Anyone else wake up in the middle of the night and think about brewing?

[Grantman1]

I can't be the only sick one here. I'm good for it at least once per week. I wake up and start thinking about the endless combinations of malts, hops, and yeasts, and how I can either put together a new brew or tweak one that I've already made.

Any of you suffering from the same thing, or have any similar symptoms?

 

[amartinez]

I haven't been woken up in the middle of the night yet, but I've recently taken to leafing through recipe books as my before bed reading so I've had a few dreams about brewing.

Part of me wants to write down the recipe as soon as I wake up, but I'm pretty sure it would just be rubbish

 

[Brewstress]

All the time! Maybe you should brew those dream beers and then you would be making you dreams a reality! I say go for it!

 

[bernerbrau]

I used to, when I first started out. It gets easier after time.

 

[BendBrewer]

No, but I do think about nailing my neighbor while brewing.

Kinda the same, but a little different............

 

[skyebrewing]

Not woken up by it, but last week the damn dog woke me up at 2am. Wide awake tossing for another half hour, I said screw it, got up and brewed. Was done and cleaned up before I had to take the kids to school.

 

[Brewstress]

That's awesome. Carpe diem!

 

[BrewForMe]

I dont wake up to thinking about brewing...i just stay up!

 

[BainbridgeBrewer]

I read brewing books and magazines right before bed so I've definitely had brewing dreams and then woken up to think about it during the night. I guess I always thought that was normal.

 

[BainbridgeBrewer]

I've also had restless nights where I would wake up almost every hour waiting to hear the blow off tube start to bubble. One particular time I had a ton of krausen up in the dip tube and I woke up all the time worried about a few hop leafs I knew slipped through my defenses getting stuck in the tube. I didn't want SWMBO to make me take the beer out of the bedroom, the garage was way to cold for my fragile young beer!

 

[azscoob]

I havent gotten up in the middle of ther night, but I have woke up and grabbed a notepad to jot down the ideas I had while sleeping, I recently came up with the idea of brewing a nut brown ale, add some toasted pumpkin seeds to the grain bill, and ferment with 3068 at 67°. The idea is to brew a banana nut bread beer. It came to me in a dream one night, I havent put much effort into the recipe but maybe someday.

 

[FatherJack]

I think I did when I first started.

Now I'm so busy that I don't wake up at all in the middle of the night. When I wake up in the morning I feel as if I need my own paramedic team to revive me.

 

[dfc]

I can't be the only sick one here. I'm good for it at least once per week. I wake up and start thinking about the endless combinations of malts, hops, and yeasts, and how I can either put together a new brew or tweak one that I've already made.

Any of you suffering from the same thing, or have any similar symptoms?

I apparently try to have sex with my wife when I'm sleeping. I don't think I've ever succeeded.

 

[FatherJack]

I apparently try to have sex with my wife when I'm sleeping. I don't think I've ever succeeded.

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HAHA! I've heard of this happening before. A couple I knew of somehow figured out they were both waking up in the middle of the night, doing the deed and going back to sleep without ever realizing it.

I would be horrified if it happened and I wasnt aware of it!

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[jdlev]

Any of you suffering from the same thing, or have any similar symptoms?

Yup!

 

[Grantman1]

I apparently try to have sex with my wife when I'm sleeping. I don't think I've ever succeeded.

HAHA - you are not alone - happens to me too. Since I never remember it (even though she does), I tell her she just slept with my alter ego. Named him Curtis.

 

[jd3]

I've got major sleep issues(I work 3 on 3 off, nights and function on a "day" schedule... so I have no sleep pattern). I take ambien to sleep. It causes me to do all kinds of **** in my sleep I don't remember. Eating, drinking, showering, talking, you name it.

If I wake up thinking of brewing, I have no idea...

 

[chiefkellen]

It was just early this morning that I found myself awake and unable to return to sleep. I thought about the beer I will be brewing later today and tentative plans for next weekends brew. I suspect this is quite common amongst a group of people for whom brewing is a great pleasure.

 

[Sithdad]

I don't wake up about brewing and I sleep so soundly I don't recall any of my dreams. However, the license plate on my daughter's boyfriend's car starts with DME and I immediately thought of dry malt extract. That thought process inspired me to an impromptu brew day.

 

[unionrdr]

I dreamed the label for my beer/brewery. It's the one in some of my gallery pics that Gary got on the beers I sent home brewer tv.

 

[gclay]

I had a dream last night that I caught some little people trying to steal my kegs (which I don't own yet) caught them and got my a** kicked.