2021 Beer Stats

[Bubba Wade]

Time for the annual brewing statistics. 2021 turned out to be a bit lighter for me as I spent the first two months arranging retirement and moving to NW Arkansas. I also spent 6 weeks in the summer in northern Wisconsin on a combo work/holiday trip. Nonetheless, I still managed 15 batches brewed, each at 2.5 gallons.

Style count was:
5 saisons
2 Belgian pale ales
2 ciders
2 American pale ales
1 Belgian dark strong ale
1 oatmeal stout
1 ordinary bitter
1 Oktoberfest

I suspect brewing will increase in 2022 as things settle down and I continue to make new friends here who recognize that brewers are the best friends to have.

How was everyone else’s brewing year?

 

[Megary]

19 Brews. About the same as last year.

3 beers were from the Community Recipe Thread! All excellent. First brew next year will be another.

Porter 4
Stout 3
Saison 2
American Pale Ale 2
American Barleywine 1
IPA 1
American Wheat Beer 1
Blonde Ale 1
Cream Ale 1
Irish Red Ale 1
Ordinary Bitter 1
Piwo Grodziskie 1

 

[Sunfire96]

Including my brew planned for today, 47 batches and about 90 gallons
Pale ales were most common, followed by IPAs, golden ale, and cider lots of styles I just brewed once, like belgian dubbel, munich dunkel, porter, amber, etc.

 

[Megary]

Including my brew planned for today, 47 batches and about 90 gallons
Pale ales were most common, followed by IPAs, golden ale, and cider lots of styles I just brewed once, like belgian dubbel, munich dunkel, porter, amber, etc.

90 gallons! Hot damn, girl. You are bumping right up to the legal limits!

 

[Sunfire96]

90 gallons! Hot damn, girl. You are bumping right up to the legal limits!

Oh shit what's the limit? Lol

 

[Herm brews]

Including my brew planned for today, 47 batches and about 90 gallons
Pale ales were most common, followed by IPAs, golden ale, and cider lots of styles I just brewed once, like belgian dubbel, munich dunkel, porter, amber, etc.

You’ve been a busy brewer!

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

90 gallons! Hot damn, girl. You are bumping right up to the legal limits!

I think it's 100 gallons per adult household member. So, with you and SO, you're good....probably.

 

[Zambi]

I only got my kit back sort of mid november
Since then:
1 x ipa-ish
1 x blondish
1 x reddish
Batches of 5-6 litres
Numerous cidets
To come
1 x whitish
Not too bad for 1.5 months

 

[Herm brews]

As of now, I have brewed 16 batches this year, all ~2.5 gallons using BIAB single vessel process. I hope to get another batch brewed before the year ends.
This year I ventured into the realm of liquid yeast and building starters, using Voss Kveik during the summer months, and made several batches with San Diego Super Yeast. I enjoy this aspect of making a starter, and saving a portion to build another for the future - similar to keeping my sourdough starter.
Another new process for me is that I started treating my water with brewing salts.
I also changed my mashing process, opting for wrapping my kettle and leaving it undisturbed for the duration of the mash.

Styles as follows:
5 American IPA
5 American Amber Ale
2 American Pale Ale
2 Belgian Dubbel
2 American Brown Ale

I credit my wife with making 3 one gallon batches of cider.

 

[Josh Hughes]

34 Batches in 2021. All but 3 of these were 2 gallon batches, other 3 (Irish stout, Irish Red and Porter) were 5.

English Bitter/ESB-11
80 Shilling-3
Stout-4
Dunkel-3
Oktoberfest-1
Munich/Vienna-3
Irish Red-2
English Brown-2
Porter-1
APA-1
Dunkelweizen-1
Piwo-1
Dubbel-1

 

[DanC]

51 brew sessions, two being 10 gallon batches. Too many different beers to write down. 265 gallons.

 

[Zambi]

265 gallon
Da's impressive. Hope you didn't drink that all by yourself

 

[oliver]

made it to 30 this year. all 2.5 gal batches, really got into Lagers and Decoctions this year.

1. Belgian Quad, bottle conditioned with corks and cages!
2. Dunkel Wit - Dark Belgian Wit with fresh ground nutmeg and cinnamon
3. Black WCIPA
4. Pseudo Flanders Red - Mixed Ferm Sour Belgian Red
5. Triple Decocted Helles Bock with Saphir
6. Triple Decocted Doppelbock
7. Triple Decocted Marzen
8. Triple Decocted Munich SMaSH
9. Triple Decocted Vienna SMaSH
10. Triple Decocted Pils SMaSH
11. Single Decocted HefeDinkel - Hefeweizen with 100% Spelt malt
12. Braggot German Pils hybrid beer
13. NEIPA Singular base malt - NEIPA with 2-row + flaked oats and wheat
14. NEIPA Various base malts - NEIPA with 5 base malts + flaked oats and wheat
15. Triple Decocted Piwo Grodziskie, 100% Oak Smoked Wheat
16. HefeBerlinerWeisse - Mixed Ferm Sour, Lacto and Omega Hefe both fermented at 95ºF
17. Skare Kveik “Pils” - SMaSH Kveik Pils
18. Framgarden IPA - Kveik NEIPA
19. Voss Wheat Beer - Belgian/American Wheat style
20. Hornindal Kornol - Kornøl
21. Lemondrop Lotus Oat Cream IPA - NEIPA
22. Mixed Ferm Sour IPA with Saphir
23. Oaked American Adjunct Lager, over 50% Flaked Corn with a blend of oak in the keg
24. Local Brewery Clone - Mexican Dark Lager
25. Triple Decocted Czech Pils with all hops (Saaz) being added at dough in and then triple decocted.
26. Triple Decocted Czech Amber Lager with Weyermann Bohemian DK
27. Triple Decocted Schwarzbier
28. Bud Dark - Black American Adjunct Lager with Candi D-240 as the coloring agent
29. American Adjunct Lager of sorts, 65/35 Pils/Malted Oats
30. American Adjunct Lager, Rolling Rock Clone

 

[sbaclimber]

Good reminder...time to pay the tax man! ...looks like 37 liters@0.004407€/L/°OG
(<200L is tax free for personal use)

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

Twelve so far and one more ESB next week, making 13 brews for 2021. Most were 7 gallons into the bottle. So probably about 85 gallons into about 950 bottles.

 

[Zambi]

Bit off topic, but...
@oliver, can I have your recipe for no 19?
About to try a voss wheat beer...

 

[The Brew Mentor]

Wow, you guy/gals are killing it!
Great job all.
Merry Christmas.

 

[oliver]

Bit off topic, but...
@oliver, can I have your recipe for no 19?
About to try a voss wheat beer...

wasn't a fan of this one.

2.5 gal, 1.058 OG (overshot efficiencies at 87% brewhouse) and 1.012 FG

2 pounds Pure Idaho Pils
2 pounds Great Western White Wheat
0.5 pounds Great Western Crystal 15

2 oz Crystal (2.3%AA) First Wort Hops, calculated to 12.6 IBUs

0.5 oz Sweet Orange Peel boiled last 5 min
0.5 oz fresh ground Coriander boiled last 5 min

Used Sigmund Gjernes, #1 Voss, one of the blended cultures from The Kveik Shop (https://www.kveikshop.com)

water was based on the Chimay profile, ~20ppm each of Calcium, Chloride, and Sulfate, 0ppm Magnesium and Sodium.

I thought the beer was too sweet despite finishing at 1.012. The ester profile from the Kveik blend, plus the coriander, plus the sweet orange, it was just too many things hitting as sweet on the palate, left a cloying sensation across the palate. Definitely had potential, but needs a lot more balance.

 

[Zambi]

Thanks

 

[Ward Chillington]

I have one more batch to add to this year still so I figure add 5 gallons to this year's 33 gallons from 7 batches.