Who are you, really? And what were you before?

[Brewtopia]

This is a line from my favorite film "Casablanca". It popped into my head the other day and this line along with Dude's "Let see your ugly mugs thread" inspired this post.

I thought it would be interesting to see how much people have changed through the years. Especially since discovering beer and homebrewing.

I know since I discovered the hobby 16 years ago I definitely packed on a few pounds

Anyway, here it is "The evolution of a home brewer"

1963 a brewer is born!


as a cool mod in the late 60s (I've yet to achieve "Mod" status again)


Ah, the disco years (me on the left with my buddy Tony)


As a parachute pant wearin' mofo in the 80's (on the right with my buddy Greg)


SWMBO and I in London the year before I started homebrewing (I discovered here that beer can have flavor! I never looked back)

 

[Brewtopia]

And finally, 16 years later. Those of you starting out, this is what you have to look forward to (SWMBO still looks great though)

 

[ohiobrewtus]

Man, I think I may have to hit up my mom for some old pics. I don't even think that I have any of my childhood sitting around the house.

Good stuff, BT.

 

[clayof2day]

Don't look so happy in that last pic, Don. Jeez!

 

[talleymonster]

Rock and Roll Baby

Swim team, 4 years old.

Sophomore Year, 16 years.....1949 Willys CJ2A in the background. 4 Wheeling in the mountains.

Right when I joined HBT....smoking

 

[talleymonster]

Taken last weekend at the Colorado Belle Boiler Room Brew Pub.

 

[talleymonster]

me and my sisters getting ready for church

Baseball....my last year of Senior League

on the way to the Monte Carlo Brew Pub (which is no longer a brewery) for Monday Night Football

 

[Orfy]

I'll have to dig out pictures.
I have a few but naked baby ones. A(And some but naked drunken ones)

These are the earliest I have on my hard drive at present.

The Lake district with SWBBO and the dog (Late teens)

A 10 K (Early twenties)

Now.

This is a royal flush / the royal throne.

It is the Queen Elizabeth suite at tree tops in Africa. It's the queens pooper.

I know I look rough. I'd been in the scrub for 3 days tracking cheetah.

 

[WOP31]

I could have gone my whole life with out seeing that last pic Orfy, Thanks a lot, now i am off to find some eye bleach!


Cheers

 

[Fingers]

I know I look rough. I'd been in the scrub for 3 days tracking cheetah.

I know what you mean. Nothing like a little cheetah tracking to get the old bowels moving.

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

Born and raised in Alabama, this is our xmas card photo one year ( i was 8 or 9, youngest son, bottom left):

My high school days, trying to be the coool, well dressed hippie. What an akward stage:

college pics:

 

[Ó Flannagáin]

and now just last year when I started homebrewing:

 

[Orfy]

Here's the earlier ones.

 

[Bulls Beers]

Here's the earlier ones.

LOL!! You look a little nervous in that first one....

 

[Starbuck]

Hey, Brewtopia!
I love the little "Nehru" shirt. Do you still have that?
Thanks for sending me to this site. I'd post some photos, but I don't have that option on my account. Plus, you'd just find out I'm the same dork I always was! (Or, you'd find out I was always the same dork I am now?)
Can't wait to taste J's new IPA...

Starbuck