Retirement brewing

[coypoo]

What's it going to be like brewing 30years from now? I'm just about to finish grad school and I was thinking bout what my brewing would be like when I'm old? Will I brew just a few styles? A bunch of different things? Crazy things? Subdued, mellow things? What does everyone else think?

 

[bwomp313]

I hope to think that I will always find something new to do. Some new crazy thing to try or experiment to do. I dunno that's like 100000 years away. Maybe I'll be some old craphead obsessed with brewing the perfect bud clone

 

[Jwood]

i would hope that i would be so experienced that i could make beer so good, so great, that i would never have to go to the store and buy another beer. No more Pliny's, no more Alpines, no more waiting for seasonals...dare i say it...Abyss!?

I hope to be able to just pop out recipes and know that it will turn out fantastic. Dreamin' big.

 

[coypoo]

i would hope that i would be so experienced that i could make beer so good, so great, that i would never have to go to the store and buy another beer. No more Pliny's, no more Alpines, no more waiting for seasonals...dare i say it...Abyss!?

I hope to be able to just pop out recipes and know that it will turn out fantastic. Dreamin' big.

That's what I hope I'm like 40 years from now too!

 

[Revvy]

Meh, you won't live that long. By the end of the decade we'll all have long been zombiefood anyway.

 

[Homercidal]

You'll be dead from liver disease way before you need to worry about that stuff.

I see myself still trying to nail a consistent process and tweaking favorite recipes, while occasionally trying something new and exciting.

 

[unionrdr]

Well,let's see. I started making wine about 15 years old. By the time I was 21,I was married starting a family & started at Ford,like my father before me. I made wine up till about 30 or so. Got tired of waiting at least a year to taste the fruits of my labors.
Last January,my wife & I started talking brewing at my middle son's insistence on making wine again. We decided we liked beer more at this point,so we got on youtube for some research. Wound up on a few different websites. Craigtube,pho,PEI homebrewer,steel Jan,& others showed how easy brewing beer is nowadays. We were amazed,so we did still more research,& wound up with a Cooper's micro brew kit for some $128 from makebeer.net. It even came with bottles & a hydrometer.
I remember pop making stout when I was near 20 or so. That also got me to thinking about something other than BCB's. So,being basically familiar with fermentation practices,I started on this obsession. Just wish I'd have kept notes back then in a note book,rather than scraps of paper that got lost in the misty sands of time.
Amazing what you forget over the decades when you also have a family to worry about.
Nowadays,even my wife brewes with me. She's def got a knack for brewing ales. I'm perk as a ruttin buck about that!
But I have to say,when I logged out earlier to get one last Christmas gift I hadn't yet (my older son),I lmao'd when on amazon,I ran acrossed this "super delux mr beer" kit. Naaaah,he might not get into it...then again,he did mention using my stuff to try one once...???

 

[JefeTheVol]

You would say things like
"I remember when hops cost .99 cents an ounce, not this 10 energon cubes a quarkteeth BS"!!!

or
"You kids today with your automatic wonderflonium powerd mash-er-ators...back in my day we had to wait for the starch conversion"

At least that's what you'll say if the future is half as awesome as I think it will be.
-Jefe-

 

[Clanchief]

Meh, you won't live that long. By the end of the decade we'll all have long been zombiefood anyway.

Not me. I have my Zombie Apocalypse set and ready to go. And once the ZA does come to pass, I'd like to think I'll be brewing more than ever, as it will be an incredibly useful product, providing a clean, uncontaminated beverage (much like one of the main reasons people drank beer in Europe for centuries).

 

[Homercidal]

You would say things like
"I remember when hops cost .99 cents an ounce, not this 10 energon cubes a quarkteeth BS"!!!

or
"You kids today with your automatic wonderflonium powerd mash-er-ators...back in my day we had to wait for the starch conversion"

At least that's what you'll say if the future is half as awesome as I think it will be.
-Jefe-

:rockin:

 

[Airborneguy]

I'm hoping my retirement will be financed through brewing! I'm retiring at 43 though

 

[rico567]

I've been retired going on ten years, been brewing for four.....my eldest son got me into it. I take it that the actual direction of the OP is something different, though. More like "How will brewing in retirement be different than in my twenties." And to that I can't respond, since my only attempt at brewing in my '20s was in 1970, at which time there was practically nothing available, either in the way of equipment or, more importantly, decent ingredients. So I started and stopped brewing that same year (when I was 25), and didn't start up again until I was 63.

I can speculate, however. With me, there is less concern with volume and a lot more with variety. I brewed 8 batches this Fall, and am looking at a six-pack or so of my Spring beers to finish, with perhaps half a batch each of a couple of big beers sitting on the shelves giving up a bottle now and then.

It isn't that SWMBO and I don't drink more beer than that, but we like trying new commercial offerings, plus some of our favorites I don't care to attempt to clone.

My brewing equipment and techniques are strictly K.I.S.S., as may be expected, perhaps, in someone who starts brewing at the age I did. No 8-tier RIMHERM sculptures for me. Works so far, since I can still handle 5 gallons of liquid just fine. We'll see what the future brings.......

 

[EO74]

Meh, you won't live that long. By the end of the decade we'll all have long been zombiefood anyway.

I totally agree with revy you guys will all be zombie food ill be using u guys for target pratice!!!!!!

 

[Piratwolf]

I totally agree with revy you guys will all be zombie food ill be using u guys for target pratice!!!!!!

My retirement plan is to brew a beer so powerful that it'll either prevent zombie-apocalypse -OR- at least slow them down snuff to make the classic double-tap a breeze. Right now I'm thinking the key is either Apollo or Tomahawk

 

[Homercidal]

Ed's Apfelwein would make great Zombie food! While they are spending all day calling Ed a MotherF@%$r, you can make a clean getaway, or bash their pounding skulls in!