Hanging it up :(

[captainL]

I have to quit brewing......until we sell our house and buy a new one. But my new house will have a dedicated beer/ music studio so I can wait 6 months for better things. He He he.

A water filled bucket with a fermenter in it doesn't look too good when trying to sell a house. I am bottling my SS Stout on thursday and that will be my last batch for a while. My 15 gallon stock pot along with other equipment is in storage.

Time to start planning a new home celebration brewday brew. And i should probably start dropping the price on my house to avoid a prolonged lack of brewing. Thanks for listening to my venting. And tell me every thing will be ok.

Anyone want to buy a house in spring (houston) TX. I'll make you a deal.....

 

[annasdadhockey]

Best of luck to you captain. Don't be a stranger during your down time.

 

[kpr121]

Good luck! Don't you have a secret brew closet where you can keep your fermenting beers? Better look for that space in the new house!

 

[captainL]

My secret closet was the master bedroom closet. I think this might be a conspiracy for my wife to get her closet back. Funny how the wine carboy's can stay.

 

[Rman2012]

You can borrow my house to store your stuff.

 

[SethMasterFlex]

I'd have an easier time being celibate than not brewing for six months.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Put beer fermenter in storage..

 

[annasdadhockey]

Put beer fermenter in storage..

You sir are a genius!!!!

 

[Junkster]

Put anti-beer wife in storage! <G>

 

[RMitch]

You can borrow my house to store your wife.

 

[Sweetchuck]

I've sold my fair share of houses in my days - 4 of them to be exact and we didn't do anything differently. They all sold. I have one up for sale now but it's empty.

Ya still gotta live.

 

[PhotoKirk]

Get a 5'x5' climate controlled storage unit for your fermenters.

 

[passedpawn]

Meh. Just put a lamp shade on the carboy and set it on an end table.

 

[snottywong]

Not sure if you heard, there have been some minor problems with the housing market. I bought a house in 2005 for $145k, in 2007 it appraised for $230k, in October 2009 I put it on the market and it still hasn't sold. It's currently listed for $125k and not getting offers. Needless to say I stopped paying the mortgage at the beginning of this year.

All I'm saying is, reality check, you might not be in your new house in 6 months unless things work out fairly ideally. Having a few buckets and kettles in the corner of the garage probably won't be a deal breaker...

 

[Zen_Brew]

Hang in there CaptainL.

I just moved into a house I bought last October. I was moving out of a rental townhouse so could keep my brewing up till the last month, but I lost about 3-4 months brewing after the move due to organizing two households into one with my G/F, and setting up a new HERMS system I bought used around Christmastime.

I bought a house with a nice oversized garage and the first thing I did was build a fermentation closet in the garage. I'm certain the neighbors were thinking, now what the heck do you need a closet in a garage for LOL.

Just hang in there and build the brew space you want in the new house. You'll lose a few months brewing, but you'll snap back into it with style.

 

[corwin6654]

Not sure if you heard, there have been some minor problems with the housing market. I bought a house in 2005 for $145k, in 2007 it appraised for $230k, in October 2009 I put it on the market and it still hasn't sold. It's currently listed for $125k and not getting offers. Needless to say I stopped paying the mortgage at the beginning of this year.

All I'm saying is, reality check, you might not be in your new house in 6 months unless things work out fairly ideally. Having a few buckets and kettles in the corner of the garage probably won't be a deal breaker...

Wow, I thought the prices of homes in Portland had stood up pretty well to all the troubles. Whereabouts is your house?

 

[snottywong]

My house was in Baltimore, I recently moved to Portland. Not sure if things in Texas are considerably better/worse than the east coast.

 

[millaj92]

I would totally build a climate controlled fermentation chamber designed to look like a doghouse or I would keep the fermenters in the master bedroom inside of a hutch. I would figure something out...

 

[captainL]

UPDATE. House sold. Moved into new house less than two weeks ago...and I brewed today for the first time in 3 months. While I was away, I decided to build my self a well needed toy. 50ft 3/8 chiller with recirculation pump. Made a simple wheat/wit today. Not including cleaning up it only took me 3 hours and 15 minutes.

And I now have my own room AKA "the music brewery" for making noise (music) and beer and wine. The only bad part is that the room is upstairs. owell....

 

[captainL]

Oh yeah. garage closet fermentation chamber in the plans....But my wife says I need to finish unpacking and fixing up a few things first.

 

[jafo28]

Welcome back, was the brewing equipment the first thing that got unpacked?