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You know you're a homebrewer when, during a pandemic, you start hoarding brewmaking ingredients instead of hoarding groceries or toilet paper.

Brewed Caribou Slobber twice. These were extract kits using Danstar Windsor Ale dry yeast (pitched dry). Needed blowoff tubes on both due to violent fermentation. Batch 1 took 8 hours from yeast pitch to active fermentation, then pretty much done 26 hours later. Batch 2 took 5 hours and then...

Cleaned and sanitized a keg. Cleaned the beer line. Broke social distancing guidelines from my just-tapped keg of Dry Irish Stout. Can't stay away from the tap more than the six foot recommendation. However, the keg had been self-quarantined much longer than 14 days. So I should be safe...

Finished off a keg of Caribou Slobber. The moose is now drooling for the next keg of homebrew. Dry Irish Stout up next!

Why did the invisible prostitute turn down the job offer? She couldn't see herself doing it.

What did the bartender say to the turkey sandwich when it tried to order a beer? “Sorry, we don’t serve food here.”

History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra, by C.F. McGlashan. There were 87 emigrants in the Donner Party, plus two California Indians who joined them in Nevada, for a total of 89 people. A daunting overland journey. Desolate and rugged terrain. Delayed by a series of mishaps...

Now that carboy handle scares the daylights out of me. Please don't lift that fermenter when full. I tried that once, but was so lucky the neck did not break. Reading the horror stories after I did that made me never want to try that again.

You know you're a homebrewer when, my beer tastes better than yours!

1462 + 5 gal Chocolate Milk Stout + 5 gal La Petite Orange = 1472 gallons

I brewed the Northern Brewer extract recipe (partial boil) a few years back when it called for 2 oz. grapefruit peel soaked in 4 oz. vodka that was added during the dry-hopping (14 days prior to kegging) phase. It turned out great and is one of my favorite brews. I'm brewing another batch soon...

For sure. I love drinking any good homebrew every evening during all the seasons, no matter if it's day or night. [emoji481]

Ordered a Chocolate Milk Stout and a La Petite Orange today. Both extract brew kits (5 gallon) from Northern Brewer. $60.47 for both delivered. Works out to about $0.76 per pint. Both will be first-time brews. Sure do love a good sale!

Cleaned a beer line, tap, and ball lock fitting with BLC recirculating using a Beckett fountain pump. Rinsed, reassembled, and made ready for the next keg of delicious and satisfying home brew! I always clean these after every keg has kicked no matter what. Would not even think of skipping...

Kegging makes it so much easier and convenient for drinking home brew! Only one container to clean, fill, and handle for every 5 gallons.

Cleaned an empty keg that held Dead Ringer IPA. Started carbonating (set and forget mode) a keg of Caribou Slobber. Placed a keg of Dry Irish Stout in the kegerator to chill (where it will wait to carbonate until a tap is available). Baked a loaf of cinnamon raisin spent-grain bread and...

Uhhhh musta been a typo, it's "camel toecos". Mmmmmm the best.

I love well-developed....Tacos!

I always flush all with warm water first. Then clean my lines, taps, and ball-locks using Beer Line Cleaner (BLC) recirculated for 15 minutes using a small pond pump, then dumped, and 15 more minutes with a fresh mix. Finally, a good rinse out with warm water and then drain the lines. Then...

Fully-guaranteed $84 million three-year contract for Cousins and can't beat SF. Hey Vikings, "You like that?" LMFAO.