I have to take a hiatus from beer making...

We are getting ready to market our house and I have no time to do anything. My 2 kegs are almost empty and when they are, the keg setup gets cleaned and put into storage along with the beer making stuff until after we move. That could be 4-6 months.

I am debating on whether to get store bought beer or just stop drinking beer until I can brew again.

I am half thinking of brewing up 2 batches, ferment, keg, and leave them in the keg in a friends house until I move so at least I'll have some homebrew on ready standby. I am really not sure I can take a Saturday morning to do that!

I am right there with ya. I'm laid off (hence the move) and so I decided to avoid commercial beer until we're settled. Maybe I'll even start running.

We're going to be BUSY for about 2 weeks just getting our house ready to show, and are going to go for sale by owner route. I thought about brewing a batch this weekend, but I don't know...

Best of luck with the house. Mine was on the market for a about a year!

Sounds like a nice self made house warming for the new place!

PintOfBitter - did you work for Boeing? I heard about all those lay-offs. I am in Edmond, OK, so not too far from ya.

I wanted to say - You two were talking about how bummed you're gonna be about not drinking beer at all unless its a homebrew! THAT'S A BOLD STATEMENT!!! I was LOL because I feel the same way! It is hilarious that there are people on here as crazy about homebrew as myself! Good luck with the move.

Cheers

I was with Cessna. They're down to about 40% of their original workforce now, and more layoffs are coming...

So sorry to hear that. What's next?

keep looking for a company who wants an engineer with 4 years aerospace experience. Preferably not in aerospace however

what's your story, slipgate? employment change or just location change?

is it a local move?

If you are coming south I will donate some home brew. That is if I can take care of my evaporation problem.

EVERY TIME I make a batch the bottles keep on turning up empty... ... DA# two more empty's in front of me as we speak! HUH?


anyway if you are coming to the Stafford / Fred-Necksburg area hit me up and I bring by some Oatmeal Stout.


-Joe

I LOVE WATCHING OTHERS WORK WHILE I DRINK BEER

I'll help you out. I will kindly let you store all your kegging equipment at my house. No Charge. PM me for an address to ship to.

PintOfBitter said:

what's your story, slipgate? employment change or just location change?

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It is a local move. We are moving to a bigger house, preferrably with a pool. Most importantly better schools for my daughter who starts in August.

Keep two carboys out of storage and rotate apfelwein between them. Don't keg and you could probably just pour it out of the carboy into jugs non-carbed to keep in the fridge. I doubt it would get infected. It's pretty sturdy stuff.

If i had to take a hiatus from brewing i would not stop drinking. Instead i would stock up on different styles from various breweries and start taking notes on what i want to start brewing once my hiatus is over.