Assistant Brewers' Age?

[CreamyGoodness]

It certainly says "this stout is dark."

 

[gcdowd]

Funny, I was looking for funny names for a really dark stout and threw out the name "Meconium" (look it up if you don't have kids). My wife is not on board with the name. This puts a whole new wrinkle on the name, with the possibility of the real thing as an ingredient.

Meconium ftw. I actually inhaled my meconium when I was still in the womb. When I was born, I had to be rushed to another hospital to have it sucked out off my lungs with some machine. Still have the scar.

 

[Ridire]

Meconium ftw. I actually inhaled my meconium when I was still in the womb. When I was born, I had to be rushed to another hospital to have it sucked out off my lungs with some machine. Still have the scar.

So, if someone tells you to "eat $hi! and die", do you explain that you once tried?

 

[gcdowd]

People always ask me how sh!t tastes

 

[Ridire]

Man, look what this conversation has devolved into. Who is responsible for that turn of topic?

[whistles innocently]

 

[Flimflam]

Why would you care what the BS law says anyway? You have every right in the world to teach your kids a craft and it would be up to the parent to tell the kids what alcohol can do to young persons body. The reason for most laws is to extort money from the citizens to pay for the unelected law maker's and the costumed enforcer's ( cops ) salaries along with taxing you to death.The more you ignore stupid laws like the you are asking about, the faster you gain your liberty. I mean no disrespect at all , that is just my opinion .

 

[gcdowd]

Nothing like a nice conversation of politics and poop

 

[Ridire]

Nothing like a nice conversation of politics and poop

So, who you rooting for as the new Pontiff?


We were missing religion.

 

[1fast636]

my 4 month old has been to the LHBS everytime we have went cant wait for him to get older and start helping on brew days. he already tries to grab my glasses of beer when im holding him. he loves the smell of an ipa he lights up and smiles non stop

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I'm telling you this right now, everytime I go to the barbeque and bourbon place in the neighborhood and someone brings a baby I am going to make the "wow, they are lax with their carding here" joke.

Every time.

 

[jerryteague]

My 2 oldest sons (16 and 14 years old) regularly help me brew and both seem to enjoy the process. My 4 year old likes to taste the grains before I mash in, and says he wants to help next time. My 9 year old could care less. He doesn't like the cleaning process, or the hours spent brewing. They all are allowed small sips of the finished product though, and all but the 9 YO seem to enjoy the finished product.

 

[Monster Mash]

My kids think it's cool I brew and they like to help with the hop additions. My daughter likes to build stuff so she helped wire the 120v and 240v relays and switches.

They are also very good at weighing and vacuum sealing hops....

 

[the_trout]

I just want to say that you guys brewing with your kids are awesome.

 

[mattd2]

I got a few in the line up - 6, 4, 2 & -0.5. I still have not let them help out with a all grain brew as my setup is messy. Once I get it on a tidy stand I'll see if they want to help out.
The older 2 sample both the bitter wort and finished beer. Both always think the beer is great but the bitter wort is yuck!

 

[AVLbrewing]

oh man, that is a look right there!

"If you dont get me outrightnow I'm sooo gonna crap in your kettle.

Ya, he certainly makes some "expressive" faces! Sometime it's more skeptical, other times it straight up mean mugging! Of course he also laughs and smiles a ton too.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Its actually really funny that this thread came around. My wife has been tightening the noose on when we are going to start actively trying, and she brought up me having a little brewing assistant as a fear alleviator. I dont know what's more terrifying, the possibility of being a bad father or a small child with a mash paddle asking his mother to "give this a schnozz" and referring to his good works at the bucket as "smacking the crap out of it."

My kid would be doomed to look and act like me, at least for a while, and that is frightening to everyone but my wife.

 

[Pogopunx82]

I've entered comps and meetings before I was 21.

 

[AVLbrewing]

My kid would be doomed to look and act like me, at least for a while, and that is frightening to everyone but my wife.

Sounds like my son and me, giant basketball head included! This was actually one the things I was most excited about! Having a little buddy who is just like his dad ;-)

 

[unionrdr]

These things always remind me of that song "cat's in the cradle". I bought it on a 45 for my pop when it was new.
& the cat's in the cradle with a silver spoon,
little boy blue & the man in the moon.
when ya comin home dad I don't know when,
But we'll get together then,dad.
Ya know we'll have a good time then.
As it goes on,it turns around,like with me & my older boy.
I've long since retired,
My sons' moved away.
I called him up just the other day...
I'd like to see you,
If you don't mind.
I'd love too dad,
If I could find the time.
My new job's a hassle,
& the kids got the flu.
But it's sure nice talkin to you dad,
It's been sure nice talkin to you.
...as I hung up the phone,
it occured to me...
He'd grown up just like me,
My boy,was just like me!
& the cat's in the cradle with a silver spoon,
little boy blue & the man in the moon.
When ya comin home son,
I don't know when.
But we'll get together then,son.
Ya know we'll have a good time then.
Damnit. This one always gets me...Wait till you young guys are in my shoes.
Enjoy it now while you may.

 

[1fast636]

I have loved that song sine I was a kid but me bein a youngish I grew up with ugly kid joes version but they really didn't change it much from the original it's my little boys and mine song he loves listening to it at 4.5 months old lol

 

[unionrdr]

My son has the ugly kid joe version. We both agree they did a pretty good job of it. The song tells it like it always seems to be...

 

[1fast636]

This is my assistant learning how to hold the glass lol I took this about a month ago now if he sees me with a beer in a glass he is all smiles and reaching for the glass lol

 

[unionrdr]

lolz. GO GO GO! DOWN DOWN DOWN! BACK BACK BACK! MINE MINE MINE!

 

[zeg]

Ugly Kid Joe did a solid job on the cover. When it came out, I was too young to realize how rare a decent cover was. It's so rare that there's a worthwhile one---most of them are either indistinguishable from the original (thus pointless) or terrible.

I would point to every remake of Cat Stevens' "The First Cut is the Deepest" to illustrate my point. The Rod Stewart one is ok, but my god did Sheryl Crowe suck all the life out of it...

Anyway, I have a 6 year old who helped me on some of the early brews but he got bored of it. He has a gluten allergy (not celiac, and not imaginary, doctor-confirmed) and barley has enough glutens that the dust gives him a pretty nasty cough. He doesn't like the smell, probably because it's associated with that feeling.

My take when he did help was that he was free to be involved except where yeast was involved. I don't know for sure whether this is consistent with the law, but it seemed defensible enough that I figured in the unlikely event of getting into trouble, you would be able to avoid real problems.