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Evan!

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So the wifey finally, after 74 batches, wants to brew with me.

F*ck yes.

She picked a couple doozeys, though. It's a weeknight, dammit...and I'm brewing a 1.090 Holiday Spiced Ale, and a 1.084 Weizenbock. I'm gonna be up for awhile.

Anyway, pics...

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It's f'n HOT!

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My first time using my new stirplate with "real yeast" (not lambic culture). It's just a vial of WLP300, but I'm really surprised that it's got such a crazy krauesen even as the stirbar is going...

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Oh, and speaking of lambic culture...here's the oude kriek I dumped it on the other day...you can already see the start of something yummy...

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You are lucky!!! - Not too many wifey's want to brew with da hubby!! :D

My wife says to me on Sunday, (it hotter than a mofo) I'm going to the pool!!! Be back a 5pm...

I'm like yeeeeeeehaaaaahh. She won't bitching about me brewing.

I made a nice American Amber with 4 oz of cascade - plan to dry hop w/ another two....:rockin:
 
Cute doggies!! Mine enjoy brewing with me as well. Not so much my wife, however (well, she'll help stir and siphon if she's around).
 
Man, I wanna go to sleep. Still got 25 mins left on the final boil, then the lackluster cooling that is summertime tap water on the mid-eastern-seaboard.

Had a nice crappy efficiency with the Holiday Ale, but that was to be expected. 4 points low, 1.086. Oh well. That's what happens when you don't feel like using enough sparge water to require a 120 minute boil.

The Weizenbock is, as I said, still boiling. I want it to be done. The stupid people who live in the clouds and make weather decided to drop some piddly rain on me, too. I mean, really...it's been thundering and lightning-ing for an hour, so I bring everything close to the house under the overhang, and wait for the downpour. All it's done so far is spit on me. Hmph.

It's late. I have 2 of the biggest beers I've done in a long time, though, almost under my belt. Here's to thinking ahead to the colder months. Mmmm...weizenbock...holiday spiced ale...f*ck yeah.

And yes, BM, she IS too cute for me.
 
It's late. I have 2 of the biggest beers I've done in a long time, though, almost under my belt. Here's to thinking ahead to the colder months. Mmmm...weizenbock...holiday spiced ale...f*ck yeah.

Does she have another surprise fer ya? Do you have kids yet?

I've been thinking of making something BIG since I'm guessin' it'll be a bit before I can brew when the little one arrives.

Been lookin at a Jamil's;
- Chocolate Hazelnut Porter (Girl)
- Smoked Robust Porter (Boy)

The thought being make it every year and sample multiple years each year....

:mug:
 
Well, we are trying. It's amazing how crazy her libido's been since she went off the pill. I guess that's just jebus telling you not to use birth control ;)

and for f*ck's sake don't name your kid Porter. Too many goddamn people do that and it pisses me off. Heh, you like beer. Wow. So do I. But I'm not naming my child Southern English Brown.
 
and for f*ck's sake don't name your kid Porter. Too many goddamn people do that and it pisses me off. Heh, you like beer. Wow. So do I. But I'm not naming my child Southern English Brown.

Didn't think about that....

Meet my little girl named Pilsen and my son named Bock. Oh, this is their cousin is Dortmunder. His sister over their is Marzen. Don't let her play with your auto-siphon, she'll eat that seal off the plunger. :D
 
Well, we are trying. It's amazing how crazy her libido's been since she went off the pill. I guess that's just jebus telling you not to use birth control ;)

It took us 7 years to get preggers. Damned if I didn't tired of boinking twice a day for three weeks solid every month. :cross:

2 x 21 x12 x7 = 3527 boinks = 1 kid

I hope you are more successful than we were. It gets stressfull and expensive paying for fertility.
 
Brewing AG on a weeknight: requires good planning, but do-able
Brewing a strong beer on a weeknight: a challenge
Brewing TWO strong beers on a weeknight: Holy hell, man!
All worth it, the pay-off: brewing with the dogs and hotty wife (plus having two great winter beers in the works).

Did you stay awake through the chill?
 
Brewing AG on a weeknight: requires good planning, but do-able
Brewing a strong beer on a weeknight: a challenge
Brewing TWO strong beers on a weeknight: Holy hell, man!
All worth it, the pay-off: brewing with the dogs and hotty wife (plus having two great winter beers in the works).

Did you stay awake through the chill?

Yeah, I was up till 1:30. I'm on maybe 4 hours sleep right now :( but yeah, worth it. I had terrible efficiency compared to my normal 80+%, but again, that's what you get when you sacrifice sparge amount for shorter boil time. Damn high-OG beers.
 
You're a crazy bastard. I brew on weeknights, but I save double brew days for the weekends and start early in the morning so I can be done by mid afternoon.

Enjoy the trying to make a baby thing while it lasts. When the wife and I decided to have the last one she was pregnant within a month! (someone HAS told you about the whole 'no sex for at least 6 weeks after she delivers the baby' thing, right?)
 
So wait. You're brewing two beers, both the type that need aging, in the same night, and you're not going to sour either of them? Who are you and what have you done with Evan!?

JK Dude but thanks for sharing the pics - cute dogs and cuter SWMBO! :p Hope you get more sleep tonight to make up for it.
 
Dude, I can't afford to tie up yet another fermenter for a year!

Yeah, I really need sleep. Wish I could stay home and nap today. Hmmm...maybe I'll bring my laptop and my Revit file home today so I can babysit my fermenters. :D
 
Ok People let the ridicule ensue but i still don't know what SWMBO is... Lay it on me.

It would be great to have a acronym (sp?) thread around here for us noobs!
 
Ok People let the ridicule ensue but i still don't know what SWMBO is... Lay it on me.

It would be great to have a acronym (sp?) thread around here for us noobs!

Oh, it's not that easy. Search, search, and search some more.;)
 
There is one. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=5349
Easiest way to find it is to google "Acronym site:homebrewtalk.com" and it shows you only HBT results. Or just use the google search box, under the search title in the menu bar.

And here's someone else asking for one: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?p=750726

And here's the wiki: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Abbreviations (Of course SWMBO isn't on this one)

Hey now, that's not the way the game is played.:(
 
LOL sorry ww. Was just trying to avoid yet another thread in Site Suggestions. :p

If I recall, EAC isn't in any of those threads. That still requires hunting. SWMBO is too common, I feel OK giving that one out. (And I use it too often)
 
SO, with all my whining about low efficiency, I realized that in my sleep-deprived stupor I never did temp adjustments for the 90ºf hydrometer samples I took. Drrrrrrr. So I gained 4 points on each...Steffentinus was still low, 1.074, but the Old *****iewig was spot-on at 1.090. Now I feel better.
 
It would be great to have a acronym (sp?) thread around here for us noobs!

<cough>Google<cough>

Evan!, great pics, great beer choices... Thanks to my beautiful wife, I'm also in the club of "guys who outkicked the coverage". Great, isn't it???

Yeah, I'm doing EdWort's Haus Pale Ale tonight, I believe. Won't get it started until 6 or 6:30, but the last time I did a low gravity AG batch by myself it only took 4:15 until I was cleaned up.
 
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Evan!

Do you bird hunt with those fine looking GSP's?

Nope, they're just pets. We rescued both of them, and they haven't been trained to birdhunt. Sadie, the older one, is so sweet and docile she wouldn't hurt a fly, much less chase an animal. Xander is much more typical for the breed and is a big squirrel-hunter, but he likes to run more than anything...so if we let him off the leash, he's gone.
 
Nope, they're just pets. We rescued both of them, and they haven't been trained to birdhunt. Sadie, the older one, is so sweet and docile she wouldn't hurt a fly, much less chase an animal. Xander is much more typical for the breed and is a big squirrel-hunter, but he likes to run more than anything...so if we let him off the leash, he's gone.

That's cool. They sure are nice looking dogs. I've always enjoyed hunting over GSP's. They are like vacuum cleaners!

We rescued our chocolate lab. He was running the streets in downtown Chicago (Grant Park). Chicago animal control picked him up and he was taken in by the lab rescue. He was a runner but an e collar fixed him of that bad habit. :D

He's my brew parter as well.




 
So the wifey finally, after 74 batches, wants to brew with me.

F*ck yes.

Oh, HELL yeah. That's pretty cool.

I had a small victory the other day when the Dear Wife hovered until I asked her if she wanted to help bottle. She liked filling the bottles but not capping. So we split the duties. Coolness.
 
Wait a sec, you make a thread saying that you're brewing, yet no brew porn.... instead we only get your ugly mug???

;)
 
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