2025 Brew Year’s Resolutions

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Happy New Year, everyone!

  1. How did your 2024 Homebrew Resolutions go? Did you finish any of them?
  2. What are your ideas for 2025?
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2024 - Compete more and brew some new styles. Competed a bunch and picked up a pile of medals. Did so with a couple new to me styles.
2025 - Prep for the written BJCP exam, judge more, compete less. Brew a new style. Make several beers themed around my 50th birthday coming up this year.

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My 2025 goals are:

  1. Focus on basics: hitting volumes and gravity, cleaning, sanitation, fermentation, oxidation and carbonation
  2. Enter 20 competitions
  3. Achieve Master Brewer
  4. Achieve Jack of All Trades
  5. Improve scoring average
  6. Improve individual place in regional circuits
  7. Improve club place in regional circuits
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2024

Partially completed: I got two more long-term, mixed-ferm batches aged on local plums this year. Still no go-to recipe for dark ales.

Partially completed: I’m still fiddling with process…

Partially completed: I’m still having trouble with mold in my fermenting peppers. :rage:

2025

  1. Keep iterating my mixed-ferm farmhouses. Maybe try to collect a local culture from the land we bought this past summer.
  2. Spend a little more effort on dark beers.
  3. Keep working on my Thanksgiving (cranberry blonde / wheat) and Christmas (dark & spicy winter warmer) beers.
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2024 - No lofty goals, keep it simple, keep it fun.

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2025 - No lofty goals, keep it simple, keep it fun.

Happy New Year everyone!

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My only goal for 2025 is to try to have a better pipeline. I would like my average beer to condition 3-4 weeks before I drink it. I may need to add a keg or two to achieve that goal. Not sure yet.

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My resolutions for 2025 are:

  1. to improve my Imperial Stout
  2. brew some styles that I have not done in a while (Black IPA, Baltic Porter
  3. and try to make a Berliner Weisse.
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Modern or historic?

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My goals for 2025 include:

  1. Brew more small batches, to allow better variety and more frequent brewing opportunities.
  2. Longer conditioning times; this includes both lagers (aiming to get at least 6 and ideally 8 weeks) as well as other styles (especially in cases where I’m not using finings).
  3. Make a new style or two – I’m intrigued by the NHC-winning gose recipe in the latest Zymurgy, and want to give that one in particular a try.

I didn’t have any particular resolutions or goals for last year.

(expanded thoughts at my blog)

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Shared elsewhere, but since this is the “goals” thread:

  1. Brewing more, but staying with 2 to 3 gallon batches. 6 to 8 batches would be great.
  2. Getting more feedback on my beers.
  3. Incorporating more (but not a lot more) process improvements, such as finally learning how to bottle from a keg.
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Historic.

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I had no 2024 resolutions.

2025 - I only brewed 6 times in 2024 and would like to at least get 10 brew days in this year. I have Kits stacking up that need to be brewed. I need to buy some better equipment, too. Still using a 10 gal cooler for a mash tun. I am getting too old not to use some pumps and a better overall system. I usually do 5 gal batches.

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•2024 was too hectic of a year for resolutions :sweat_smile:

•For 2025, I’d love to focus on the teaching/educating side of homebrewing. I moved to a new state, and most of the friends I’ve made have never homebrewed! I definitely want to change that.

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Just brew more! 2024 I couldn’t find the time.
2025 I’m making time to brew my 5 favorites.

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