Things a Homebrewer Thinks

[Beergnomes]

The more I watch the news or read the newspaper, I worry that the great America that I once knew may never be again. But when I went to a Kroger in Buckhead Atlanta and saw that they have a growler refill program, with Dragons Milk at $5.50 for 32 oz or Terrapinn Woo Hoo Chocolate Milk Stout for $5.00 for 32 oz, that warm glow of hope began to glow again. View attachment 183273


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Now that is wicked cool! My Kroger has nothing like this.

 

[unionrdr]

We haven't had Krogers around here in some 25 years or so. Fisher's & Fazio's gone too. And Meyer-Goldberg,who first got the lottery & Stroh's Bock. Really miss that one. Good for you on the cheap growler refills.

 

[Keith66]

The only beer in the house was just bottled a week ago, still very young and barely carbed. But it beats most of what the store sells, soooo... bottoms up!

 

[high5apparatus]

Why do I find time to brew but not to bottle?


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[thaymond]

Why do I find time to brew but not to bottle?


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Every time. Every. single. time...

 

[skitter]

The only beer in the house was just bottled a week ago, still very young and barely carbed. But it beats most of what the store sells, soooo... bottoms up!

Drinking a 6 day old right now...

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

Will be drinking 6 day olds in 3 hours. A smoked porter and a Kölsch!


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[Black Island Brewer]

Why do I find time to brew but not to bottle?

Because you don't use a fermentation chamber! I can't brew until I've bottled, so I have a place to ferment again. Bottling tomorrow so I can brew Sunday.

 

[high5apparatus]

Too many fermenters does make for a lazy bottler


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[high5apparatus]

It does increase the chance that the beer will live to see the summer instead of being consumed in a Spring of weakness.


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[unionrdr]

When you're re-financing your house,saving enough to keep up on things. Cosmetic repairs/upgrades to make SWMBO happy so I can build a fermenting cabinet to go on top of my fermenter stand & be able to afford at least 2 batches per month again! Not to mention,other man cave upgrades.Fix car as well. HOORAH!

 

[Keith66]

After work yesterday I'm driving home with the windows down in 70 degree weather and stopped by Winco to pick up 6 gallons of TreeTop Apple Juice so I can start a batch of cider when I get home. A little later, I'm driving home from the LHBS with a cold pack of yeast tucked in the center console to keep it cool. On the freeway with about 40 minutes to go, I take out the pack of Wyeast, give it a good SMACK, shake it up, set it on the passenger seat in the sun, and roll up the windows. Twenty minutes later, I'm driving up the curvy country road to my house with the heater on high, shaking and flapping the yeast pack on my leg to the beat of the music. The whole time I'm thinking, "Something just seems wrong about this." (The pack was nicely swollen within an hour after I got home, about the time I got done sanitizing and filling the bucket with juice.)

 

[dobe12]

"I've got 2 taps flowing with full kegs. 2 back up kegs full, carbed, and ready to go. I've got 3 cases of well aged Russian Imperial Stout, 2 year old Barleywine, and a fresh Saison..... but all fermentors are empty. I NEED TO BREW

 

[unionrdr]

@ keith66-...good thing it didn't spew prematurely!... (I swear that NEVER happens!)

 

[BadDeacon]

Man I love getting off at 4 every Friday! Especially on the first Friday of spring to enjoy homebrew and grill steaks and smoke a pipe and read Tolkien all at once!

 

[skitter]

When you're re-financing your house,saving enough to keep up on things. Cosmetic repairs/upgrades to make SWMBO happy so I can build a fermenting cabinet to go on top of my fermenter stand & be able to afford at least 2 batches per month again! Not to mention,other man cave upgrades.Fix car as well. HOORAH!

I just did this recently but its only for 2 mr beer kegs not full fermenters, but it allows me to do 4 batches a month.

http://www.skittersmurf.us/index.php/skittbrewing/108-dualkegfermentationchamber

My baby... Need to add Weatherstripping on the openings but other than than holds temp good

 

[unionrdr]

I was thinking of using 1/2" ply wood,finish sanded. Insulate with that blue Styrofoam stuff with foil on one side. A little molding over the edges to purty it up & stain to match the light colored wood in the house. Oak plank flooring in place of the carpet,etc. I want to be able to brew my hybrid lagers all year round. I have a Cooper's Micro brew FV,7.9G pail,& 6G better bottle so I could do 3 5 gallon batches a month.

 

[high5apparatus]

Homebrewing doesn't look sketchy at all...


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[unionrdr]

Happens every time he does coke...

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

This homebrewer thinks his wife came home with a hop cone decoration...

...then she tells him it's an artichoke!

 

[Keith66]

This homebrewer thinks his wife came home with a hop cone decoration...

...then she tells him it's an artichoke!

I've eaten a whole lot of artichokes, see them growing in the fields around Castroville... that looks much more like a hop cone!

 

[Pinebarrensbrew]

I'm making it my goal to surpass my states legal maximum of homebrew this year


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[GilSwillBasementBrews]

I'm making it my goal to surpass my states legal maximum of homebrew this year


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Didn't realize states ha individual levels. Thought it was just the federal limit. 100gallons per year or 200 with a household of 2 or more of drinking age or >


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[TrustyOlJohnson]

Because every grown adult shud be able to drink 100 gallons of beer a year


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[gstrawn]

When at the parents house. A few home brews in. Drinking from their well water, directly from the faucet of course, my first thought, "this water is so cold it would be great to run through an immersion chiller!"


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[Pinebarrensbrew]

Yea in nj it's 200 gallons. Lol not to difficult. That's only 177.7 12 packs if my quick math was right. Haha. Ill figure something out to do with it


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[TrustyOlJohnson]

I HAVE to get brewing! I dint have room to store all my empty carboys!!


"Sometimes Im right half of the time ...."

 

[dx6x]

Im not happy till all my carboys are full. All my carboys are full, must get new carboys. Im not happy till all my carboys are full. All my carboys are full, must get new carboys. Im not happy till all my carboys are full. All my carboys are full, must get new carboys.......

 

[Black Island Brewer]

Im not happy till all my carboys are full. All my carboys are full, must get new carboys. Im not happy till all my carboys are full. All my carboys are full, must get new carboys. Im not happy till all my carboys are full. All my carboys are full, must get new carboys.......

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Just bought two more, must fill, oh crap, need more...