How many home brewers are in Queens/NYC?

I was wondering if anyone has a rough estimate of the number of home brewers are in Queens and in NYC.

Reporting for duty, sir!

Fantastic. How long have you been brewing? I guess you're an apartment brewer like me.

If it counts, I am roughly 100mi north of you...

i live in lower westchester currently and I too am an apartment brewer. For the record, my first brew was done in my brothers apt in long island city. We had to move the operation to my place once we went all grain.

dzamba said:

Fantastic. How long have you been brewing? I guess you're an apartment brewer like me.

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Oh yeah... apartment brewer all the way. I've been doing it for 2 years. We should have a tri-state HBT meetup sometime.

Brooklyn here!

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Are any of you members of the NYCHG?

Brooklyn here, though I was in Astoria until a year ago.

I am a stovetop all-grain brewer. Waiting for the boil takes a while...

I just hate the lack of a LHBS. Plus I can't really get deliveries to my building, so I have to get my stuff delivered to work and lug it an hour home on the subway. People get nervous when they see me with a corny keg.

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Are any of you members of the NYCHG?

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I joined recently but haven't made it to any meetings yet... tho' I'm not sure there are any aside from the one once-a-month at Burp Castle. You?

I really want to go, but work evenings. Maybe this summer my schedule will free up.

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kevmoron said:

I just hate the lack of a LHBS. Plus I can't really get deliveries to my building, so I have to get my stuff delivered to work and lug it an hour home on the subway. People get nervous when they see me with a corny keg.

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I know the feeling! I just take it home from work in the orig box. One time I got on the LIRR with a blue 15 gallon fermenter. The conductor asked me what was in it, when I told him it was empty he looked pretty relived. I guess he would have had to fill out reports and stuff if it was filled with wmds.

NYCHG is very helpful. 4rd Tuesday of every month at 7:30 Burp Castle. Garret Oliver is a founding member and he showed up at the meeting last month as a guest speaker. A bunch of us are taking the BJCP Exam in July so we have weekly classes next door at Jimmy's #43. That's every Tuesday 7:30. The more the merrier.

I'm gonna go to the next one... is it this Tuesday (19th)? Do y'all sit around at one table? Not sure how to enter the fray as it were...?