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

12:00AM-02:00AM
0 (0%)
02:00AM-04:00AM
1 (1.1%)
04:00AM-06:00AM
13 (14.4%)
06:00AM-08:00AM
19 (21.1%)
08:00AM-10:00AM
33 (36.7%)
10:00AM-12:00PM
17 (18.9%)
12:00PM-02:00PM
4 (4.4%)
02:00PM-04:00PM
1 (1.1%)
04:00PM-06:00PM
0 (0%)
06:00PM-08:00PM
2 (2.2%)
08:00PM-10:00PM
0 (0%)
10:00PM-12:00AM
0 (0%)

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Offline euge

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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #30 on: March 19, 2016, 12:43:08 pm »
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #31 on: March 19, 2016, 12:50:21 pm »
60% of the time I start after work...  I work retail so I get everything milled by 8pm, and mashing by 8:30...   done by 1am...   

on off days..  I start when I get up...   bout 9...

many off days I brew two batches...  one starts at 9, the other at about 4pm...  done by 9-10pm...   


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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #32 on: March 19, 2016, 01:21:33 pm »
Usually between 10am to midday, always at the weekend or on public holidays.


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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #33 on: March 19, 2016, 04:52:04 pm »
I brew in the garage, so the night before I pull my car out, drag out the Top Tier, fill the HLT and MT, and add water salts to both.  At 8-ish in the morning, I fire up my 240-V RIMS to heat my strike water in the tun.  Since that is hands-off, I get coffee and breakfast.  Then I mill my grains and dough in around 9.
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #34 on: March 19, 2016, 06:07:06 pm »
I mostly brew on Saturdays and like to get started by 10 but a lot has to do with Friday nights
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #35 on: March 19, 2016, 06:10:20 pm »
Usually start 8-9 a.m. but I do a bit of preparation the previous day and usually mash overnight. First job of the day is vorlauf while brewing coffee.

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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #36 on: March 19, 2016, 07:01:57 pm »
I usually mash the night before, done by 9 pm, and the next morning start the stove ca. 530 am. Make my coffee, measure everything out, and I'm chilling the wort in a couple of hours. Clean up as I go along. (Half-batches so it all happens indoors)


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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #37 on: March 19, 2016, 07:48:44 pm »
I nearly always start at about 8 p.m.--once the kids are in bed--and finish up around 2 a.m. This makes me very tired the next day (up at 6 or so), but it's a happy kind of tiredness as I listen to the airlock music and dream of the coming beer.

Last summer, I was home alone for almost a week, and I managed to brew twice during the day--what a great experience to start after lunch and be finished by early evening.
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #38 on: March 19, 2016, 09:08:16 pm »
Started heating the strike water around 10:00 a.m. today and pitched the yeast at 4:20 p.m.  I enjoy it and don't like to rush it. 


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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #39 on: March 21, 2016, 07:32:36 am »
I usually set up the equipment the night before and grind the grains.  I usually roll out of bed at 6 AM, turn the coffee on and fire up the burner.  If I don't get an early start and know I won't get started until after 9 AM I usually won't brew.  I like to be finish by noon so I have the rest of the free.
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #40 on: March 21, 2016, 09:26:41 am »
i prefer to be done by about lunchtime, so usually somewhere around 5:30-7am.
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #41 on: March 21, 2016, 09:38:52 am »
Got started around 8:30am this morning. It's usually between 8:30 and 10:30am that I get started. Sometimes it's later, around midday. I like to be done by 2 or 3pm at the latest.
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2016, 09:40:22 am »
Brewed Saturday starting around 6pm and finished at 2am. Long day after spending five hours working in the yard.
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #43 on: March 21, 2016, 09:59:40 am »
Usually start by 8am and done by 2pm at the latest.  Now that I have my grainfather setup, I won't mind starting any time of the day, being inside out of the cold or away from the bugs.
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Re: What time do you start your all-grain brew day?
« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2016, 10:26:03 am »
I start at 2am-3am because in the summer months in the Phoenix area it can easily be over 100 by 9am.
I can be done with my clean-up by 10am and tolerate the rest of the day in the pool or air-conditioned house.  It does help that I am retired.  Many brewers out here curtail their brewing altogether because it just not any fun brewing when it's 110.

Oh and all that crap about it's a "dry-heat".  It's all bull!  HOT is HOT!

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