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I am a Mechanical Engineer per my diplomas

But I gave all of that up for my silly love of the military.
I have served 10 years now.

I also like to collect cigars(along with smoking them)
I am an avid BBQer/ pushing towards smoking.....
I also take great joy an pleasure in building pneumatic suspension systems for cars & trucks.

Sarcasm (by far my single most favored hobby)
I also study the inaccuracies of Christianity.
I am a trained suicide councilor( not a fun job but it is very rewarding )
along with a wife and 3 kids I don't leave much idle time.....
 
besides brewing?

Reading, writing (fiction) and shaving.

Yes, shaving. As in vintage double edge razors. Used to own a bunch but narrowed it down to two. Along with that I built a large assortment of shaving creams, soaps, and razor blades. I'm set for several years. Even with all I spent, it's less than I would have spent in a year on the newest Gillette cartridges.
 
Brewing has taken a large role since the birth of my daughter. My hobbies have varied as the years progress.

1) Lead Guitar, played in band for four years while an undergraduate in university. Still play select songs for my family.

2) Fishing, since I was small I have loved catching all kinds of fish and cleaning them and eating them. This ranges from Fly fishing with hand tied flies to trolling, using deptth charts and color charts and the like.

3) Hunting, I recently took up hunting due to the overwhelming presence of guns in my married family. I started duck hunting, and since acquiring various decoys and blinds, and paint, etc, I haven't looked back on this hobby. I still love deer, turkey, and dove hunting, though.

4) Vehicle maintenance. I haven't paid a mechanic in over 6 years for working on a vehicle. With the correct tools and mechanical insight, vehicle maintenance is a very rewarding hobby.

5) Beer drinking. Need I say more?

6) Canoeing. This has been hard since the pregnancy and daughter being born, but SWMBO and I loved blazing new trails in open streams and rivers in the midwest.

7) Camping. Any time spent outdoors without running water is time spent well, especially for the soul. Dig a latrine and suck down a homebrew.....OK!

8) Being a dad to my little girl. This is both a profession, and a hobby :). Nothing better. Born 6/26/10 Emma Mae
 
Father and husband, of course
Boating
Fishing
Hockey (watching or trying to play)(surprised noone else has this hobby?!)
BBQ
Gardening
Anything outside and any sport that's fun (until it's too hot, then to my basement!)
 
Besides homebrewing I've been a musician for ~twenty years, primarily guitar, bass and drums. I own a project studio and also do audio engineering (recording, mixing, etc) on the side. I play mostly heavy metal/hard rock styles, although I have a background in blues guitar. My studio has a myspace account at http://www.myspace.com/462studio All of the songs by Mechanisma are my personal solo project.

Some other cool hobbies in here!
 
I probably have too many hobbies, just not enough time.

Remodeling/renovating/home improvement/fixing or building anything - This is my day job, but I enjoy it so much I constantly find new things to do to my house too. I've run out of rooms to remodel so I'm thinking of an addition to the master bedroom now.

Computers, gaming and custom PC's - This has always been a hobby, and is now also a small side business. Computers were basically "bred" into me, but I never could stand the thought of sitting in a cubicle coding all day, so it's always just been a hobby until I started a small business building them about a year and a half ago.

BBQ - I love smoking meats, or just grilling for everyone.

Jeeps & offroading - Currently Jeepless, but have owned a 1947 Willy's CJ2A, '99 Wrangler (totalled), and a '00 Wrangler that was the only brand new vehicle I have ever owned. I did some major modifying to this Jeep, but ended up selling it after getting married and it sitting in the driveway for about 5 years. Only had 33k miles at 9 years old. :( I miss my Jeep.

Off Shore Fishing - This I only get to do one week a year when I go see my Dad in FL who is REALLY into off shore fishing.

Politics - Not so much a hobby, but something I try to keep up on and spend time doing.

And after a friend got a gift certificate to a LHBS for Christmas, I added brewing to the list which has now consumed a good portion of the time otherwise spent on the others. This hobby is just so rewarding though!

:mug:
 
billvon said:
Skydiving, flying (private pilot ASELS) and biking mainly.
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Ha, I'm a former airline captain ATP CFII MEI....which means I haven't been able to afford to fly in over a year. :) I don't know how anyone can afford to fly for recreation with the price of 100LL and rentals these days.

Hobbies

Cooking
Stay at home dad-ing
learning how to fix things that break in the house.

I'm moving to Colorado this spring and I'm hoping that there's a better job market for part time flight instructors .
 
Seems like there's a few r/c pilots on here. Been wanting to get into this for years. Can you guys reccomend a good plane to learn on? I would eventually want to get into aerobatics...
 
- watching MLB (Dodgers), NBA (Lakers), NFL (whoever is on)
- dog (take her to the beach, walks etc)
- 1/35 scale military model making
- shooting every once in a while
- interest in watching documentaries from WW2 period
- cooking
 
Brewguyvering
camping
fishing
riding my motorcycle
reading voraciously
planing for retirement


oh, and woodworking
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a little guitar
hydroponic gardening. tomatoes, peas, beans, salad stuff (hops in future?)
1/32 scale racing I get into from time to time
landscape painting once in a blue moon lately
 
just got into brewing but i love to make things for people to enjoy.

i have a small business i run mostly as a hobby crocheting hats and making apparel
i like soap making
and i have a girlfriend which takes up a lot of my time trying to help her save the world.

I guess i would also like to add small business development to this list. right now I'm working in an office as a research assistant for small business development. it's fun seeing something you've worked on become something people enjoy and depend on. I feel like i want to start my own business some day but I'm too lazy for that so i figure i'll just help other people do it and live vicariously through all my clients.
 
My biggest is amateur sportscar racing. I race an old Porsche in a Spec series (single model and identicaly prepared with limited modifications) for Porsche 944's and 924s's. I'm in the blue car, #42, racing at Sear's Point/Infineon Raceway:

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Really close racing (the guy in the red is about to spin):

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Yes, I do all my own maintenance on the race car and all my other cars, with the occasional assistance from friends and fellow racers.


I also do a lot of rock climbing (primarily indoor).

Also, social dancing, primarily Blues, Swing, and Argentine Tango.

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I used to sail a lot. Ferried a boat through the Caribbean and raced on my college sailing team.

I have my pilots license, but haven't flown for years. I need cheaper hobbies, like racing old Porsches.
 
I'm seeing a lot of hobbies in common on this thread.

Cooking and woodworking makes sense, since they are about creating something out of raw materials for people to enjoy --just like homebrewing.

Others I see are common would be guns/shooting and motorcycling. Does that tie into hombrewers' traits at all? Or is that coincidence?

Good thread!
TB
 
Lots of awesome hobbies!

Just getting into brewing but I imagine that's going to be the main hobby soon.

Gardening, trying to produce as much food as we need, hopefully next year I'll get closer to that goal.

Taking care of a small slice of heaven, chickens, goats, dogs, small orchard...

Freshwater planted aquariums, used to be saltwater but I missed the green of the plants so I've gone back to FW, cheaper than SW too!

Helping my wife get a soapmaking business off the ground hoping we can grow it enough to support us so I don't have to leave every day to make someone else rich...

Oh and shooting squirrels... rats with fluffy tails.... thieving conniving little....
 
Nickme23 said:
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Oh and shooting squirrels... rats with fluffy tails.... thieving conniving little....
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The squirrels aren't a problem here, it's the chipmunks. I have several in, and around, my garden, but they're too quick to shoot. The dogs don't even bother to chase them, they'll run a few feet, and when the chipmunk runs, they stop. They have several burrows around the yard, and I've seen them jump down one, and come up in another one. I bet the ground under my yard has more holes than swiss cheese.

Sorry, :off:
 
Other than homebrewing I'm into

Collecting casino chips
Photography
Taking long car rides
Spending time with the family

I'd really like to get into small scale woodworking. I'd love to make homemade tap handles.
 
Tiber_Brew said:
I'm seeing a lot of hobbies in common on this thread.

Cooking and woodworking makes sense, since they are about creating something out of raw materials for people to enjoy --just like homebrewing.

Others I see are common would be guns/shooting and motorcycling. Does that tie into hombrewers' traits at all? Or is that coincidence?

Good thread!
TB
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Good thread indeed. I think the Cooking/woodworking go with homebrewing for sure. They are all DIY things...Just like the DIY thread is one of the most popular on HBT.

Guns/shooting...not so sure if they go well with beer or drinking at all, however, they are a blast...

Knucks to all the climbers even if you climb in a gym....lol (there are none where I live otherwise I would have a membership)

I have an unhealthy obsession with my lawn.

Finding more ways to anger SWMBO

Anything Razorbacks.....
 
I dont think I seen anyone else list powerlifting, but its a big hobby of mine. 5 meets, 5 last places but I keep getting stronger so I must be doing something right!
 
Tiber_Brew said:
I'm seeing a lot of hobbies in common on this thread.

Cooking and woodworking makes sense, since they are about creating something out of raw materials for people to enjoy --just like homebrewing.

Others I see are common would be guns/shooting and motorcycling. Does that tie into hombrewers' traits at all? Or is that coincidence?
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Hobbies involving precision, patience, creativity, experimentation, and a general value of self-reliance. Also, an interest in acquiring and learning how to use new and interesting toys... I mean "tools".

I find a lot of people on other interest boards (namely motorsports) with a general combination of: motor vehicles (cars, motorcycles, and/or airplanes), guns, and one or more craftsman hobbies (woodworking, metalworking, welding, etc.).
 

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