanks for hosting! Mine’s up here.
Thanks for hosting here is my post!!
http://aworldofbrews.blogspot.com/2009/01/january-fermentation-friday-brew-year.html
Mine is up as well!
http://geistbear.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/1/30/4055164.html
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My brew year’s resolution post is up. It’s still Friday where I live.
Thanks
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Here’s my post.
Mine’s here:
http://muckneybrewing.blogspot.com/2009/01/fermentation-friday-what-does-2009-hold.html
Hmmm…thought I posted this already.
http://beerbits2.blogspot.com/2009/01/fermentaion-friday-brew-years.html
Light Fermentation Friday this months :-(
Thanks for hosting this months Fermentation Friday.
1. Participate in Fermentation Friday Postings
2. Host a Fermentation Friday
3. Increase awareness of my initiated Northside Homebrewers Connection
4. Brew better English Bitters & Scottish Ales
5. Attempt my first Wheat beers
6. Host more tastings, contract brews and pub style socials
7. Finish kegerator, restore vintage faucets, finish hand made tap handles
8. Build wooden pub games
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