God Emporer BillyBrew
Well-Known Member
I've got a brewing story from another generation. My grandmother told me a few weeks ago about when my great uncle used to brew back in the fifties.
My great aunt had applied for Postmaster General of the small town in southeast Oklahoma where they lived. Back in those days, and maybe still now, it was a pretty big deal. They would even send people down from Washington, D.C. to interview you at your home. So the interview is going fine and is almost over when she starts hearing pops and breaking glass from the garage. Sure enough, Uncle James's brew had turned into bottle bombs! She did end up getting the job, though.
Unfortunately, my Uncle James died a few years ago. I'd love to have had the chance to pick his brain about what he brewed and what the brewing process was like in those days. There wasn't a LHBS (and still isn't) in Bethel, Oklahoma back then.
Anyone else have any cool stories or even info from the old days of home brewing? It was really cool for me to find out that I had a fellow home brewer in the family.
My great aunt had applied for Postmaster General of the small town in southeast Oklahoma where they lived. Back in those days, and maybe still now, it was a pretty big deal. They would even send people down from Washington, D.C. to interview you at your home. So the interview is going fine and is almost over when she starts hearing pops and breaking glass from the garage. Sure enough, Uncle James's brew had turned into bottle bombs! She did end up getting the job, though.
Unfortunately, my Uncle James died a few years ago. I'd love to have had the chance to pick his brain about what he brewed and what the brewing process was like in those days. There wasn't a LHBS (and still isn't) in Bethel, Oklahoma back then.
Anyone else have any cool stories or even info from the old days of home brewing? It was really cool for me to find out that I had a fellow home brewer in the family.