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I use a yard stick to measure the wort depth. You'll have to calibrate this measurement ahead of time. Once you've done that it's easy to see where you are in the wort collection process. After your initial run off the amount you put in will run out.

You see a license plate reading "SRM634" and think "Wow, that is dark!"

I really don't have a worst part of brewing, per se. For me, it's the constant stream of questions about when I'll be done starting right about sparge time. Still gonna be a while...

8852+ 4g Chinook/ centennial IPA = 8856 g

When your PB&J sandwich has a wonderful cascade and Chinook aroma from your lunch cooler that you used yesterday to transport your hops and yeast home from the lhbs.

You refer to your son's constipation as a stuck sparge.

Generally only name "creatively" on beers that have been rebrewed a couple of times and link those names to something that happened during the brew day (like others have done). Example: Wet Dog Hair bitter, so name due to my dog drinking from the sparge water bucket and subsequently leaving...

If this hasn't happened yet, I'm in for a bag of 2row.

2781 +4.5 g dry stout = 2785.5

I salute you for your dedication to beer.

I brew in my garage and have have some hot days and some wet days, but never a really uncomfortably cold day until yesterday. It started out in the mid 20s with sun shining on me and ended up at about 20 and dark and windy. It was cold enough that by the end of the boil, my mash run had ice on...

I had a blonde ale ready to be bottled when my son was born -5 weeks early. I didn't get around to bottling it for at least a month after that. It tasted great. Don't worry. It'll be there when you're ready.

Cherry blonde ale = good

A dry stout in prep for St Patty's day, followed by an undecided IPA. It's making me thirsty already. Better grab another...

Nothin' on top, but a bucket and a mop, and an illustrated book about birds. - Plateau, Meatpuppets

When two days after your wife delivers baby number 2, your 4 year old asks if it's ok "for mommy to have beer now? " Also, since said delivery was early, you check the airlocks on two carboys each night to make sure they're not drying out since Sunday kinda got lost to other things. On the...

+1 for the hookers and blow

I run a garden hose from the cold water supply for the washing machine. Works great.

+1 to Big Flats. Although I've never met a beer I wouldn't drink.

BSME - Purdue