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Old 08-13-2011, 04:49 PM   #351
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You continuously have this spreadsheet opened:

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[I'll be happy to share it if someone needs it]

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Old 08-13-2011, 05:14 PM   #352
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This happened to me yesterday -

I have no central AC in my house, just a little window AC in my bedroom and another in the guest bedroom(where my beers are currently fermenting). It was a hot one yesterday, and the AC in the guest bedroom with my fermenting beer went out. I moved the working AC from my bedroom to the fermentation room to keep my temps steady. Meanwhile, I slept in the heat. So apparently I'm more concerned with my yeast being comfortable than myself being comfortable.
Did this the other day, and while removing the windows I broke one and a 1/2" piece of shattered glass stuck about 1/4" into the palm of my hand. SWMBO (who used to be a nurse) mentioned that I needed to hit the ER to get stitches or steri's. I washed it out, slapped 4 band-aids on it and installed my AC while it bled through . It eventually stopped bleeding and I replaced the band-aids. It's knit up pretty well now after I dug the rest of the glass out that night :P.

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Old 08-20-2011, 06:34 AM   #353
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when you spent 3 hours milling 4.5Kg of grain with nothing more then just a 60 year old hand coffee grinder 1/4 cup at a time!!
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Old 08-20-2011, 03:41 PM   #354
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Having only been brewing 2 months, buying 5 carboys, upgrading to a 15 gallon kettle, a fridge, getting a freezer as well, buying a stir plate, 20# CO2 tank, 4 kegs, and everything required to keg, now planning a jockey box, and a temp controller build.

Talking to wife ad nauseum about what I'm doing and what it means, and what's to come without her understanding or really even caring (except how much money I have spent). Full disclosure has not occurred. :-)

All of this for my most preferred beverage. BEER
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Old 08-20-2011, 03:59 PM   #355
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You run your AC all summer long to keep you beer at the right fermenting temps!
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Old 08-20-2011, 04:54 PM   #356
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You wake up from a dream about brewing beer to the stark realization that you don't have time to build a fermentation controller before you'll have a chance to get back into brewing all-grain, then go into panic mode and research commercial controllers in an attempt to provide some form of control until you can get yours built, then realize that's not an ideal situation, then draw up a schematic and a parts list and order all of the components from three different electronics suppliers, then after all the parts are ordered, realized you forgot a 50-cent part that you can't add to the orders because they've been placed already. All by 7am.
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Old 08-20-2011, 06:52 PM   #357
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When your wife is sick & you're still wanting her to brew her next batch. And you go out for some craft beer & sit on here anyway.
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Old 08-20-2011, 07:05 PM   #358
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you have a flashlight in the bathroom so when you wake up at 3am to take a leak you check your fermenting chambers temps.
and if something is wrong you stay up till you straighten it out.
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Old 08-21-2011, 03:00 AM   #359
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Last weekend while fishing I saw two nasty-a$$ looking pop-top beer bottles in the brush... I took them with me - not to make the sight cleaner... but to clean them and store them for further batches I'll need to bottle... now that's recycling!!! Also...

-your friends keep their bottles for you - and bring them to you
-your friends don't question why you constantly have said bottles bouncing up and down in a sink of water to soak the labels off
-you keep your empty carboy out in plain sight in the kitchen
-no one questions why you have a flask
-your homebrewing book collection is starting to kick out your cookbook collection
-and speaking of said books, a stack of them lies on one's nightstand for some right-before-bed perusing
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Old 08-21-2011, 03:44 AM   #360
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When you're saving up for brewing sculptures and a kegging set-up even though you haven't been able to afford a honeymoon despite being married for 9 months.


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