Working Out a Brewing Schedule ? The Nerdy Way

A keen home brewer needs to treat his (or her) hobby like a project manager. When you’ve got a bunch of recipes to try and limited resources (either financially, time or physical resources like fermenters and fridges) organising yourself to become more streamlined can be one of the biggest challenges.Of course, making much more beer than you can drink will keep your friends and neighbours entertained, but it ends up become another issue, that of storage and freshness. So what to do? A poster on AHB was talking about Gantt charts, a supreme tool for project management, and thinking on this, I reckon it’s a bloody good idea. That way you can set times for fermentation, conditioning, lagering, plan brew days in advance, organise yourself to create starters in the right timeframes, order your ingredients and know exactly when a beer is at its prime to crack open a bottle. ...

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Working Out a Brewing Schedule ? The Nerdy Way

A keen home brewer needs to treat his (or her) hobby like a project manager. When you’ve got a bunch of recipes to try and limited resources (either financially, time or physical resources like fermenters and fridges) organising yourself to become more streamlined can be one of the biggest challenges.Of course, making much more beer than you can drink will keep your friends and neighbours entertained, but it ends up become another issue, that of storage and freshness. So what to do? A poster on AHB was talking about Gantt charts, a supreme tool for project management, and thinking on this, I reckon it’s a bloody good idea. That way you can set times for fermentation, conditioning, lagering, plan brew days in advance, organise yourself to create starters in the right timeframes, order your ingredients and know exactly when a beer is at its prime to crack open a bottle. ...

View the original article here