When I come in from clearing hurricane debris or running the mower in the blazing heat, I always have an inner debate.
Serious Question About Beer and Working Outdoors
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I either drink or work, never together. As soon as I stop doing sweaty work it's time to grab a beer then a shower.
Depends on how much I sweat. If I'm really drenched it's gatorade, then shower, then beer.
I have to cool down and stop sweating before I take a shower, so it takes a beer to do that.
Still sweating, nice cold beer, then shower. As for the last part, why after and not during, there's some variables that apply here. One being that sometimes a beer will kill my motivation, 2 is safety, so no beer during chainsaw or splitting wood, but stacking wood, I'll put a beer in my woodshed and take a sip here and there because let's be honest, stacking firewood sucks, in my opinion it's the only part about heating with wood that I don't enjoy. Though the finished product of a fully stacked shed is quite pleasing.
I have beer to drink and stuff to do, and seldom will they get done separately.
Though an IPA right after a 10k hits a sweet spot.
Though an IPA right after a 10k hits a sweet spot.
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+1 Hate stacking fire wood, still drinking water at that point.
I don't get the hate. It's pretty quick and easy.
I ran out of bins and actually stacked some last month. The stacks already fell over. Screw that noise!!
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I just modified a couple of my chainsaws. Summer's back is broken, so it wasn't hot, sweaty work. I just got some grease and sawdust on me. Nonetheless, technically, I touched tools and perspiration did commence. Therefore I am having a nice, cold Disaster Management ale in my oversized recliner.
How did people survive without beer?
How did people survive without beer?
madscientist451
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I can have a low ABV brew when running the lawn tractor, but never when running power tools like chainsaws or the wood splitter. These days, when it’s hot and sweaty out, I don’t do much heavy work, instead I go swimming and have a brew on the riverbank.
What about the shower beer?
It's hard for me to get the carbonation correct when running my keg through the shower head. Besides, too much goes down the drain! I guess I could put a stopper in the bathtub drain...
Nope! After hard yard work nothing deserves that ....
I won't drink beer in the shower because often times it dilutes the beer due to the splashing.
My daughter got me one of those rubber stick on shower beer holders, I have a big shower stall and it clings to glass, I put it in a spot the water doesn't hit, I use it pretty much every weekend.
I believe the correct answer to the question "Best time to drink beer after outdoor work?" is "yes".
Something about having the beer while still in the work clothes w/ boots makes it a bit more enjoyable, like you earned it. When I was younger our crew always stopped at the nearest convenience for each of us to get a quart and bag of chips for the ride home. On one occasion we had a dick for a driver who wouldn't stop on the principle we should wait until we got back to camp before our beers. He didn't get a chance to drive again. These days I retire to my Shady Grove with a couple of HBs once the tractor and chainsaws are put away.
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