Age of Homebrewers & Years of Experience

[jimbus]

Just curious about the age demographic of HBT members. Also share how long you've been brewing!

 

[509inc]

25 and 3 years of brewing.

 

[bknifefight]

I am 28 and have been brewing (on and off) for about 4 years. Have been doing it steadily for about 2 years.

 

[rorypayne]

21 and I have been brewing for about a year.

 

[IrregularPulse]

28 and been fermenting since 1/08

 

[Bret86944]

26 - Been brewing for about 6 months. Only made 2 batches though.

 

[ErieShores]

34, with 13 years and a 8 year hiatus but I'm back in it baby!

 

[stageseven]

26 and I started a year ago.

 

[Edcculus]

24 and 5 years.

 

[CrookedTail]

I'm 31. I've only been brewing since last October. I wish I would have gotten into this sooner.

 

[moosetav]

26 - 2 years

 

[knightbeer39]

39 and been brewing for about 14 years

 

[Walker]

I'm in the 30-39 group, and did my first batch about 13 years ago.

 

[Walker]

24 and 5 years.

LOL. Necessity is the mother of invention, right?

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

38 and about 5

 

[hal2814]

31 - 8 years

 

[Edcculus]

LOL. Necessity is the mother of invention, right?

ha, certainly was. It was hard enough to get BMC underage. Even harder to get good craft beer, esp when you can't go in and browse around. We started homebrewing to drink good beer. I was smart and didn't join HBT until I was 21 though.

 

[Pivzavod]

31 and it will be 2 years in september. i did a few batches of beer machine when i was about 24 or so.

 

[smakudwn]

33 been brewing about 3 years

 

[JarrodH]

30 and bottled my first batch on 12/21/07. A porter.

 

[HoppyMaltPoet]

32 yo brewing for 8 years just recently (past year) went AG.

 

[thezepster]

22 and been brewin for 4 months. Plan on goin AG here in a couple of weeks

 

[Pilgarlic]

53, four months.

 

[COLObrewer]

Living = 4 score and 8, brewing/helping brew = 4 score and 3ish. Don't know when brewing took over helping, prolly around 1980ish. From a long line of homebrewers/distillers and etc. Numerous brief hiatus' in between there.

Keep on brewing my friends

 

[Got Trub?]

COLObrewer are you really 88 (A score is 20yrs)?

I'm 48 and have been brewing since 1979 (grew up in Canada eh) so 31 years.

GT

 

[DeafSmith]

64 and I've been brewing for either a year and a half or for 42 years depending on whether you count the one batch of brew I did with my college roommates back in '68. God, that was bad! We had no idea what we were doing - used some malt extract made for cooking (remember that homebrewing was illegal in those days) and probably used baking yeast - open fermentation in a plastic trash can (covered with cloth) - fermentation was surely at way too high a temp (this was in Houston) - bottled in quart bottles of Lone Star Draft with screw-off caps. About a half-in of yeast in the bottom of each bottle after it was done - but it did have a kick!
Anyway, I never bothered to try again until some friends gave me a starter kit for Christmas of '08. Did one extract and several mini-mashes - now putting together the equipment for all-grain and should be ready to start that next month.

 

[azscoob]

I am 36 years old, I just had my one year brewing anniversary!

 

[ZuzBrews]

Age 54 years; brewing for 16 years

 

[COLObrewer]

COLObrewer are you really 88 (A score is 20yrs)?

I'm 48 and have been brewing since 1979 (grew up in Canada eh) so 31 years.

GT

See there, I'm so old I forgot what a score was, I'm 48.

 

[mkling]

47 years old & brewing for 23 years (with a 10 year hiatus in there when the kids were young.