So, What Else Do You Do?

So, I'm taking a break from brewing for the summer. Time to get outside and garden, hike, and vacation. The basement is warming up and I don't have temp control yet. I'll have upwards of 10 cases put away once I've bottled the batches in my fermenters so it'll be a while before I'm going thirsty. I may brew an few batches but my furious batch-every-two-weeks pipeline is stalled until fall.

So what do you do when you're not brewing?

Mike

Drink the beer I made, fish, hike, canoe, shooting, and of course salsa dance.

I fly airplanes and ride bicycles (mountain and road). We also spend a lot of the summer at the lake.

I hunt or more specifically I hunt varmints. I set up a bench pour a cup of coffee and have a nice cigar while I play god and decide who lives and dies in the local rock chuck population.

Hehe and I saw my first rock chuck the other day so they are starting to come out:rockin:

Guitar, fish, canoe, camp, camp and camp while doing the other things.... My kids love being outside so we're hard to find most summer weekends...

Now there's a critter Im unfamiliar with, but what do you expect from a new yorker. Can you eat rock chuck?

Varmintman said:

I hunt or more specifically I hunt varmints. I set up a bench pour a cup of coffee and have a nice cigar while I play god and decide who lives and dies in the local rock chuck population.

Hehe and I saw my first rock chuck the other day so they are starting to come out:rockin:

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What other hobbies do you have?

Hobbies other than brewing?

Other hobbies besides homebrew..

What other hobbies do you have?

Other hobbies besides brewing?

CreamyGoodness said:

Now there's a critter Im unfamiliar with, but what do you expect from a new yorker. Can you eat rock chuck?

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You can and do if I get good head shot on one. Some onion, carrots, potatoes and you have a awesome rockchuck stew. Of course topped off with a nice home brew LOL

I think the real name for them is yellow belly marmot. They live in rocky formations but come out and eat the farmers crops so I have permission to shoot all that I want out there.

Dang hard to find the time to shoot them anymore though

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Fastmetal said:

I fly airplanes and ride bicycles (mountain and road). We also spend a lot of the summer at the lake.

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What do you fly? I work as a Flight Instructor in Renton, WA...

http://www.rainierflightservice.com/seattle-flightinstructor.asp?id=7#flight-instructor That's me! LoL...

In my free time when I am not brewing I fly airplanes, teach how to fly airplanes, play video games, practice photography, read, among other things!

Have to love throwing a big party while camping. Great thing is you drink a lot of beer then have to brew more. All problems solved.

I race off road RC Cars, ride mountain/road bikes, collect 70s era Japanese guitars.

Well, since this is the most recent thread on the topic, and I'm new, I'll answer here.

I usually quit brewing soon, by the end of April, every spring, and get off line too. I take a summer haitus. I'll have 6 or 7 kegs full by then to carry me through. I wanna get my yardwork and spring chores done by then too, including getting my boat ready for the water. Warm weather sees me on my boat and on the water whenever I can. We take a trip to the Cape every summer. And a vacation at the lake too. The rest of the year..huge Pats fan. I used to ski but haven't done it lately. Ditto high powered rocketry.