[dak0415]

I have been doing back to back batches recently, so I mash in at about 5am.  No beer for met 'til after cleanup.

[Slowbrew]

I make enough mistakes sober.  I can't imagine how badly I'd mess up if I was drinking.

Paul

[Malticulous]

Crap, I wont drive after one homebrew. They put you in jail for that here.

I had a Dopple Weazen Bock for lunch today right after I started the boil (after a double decotion mash I started at sunrise.) Driving after that is pure stupid.

[beveragebob]

Malticulous, where in Beer Hell are you at?

[Malticulous]

Malticulous, where in Beer Hell are you at?

St. George Utah. Believe me, with any alcohol on your breath you can be charged with DUI here and it's easy to stack the jury with Mormons. All it takes is one mistake.

[theDarkSide]

I make enough mistakes sober.  I can't imagine how badly I'd mess up if I was drinking.

Paul

You never know...it may help you.  Like that WKRP in Cinncinati episode where Johnny Fever's reaction time got faster the more he drank.

[mainebrewer]

Since I almost always start to brew around 7AM, I just don't feel like drinking beer at that hour.
Occaisionally, I'll have a glass of beer while I'm cleaning-up.

[Beer Monger]

I have been doing back to back batches recently, so I mash in at about 5am.  No beer for met 'til after cleanup.

Hardcore.  I did that a few times before - exhausting.  I'm so tired by day's end when I do this. 

[glastctbrew]

My typical brew day starts between 6:30 to 8:00 AM, depending on what the kids afternoon schedule looks like.  As a result I usually don't get my reward, aka a tall cool to cold home brew, until either clean up is done or I'm back from the kids game/event/activity.   Those pesky kids! 

[Beer Monger]

My typical brew day starts between 6:30 to 8:00 AM, depending on what the kids afternoon schedule looks like.  As a result I usually don't get my reward, aka a tall cool to cold home brew, until either clean up is done or I'm back from the kids game/event/activity.   Those pesky kids! 

That's breakfast time!  Oatmeal stout?   

[dak0415]

I have been doing back to back batches recently, so I mash in at about 5am.  No beer for met 'til after cleanup.

Hardcore.  I did that a few times before - exhausting.  I'm so tired by day's end when I do this. 

Its pretty easy until 6:30 or so when I have to start the strike water for the 2nd batch and start the sparge (batch) process.  Then the multitasking starts.  My feet usually hurt afterwards, but I have a brew buddy that comes over about 7:30 or so and helps clear the mash tun, grinds the grain for the 2nd batch and loads the tun with strike water while I am tending the boil.  He is also 15 years younger so he insists on doing the lifting of full carboys and such.  What a guy!  Funny though, he is the one with the back problems!  I won't let him put the full fermenters down in the freezer, somehow I think I will be less pissed if I drop/break one!  We're still done by 1:00pm.

[Mark G]

I typically start my brewday around 6-7am, and I need at least 2 cups of coffee to be a fully-functional human being. So I usually don't have a beer until I'm cleaning up at the end of the brew session.

[chezteth]

I usually wait until I'm done cleaning up before I open my first beer. I don't want to forget something because I'm too drunk to remember but more importantly I don't want to get hurt due to carelessness from drinking.

[beersk]

Hmmm . . . now that I think about it, I've always attributed the beer turning out poorly to the beers I drink when I have company during a brew day (it's really rare, I brew alone 95+% of the time).  Maybe it's the company distracting me and not the beers!  This calls for a test

This is why I prefer to brew alone.  Having people around, I feel like I have to entertain them, so I forget to do stuff.  I hate forgetting to take an OG reading.
I usually have 1 or 2 beers during brewing, always wait until the boil is going.  I've gotten shipwrecked a couple times while brewing early on in my brewing career and it resulted in forgetting to do some things.  Bad news.

[gordonstrong]

This is why I prefer to brew alone. 

I heard George Thorogood playing while you said this.  Amused.