MaryB
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5 1/2 hour brew day today, yeah that is a quick easy way to get drunk!
5 1/2 hour brew day today, yeah that is a quick easy way to get drunk!
I hear you. We’ll be starting a 12+ hour brew day shortly so we can get 50 gallons of our 8% DiPA done today. To think, I called out of my regular job, so I could work 12+ hours in the brewery today. #Goodtimes
I'm thinking like 20 minutes ago...Um...ok.
I take it this happened very very recently?
Cheers!
I'm just thinking of the proverbial drinker that doesn't understand brewing, but will get fubar during brewing and not recall the activity. Then think, it's fecking magic!Um...ok.
I take it this happened very very recently?
Cheers!
I've had that happen... because they think it's a party.I'm just thinking of the proverbial drinker that doesn't understand brewing, but will get fubar during brewing and not recall the activity. Then think, it's fecking magic!
I have a sister-in-law that actually likes some of my beers and ciders. Last Christmas she asked for a taste of my IPA, but I've learned that she doesn't really like hop forward beers. I tried to talk her out of it, but she finally pushed me into giving her a small glass for a taste. She made the dumbest pucker face and then proclaimed that it was "so bitter, ooh that's gross". I almost slapped her, but instead I grabbed my glass right out of her hand. Vowed to never let her taste my beers again.
This is one of my biggest pet-peeves when I share beer. I always say to pour it out and when they ask why, I simply say, "it's just the chemistry." Have had to explain this so many times that I just avoid the long-winded rant.
Trust is, most people don't care about drinking something properly or if it tastes wrong due to that fact. They just want to drink the damn beer.
I always tell them that 50% of flavor perception is smell; when you drink from the bottle you can’t smell a beer you are not ‘tasting’ it.
If they don’t believe that aroma is 50% of flavor perception, I usually have an onion, apple, and blindfold handy to make a demonstration
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That might be my favorite homebrew story ever! Why in hell does your FedEx guy give a **** if you ARE making shine? Yeah, FedEx would be getting a call and if homeskillet continues to work for them and continues to deliver packages to you, inspect every one of them with a fine tooth comb!Brewed 2 days ago... Fedex guy walks up to the garage(I had the overhead door open and was cleaning up) looks at the copper immersion chiller and flips out his phone and dials 911. Tells dispatch I am making moonshine and get a deputy out. Deputy was in town(one finally bought a house here so we have police coverage). Deputy walks up, says "HI Mary! What kind of beer can I sample in 2 weeks?" Fedex guys mouth hangs open and he starts stammering I am making moonshine illegally... deputy looks at him and says "it is beer, it is tasty, and get lost you idiot!".
Fedex guy stomped off to his truck muttering he was calling MN state patrol... who called the deputy, who told them it was a beer making setup. State patrol guy stopped in yesterday to check it out, said he has done some extract kits but has never seen a full blown all grain setup. I got his phone number and told him next time I brew I will try to work it into his schedule and he can see how easy it is. And can be done somewhat on a budget by scrounging!
Gave him my last 2 bottles of my "house" ale(one I make the most, friends all love it and it is a good easy drinking beer) I had in the fridge. I don't bottle much, normally keg but one keg is dented and holds less so I had enough left for 5 bottles last time around. Save them for when I want one at the end of brewing or to hand out as a sample. Might have a new convert to all grain brewing!
I have that mug too. And an elaborate collection of beer glassware alongside of it. The glassware is mostly just the result of numerous glass packs. I just find it counter-intuitive of some claiming to appreciate/enjoy beer when they have this long list of pre-requisites on how they consume it. "Correctly matched to style glass to be cleaned by polynesian virgins on the third day of the summer equinox, heated/chilled to 37.268 degrees farenheight. Beer to poured from exactly 4.674" above rim, rested by turning in a circle three times. First sip prohibited before complete spectroscopy color analysis is completed. Discussion of flavor must include descriptors of things like dark fruit and artisinal breads before second sip may be partaken." Meanwhile, while that one is still analyzing things 40 minutes later, I'm on my second or third glass.
I mean, I get it. If that is what it takes for YOU to enjoy a beer then by all means, you do you. Just don't insist that I have to also before I can understand what I am drinking.
Only thing that confuses me more than some of this beer-geekery is the wine tasters who have to make the water whistle noise while taking their sip.
When they assume I am an alcoholic because I brew gets me pissed cause it's supposed to be anonymous? But God has gave me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference so screw those people
So far no complaints about my beer... but I am not a hop head so nothing is overly bitter. Now my mead attempts have gotten some weird looks... all have been drinkable but I think the alcohol content surprises people who are thinking 5% beer like my "house" ale that gets brewed the most. They take to big of a drink of a 14%ABV mead and can't decide what to do LOL
Brewed 2 days ago... Fedex guy walks up to the garage(I had the overhead door open and was cleaning up) looks at the copper immersion chiller and flips out his phone and dials 911. Tells dispatch I am making moonshine and get a deputy out. Deputy was in town(one finally bought a house here so we have police coverage). Deputy walks up, says "HI Mary! What kind of beer can I sample in 2 weeks?" Fedex guys mouth hangs open and he starts stammering I am making moonshine illegally... deputy looks at him and says "it is beer, it is tasty, and get lost you idiot!".
Fedex guy stomped off to his truck muttering he was calling MN state patrol... who called the deputy, who told them it was a beer making setup. State patrol guy stopped in yesterday to check it out, said he has done some extract kits but has never seen a full blown all grain setup. I got his phone number and told him next time I brew I will try to work it into his schedule and he can see how easy it is. And can be done somewhat on a budget by scrounging!
Gave him my last 2 bottles of my "house" ale(one I make the most, friends all love it and it is a good easy drinking beer) I had in the fridge. I don't bottle much, normally keg but one keg is dented and holds less so I had enough left for 5 bottles last time around. Save them for when I want one at the end of brewing or to hand out as a sample. Might have a new convert to all grain brewing!
There's a local guy who's brewed for more than 20 years; some see him as a guru, and he may well think of himself that way. I've given him a few beers to try to give me feedback, and I'm perplexed/shocked/amazed at his responses.
He RATES them. Is carbonation correct for the style, this or that, a long checklist of things. I couldn't care less, frankly, about whether I nailed a style or not. I just wanted to know this:
Is it any good? Would you have another? That, btw, is my basic measure of whether my beer is good--do people have a second one?
I'm not going through all those "flavor descriptor" things. All I care is whether I like it and like it enough to want another.
On one hand that'd actually be handy if you're submitting that beer for a competition.
On the other hand that guy needs to relax and just drink a beer.
Brewed 2 days ago... Fedex guy walks up to the garage(I had the overhead door open and was cleaning up) looks at the copper immersion chiller and flips out his phone and dials 911. Tells dispatch I am making moonshine and get a deputy out. Deputy was in town(one finally bought a house here so we have police coverage). Deputy walks up, says "HI Mary! What kind of beer can I sample in 2 weeks?" Fedex guys mouth hangs open and he starts stammering I am making moonshine illegally... deputy looks at him and says "it is beer, it is tasty, and get lost you idiot!".
Fedex guy stomped off to his truck muttering he was calling MN state patrol... who called the deputy, who told them it was a beer making setup. State patrol guy stopped in yesterday to check it out, said he has done some extract kits but has never seen a full blown all grain setup. I got his phone number and told him next time I brew I will try to work it into his schedule and he can see how easy it is. And can be done somewhat on a budget by scrounging!
Gave him my last 2 bottles of my "house" ale(one I make the most, friends all love it and it is a good easy drinking beer) I had in the fridge. I don't bottle much, normally keg but one keg is dented and holds less so I had enough left for 5 bottles last time around. Save them for when I want one at the end of brewing or to hand out as a sample. Might have a new convert to all grain brewing!
With what happened in San Bernardino, see something, say something isn't a bad idea. But to hang around for kudos and give the local cop $hit and then call the state is d-bag for sure.Wow what a d bag
With what happened in San Bernardino, see something, say something isn't a bad idea. But to hang around for kudos and give the local cop $hit and then call the state is d-bag for sure.
With what happened in San Bernardino, see something, say something isn't a bad idea. But to hang around for kudos and give the local cop $hit and then call the state is d-bag for sure.
Brewed 2 days ago... Fedex guy walks up to the garage(I had the overhead door open and was cleaning up) looks at the copper immersion chiller and flips out his phone and dials 911. Tells dispatch I am making moonshine and get a deputy out. Deputy was in town(one finally bought a house here so we have police coverage). Deputy walks up, says "HI Mary! What kind of beer can I sample in 2 weeks?" Fedex guys mouth hangs open and he starts stammering I am making moonshine illegally... deputy looks at him and says "it is beer, it is tasty, and get lost you idiot!".
Fedex guy stomped off to his truck muttering he was calling MN state patrol... who called the deputy, who told them it was a beer making setup. State patrol guy stopped in yesterday to check it out, said he has done some extract kits but has never seen a full blown all grain setup. I got his phone number and told him next time I brew I will try to work it into his schedule and he can see how easy it is. And can be done somewhat on a budget by scrounging!
Gave him my last 2 bottles of my "house" ale(one I make the most, friends all love it and it is a good easy drinking beer) I had in the fridge. I don't bottle much, normally keg but one keg is dented and holds less so I had enough left for 5 bottles last time around. Save them for when I want one at the end of brewing or to hand out as a sample. Might have a new convert to all grain brewing!
I don't know if distilling is illegal, but it's generally the attempt at distribution that bites people.Oh yeah see something say something is a great ideal, but see something call 911 wait there for police then say you’re calling different law enforcement, yeah like come on man even if she was distilling it isn’t that serious mind your $&@“ing business, thousands of people distill illegally i would bet, the police have bigger fish to fry out there, just my humble opinion
Did the FedEx guy have a package for you?
Like a new keg from northern brewer?
LOL
Gotta ask, why was he that close to your house to see a chiller.
That might be my favorite homebrew story ever! Why in hell does your FedEx guy give a **** if you ARE making shine? Yeah, FedEx would be getting a call and if homeskillet continues to work for them and continues to deliver packages to you, inspect every one of them with a fine tooth comb!
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