How homebrewing has affected real life.

I was in my office break room and made a cup of tea. After dipping the tea bag I squeezed it, then I got concerned that I may have added additional tannins to my cup.

I'm sure stuff like this happens to others as well. :cross:

I have one of those plastic, one cup coffee filter holders and I take great care to properly sparge my ground coffee in the morning.

On the way to work yesterday I heard a commercial that went something like " This Christmas don't forget the poor." For some reason I heard " This Christmas don't forget the pour."

Richabt said:

I was in my office break room and made a cup of tea. After dipping the tea bag I squeezed it, then I got concerned that I may have added additional tannins to my cup.

I'm sure stuff like this happens to others as well. :cross:

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If you drink tea, you should have known squeezing the bag was bad BEFORE you started brewing.

Anyone else always eyeing the water cooler carboy at work?

I hate it when my T-bag gets squeezed.

As I walk around the office, I notice different furniture and equipment that might be appropriate to build a brew stand/equipment out of.

I was growing up a bunch of cultures today at work...wait, what?

There's a lab at my med school with about 20 stirplate/heatplates that NEVER get used...I am always eyeing them, oh the temptation. They also have a ton of unused erlenmeyer flasks too....what a waste. Laboratories in academia are full of brewing things. Their cup runneth over.
-Jefe-

I precisely measure my coffee grounds each morning and monitor the grind to ensure it has exactly the same OG every morning. If not, I get pissed and pour it out and call it a bad batch.








Not really, I use starsan for other sanitation. For a while I would look at objects everywhere and see how they could be used for brewing.

(Before I started kegging) I used to eye empty brown bottles everywhere I went.

Rick500 said:

(Before I started kegging) I used to eye empty brown bottles everywhere I went.

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I do that as well. We went out for sushi the other night and the only beer the place had was 22oz. bottles of Sapporo. They were going through them left and right. I would have loved to grab a few cases of those bottles but was too embarrassed to ask.

I had the bartender at our office Christmas Party save all the pry top empties for me!

Ironically, Ive gotten better at tasting wine (not sure why?)

I am reading this post instead of doing the rest of my work...damned brewing

My coworkers bring in delicious homemade food for me ever since I started giving them a bottle of homebrew every once in a while

Exactly what is the grain absorption rate on coffee grounds?

McGarnigle said:

Anyone else always eyeing the water cooler carboy at work?

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Yep even check the number on the bottom. Mostly 7 but a few number 1's

To bad they are only 5 gallon

A buddy of mine tends bar and his boss was super enthusiastic about me recycling his bottles.

My contribution: When I take a shower, I crank the heat up at the end for a few seconds to get one last scalding hot wave of awesome. I am unable to think of this as anything other than a human mashout step.

Also I work at a big drug company, and if it went out of business, a brewer would have no problem setting up shop. We have gigantic step up bioreactors (conical fermenters), clean rooms for media prep and culture propogation (think wort and yeast)....not to mention lab equipment...oh the possibilities.

Every day I walk by this trash can at work that's right outside the bathroom.



Look like anything familiar to you folks as well?

nicknunns said:

Every day I walk by this trash can at work that's right outside the bathroom.

Look like anything familiar to you folks as well?

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That's awesome!

I am constantly checking inventory at work at all of our North American locations looking for ingredients.

At our location, the only thing useful is: rice hulls, calcium carbonate, Bentonite, Epsom Salt, and Calcium Chloride. Too bad I haven't delved into water chemistry yet.

Oh, could I use Dried Molasses for anything?

Im always going to home depot / lowes or im going to peoples house and looking through their stuff wandering how I can use it to brew.. or if i can ferment it

For anyone else my age, the topic of this thread reminds me a lot of the days of Tony Hawk Pro Skater. We would play for hours and hours and hours in college. Everywhere I went, I was like, "I would grind that rail, bust a jump to that ledge, etc." Anyone else in that boat? I'm 30.

Molasses is an excellent growth medium for starters. Many companies than sell gluten-free yeast use molasses. I do not recommend drinking the decanted fluid though.

david_42 said:

Molasses is an excellent growth medium for starters. Many companies than sell gluten-free yeast use molasses. I do not recommend drinking the decanted fluid though.

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What in the sh*t?

I thought homebrewing IS Real Life.

I'm with you Doc, I used to play the demo for hours before the game was released.

I eye the water cooler at work, looking for that elusive #1 container. If nothing else, its just another carboy to keep Apfelwein in!

Anyone ever thought of hooking a water fountain up to a keg and CO2?

david_42 said:

Molasses is an excellent growth medium for starters. Many companies than sell gluten-free yeast use molasses. I do not recommend drinking the decanted fluid though.

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Yes, we can see what happens.

greeneyed said:

Anyone ever thought of hooking a water fountain up to a keg and CO2?

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Anyone for increased productivity? :rockin:

I know my sorry ass would be busting double-time if I had fresh brau sitting on-demand nearby.

Edcculus said:

If you drink tea, you should have known squeezing the bag was bad BEFORE you started brewing.

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but tea-bagging is always allowed.. as long as it is a hot female.

as to the beer fountain: BYO had a picture of one someone made. it seems to waste beer though. im not able to consume all the water, so how can beer not escape me?

I use oxyclean and pbw on a ton of random cleaning jobs.

I've flushed out Tupperware with co2 before packing leftovers.

swmbo laughs when wait staff makes beer reccomendations

I've put brewing before p u s s ee...more than once..

I started the office coffee this morning. A guy walked in and was about to tap some...I told him to wait until the brew was done because "the first runnings would be too strong."

When I'm being dragged around a store I search thoroughly through the kitchen gadgets section! That NEVER happened before!

DocRobinson said:

For anyone else my age, the topic of this thread reminds me a lot of the days of Tony Hawk Pro Skater. We would play for hours and hours and hours in college. Everywhere I went, I was like, "I would grind that rail, bust a jump to that ledge, etc." Anyone else in that boat? I'm 30.

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Hell yeah! Between Tony Hawk, Tiger Woods Golf, and Grand Tourismo many hours were consumed!

McGarnigle said:

Anyone else always eyeing the water cooler carboy at work?

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OHHHH YEAH!

At home, I'm constantly talking with my brewing buddies about what we're going to brew next, what supplies we need to order, etc... moreso than I talk to SWMBO.

Good thing she's a sport and is into brewing just as much as I am!

DocRobinson said:

I started the office coffee this morning. A guy walked in and was about to tap some...I told him to wait until the brew was done because "the first runnings would be too strong."

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I imagine a non-brewer would call that 'pouring' instead of 'tapping'...