[dean]

How many people on here brew no pants or fly by the seat of your pants?  I try not to but I also like to change things up and sometimes right in the middle of brewing, and sometimes my best beers come from not conforming with the status quo.   

[ndcube]

I try to have everytihng worked out before hand.  About the craziest thing I do is let the mash sit off a degree or two or add the hops 1 minute to early.

[makemehoppy]

I try to plan and follow the plan as much as possible. Worse thing ever is to create a great beer and have no idea how to replicate it.

[BrewArk]

For me it was the other way around.  It was  when I tasted one that I just threw together and said "YUK, I should never do that again!" and didn't realize what "that" was.

[weazletoe]

Do I really even need to answer this one? 

[bluesman]

Never.

But I'd like to try it sometime. 

[weazletoe]

Do it man! It will change your life!!

[bluesman]

How about a kilt 

[bo_gator]

Plan your brew and then brew your plan man

[tubercle]

I brew the way I cook. Never the same recipe the same way twice.

[bluesman]

I brew the way I cook. Never the same recipe the same way twice.

and that my friend...is No Pants Brewing. 

[slimsparty]

I have winged it to some extent, but most everything is pretty well laid out with beersmith.  So much so that as close to pants free as I've gotten is where I overdo the brewhouse libations.

I know I don't get into real tight measurements on hops and such. 

That said, I just got a refractometer and am really excited to work on efficiency.

[uthristy]

I need to have repeatability so except for a few brews I plan and follow my plan.

[deepsouth]

i usually plan upfront, but invariably, i change stuff at the zero hour.

[corkybstewart]

i usually plan upfront, but invariably, i change stuff at the zero hour.

I work all my recipes out on Promash before I brew, but once I start brewing there are always substitutions, mostly with hops.  That's why I keep the recipe I planned and a logbook with the recipe I actually brewed.