Dear God!

[je52rm]

How many hours have you stood there and just watched the beer fermenting? I'm new to home brewing and I can't get away from that damn carboy. It's amazing! hahahahahaha

How long did it take you to get to the point that you weren't "hovering" over the carboy all day watching it?

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Almost five years into the hobby and I still find myself zoning out and watching it for upwards of 30 minutes. I've actually had SWMBO wave her hand in front of my face to snap me out of it.... this was a couple months ago

 

[beergolf]

Are you sniffing the airlock too?


....welcome to the addiction.


Eventaully you will brew and just let them be.

 

[JeffoC6]

Dude, I'm in the same boat right now. I'm 46 hours into primary fermentation (see? I'm even counting the hours) and I go into the damn closet with a dim flashlight every hour to make sure the temp is consistent and to check to see what's going on in the carboy. I can't stay away!!!!!! How am I going to last another 19 days (am doing my primary for 3 weeks)?

 

[je52rm]

Are you sniffing the airlock too?


....welcome to the addiction.


Eventaully you will brew and just let them be.

hahahahahaha thats exactly what i'm talking about!!!

 

[TW1Kell]

Hehehe...so, I'm NOT a Beer Freek? Or, am I a freek among other Admitted Beer Freeks? I'd say that this is a good freekishness? You had more nerve than, to admit it and post it. I just sat, watched my beer, and wondered if others do this...(roll eyes and whistle...)

 

[unionrdr]

I have the good fortune to have my fermenter/storage stand to the right of my computer hutch. So I can watch & sniff while I'm on here with you folks. Best of both worlds. Does anyone else find themselves stairing at those boxes of conditioning beers as well? I've got all the aformentioned things in one corner of the room.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Not a beer freak. When your goal to brew up to the exact legal amount per household per year then you're a beer freak.

Also when you know you're a beer freak:
- You have three fridges in your garage, none of which contain food
- Every single time you pass by coolers in stores you just "have to look" (SWMBO drags me away all the time)

 

[je52rm]

I have the good fortune to have my fermenter/storage stand to the right of my computer hutch. So I can watch & sniff while I'm on here with you folks. Best of both worlds. Does anyone else find themselves stairing at those boxes of conditioning beers as well? I've got all the aformentioned things in one corner of the room.

dude i cant even wait long enough before they're fully bottle conditioned before i wanna start rippin' into em'. hahahaha

My name is Jeremy and I am a Beer Freak

 

[unionrdr]

I make myself wait knowing when they'll really be good!

 

[StittsvilleJames]

How many hours have you stood there and just watched the beer fermenting? I'm new to home brewing and I can't get away from that damn carboy. It's amazing! hahahahahaha

How long did it take you to get to the point that you weren't "hovering" over the carboy all day watching it?

I decided a while back that cleaning a carboy is the worst possible job in the world and moved to using a bucket instead.

Staring at a white plastic pail is not nearly as exciting.

 

[unionrdr]

It is with a blow off rig on it. big sounds & smells at that point. Krausen crawling out the blow off tube.

 

[liquiditynerd]

Funny.... Swmbo caught me sitting in front of the carboy drinking coffee. Are you just staring at it? She asked. No, I having coffee with it i said, duh isnt that obvious?

 

[squirrelly]

I think I continued to watch mine until walking out to the brewery in the middle of the night and popping open the fermentation chamber became the issue. When we started brewing, and fermented inside the house I loved that "tick tick" of the air lock. We soon began fermenting in a chest freezer, so it was a little easier to forget about it. Now the fermentation chamber houses the conicals, and it's still nice to hear a choir of fermenting air locks, but I don't go out there unless we are doing something with the beer.

 

[TW1Kell]

K, Envy...How's this? (hehe) I have all of my brewing stuff in a house that I bought, just to store my old Harleys (and my tools, ofcourse), reload cartridges to support my love of shooting, and have 1 fridge with NOTHING but beer in it, and a freezer for deer, wild hog, etc...I NEVER can go past a grocer's beer aisle without inspecting each and every beer not made by the "BIG GUYS", and I live in a dry (AH! SACRILIDGE!) live in a dry county..Am I a Beer Freek? Huh? huh? please, can I ple-e-e-ease be a Beer Freak?

(btw) I got the house after my ex-stapDa lost it because he just quit paying taxes. I bought it (on the cheap) from the bank that bought it and couldn't sell it 'cause I own the 1/2 mile road it's located on. I grew up in the house from 13 on...Not a rich dude, but I feel that way since I have it...my Wifey calls it "Your House". hahaha!

PLE-E-E-ASE! I wanna be included, can I be a Beer Freek? hahaha! (Maniacal, CRAZY laughter...)

 

[baddagger]

well i got my 5th & 6th batch of home brew(wich are ciders right now) in the carboys for about a month and everyday i go check them out a few times and sniff the air lock ..

 

[je52rm]

Hahahahahaha great stories!!! LMAO!!!

 

[unionrdr]

K, Envy...How's this? (hehe) I have all of my brewing stuff in a house that I bought, just to store my old Harleys (and my tools, ofcourse), reload cartridges to support my love of shooting, and have 1 fridge with NOTHING but beer in it, and a freezer for deer, wild hog, etc...I NEVER can go past a grocer's beer aisle without inspecting each and every beer not made by the "BIG GUYS", and I live in a dry (AH! SACRILIDGE!) live in a dry county..Am I a Beer Freek? Huh? huh? please, can I ple-e-e-ease be a Beer Freak?

(btw) I got the house after my ex-stapDa lost it because he just quit paying taxes. I bought it (on the cheap) from the bank that bought it and couldn't sell it 'cause I own the 1/2 mile road it's located on. I grew up in the house from 13 on...Not a rich dude, but I feel that way since I have it...my Wifey calls it "Your House". hahaha!

PLE-E-E-ASE! I wanna be included, can I be a Beer Freek? hahaha! (Maniacal, CRAZY laughter...)

I think you already know the answer to that... I have all my beer stuff to my right in/on an old,large printer stand. I spend the most time in here,so it's becoming my man cave. Now if I just had a hidden door & pole to slide down into it...

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Funny.... Swmbo caught me sitting in front of the carboy drinking coffee. Are you just staring at it? She asked. No, I having coffee with it i said, duh isnt that obvious?

HA! Congratulations you are the winner of the internet today

 

[RM-MN]

Dude, I'm in the same boat right now. I'm 46 hours into primary fermentation (see? I'm even counting the hours) and I go into the damn closet with a dim flashlight every hour to make sure the temp is consistent and to check to see what's going on in the carboy. I can't stay away!!!!!! How am I going to last another 19 days (am doing my primary for 3 weeks)?

Do you realize that there are stores that sell extra fermenters and ingredients? Make another while you wait for this one and then you'll have another airlock to watch.

 

[GT_YellowJacket]

HA! Congratulations you are the winner of the internet today

Agreed, this made my day!

 

[je52rm]

If my house living room temp was good enough I'd put that badboy right on the coffee table so I could watch it with ease! Hahahahaha. I'd give it a krausen cuddle every now n' then!

 

[lowtones84]

Funny.... Swmbo caught me sitting in front of the carboy drinking coffee. Are you just staring at it? She asked. No, I having coffee with it i said, duh isnt that obvious?

Awesome. Since I'm a musician, sometimes I stand near my carboy and serenade it with some bowed bass or jazz walking bass lines. It is my firm belief that this is part of what makes my beers great.

 

[je52rm]

Awesome. Since I'm a musician, sometimes I stand near my carboy and serenade it with some bowed bass or jazz walking bass lines. It is my firm belief that this is part of what makes my beers great.

Those lil yeastie boys will be jammin' along to the bass lines!

 

[MikeWI]

I just bottled my first batch from the carboy and the second has a week in the "bottling bucket" that I converted into a fermenter.

And I, uhhh, named them. The first batch is Samanatha, a fruity blonde (Cream Ale). The second is Veronica, a sweet and spicy redhead (Honey Amber Ale). And sometimes I talk to them and call them by name. The weird part (not that it hasn't been weird this far) is that I can kinda picture what they'd look like if they were women and I really want to make labels with their pictures on them. I did get some strange looks from the SWMBO when I told her that Veronica was happily babbling away in the basement. She also wanted to know the name of the next batch I'm planning (a Nut Brown Ale), but I don't know their name until they are born... er..... fermented.

So, is there any hope for me?

Mike

 

[je52rm]

I just bottled my first batch from the carboy and the second has a week in the "bottling bucket" that I converted into a fermenter.

And I, uhhh, named them. The first batch is Samanatha, a fruity blonde (Cream Ale). The second is Veronica, a sweet and spicy redhead (Honey Amber Ale). And sometimes I talk to them and call them by name. The weird part (not that it hasn't been weird this far) is that I can kinda picture what they'd look like if they were women and I really want to make labels with their pictures on them. I did get some strange looks from the SWMBO when I told her that Veronica was happily babbling away in the basement. She also wanted to know the name of the next batch I'm planning (a Nut Brown Ale), but I don't know their name until they are born... er..... fermented.

So, is there any hope for me?

Mike

U sir, are a beer freak! Thats a good thing though hahahaha

 

[unionrdr]

Maybe we ought to play a little Napolean Dynomite right here. they're coming to take me away,haha,there coming to take me away,haha hehe,hoho. To the brewery,where life is beautiful all the time!.

 

[beerloaf]

The best part is when you get your SWMBO to sniff the airlock for you when you can't be there and she does it because even she thinks it smells good!

beerloaf

 

[Mrakis]

hahahaha. I just brewed my first batch last night and i keep walking and just staring at it. It would be as weird if it wasn't on the floor in a closet. My wife must think i am a little bit off.

 

[je52rm]

we'd make a great CSI team with as much investigating that we do on our beer.
Except we would be BSI - Beer Scene Investigators