Am I a homebrewer? NO!

I agree with that thought. Simple & direct. Now back to your regularly scheduled Friday!...

I remember when it suddenly became an insult to refer to my school's janitors as janitors; they magically turned into 'custodians.' Never was sure what all or who all they had custody of...

Nowadays I think they're all environmental engineers or sanitation supervisors, or some such.

Nightshade said:

Grey area for sure but since he isn't producing any alcohol on location it slips into that "6 of one half dozen of the other" type of thing.

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Just as long as you take me seriously and miss the jokiness of the comment.

sudbuster said:

Doesn't the moniker not elicit images of squalor and unsanitary conditions

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OMFG! I can't believe I didn't notice this before! Double negative!!

Hahahahahahaha.....

smizak said:

OMFG! I can't believe I didn't notice this before! Double negative!!

Hahahahahahaha.....

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Cool Catch, I missed it too. Is this it? Is this all the trash dumpin' you got? Well, you still haven't made me into a ragged, by-the-tracks homebrewer.

You'll always be a homebrewer to me, suds.

CrystallineEntity said:

You'll always be a homebrewer to me, suds.

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Thanks, Rice, I guess

sudbuster said:

Well, you still haven't made me into a ragged, by-the-tracks homebrewer.

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Why should we? None of us are, either. It's your own hang up.

I'm not a homebrewer?

then my car is

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CrystallineEntity said:

You'll always be a homebrewer to me, suds.

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That goes double for me, but you can be an artisan homebrewer if you would like.

GrogNerd said:

I'm not a homebrewer?

then my car is

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Thank you Sir for your service! Cheers!

HawgDaddy said:

Thank you Sir for your service! Cheers!

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it was an honor to serve

I'm just some guy with a love for beer and disdain for pants.

I've never come across any disdain for homebrewers.

Whenever I tell somebody I'm a homebrewer, they usually respond with something like "Who are you, and why are you naked? Get out of my house!"

YMMV.

BadWolfBrewing said:

Whenever I tell somebody I'm a homebrewer, they usually respond with something like "Who are you, and why are you naked? Get out of my house!"

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Some people are so judgemental.

Indian_villager said:

I'm just some guy with a love for beer and disdain for pants.

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Like, wait! don't like. Wait! I agree, and hate pants as well, but please keep yours on around me.

Yooper said:

... but you can be an artisan homebrewer if you would like.

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But only if he insists that his beer has do be sipped out of dainty cups with ones pinky out.

Artisan brew talk... I wouldn't take part in that.

'home brewer' in my area usually means a kit-in-a-can brewer. Most all-grain brewers I know call themselves 'craft beer people'

NoCornOrRice said:

'home brewer' in my area usually means a kit-in-a-can brewer. Most all-grain brewers I know call themselves 'craft beer people'

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I had no idea denizens of the great white north were so hoity-toity...

If I ever start calling myself a 'craft beer person,' I hope someone is merciful enough to put me down.

troy2000 said:

I had no idea denizens of the great white north were so hoity-toity...

If I ever start calling myself a 'craft beer person,' I hope someone is merciful enough to shoot me.

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Ok, I promise I'll do it. I mean, out of love and concern for you that's all.

I actually liked the bw3s commercial making fun of home brewers. Reminded me of me.

DrunkleJon said:

Like, wait! don't like. Wait! I agree, and hate pants as well, but please keep yours on around me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1srzsTJOW2c

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My house my rules.

Craft beer maker....naaa, I'm more of a DRAFT beer maker!

Yooper said:

Ok, I promise I'll do it. I mean, out of love and concern for you that's all.

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Thank you, sweetheart. It's good to know there are people in my life I can depend on. But don't muss the hat....

In the United States going back to at least 1900, homebrew or “home brew” was the opposite of “city brew”.
In this regard the term was a reference to beer not brewed in a big “city” production operation.

BTW - “Blue ribbon malt hopped extract” (from the OP) came along in the 1920’s, ostensibly as a baking product. The “hopped” part has been suspected as being a “wink” at prospective beer-makers during prohibition to use the product. Kind of like the “dried-grape”/raisin products that came with a yeast packet and had a label stating “not to” mix with water, sugar and stir ... etc.
But “Home brew” far predates using questionable malt extracts and other less wholesome items or methods of the prohibition era. We are not talking about "bathtub gin" here.

The respectability and tradition of “home brew” arrived with immigrants who brewed for themselves and their families and neighbors in the old country for a thousand years. This has a much deeper and more essential past than even the alehouses and abbeys of the day ... which might be likened to “artisanal”, incorporating a master brewer, apprenticed brewer or someone for whom brewing was a specialty.

If you are a Home Brewer you are part of a way of life that goes back to at least medieval times in Europe (and elsewhere) and was part of the structure of everyday life, not just recreational like it is today ... And as far as artisanal brewing, home brewing is certainly a much closer blood-relative of the Alehouses and the Monastery brewing traditions of the 1400’s which developed *from* the home brewing tradition, than any modern commercial beer regardless of lineage.

Yup. Gotta love the history,Jacob. That's the cool part of being a home brewer to me,having studied the history after starting this quest. The beer remains they found in China that DFH emulated was some 9,750 years old! Now if that's not home brewing,I don't know what is!...:rockin: Some of the beer remains they've found the last year or so are thought to be as much as 300,000 years old! Born to party,y'all!

how about some beer brewed with yeast from a 35 million-year-old whale fossil

local brewery did it.

Narwhale ale?

I am not ashamed of the word home brewer, yes I would call myself a home brewer. But usually when we are talking I just say "I brew beer". But I am not ashamed of the word say it proudly home brewers!


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unionrdr said:

Narwhale ale?

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Bone Dusters Paleo Ale

fact is, high probability the yeast itself is not 35 million years old. it might have fallen off the beard of the guy who dusted off the bones

or Jaapie's beard. he's finding yeast everywhere.

whitesheperd said:

I am not ashamed of the word home brewer, yes I would call myself a home brewer. But usually when we are talking I just say "I brew beer". But I am not ashamed of the word say it proudly home brewers!


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I figure that if it's good enough for the American Homebrewers Association, it's good enough for me.

Quite some time ago,some archaeologists were sifting through the dirt from a dig & found viable pollen grains. Tough lil buggers. I got to wondering just how tough yeast cells could be if enough were clumped together over so many millennia?

unionrdr said:

Quite some time ago,some archaeologists were sifting through the dirt from a dig & found viable pollen grains. Tough lil buggers. I got to wondering just how tough yeast cells could be if enough were clumped together over so many millennia?

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Kind of old news at this point, but this is what happens:
Ancient Yeast Reborn in Modern Beer

well, now...

same guy who cultivated the yeast from the fossils has now started his own yeast company!

congratulations & good luck, Jasper!

I wonder exactly what that narrow band of sugars are that the yeast can metabolize? The spicy thing sounds like the French saison yeast,3711...