How old were you when you started to homebrew?

[cellardoor]

23....about 18 months in.

 

[KYB]

Twenty....one.

 

[mew]

I made a few lame attempts at ages 19 and 20, then read up on it and decided to wait until I had some form of income. I'd say I really started seriously at age 22.

 

[greencoat]

Add another one to the 24 club.

 

[Droot]

31, brewed for about 7 years took 9 or 10 off and started again. I'm 49 now....

 

[agroff383]

SWMBO got me the starter kit for my 24th b-day this past April, and I was reading up on it a few months before then, like a lot of people on here I wouldn't have been able to in college anyway (no real income).

 

[BA_from_GA]

25.... and hopefully one day i'll say i've been brewing for 25 years.

I can't wait to do things like make special beers for my kids' 21st b-day dinner, and their weddings, etc.

 

[Heineken]

41 and only brewing for 9 months now, however, wish i had started at 21

 

[OMJ]

22 when I started although I took a few years off at 1 point

 

[Hambone]

I was 22...

 

[Yooper]

I don't really remember exactly when. I must have been around 40. I dabbled in it- had a Beer Machine 2000- but never really did anything seriously until I broke my leg and needed a hobby. I was in a wheelchair off and on for 18 months, so I needed something to do that didn't involve running around. I was making wine, and it took a long time, so I made beer to pass the time!

It turns out that my beer is pretty good.

 

[jmulligan]

Started making crappy Welches wine when I was 19. Gave it up when everyone said my stuff was godawful. Read up and started brewing beer when I was 26. I've been brewing for about 2 years now.

 

[eelpout]

Beer, around 30. if wine or wine-like things count, then around 10.

 

[Edcculus]

19 or 20. Dont specifically remember. I lurked around here until I was 21 so I wouldn't get booted. I'm 23 now, so I guess I've been at it for about 4 years.

 

[Whut]

Been boiling steady for the last 2 years. I'm now 35 (for the 11 year in a row).

 

[millstone]

I brew with my son, started 3 years ago, I was 61, my son was 33... AND today is my birthday - the 34 anniversary of my 30th birthday.

tom

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

As I said before, I was 50 when I started. I was 10 or under though when I watched my dad trying to brew in the 60's.

Thank the pink unicorn for the internet! Without it, most of us would be stewing old socks with a 60 minute doggy poo addition like my old man!

 

[armstpe]

try starting at 70 (just started). I really have to get a two tier system going, Lifting all that hot stuff is almost beyond my capabilities.

 

[s1080]

Started 3 years ago when I was 23 and have loved every moment of it

 

[pjj2ba]

I've been brewing for half my life!!!!!! Never thought about that. 23 to 46.

 

[Short Drive]

I brew with my son, started 3 years ago, I was 61, my son was 33... AND today is my birthday - the 34 anniversary of my 30th birthday.

tom

Happy Birth, Anniversary day.

I was 54.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

try starting at 70 (just started). I really have to get a two tier system going, Lifting all that hot stuff is almost beyond my capabilities.

Hear that sound? It is a very feint sound, especially with your great-grandad hearing.

Anyway, it was the sound of my hat being tipped in your honour.

 

[thelorax121]

Started when I was 19, after working at a vineyard for a summer

 

[Synovia]

Sometime just before my 28th birthday. I think its been about 10 months.

 

[david_42]

49. although I made hard cider and applejack in college.

 

[Christian]

23 so 10 years ago.

 

[winstonofbeer]

started about 6 months ago & i am 26.
I really am shocked on how many 20's there is.. Figured since everyone i know around my age thinks coors is high quality beer.... I was a little young for brewing quality beer.

Is it bad when your freinds ask...DUDE!!! Can you brew a keystone ice?

Got intersted in homebrewing by accident.
New brewery opened in town, went down and had a beer and got to talking... Next thing i know i am brewin beer

 

[IXVolt]

When I was 5, I left apple juice on the table for a week... I remember it tasting funny. Does that count?

 

[FredTheSilly]

36... been about two months now.



Fred

 

[pksmitty]

Been brewing about 3 months. I'm 45.

 

[babbott]

tried twice when i was 23 gave up till 39, now I've done 17 5gallon all grains batches in a year and a half. Im hooked

 

[Homercidal]

My first beer was when I was 22 I guess (had to do the calculations to figure it out for sure), and I did it a few times since then, really getting interested again when I found this site and it's going great!

However, once I put some cider in a tupperware glass with a plastic lid and put it on the canning shelves in the basement. 3 nights later, after I had forgot about it, My dad and I were watching the tigers on TV and we heard a loud POP! He looks at me and I say, "Well, I guess my cider it ready!" He just smiled and shook his head. We had no alcohol in the house, being Baptist and all, but he was the one who was leaving the jugs of cider on the porch to get "Fizzy".

That was some good cider.

 

[cheschire]

Well I was 6 when I helped my day and 19 when I made my first.

 

[isleofman]

at age 25, still 25

 

[bernerbrau]

26. Been going at it around 15-18 months now.

 

[Urban]

started researching it at 23 brewed at 24 or 25. Been 5+ years now.

 

[springer]

I made hard apple cider in my teens and some wine in my 20. I started the beer hobby when I was 47

 

[tcklord]

For beer started at 25 and am still 25. For wine, well I helped out a quite a bit back when I was 10 making it in a crockpot.

 

[Neomich]

I was 26 when I started

 

[bamadoh]

I started when I got a kit for my 34th birthday last year. I will hit one year of brewing in three weeks and now have 19 batches under my belt.