[trentm]

What time do you most often start your all-grain brew day?  Why?

I start heating the strike water @ 5AM because I like to be finished brewing by 10AM and at the latest noon.

Though every now and then I'll do an afternoon or evening brew.

[barliman]

If i am brewing with my club, we start around 11 AM. If i am brewing solo, i generally start around 8 AM.

[dkfick]

Probably around 8 or 9 AM usually.  Whenever I wake up usually.  Not waking up to an alarm to brew.

[Indy574]

I usually prefer to gather all my equipment and supplies the night before. Then when I get up early, I can start while the wife and kids are still sleeping. I brew in the house on the stove so I try and be quiet.

[HoosierBrew]

Probably around 8 or 9 AM usually.  Whenever I wake up usually.  Not waking up to an alarm to brew.

Same here. I don't set an alarm. I have two canine alarms that wake me up by 8am anyway to let them out. I have everything laid out, hops and salts weighed the night before. 

[braufessor]

I generally sit around, drink some coffee, watch the news, eat something, get things in order on the iPad/computer for my  recipe and then start around 9-10am.  It helps that I have an indoor brew room, so there is really not any "set up" required.  Just walk down stairs and start brewing.

[koop3700]

About the same here get starter and water with additions laid out the night before. Always up early (5am) this time of year will go fish for a couple hours come home get some grub check emails and news,get the water going and make some Beer! Shoot some arrows and perhaps go fishing again before dusk.

[euge]

Starting after noon-time is pushing it. Unless it's a quickie extract batch.

+1 to being prepared. Grain milled, water and other ingredients gathered, equipment at hand and functional before brewday.



 

[Iliff Ave]

I take a half day every three weeks on Fridays to brew. To difficult to brew on the weekends with the family around.

[erockrph]

I drop my son off at school at 8:42, so the strike water gets turned on around 9AM. Depending on whether there are extended whirlpools or not, I'm usually done by the time I leave to pick him up.

I used to set up the night before, but the less the wife sees of my brew gear in the kitchen, the happier everyone is Now I have it down so I weigh and mill my grain while I heat the strike water, weigh my hops during the mash, clean up the mash tun/drill/mill/hops/etc during the boil and sanitize my fermenter while chilling. Brew day is busier, but there is less bleedover into family time that way.

[mharding73]

I start about 7:30 to help ensure I'm done around lunch maybe even a late lunch.  I try to have as much done the day before to help ensure this. 
Always Brew on a Sunday for no reason.  It just seems like a good day. 

[Stevie]

Varies with many contributing factors.

[narcout]

I only brew on Friday or Saturday nights, and I start at 7 which is when the baby goes to bed (at least she did until a couple of weeks ago).  That way my wife doesn't have to be the sole caregiver for the 6 hours it takes me to get a batch done.

It's a little rough, because it means I don't get to bed until around 1 in the morning, and I usually get up around 6:30.

Before we had a baby, I would start around 10 or 11 in the morning.

I'm actually brewing right now.  It's a little after 10 p.m. here, and I've got an hour left to go on the boil.

[jweiss206]

What time do you most often start your all-grain brew day?  Why?

I start heating the strike water @ 5AM because I like to be finished brewing by 10AM and at the latest noon.

Though every now and then I'll do an afternoon or evening brew.

You all are a bunch of crazy mad fools. Apparently I'm the lone dude who starts between 2:00 and 4:00pm. I prefer my brewing after coffee ....and lunch it would appear.

[BrewBama]

I like to start at soon as possible. Sometimes 6 or 7 AM. That way I drink coffee when I brew. If I start in the afternoon I tend to want to drink my homebrew. I prefer not to drink and brew.