Who is the oldest "old F*rt" on HBT?

[certaut]

is the geezer border measured by; how long you been sucking air
how many X's
how many people you P'd off?
inquiring minds want to know
Please hurry before I forget the question..

 

[BlackForestBrewery]

Didn't Suds help draft the original Reinheitsgebot ''German Beer Purity Law'', in 1487?

Suds, I'm glad to see older generation brewers like you around here. My Gramp is 88 and he is still brewing (perhaps once a year), but he is not a member of this site. Hope you find your buddy.

 

[bob1852]

Didn't Suds help draft the original Reinheitsgebot ''German Beer Purity Law'', in 1487?

No - he wasn't old enough to write in 1487

 

[DizzyPants]

I am 37. When I started brewing I told my Dad, now 70, about homebrewing. He said "Donny used to homebrew. Stuff tasted like diesel! Terrible!" I said "Dad, Donny passed away when I was 7 or 8, I am sure there have been advances. And so I bring my Dad a pint of my latest and he is very impressed. I just wish I could use my set up for brewing a batch of diesel to make money for the brew. Oh well......

 

[mikeysab]

3. Suds just adds a viagra to apple juice to make "Hard Cider"......I mean, who wants to wait around for things to ferment at that age?

 

[lumpher]

Didn't Suds help draft the original Reinheitsgebot ''German Beer Purity Law'', in 1487?

it was finally adopted in 1516, after several drafts. i know; i was there

 

[Hoppus_Poppatopolis]

I'm 51 so I guess that makes me an apprentice codger.
This is my second brewing life. I brewed 20-25 years ago, dropped it when the kids started coming along about 20 years ago and picked it up again in the last couple of years.
The brewing world is vastly improved. I remember reading recipes and having no way to obtain particular hop styles or malts. The equipment was crude and liquid yeast was a pipe dream.
Can you hear my voice getting shakier and shakier as I wag my finger at you young'uns?

 

[oteixeira]

I'm 51 so I guess that makes me an apprentice codger.
This is my second brewing life. I brewed 20-25 years ago, dropped it when the kids started coming along about 20 years ago and picked it up again in the last couple of years.
The brewing world is vastly improved. I remember reading recipes and having no way to obtain particular hop styles or malts. The equipment was crude and liquid yeast was a pipe dream.
Can you hear my voice getting shakier and shakier as I wag my finger at you young'uns?

...and I had to walk both ways, uphill, in the snow, with no shoes, and even then all I could get was base malt and bread yeast!

 

[glenn514]

Ya, Sud, ya got me by 5 years [I'll be 65 in October], but I'm still a n00b when it comes to brewing. Started in January 2010, and just brewed my twelfth batch about a week ago.

glenn514

 

[sudbuster]

I'm glad this was bumped, as I laughed all over again.

Top ten reasons why I'm glad Sudsbuster is old:

10. We can ask about the "old days"
9. Experience! He's been brewing longer than some of us have been alive.
8. He's so old, he thinks I'm hot.
7. He's probably an expert at quick carbing (just like at a certain age you don't buy green bananas).

Anybody else?

The only reason I think you're hot is 'cause you're hot!

 

[rustbucket]

2. so old he farts hop residue

 

[Yooper]

The only reason I think you're hot is 'cause you're hot!

And, this brings us to the #1!

1. His last post proves his "Old timers" dementia is further along than we thought!

 

[Whut]

I'm 47 and can only hope I'm still brewing at 70. You're all right about how fast time flies though. Just yesterday I was 20 and had the world by the horns.

 

[sudbuster]

and, this brings us to the #1!

1. His last post proves his "old timers" dementia is further along than we thought!

Hahaha........

 

[r8rphan]

Probably not such a great deal on that Lifetime Membership.

Oh shyt! Timing is 'everything!'
Good Job!

 

[ReefkprZ]

I just turned 33 today..... my wife keeps telling me I am decrepit and falling apart with age (isnt she sweet?)..... I'll have to point out sud to her and see If I still count as decrepit.

 

[r8rphan]

Ya, Sud, ya got me by 5 years [I'll be 65 in October], but I'm still a n00b when it comes to brewing. Started in January 2010, and just brewed my twelfth batch about a week ago.

glenn514

Right on man!

 

[r8rphan]

I'm only 53, but I've been around long enough to see how it works.. So I'm reverting to childhood before it's too late!

I'm starting to be convinced that time is not linear, but logarithmic.. and it really 'is' speeding up.. Which means the youngins coming behind me are 'really' in for a shock!

 

[Hoppus_Poppatopolis]

I'm starting to be convinced that time is not linear, but logarithmic..

I heard a theory about this. Don't know if it's true but it makes sense. You measure passage of time by how much of your life it represents.
In other words, when you're 6, next Christmas is 1/6 of your life away. When you're 60, it's 1/60 of your life away. Works in reverse too so that things in the past seem to zoom by at an ever-increasing rate.

 

[geezerpk]

I'll be 71 in February 2011. Just took up brewing last fall. Sorry I let all those brewing years go by undiscovered and unexplored. Cheers!

 

[barnyard]

So are all y'all going to get together at 10am and go eat lunch at Lubes?

 

[r8rphan]

I heard a theory about this. Don't know if it's true but it makes sense. You measure passage of time by how much of your life it represents.
In other words, when you're 6, next Christmas is 1/6 of your life away. When you're 60, it's 1/60 of your life away. Works in reverse too so that things in the past seem to zoom by at an ever-increasing rate.

I am actually talking about physics.. That time, (universally) as the universe slows down it's expansion and energy is expended, is speeding up.. There are an increasing number of physicists that also are lending credence to this theory...

 

[r8rphan]

I'll be 71 in February 2011. Just took up brewing last fall. Sorry I let all those brewing years go by undiscovered and unexplored. Cheers!

There's nothing like new experiences and passions to add 'quality' to the limited number of years left at the back end of ones life...

Here's to your exploring and experiencing many new things and passions before your appointed time arrives.... That's kinda my point about my reverting to childhood...

 

[sudbuster]

I'll be 71 in February 2011. Just took up brewing last fall. Sorry I let all those brewing years go by undiscovered and unexplored. Cheers!

You got me beat by 2 months, you old fart!

 

[BlackForestBrewery]

I'll be 71 in February 2011. Just took up brewing last fall. Sorry I let all those brewing years go by undiscovered and unexplored. Cheers!

Glad to have you here with us brother! It's never to late to start brewing.

 

[Hoppus_Poppatopolis]

I am actually talking about physics.. That time, (universally) as the universe slows down it's expansion and energy is expended, is speeding up.. There are an increasing number of physicists that also are lending credence to this theory...

Isn't it accepted now that the expansion of the universe is speeding up rather than slowing down? If so, wouldn't time be slowing under that scenario?

 

[r8rphan]

I dunno.. you'll have to ask the poindexter lab coat types that question... personally, you're the first person I've ever heard that says it's speeding up.. If true, that would be really weird seeing as it would then be operating in a way that is in opposition to every other kind of explosion I've ever seen.. where velocity/expansion/energy is greatest at the initial point of explosion...

But they seem to be trying to prove that time is speeding up because energy is being expended... that's it's not linear, but logarithmic.. they point to chalkboard after chalkboard of cryptic symbols as evidence.. OTOH, they may be just trying to baffle the masses with BS in order to keep the grant money (modern day version of indulgences) coming...

If I had access, I'd walk up to their equations, and erase the solved answer and write instead "= must drink beer".... at least then, it would make sense to me...

I personally can't do the math... makes my eyes go whacko.. but my 'personal experience' sure seems to support their theory... but obviously, I have no other baseline...

 

[sudbuster]

Isn't it accepted now that the expansion of the universe is speeding up rather than slowing down? If so, wouldn't time be slowing under that scenario?

Somehow, I don't think you're taking this thread seriously...

 

[Golddiggie]

You got me beat by 2 months, you old fart!

So HE [geezerpk] can tell us what the Earth was like BEFORE it had a moon... Since you arrived just after it did...

For the record, I'm only 40, so many brewing years ahead of me... I only started back in November of 2010, so a wee lad on that scale.

 

[lumpher]

glad i'm somewhere between the 40 year old kid and the 70 year old geezer. makes me feel like a just-right experienced man...