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| Chelsea Dagger Pre-Prohibition Lager |
It is already April. The first quarter of 2026 is done. Time to report on the Q1 SheppyBrew Brewing stats.
Both last year and 2024 yielded 95 gallons of beer, which is lower than any year since 2016.
If the first 3 months are an indication, 2026 will be an even less volume. Significantly less. As I type this, I'm tracking to less than 60 gallons for the year, which would be the least amount of beer brewed EVER!
I'm not sure if the brewing will pick up this year or not. I guess we'll see.
So far in 2026, I've brewed 3 batches of beer.
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| Hop-cember Pale Lager |
Here it is, 2026 already. It is crazy how fast the year flew by.
If you follow along on this blog at all, you probably know that after each quarter, I "report" my SheppyBrew Brewing Stats.
And, now it is time for me to report on the SheppyBrew 2025 Year End Brewing Stats.
So ... in the 4th quarter of 2025, I brewed 5 batches of beer:
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| Gnomeberry Hollow Cherry Porter |
Here it is October already. We're over three quarters through the year! 2025 is flying by.
At the SheppyBrew Brewery, Q3 was another lighter than average brewing quarter, with only 4 batches of beer and 20 gallons of beer.
This means we've brewed 14 batches and 70 gallons so far in 2025, putting us on track to hit 92 gallons this year.
I don't expect I'll pick up my volume all that much in Q4, but I guess we'll have to see how it goes.
My Q3 batches were:
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| Cuttlefish Czech Amber Lager |
It's July, which means that we've made it through the second quarter of 2025. It is time to "report" on the 2025 Q2 SheppyBrew Stats.
Q1 was pretty busy, and I was on track for 120 gallons of beer in 2025.
Q2, on the other hand wasn't nearly as busy. I only brewed 4 batches of beer totaling 20 gallons, putting my projected 2025 volume right at 100 gallons.
The Q2 batches were:
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| Melting Stream Spring Saison |
Here we are already in April. Time to report on the 2025 Q1 SheppyBrew Stats.
The year is flying by and I have brewed quite a bit so far this year. Last year was a down year for me, not even reaching the 100 gallons.
This year so far my brewing rate is a bit faster; I'm on pace to reach over 110 gallons this year.
In Q1, I brewed 6 batches totaling 30 gallons.
My 6 batches were:
Well ... as I'm typing this, I'm not 100% sure I'm done brewing in 2024, but I think I am.
So ... I'll go ahead and type up the draft of my 2024 Brewing Stats. And when you're reading this, you probably won't know if I ended up brewing again or not because it will no longer be a draft and I will have updated based on the (potentially) last brew of the year.
Anyway ... in the 4th quarter of 2024, I brewed 5 batches of beer:
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| Will-o'-Wisp Autumn Ale (no pumpkin) |
It is already October, which blows my mind. Where did the summer go?
Of course, this means the 3rd Quarter of 2024 is done. We can report on the Q3 SheppyBrew Brewing Stats.
When it comes right down to it, I'm sure no one besides myself really cares, but I like to look back on these posts to see how much I've brewed and what I was planning on brewing at certain points of the year.
As I've been saying, I expect that I'll brew less beer this year than I have for the past several years, and so far it does look like I'm tracking for a lower volume than 2023.
In fact, as of October 1 ... I was on track for just over 93 gallons for 2024, which would be the least amount I've brewed since 2018.
In this quarter, I brewed 4 batches of beer:
It is already July, which means the 2nd Quarter of 2024 is done. We can report on the Q2 SheppyBrew Brewing Stats.
When it comes right down to it, I'm sure no one besides myself really cares, but I like to look back on these posts to see how much I've brewed and what I was planning on brewing at certain points of the year.
As I've been saying, I expect that I'll brew less beer this year than I have for the past several years, and so far it does look like I'm tracking for a lower volume than 2023.
In this quarter, I've brewed 5 batches of beer:
It feels like I say this a lot ...
The year is flying by. Not just this year. Every year flies by. Crazy how fast it all goes.
Anyway ... here we are in April, which means that the first quarter of 2023 is done. It's time to report on the SheppyBrew Brewing Stats for the quarter.
Remember that last year, I kept saying I would slow down brewing and end up brewing less volume than I had in 2022.
I did end up slightly down by the end of the year, but it certainly never looked like I had slowed down at all.
At the end of the first quarter last year, I had brewed 6 batches of beer and had 31 gallons.
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| Arctic Vortex Winter Saison |
So ... as I'm typing this, we still have a couple of weeks left in 2023, but I won't be brewing again this year, so I can actually report on my 2023 Brewing Stats.
Last year, I mentioned that I was on a downward trend on my brewing totals since the ridiculous amount I brewed in 2020.
All year, I've been saying that this year will continue that downward trend, despite evidence to the contrary every quarter so far this year.
But, with a slightly lower brew total in the 4th quarter, I did end up lower than 2020, 2021, and 2022.
In the 4th quarter, I brewed 5 batches of beer for 25 gallons:
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| 4 beers including Falling Leaves and Humdinger |
Last week (from when I am typing this ... not when it was posted), there were technical issues with SheppyBrew.com where the web server could not connect to it's database.
I was a bit annoyed that my hosting company needed me to point out the problem, and that it took them several hours to fix it after I pointed it out.
But, in the grand scheme of things ... it's a first world problem.
For some reason ... once the issue was fixed, and I was looking through the database I decided to figure out what beers I've brewed the most.
I went down a rabbit-hole of sql queries and since I had gone through that effort ... I thought I might as well share what I found.
As I type this, there are still a few days left in Q2 of 2023, but I am not going to brew again this month, so I can actually get my SheppyBrew Brewing Stats for the quarter in.
You may remember that Q1 was a busy brewing quarter, and this quarter was basically just as busy.
I keep saying I'll slow down to get a more reasonable total in 2023, but so far I have not managed to slow down very much at all.
My excuse this quarter was that my youngest son graduated high school and I needed beer for various family members to consume for our celebrations.
Regardless of the reason, I brewed another 6 batches of beer in Q2, matching my Q1 total and bring my total for the year up to 12 batches of beer.
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| Melting Stream Spring Saison brew day |
Here it is ... already April, which means that the first quarter of 2023 is done. It's time to report on the SheppyBrew Brewing Stats for the quarter.
I keep claiming that I will brew less beer in 2023 than I did last year, but so far I have not slowed down. At all.
Last year, in Q1, I had brewed 5 batches, 30 gallons.
This year so far I've brewed 6 batches for 31 gallons.
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| Grumkins and Snarks Oatmeal Stout |
So ... as I'm typing this, we still have over a week left in 2022, but I won't be brewing again this year, so I can actually report on my 2022 Brewing Stats.
I did brew quite a bit of beer in 2022, but I am on a steep downward trend after an absolute ridiculous amount of brewing in 2020 and considerably less, but still a huge amount in 2021.
I brewed over 160 gallons in 2020, and over 140 in 2021.
In 2022, I only brewed 122 gallons of beer. Even with this downward trend, 2022 was my 3rd highest brewing volume ever. I blame covid.
This 4th Quarter, I only brewed 5 times for 26 gallons. Practically a reasonable amount.
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| Mr. Awesome (and Jethro Bud) |
Well ... crap ... here it is the end of Q3 ... and I just realized I never reported on SheppyBrew's 2nd Quarter.
Oh well.
As you may know, the Brewery likes to post quarterly updates on how much we have brewed. You can see all these updates (including the one you are reading right now) by following this link: Sheppy's Blog: Brew Stats.
You just will not see one for 2022 Q2. I think this is the first quarter I missed since I started doing these updates.
Must be getting old.
So ... just a quick update on the 2nd quarter ... I brewed 5 batches of beer for 26 gallons. There were 2 new recipes during that time, and I brewed 2 lagers.
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| Colorado Vienna Lager |
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| Arctic Vortex Winter Saison |
As I type this, 2021 is almost over. I'm not brewing again before 2022, so I can report on my brewing stats for the 4th quarter and for year end.
I brewed quite a bit of beer in 2021. Not nearly as much as 2020, but significantly more than any other year in my brewing "career".
In the 4th quarter this year, I only brewed 5 batches of beer.
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| Mr. Awesome Merican Lager |
Q3 is over.
As you may know, the Brewery likes to post quarterly updates on how much we have brewed. You can see all these updates (including the one you are reading right now) by following this link: Sheppy's Blog: Brew Stats.
