Age of Homebrewers & Years of Experience

Just curious about the age demographic of HBT members. Also share how long you've been brewing!

25 and 3 years of brewing.

I am 28 and have been brewing (on and off) for about 4 years. Have been doing it steadily for about 2 years.

21 and I have been brewing for about a year.

28 and been fermenting since 1/08

26 - Been brewing for about 6 months. Only made 2 batches though.

34, with 13 years and a 8 year hiatus but I'm back in it baby!

26 and I started a year ago.

24 and 5 years.

I'm 31. I've only been brewing since last October. I wish I would have gotten into this sooner.

26 - 2 years

39 and been brewing for about 14 years

I'm in the 30-39 group, and did my first batch about 13 years ago.

Edcculus said:

24 and 5 years.

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LOL. Necessity is the mother of invention, right?

38 and about 5

31 - 8 years

Walker said:

LOL. Necessity is the mother of invention, right?

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ha, certainly was. It was hard enough to get BMC underage. Even harder to get good craft beer, esp when you can't go in and browse around. We started homebrewing to drink good beer. I was smart and didn't join HBT until I was 21 though.

31 and it will be 2 years in september. i did a few batches of beer machine when i was about 24 or so.

33 been brewing about 3 years

30 and bottled my first batch on 12/21/07. A porter.

32 yo brewing for 8 years just recently (past year) went AG.

22 and been brewin for 4 months. Plan on goin AG here in a couple of weeks

53, four months.

Living = 4 score and 8, brewing/helping brew = 4 score and 3ish. Don't know when brewing took over helping, prolly around 1980ish. From a long line of homebrewers/distillers and etc. Numerous brief hiatus' in between there.

Keep on brewing my friends

COLObrewer are you really 88 (A score is 20yrs)?

I'm 48 and have been brewing since 1979 (grew up in Canada eh) so 31 years.

GT

64 and I've been brewing for either a year and a half or for 42 years depending on whether you count the one batch of brew I did with my college roommates back in '68. God, that was bad! We had no idea what we were doing - used some malt extract made for cooking (remember that homebrewing was illegal in those days) and probably used baking yeast - open fermentation in a plastic trash can (covered with cloth) - fermentation was surely at way too high a temp (this was in Houston) - bottled in quart bottles of Lone Star Draft with screw-off caps. About a half-in of yeast in the bottom of each bottle after it was done - but it did have a kick!
Anyway, I never bothered to try again until some friends gave me a starter kit for Christmas of '08. Did one extract and several mini-mashes - now putting together the equipment for all-grain and should be ready to start that next month.

I am 36 years old, I just had my one year brewing anniversary!

Age 54 years; brewing for 16 years

Got Trub? said:

COLObrewer are you really 88 (A score is 20yrs)?

I'm 48 and have been brewing since 1979 (grew up in Canada eh) so 31 years.

GT

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See there, I'm so old I forgot what a score was, I'm 48.

47 years old & brewing for 23 years (with a 10 year hiatus in there when the kids were young.

I'm 40 and have been brewing about 1.5 years.

44 and 10 My first batch was a pale ale out of a can. I didn't like it. My second batch was a pale ale made from extract with grains. I loved it, and I love brewing ever since.

26 and I've been brewing for around six months.

29 years old and I've been brewing for about 3 years, off and on. My first 10 or so batches were partial mashes and came out really well, then I discovered HBT........After reading countless topics and gathering info I jumped into all grain. Haven't looked back since.

35 here, and been brewing since I was 14... so 21 years off and on. It is such a part of my life I don't even get excited about it... I stay excited about it! I would die if I couldn't brew beer. Bread is also something I better not have to do without

28 and been brewing for 2.5 years, over 2 years of all grain.

26, brewing for 4 years but only got hardcore into it brew every weekend spend all my money on brew gear about a year ago.

28 and about 3 months. First all-grain this weekend.

28, been brewing since I was 20, have been "hardcore" and all-grain for 5 years.

22 and brewing for about a year, unless you count my little foray into brewing at 19 with Mr. Beer that ended rather poorly.