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Granted, I've only been reading this site for 3 weeks, but the stream of knowledge seems unending! I really REALLY appreciate all of the help that the old guard gives, but at what point will I know enough to move on?!?

It's almost depressing to think that I have a doctorate, but I know NOTHING about my favorite thing: beer (don't tell my dog, SWMBO or my FJ80 that I said that....please! :cross: ).

Thanks to all that help. It's very appreciated! I'll think of you (briefly) as I savor my first brew in a few weeks.
 
I think once you get 'bit' you will rapidly find yourself getting out of what most would consider the 'beginners section'. I went from an extract brew on the stove, to a turkey fryer to getting ready for AG, and kegging. Youve come to the right place. People here are VERY knowledgeable (and friendly) and once it 'clicks' it will open up a whole new world of beer to you.

Suggestion - go out and try a different type of beer whenever possible. Chances are you are going to find quite a few that may taste like ass. At least you will know what NOT to brew when it comes time to experiment. :)
-Me
 
Yeah, but you'll have to change your name....:D

It' surprising how much of the basics you'll pick up..then once that happens the learning curve huuugely expands and you actually start to understand a lot of surprising crap...

But you will never stop learning...There's always one new post, or podcast or book or article, or brewer on here that will teach you something new...at least there is for me....

But hopefully you will be giving what you learned back to others...I believe we are always one batch ahead of someone in terms of knowlege and one batch behind someone in terms of knowlege....

:mug:
 
Laughing_Gnome_Invisible said:
He stole it from a fortune cookie. ;)
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No actually I stole it from Marianne Williamson when I used to work with her at the Church of Today....

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It's actually that we are one step ahead of someone on the ladder of life and one step behind...and each of us pulls the other up along the way...or something like that...

:D
 
I guarantee that you'll know more about brewing a year from now than I will know about a doctorate degree.
 
If you've got a doctoral degreee then you understand the power of research. This site is extremely powerful as a research tool. There are several great books on the subject of homebrewing. I started with Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels. That book in conjunction with this site will help you alot. It gives you details about what typically constitues a style of beer so that you can create your own recipes. :mug:
 
AZ_IPA said:
I like the brewing analogy better :D
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Yeah...thanks, I try I really do...despite possessing the most powerful and fear inspring sigline on the planet...so much so that some people actually resent my power to bully people not to start vs threads. ANd they cower in the wake of my wort stained shoes:D

maybe people are jealous, eh? :rolleyes:

*sheesh*

Hey Nooby...come here, let me knight you with my hydrometer and you too can be in my fearsome posse of rdwhahb and postwhoring.

(inside joke)
 
I have of course read "How To Brew", and I harass my much-better-half's in-law regularly. So I am beginning to pick up a rudimentary knowledge of beer (though my brain still "knows" far less than my liver!). But I think I've just figured out what is so great about this site:

With the exception of a few years in Hawaii and Mexico, I've lived my whole life in Southern California. That means I'm not accustomed to people being helpful/nice/normal. All of the patient words of wisdom that I've encountered here are so foreign that....I'm a bit confused (though in a totally STRAIGHT dude way!!! :D).

Before I break out in a course of Kum Ba Yah and group hug everyone, I want to say "thank you" for enabling my new habit!

And, seriously, there's a man of the cloth on this site? Wow, maybe my mom would approve of this beer thing!
 
alpo said:
*phew*

(unhides death metal CDs)
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Double "phew"!! And I was starting to feel guilty about not going to church for several years. Good, now I don't have to screw up my Saturday night beer session/Sunday morning surf session.
 
olllllo said:
Every master brewer knew exactly as much as you do right now at some point in their career.
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He's right..

Come my chillin...let'sboogie over and take a visit to Revvy's gallery of noobish (and not so noobish) mistakes....

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/

Maybe even the great and powerful "jeepy dude" will tell us of one of his early brewing mistakes....:D

(Ever brew while eating sushi my friend, ever get any pickled ginger juice in the wort? :D)




Boogie Chillin...get it????? :)
 
I have a mother of a mistake thread, but I prefer that it remain an Easter egg.

BTW I just heard an awsome quote by Peter Bouckaert.
"If you aren't throwing away hectoliters of beer, you aren't brewing good beer."

Sometimes failure is a good thing.
 
but at what point will I know enough to move on?!?
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First, you have to brew a few batches.
Second, you have to design an dogawful beer out of enthusiasm for a single ingredient.
Third (if you live in the PNW), you need to realize that dry hopping does have a point of diminishing returns.
 
You can never leave......

You will always come back....

Something will always catch your eye.....

You will think you might have missed a nugget of inspiration....

You will go and experiment with different means of brewing only to come back and see if someone else has thought of something new and you will look here to find it...

You will check here to make sure that Noobies that started out with you are not getting ahead of you in the knowledge race (in your mind) and you will check here to make sure that you are not lagging behind....

You will check here just to read Revvy's post... if for nothing else a good chuckle as he tells another Noobie to "STOP... Don't touch that Primary!!!" he he he

I still have to chuckle at the thought of that one.
 
Revvy said:
No actually I stole it from Marianne Williamson when I used to work with her at the Church of Today....

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It's actually that we are one step ahead of someone on the ladder of life and one step behind...and each of us pulls the other up along the way...or something like that...

:D
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Reverend, we need to know a bit more about her!
 
bull8042 said:
So I gotta ask Revvy....... Did ya? C'mon, we are all friends here..... :ban:
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We flirted like heck with each other on occasion, and I had been known to give her a few between service back rubs (she's a tiny thing) but nah.....

That would have been a serious f-up for both of us...Here being spiritual leader and I being a ministerial student?

But now...if we ever ran into each other....:D

Though when I was in Missouri for my final year of seminary two of the most hottest erotic dreams I ever had in my were about her. And one of them left her planted with a little Revvy....

But I do know which lead singer of a very well known rock band did....and I can't name names....:D

There was a lot of issues with her and my church and denomination...she was (and I guess is) and intense woman...She couldn't keep a personal assistant for more than a few weeks....for a very spiritual woman she had her "moments."


BooneDocks said:
Reverend, we need to know a bit more about her!
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If you google here your bound to find stuff out about her, she's one of the most famous spiritual women of the country...Been on Oprah and Larry King a million times, Nelson Mandella used one of her poems/prayers in his innauguration speech. Preformed one of Elizabeth Taylor's gazillion marriages....She'll probably show up at the Whitehouse with Obama in office...
 
Revvy said:
I refuse to answer on the grounds that I have answered it several times before....there's even pics on here which would confirm it or deny it they may even be in my gallery....:D
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But there are also plenty of threads on here one could use to dismiss the information found in the pictures. I thought you were a reverend untill I pony'd up membership fees, then I saw the REAL Revvy and thought NO WAY!! confused for a very long time :D
 
IrregularPulse said:
But there are also plenty of threads on here one could use to dismiss the information found in the pictures. I thought you were a reverend untill I pony'd up membership fees, then I saw the REAL Revvy and thought NO WAY!! confused for a very long time :D
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Yeah, seeing Revvy pole-dancing was a shocker for me too! OOPS! Was I not supposed to bring that up here?.... sorry.
 
IrregularPulse said:
But there are also plenty of threads on here one could use to dismiss the information found in the pictures. I thought you were a reverend untill I pony'd up membership fees, then I saw the REAL Revvy and thought NO WAY!! confused for a very long time :D
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Uh..HUH????

I am a minister...I just am not doing active church work...I just don't fit most people's images of a minister as a hypocrite hater with a stick up his a$$


Nor am I a fundamentalist...I come from a very very liberal denominiation (the first one to ever ordain gays and blacks)...and before I even became one, my background was a men's retreat workshop leader and I also helped teach human sexuality...I spent about a year and a half hosting an online forum on sex and spirituality on a pornsite even....

I'm not one of those guys that preaches that sex is dirty but screws hookers on the side...I'm very transparant and open about everything...

I don't fit anybody's mold.

I explain it here....https://www.homebrewtalk.com/539314-post20.html

You can here some of my sermons hear....Internet Archive Search: Michael Copado
 
Oh crap...I screwed the joke up, eh???

Damn...and I bet tex was counting on the pole dance pictures to be good for a few hundred new memberships...:D

I'm so blond some days...
 

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