Homebrewers Sound Like Drug Dealers

[unionrdr]

I guess they missed seeing the bottle tree, bench capper & boxes of bottles???

 

[PlexVector]

I recommend we all get a Jacobs ladder running in the background, a random strobe flash, and dry ice fog blanketing the garage floor to add to the affect.

 

[Venari]

Just don't let the neighbours hear you tell your friends that you need to "buy two pounds of crystal" for the next batch.

That's what goes through my mind when I see the grain bill for some recipes

 

[JonM]

I recommend we all get a Jacobs ladder running in the background, a random strobe flash, and dry ice fog blanketing the garage floor to add to the affect.

And a laboratory assistant who looks like Marty Feldman.
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[biochemedic]

Just don't let the neighbours hear you tell your friends that you need to "buy two pounds of crystal" for the next batch.

That's what goes through my mind when I see the grain bill for some recipes

Damn boy, 2 pounds! I hope that's at least a 10 gal batch!

 

[Psylocide]

My neighbors hardly bat an eye.

I think it helps that they see me carrying swords around and wearing my Kumdo uniform every Monday/Wednesday night.

That and the fact that I've killed more than a few Rabbits/Squirrels in my yard with my recurve bow.

Never even ask what I'm doing and avoid direct eye contact.

 

[m00ps]

My neighbors hardly bat an eye.

I think it helps that they see me carrying swords around and wearing my Kumdo uniform every Monday/Wednesday night.

That and the fact that I've killed more than a few Rabbits/Squirrels in my yard with my recurve bow.

Never even ask what I'm doing and avoid direct eye contact.

Im jealous I've only got one sword...
My neighbors can always tell when I'm brewing. The whole building smells like oatmeal

Plus the names of a lot of the new hops sound like weed strains

 

[ArcLight]

My neighbors hardly bat an eye.

That and the fact that I've killed more than a few Rabbits/Squirrels in my yard with my recurve bow.

By any chance do you live near New Jersey?
I'd be happy to have you over while brewing and you could kill all the Rabbits/Squirrels in sight.
And ground hogs too if they show up.

 

[brew_ny]

Plus the names of a lot of the new hops sound like weed strains

I was just reading about a new hop I think it is something like.............OG Kush

 

[ckresge]

Two years ago we had a boy scout knock on our door to sell us popcorn. I invited him in and he had the oddest look on his face when he saw the erlenmeyer flask filled with whirlpooling yeast on the dining room table, sitting next to an immersion chiller that I was converting to a HERMS coil, next to a control panel. I can only imagine what he told his parents when he got back in their car. But, being the good boy scout that he is, he returned several weeks later to deliver our popcorn... only to witness MORE odd equipment sitting around! He hasn't come around since.

 

[johngaltsmotor]

Oh well, which one is going to scar the boy scout more: seeing your brew gear he doesn't know if for brewing beer or seeing the bondage gear on your neighbors living room wall that he does know what it is?

 

[SnakeRidge]

Yeah, the first time my neighbors saw me in a bathrobe taking shots at the squirrels in the peach tree with a recurve, they stopped asking what's with all the copper and big boiling pots.

 

[ArcLight]

Two years ago we had a boy scout knock on our door to sell us popcorn. I invited him in and ...

Aw, I was expecting something better, like -

1. He robbed me

2. He accused me of assaulting him and I had had to pay a 6 figure sum or go to prison. :smack:

 

[brew_ny]

So you're not our local supplier? darn!

I wasn't here I had to run into work so my wife let them look around where I brew

then told them if he had a lab why would he be working ?

not the local supplier but I do give out a lot of home brew

 

[phug]

I wasn't here I had to run into work so my wife let them look around where I brew

then told them if he had a lab why would he be working ?

not the local supplier but I do give out a lot of home brew

Gotta have a front for legitimizing your income.

 

[BrotherBock]

Driving with large ziploc bags of hops is sure to raise an eyebrow from the cop that just pulled us over.

 

[GarageDweller]

you squares are going to blow my cover, man

 

[ArcLight]

I have small zip lock bags containing a white grainy substance, in a container holding larger bags of a white grainy substance. [corn sugar - pre-measured]

 

[DrunkleJon]

The pouch of Campden tablets has lost its label. It now appears I am pushing white pills. I have been asked a few times already if they are illicit drugs

 

[CUrchin]

My neighbor has a cascade hop plant but doesn't brew. Every year she cuts it down, brings it over and we hand pick the cones. I remember the first year we did it. About 10 minutes in, we suddenly realized that hand picking cones (buds?) in the front of the house probably didn't look good. So we took it out back .....

 

[Pkrd]

We have to thank our homegrowing cousins for how cheap our hop scales are.

 

[unionrdr]

Speaking of which, on a lighter note, I still have the hand-held scale for weighing bags stashed someplace. Might be good for weighing hop bags?

 

[TycoRossBrewing]

We grind our ish up and then cut it...with adjuncts of course.

 

[PlexVector]

I recommend we all get a Jacobs ladder running in the background, a random strobe flash, and dry ice fog blanketing the garage floor to add to the affect.

I never thought the need to quote myself, but this seemed appropriate...

Homebrew setup would be a good Halloween display for the kiddies and the nosy neighbors if you live in a neighborhood. As a continuation above you would have dry ice in the Erlenmeyer flask, dry ice and strobe in HLT, some odd electronic effects. You get the picture...Now I wish I lived in a neighborhood. I think we had one trick or treater in over 30 years. Seems no one wants to drive down a dark wooded driveway.

 

[Riot]

Not so much a sounds like as a looks illegal. No one without an idea of what it is can possibly look at a RIMS tube and assume its for a less than nefarious purpose. Who runs power cords to their plumbing? Can't be legal