What You Wear While Brewing

[Qhrumphf]

The nice thing about brewing indoors, on occasion I brew naked. Hah.

 

[thadius856]

Remind me to never bottle swap with you.

 

[SPR-GRN]

The nice thing about brewing indoors, on occasion I brew naked. Hah.

I thought I was the only one

 

[OmegaFunk]

I thought I was the only one

From reading this thread it seems those of us that brew clothed are in the minority

 

[CreamyGoodness]

I know we are all being funny but Yoop brought up a very important point... this is a hobby that requires at least a modicum of protective gear. A shirt and a pair of shorts and crocs at the very least. Unless you are making apfelwein in a better bottle indoors on a surface you are unlikely to slip on... in which case... go ahead and let it all hang out.

Usually I wear whatever... depending on where I just was or what I was doing prior. I often wear my sleeping cap when I am brewing something experimental, though, to let the brew gods know I am serious. The okra mead was a sleeping cap endeavor.

 

[MalFet]

I know we are all being funny but Yoop brought up a very important point... this is a hobby that requires at least a modicum of protective gear. A shirt and a pair of shorts and crocs at the very least. Unless you are making apfelwein in a better bottle indoors on a surface you are unlikely to slip on... in which case... go ahead and let it all hang out.

That's a good point. There's an interesting complexity, though. Clothing can protect against hot liquid burns, but it can also make minor burns more serious.

If you get splashed with a gallon of boiling water across the chest, you'll get a nasty scald before it runs off to the floor. The relatively small amount of water that sticks to your skin will cool quickly because of its small heat mass.

If that same gallon gets absorbed by a heavy woolen sweater, on the other hand, there will be no place for it to go and thus no place for that heat energy to dissipate except directly into your skin.

I've seen bad burns become extremely bad burns for exactly this reason. I'm no expert on this stuff, and hope anyone who is will chime in, but I've always felt safer wearing relatively less fabric rather than relatively more. Perhaps that makes me more vulnerable to minor burns and less vulnerable to serious burns, but I'm not sure what the recommendations are here.

 

[Stauffbier]

Yeah I'm in the shorts and no shoes club. Sometimes I wear sandles. I also mow my lawn and run my weed eater bare footed.

 

[SwahiliCharles]

Carhart overalls with either barefoot or boots. One strap is mandatory undone.

 

[SwahiliCharles]

Actually I wear a sock. Only one. Nothing else. Imagine the Red Hot Chilli Peppers Album cover.. :grin:

 

[dougdecinces]

Patent leather codpiece, Groucho Marx glasses, Uggs, and a single mitten. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'm a tastemaker.

 

[hunter_le five]

Just a pair of cutoff jorts. I would brew in the nude, but I have a... medical condition....

Me doing BIAB:

 

[ianw58]

Here's a photo of me on a recent brew day...

 

[509inc]

I practice safe brewing. Just flip flops and a condom.

 

[MaxOut]

Is that a hydrometer in my pocket or am I just glad to be brewing.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

Here's a photo of me on a recent brew day...

Cleanest. Brew Room. Ever.

 

[fuzzy2133]

I brew in what I have on that day. I always have some sort of hiking/tennis shoe on, tee shirt and pants or shorts pending weather.

 

[ianw58]

Cleanest. Brew Room. Ever.

Thanks, but... You didn't see the other side if the room!

 

[Jon73]

Freud would love this thread. Guys talking about how they like to brew beer naked, or nearly so. Forget tell me about your mother, tell me about your creepy uncle that created this affinity for nudism and flip flops.

That said, gotta wear pants. I still have a pretty good burn scar on my leg from transporting a keggle while wearing shorts.

 

[catdaddy66]

Always shirt, shorts and shoes or NO SERVICE!!

 

[Ridire]

Perry Ellis suit, preferably with a vest; Pronto Uomo shirt with French cuffs; Bostonian wing tips, polished to a high gloss; and Carlo Franco seven fold tie.

 

[thadius856]

Just a pair of cutoff jorts. I would brew in the nude, but I have a... medical condition....

Me doing BIAB:

I heard Netflix just bought 13 episodes for your next season of debauchery.

 

[downtown3641]

I heard Netflix just bought 13 episodes for your next season of debauchery.

I just hope, if he blue himself during a brew day, he didn't get any in the wort.

 

[Broham1]

These:

http://instagr.am/p/UrFoxJpbtZ/

 

[BobbiLynn]

That's a good point. There's an interesting complexity, though. Clothing can protect against hot liquid burns, but it can also make minor burns more serious.

If you get splashed with a gallon of boiling water across the chest, you'll get a nasty scald before it runs off to the floor. The relatively small amount of water that sticks to your skin will cool quickly because of its small heat mass.

If that same gallon gets absorbed by a heavy woolen sweater, on the other hand, there will be no place for it to go and thus no place for that heat energy to dissipate except directly into your skin.

I've seen bad burns become extremely bad burns for exactly this reason. I'm no expert on this stuff, and hope anyone who is will chime in, but I've always felt safer wearing relatively less fabric rather than relatively more. Perhaps that makes me more vulnerable to minor burns and less vulnerable to serious burns, but I'm not sure what the recommendations are here.

Next time hubby gets all mad about me brewing naked in the front yard, I will explain this to him.

 

[Grantman1]

Welp, chalk up another one... mesh shorts, no shoes

 

[krackin]

Perry Ellis suit, preferably with a vest; Pronto Uomo shirt with French cuffs; Bostonian wing tips, polished to a high gloss; and Carlo Franco seven fold tie.

That may be more practical than an Elvis Presley suit.

 

[Varmintman]

Last brew day was a parka, gloves and boots over several layers. Dang it was cold

 

[CreamyGoodness]

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Its Take Some Advise guy!

 

[Watzee]

My Brewing Beer apron... and whatever I am wearing that day.