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2011 New Years Brewing Resolutions...

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skunkboy

NewBee
Registered Member
May 30, 2005
2,003
8
0
Between Jackson and Detroit
1) Take and record gravity readings for my meads and beers

2) Try experimenting more with oak in a couple of small batches of mead

3) Try to work on my sensory perceptions and vocabulary in regards to smelling, and tasting meads and beers ...

All stuff that I should have been doing for a while anyway. ;-)
 

Isilme

NewBee
Registered Member
Dec 30, 2010
75
0
0
Belgium
1) Learning more about the brewing-process of mead, wine and bear (hey I'm a beginner!).
2) Experimenting with different techniques.
3) Brewing a beer.
 

darthbooger

Worker Bee
Registered Member
Apr 29, 2010
148
0
16
Some Military Base
1) Make more mead

2) Make better mead

3) Start a mead journal to record my progress to learn from my mestakes and for future reference for recipes for myself and others

anyone know of a good leather no-lines journal?
 

chiguire

NewBee
Registered Member
Jan 27, 2010
303
0
0
Katy, TX
1) Make more mead (continue focusing on traditionals to get a solid handle on the fundamentals)

2) Make one wine

3) Make a braggot

4) I just read Brew Like a Monk, and I have to brew some Belgian beers now too.


anyone know of a good leather no-lines journal?

I enjoy Moleskine journals...
 
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akueck

Certified Mead Mentor
Certified Mead Mentor
Jun 26, 2006
4,958
11
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Ithaca, NY
I'll second Medsen's "more blending". Did one today, so that's a good start. ;D

I would like to go to the Mazer Cup and drink good mead.
 

PitBull

NewBee
Registered Member
Nov 25, 2009
640
4
0
Pittsburgh, PA
1) Be more diligent about covering my basement's carboys, even if it’s just with a heavy black trash bag.
2) Make more experimental one gallon batches.
3) Have more wine/mead tastings. Expand the number of tasters/contributors.
4) Enter a competition or two.
 

TDMooney

NewBee
Registered Member
Jan 2, 2011
188
0
0
Elkridge, Maryland
1.) Make a mead every month
2.) Explore different types of mead ( melomel, pyment, ect.)
3.) Improve quality, and technique
4.) Network with mead makers in community (Maryland, Elkridge)
 

mmclean

Honey Master
Registered Member
Jul 22, 2010
1,135
2
38
Tennessee Valley
I was getting tired of making New Year resolutions only to break them. So this year I resolved to make no resolutions...dang there goes another one.

Oh well here goes...

Start bee hives for my own honey...

Make more batches than last year...

Make a big batch (10 gal or bigger)...

Make a few traditionals.
 

wildoates

NewBee
Registered Member
Mar 22, 2009
2,373
4
0
Elk Grove, CA
I don't generally make resolutions either, but I do want to get to bottling the ones I have that I think are ready. Going to have to wait a month or so at least, though.

I'd love to go the Mazer Cup, too, Aaron!
 

BBBF

Worker Bee
Registered Member
May 19, 2008
587
3
18
44
Chicago, Land of Corruption
1. Take better notes.
2. Improve methods to reduce oxidation (My 1 gallon batches are showing signs)
3. No more "Can I put that in a mead?" batches in 2011. Do full sized (will help with above), mostly proven (by myself or trusted others) batches.
4. Plant raspberries
 

crowquill

Got Mead? Patron
GotMead Patron
Jan 13, 2008
177
0
0
Syracuse NY
  • Post more brewlogs to Got Mead.
  • Start another black currant mead this summer (we're almost out of the first batch we did)
  • Buy more racks to store all the mead.

We'll do a bunch of meads this year but the black currant is the only one I'm completely committed to. All others are open to discussion.
 

Chevette Girl

All around BAD EXAMPLE
Moderator
Lifetime GotMead Patron
Apr 27, 2010
8,443
53
48
Ottawa, ON

1) Bottle the batches that have been ready for months.
2) Finish data entry on inventory of bottled wine in storage.
3) Drink more wine from storage to make more room and also see how things are aging out.
4) Update inventory information every time I add or remove a bottle from storage.
5) Make another batch of black currant wine because I just tried the stuff I made a couple years ago and damn, it's good!
6) Next honey purchase, go for the 5-gal pail and decant it myself into smaller jars.
7) Finish moving the winery to the basement!
8 ) Following #7 and ONLY following # 7, turn the freezer full of fruit into wine or mead.
9) Independent of #7, make pumpkin mead/wine before the pumpkins in the garage either freeze or go bad...

Aww crud, and I'd planned not to make any resolutions this year :rolleyes: yay for enablers!
 
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