Im finally sort of a brewing adult

[CreamyGoodness]

My fatherinlaw wouldnt take no for an answer and bought me a 3 gallon better bottle. Now I dont necessarily need to make tiny batches!

I think Im going to make a 3'er of apfelwein, rack it to my gallon jugs for aging and make skeeter pee on the yeast cake now that I have sparkloid, sulfate etc.

Just thinking out loud.

 

[Varmintman]

And I am thinking of starting a mead in a gallon jug. Weird how life works huh :rockin:

 

[Varmintman]

I am a very visual kind of guy. When I think about mead I get a mental picture of vikings in a long house drinking out of horn cups and getting boisterous. Do I need to get a viking horned helmet to brew it. For some reason the cowboy hat I wear when ranching the yeast does not seem to fit a mead day

 

[Billy-Klubb]

3 & 1 gallon jugs are great for mead. a viking helmet is not required, but should be utilized if possible. hopefully your cowboy hat is not covered in leave-r-right.

 

[Varmintman]

Man this brewing is getting spendy. I had to get a leprechaun outfit for my Irish Red and lederhosen for my altbier. Was going to brew a nice brown Brazilian until I heard what I had to do for that one. Yup there are just some things I will not do even for beer

 

[Cathedral]

Just brew a Budweiser clone. All you have to do is slap on a NASCAR hat, and take your pants off!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

When I brew anything I wear a blue Ebenezer Scrooge-style sleeping hat.

Interestingly enough, its also a hat I wore at Burning Man.

 

[Bedlam]

I have a winged helm, a'la that of a valkyrie. If I wear it when racking an ESB, will I hit the right SG?

 

[Pappers_]

I so want to get a brewing kilt . . .

And congrats, CG, on your new better bottle - what a nice FIL!

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Looking at the Skeeter Pee recipe again, I am still missing tannin. Is it critical? Can I use something else?

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I so want to get a brewing kilt . . .

And congrats, CG, on your new better bottle - what a nice FIL!

I own a kilt but the wife was explicit that I was to only wear it at Burning Man and Aquabats concerts.

I could not have done any better on the inlaw front. Im not religious but I am blessed.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

I think you guys with kilts should post pics.

 

[Bedlam]

^ THIS! What an excellent suggestion!

 

[Varmintman]

I think you guys with kilts should post pics.

Oh no a drunk middle age guy wearing a kilt is just not something that should be on the internet.

 

[DromJohn]

My beer belly prevents me from fitting in my Macmillan kilt.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

Excuses, excuses.

 

[Bedlam]

I have obtained official permission from El Hubbo to post this:

He is wearing a sash of the tartan of my family, Maxwell clan. Guilt by association!

Calm down, ladies...he's spoken for. I'm a lucky, lucky woman.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

And I am thinking of starting a mead in a gallon jug. Weird how life works huh :rockin:

I'm doing the same thing soon.

 

[SharonaZamboni]

I have obtained official permission from El Hubbo to post this:

He is wearing a sash of the tartan of my family, Maxwell clan. Guilt by association!

Calm down, ladies...he's spoken for. I'm a lucky, lucky woman.

Woo! Mr. Bedlam wears it well.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Looking at the Skeeter Pee recipe again, I am still missing tannin. Is it critical? Can I use something else?

It's in the title of the drink. A week's worth with give you all the tannin you need.