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. 
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.
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.
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.
Do I really even need to answer this one? ;D
Never.
But I’d like to try it sometime. ;D
Do it man! It will change your life!!
How about a kilt :-\
Plan your brew and then brew your plan man ;D
I brew the way I cook. Never the same recipe the same way twice.
and that my friend…is No Pants Brewing. 
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.
I need to have repeatability so except for a few brews I plan and follow my plan.
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.
+1 to that. I don’t worry that I might not be able to exactly replicate a great beer because there are so many great beers out there.
One other thing that allows me to brew no pants, is making small batches. Since I brew at least weekly, if a batch comes out really rank (not often but it happens) then I don’t worry about dumping it.
My brewing is more infrequent. Whenever the opportunity presents itself. I’m brewing twice in three days this weekend but it might be another month before I find a brew day again. So I try to plan my brews out in as much detail as possible and stick to the plan as much as I can.
I tend to brew infrequently and I’ve found that even the commercial brewreis have difficulty brewing beers to taste the exaoct same. I really love Founders brewing but even their beers have some variaitoion… I’m brinking their beer now. (and its killer bere but still I can tell differanace from sixer to sixreor).
Anyway, what was ther question? :D I try to brew wihat I like, but sometimesw I seem to try to berw what othter people want and sometimees it works ana sometuimes it dont’. I love making beer. ;D
I need a recipe to make notn alcoholeoc or low alcohgolic beer for a family member. Sruprise, suprises eh?! :D Amnyway, sericously if anybody has one I"d appreciate there recippe.
I plan my brew day and print out my recipe from beersmith and stick to it and keep notes if I don’t hit a temp or something else changes.
I usually have my pans on while brewing…