Superstitious brewers

[steinsato]

My SWMBO bought me a khaki pair of Dickies overalls that I wear when I brew. I used to always wear an apron but now it's the overalls. As long as the music I'm listening to is good I don't really care. I don't think there is anything superstitious about my brewing routine.

 

[bsdx]

I try to wear galoshes over my shoes, its more of a 95% likelihood rather than superstition that I am going to spill ample amount of water on one or both feet at some point in the brew day. It looks funny though if I have to make a trip to the store wearing shorts, galoshes, and a ratty T-shirt.

I also tend to change into a clean white shirt if I have one before I get to the parts where clean equipment is important, it just makes me feel better that I won't be brushing an auto-siphon across a taco stain from earlier or something, and white lets me see dirt/hair.

Yes I thought of this thread out of the blue while I was putting on my galoshes, getting ready to make a watery mess like last night when I got my shoes wet.

 

[JOHN51277]

Freeze pops. Lots of them while I brew in the FL heat. Green ones only! No freeze pops, No Brew!!

 

[DavidP]

I put in a cup of the gunky crap left over from the previous batch; the beer won't "go" without it.

(lame riff on the "superstitions" our brewer ancestors must have had :cross

 

[Bmorebrew]

Science has no room for superstition.

 

[FromZwolle]

i love to grill while mashing/the boil. just feels right to have the mixing aromas of malt and meat. :rockin:

 

[IXVolt]

I drink... beer. When I'm brewing.

 

[biochemedic]

+1 to above. I always drink homebrew while brewing.

I usually drink homebrew too, but the supstitious/tradition part is that I tend to try and drink the last bottle of the last batch of whatever I'm making...but sometimes I'll get a commercial example of the style, or some of what I'm cloning or what inspired my recipe.