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BeerMe21

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So I'm in the middle of brewing a chocolate hazelnut brown ale and I take a look around my kitchen. This is what I see: a keggle boiling away, a 1L Erlenmeyer flask with my WY1099 starter bubbling away, laptop open with beersmith up, a hydrometer on the counter, digital probe thermometer, 10 different ziploc bags of specialty grains, a 50lb bag of 2-row, a grain mill, 7 different styles of beer glasses (including 4oz taster glasses) on my 3-tap kegerator...

Then I realize.... Wow, I'm a beer nerd :mug:


Anybody else had something similar happen while brewing?

Cheers
 
My wife called me a beer nerd just the other day.

I almost always have the stir plate going. Either for a starter of for harvesting some yeast from comercial brews.

Fermenters filled with brew both downstair or in the spare bedroom, depending on the temp I want them at. Many cases of brew piled up in the basement. Usually at least 5 different brews in my fridge ( I like variety) and many different styles in the pipeline.

A big plastic storage container of many different grains, Hops in the freezer, washed yeasts in the fridge.

Homebrewtalk as the homepage on my computer. Brew software on both my computer and iPad.

Gotta love this hobby/addiction
 
beergolf said:
My wife called me a beer nerd just the other day.

I almost always have the stir plate going. Either for a starter of for harvesting some yeast from comercial brews.

Fermenters filled with brew both downstair or in the spare bedroom, depending on the temp I want them at. Many cases of brew piled up in the basement. Usually at least 5 different brews in my fridge ( I like variety) and many different styles in the pipeline.

A big plastic storage container of many different grains, Hops in the freezer, washed yeasts in the fridge.

Homebrewtalk as the homepage on my computer. Brew software on both my computer and iPad.

Gotta love this hobby/addiction
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Awesome! I can't wait until I get a bigger place so I can expand some. Somehow I am managing this in an 850 square foot apartment, swmbo and and my brewing hobby are starting to feel cramped lol.
 
Just as long as you don't become a beer snob. I go onto Beer Advocate and read crap like,

"Nose is just awesome before I even put my nose in the glass. It's like a wedding of Citra and Simcoe super fresh hops and they're spitting out babies into my nostrils. Going deeper brings so much fruit, tropical fruit mostly. A big citrus kick in the face with a slight orange zest, fresh squeezed grapefruit, waves of tropical fruit with some pineapple, guava, mango, and a big passion fruit kick. Damn! As I stuck my nose in deeper I get a bit of the beer on my nose and mustache, forcing me to lick it off, what a shame... back to the nose, a slight musty fresh wet hop resin comes through but lightly, and more of the tropical fruits with some nice tangerine and an overripe clementine."

and then I want to find out where this guy lives so I can go punch him right in his smug face.
 
LandoLincoln said:
Just as long as you don't become a beer snob. I go onto Beer Advocate and read crap like,

"Nose is just awesome before I even put my nose in the glass. It's like a wedding of Citra and Simcoe super fresh hops and they're spitting out babies into my nostrils. Going deeper brings so much fruit, tropical fruit mostly. A big citrus kick in the face with a slight orange zest, fresh squeezed grapefruit, waves of tropical fruit with some pineapple, guava, mango, and a big passion fruit kick. Damn! As I stuck my nose in deeper I get a bit of the beer on my nose and mustache, forcing me to lick it off, what a shame... back to the nose, a slight musty fresh wet hop resin comes through but lightly, and more of the tropical fruits with some nice tangerine and an overripe clementine."

and then I want to find out where this guy lives so I can go punch him right in his smug face.
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You mean that was real?? Hilarious!
 
My "man cave" is about 1/2 taken over with beer fridge, brewing equipment, and beer.

The spare bathroom only has a toilet because the tub is completely occupied by brewing equipment.

The entire space of the cabinet above the refrigerator is filled with different specialty beer glasses.

Our outside storage closet is 1/2 filled with boxes full of empties I've been collecting since college.

Oh yeah, there's a stack of those in the Man Cave, too.

This is all in a 2 bed, 2 bath apt. And I'm sure that looks weak in comparison to some of you ;)
 
LandoLincoln said:
Just as long as you don't become a beer snob. I go onto Beer Advocate and read crap like,

"Nose is just awesome before I even put my nose in the glass. It's like a wedding of Citra and Simcoe super fresh hops and they're spitting out babies into my nostrils. Going deeper brings so much fruit, tropical fruit mostly. A big citrus kick in the face with a slight orange zest, fresh squeezed grapefruit, waves of tropical fruit with some pineapple, guava, mango, and a big passion fruit kick. Damn! As I stuck my nose in deeper I get a bit of the beer on my nose and mustache, forcing me to lick it off, what a shame... back to the nose, a slight musty fresh wet hop resin comes through but lightly, and more of the tropical fruits with some nice tangerine and an overripe clementine."

and then I want to find out where this guy lives so I can go punch him right in his smug face.
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I know someone who talks like that.... He gets paid to professionally review beer. Sometimes it's kind of incredible, really. You may have heard of him.... Hoptopia.com
But in all seriousness, that can get old from time to time.
 
3 fermenters filled, beersmith on constantly to tinker with recipes, HBT surfing almost constantly, northern brewer window shopping at work because EVERY OTHER brewing site has been blocked like porn on our network, dreaming of kegerator and bar builds...

Yeah... I'm there
 
BeerMe21 said:
So I'm in the middle of brewing a chocolate hazelnut brown ale and I take a look around my kitchen. This is what I see: a keggle boiling away, a 1L Erlenmeyer flask with my WY1099 starter bubbling away, laptop open with beersmith up, a hydrometer on the counter, digital probe thermometer, 10 different ziploc bags of specialty grains, a 50lb bag of 2-row, a grain mill, 7 different styles of beer glasses (including 4oz taster glasses) on my 3-tap kegerator...

Then I realize.... Wow, I'm a beer nerd :mug:

Anybody else had something similar happen while brewing?

Cheers
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Sounds like a typical brew day. I wouldn't say that makes you a nerd.
 
LandoLincoln said:
Just as long as you don't become a beer snob. I go onto Beer Advocate and read crap like,

"Nose is just awesome before I even put my nose in the glass. It's like a wedding of Citra and Simcoe super fresh hops and they're spitting out babies into my nostrils. Going deeper brings so much fruit, tropical fruit mostly. A big citrus kick in the face with a slight orange zest, fresh squeezed grapefruit, waves of tropical fruit with some pineapple, guava, mango, and a big passion fruit kick. Damn! As I stuck my nose in deeper I get a bit of the beer on my nose and mustache, forcing me to lick it off, what a shame... back to the nose, a slight musty fresh wet hop resin comes through but lightly, and more of the tropical fruits with some nice tangerine and an overripe clementine."

and then I want to find out where this guy lives so I can go punch him right in his smug face.
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Can I come with you?

I hate the elitist aspect of some of these reviews. Especially when they are written as you have posted.
 
LandoLincoln said:
Just as long as you don't become a beer snob. I go onto Beer Advocate and read crap like,

"Nose is just awesome before I even put my nose in the glass. It's like a wedding of Citra and Simcoe super fresh hops and they're spitting out babies into my nostrils. Going deeper brings so much fruit, tropical fruit mostly. A big citrus kick in the face with a slight orange zest, fresh squeezed grapefruit, waves of tropical fruit with some pineapple, guava, mango, and a big passion fruit kick. Damn! As I stuck my nose in deeper I get a bit of the beer on my nose and mustache, forcing me to lick it off, what a shame... back to the nose, a slight musty fresh wet hop resin comes through but lightly, and more of the tropical fruits with some nice tangerine and an overripe clementine."

and then I want to find out where this guy lives so I can go punch him right in his smug face.
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You have found yourself a beer snob. Let me give you a beer geek version of the same review: "Huge hop aroma, with lots of citrus and tropical fruit"

I once read someone on beeradvocate say: "there's hints of a delaware ocean breeze" WTF does that even mean?!?!?
 
BeerMe21 said:
You mean that was real?? Hilarious!
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I pulled that from the "Zombie Dust" review. I sincerely hope that they're all just playing a joke on each other, trying to sound more stereotypically pretentious than the next guy. I have my doubts, though.

From the Great Lakes Jabberwocky review:

"As I take a deep sniff, I'm taken into a dark forest of oak, surrounded by perhaps the most woody scents I've encountered in a beer of this style. Six years has imparted every nuance that oak can add - vanillin, butterscotch, almond and even some slight tannin. There are some sour notes from the lacto, mostly giving impressions of sour cherry and slight lemon. The sweet grape and nutty notes from the Amontillado sherry come through, and there's even a hint of unripe melon."

A DARK FOREST OF OAK.

What. The. Hell.
 
Hahah, it means the writer ran out of ideas. In a similar vein I went to a local beer festival in May. Every ale on there was described as 'golden/Amber ale with hops and citrus notes' to the point where the menu, aside from having the names on, was completely pointless because it offered no insight. There must be a good beer reviewer out there somewhere...I've always described the mouth feel, experience and when its best to drink - summer etc - rather than the flavours directly...
 
A real beer nerd would have tossed out his wife, gutted the kitchen and installed stainless steel work tables, two or three bay commercial sink, walkin cooler, and top of the line brewing equipment. Threw away the useless living room furniture, probably consisting of flowery couches, chairs, end tables, worthless trinkets and lamps. Replaced with custom mahogany bar, Hemmingway leather bar stools, backbar keg cooler, glass washer, mug freezer, pool table, gun cabinet, killer audio/video system, and decorated walls with brewerania. Rip out the bathroom that no doubt presently is decorated in pink, silk flowers and scented candles and install a stand up urinal, steam/sauna, and electric hand drier. Since the house will be really set up for the true beer nerd. The bedroom needs to be modified from what your wife created. Trash the make up table, aroma therapy candles and pictures from K-Mart. This room should become the mechanical room containing refrigerated chiller system for the settling/aging tanks, serving tanks, fermenters, and plate chillers. CO-2 system, high output water boiler, and stainless steel roll around wire racks to hold the various and needed stuff used for brewing. You can use the walkin closet to sleep if need be. After you throw out 2 or 300 pair of shoes and all the clothes that probably still have price tags on them, that were purchased with your money.
 
VladOfTrub said:
A real beer nerd would have tossed out his wife, gutted the kitchen and installed stainless steel work tables, two or three bay commercial sink, walkin cooler, and top of the line brewing equipment. Threw away the useless living room furniture, probably consisting of flowery couches, chairs, end tables, worthless trinkets and lamps. Replaced with custom mahogany bar, Hemmingway leather bar stools, backbar keg cooler, glass washer, mug freezer, pool table, gun cabinet, killer audio/video system, and decorated walls with brewerania. Rip out the bathroom that no doubt presently is decorated in pink, silk flowers and scented candles and install a stand up urinal, steam/sauna, and electric hand drier. Since the house will be really set up for the true beer nerd. The bedroom needs to be modified from what your wife created. Trash the make up table, aroma therapy candles and pictures from K-Mart. This room should become the mechanical room containing refrigerated chiller system for the settling/aging tanks, serving tanks, fermenters, and plate chillers. CO-2 system, high output water boiler, and
stainless steel roll around wire racks to hold the various and needed stuff used for brewing. You can use the walkin closet to sleep if need be. After you throwout 2 or 300 pair of shoes and all the clothes that probably still have
price tags on them, that were purchased with your money.
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Sounds like someone that just went though a divorce..., Or is about to..


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