You know you're a home brewer when?

[cjbalough]

When you discover that your bottle cleaner/rinser makes a great water balloon filler!

 

[Onkel_Udo]

Wait, that was a joke?? Seemed like a good idea to me I grew up spreading our cat litter in the garden and tilling it in. We lived off our garden and the veges grew great!

Actually, if you compost about any form of manure, it is fit for use as fertilizer for human food (per the USDA no less). The problem with doing that with dog poo is that most have way to much animal fat in them so you can only use a very small percentage in a good, hot compost pile.

Either way, I personally would not be concerned anyway. Sure, there is minute risk if you were dry hopping (anything else gets boiled) with hops grown from dung but are guys thinking these things fly up in the air and attach to your cones and then survive the drying process and continue to survive until brew day?

City folk make me laugh.

 

[Kirkwooder]

The pathogens in dog crap will be killed either by the boiling of the hops or the alcohol in the beer being dry hopped.

Have you ever seen how green the grass is around a big pile of dog Sh!t! I bet it would be great for hops.

 

[GrogNerd]

millions of wolves, coyotes, lynx, mountain lions, rabbits, bears, deer, moose, elk, squirrels, rats, mice, opossums, raccoons, moles, badgers, armadillos, beavers, cows, chickens, pigs, boar, horses and all associated sub-species, plus billions of birds

all crapping everywhere, and you're worried about DOG sh*t?

 

[Onkel_Udo]

The pathogens in dog crap will be killed either by the boiling of the hops or the alcohol in the beer being dry hopped.

Have you ever seen how green the grass is around a big pile of dog Sh!t! I bet it would be great for hops.

Trust me...I have. The only reason I not just tilling my whole back yard under and seeding it is then I would have to water it daily for a couple weeks. Way too much effort.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

millions of wolves, coyotes, lynx, mountain lions, rabbits, bears, deer, moose, elk, squirrels, rats, mice, opossums, raccoons, moles, badgers, armadillos, beavers, cows, chickens, pigs, boar, horses and all associated sub-species, plus billions of birds

all crapping everywhere, and you're worried about DOG sh*t?

Now now, lets not go talking common sense here...

 

[Hamaki]

Note to self: In future, only make jokes that are funny enough to at least be recognized as jokes.

I saw it as half joke & half serious. Sorry if I was only halfway correct.

Actually, if you compost about any form of manure, it is fit for use as fertilizer for human food (per the USDA no less). The problem with doing that with dog poo is that most have way to much animal fat in them so you can only use a very small percentage in a good, hot compost pile.

Either way, I personally would not be concerned anyway. Sure, there is minute risk if you were dry hopping (anything else gets boiled) with hops grown from dung but are guys thinking these things fly up in the air and attach to your cones and then survive the drying process and continue to survive until brew day?

City folk make me laugh.

I didn't see anything about composting in the initial post and if USDA recommends composting carnivore feces for use on human food crops I'd be interested in the citation.

Oh, and not a city folk here. I use my livestock manure fresh or composted depending on which type, when & where I want to use it. Chicken & turkey always get composted. Horse, goat & rabbit not always. Dog crap I just fling into a neighbor's swimming pool because, you know, chlorine.

The pathogens in dog crap will be killed either by the boiling of the hops or the alcohol in the beer being dry hopped.

Have you ever seen how green the grass is around a big pile of dog Sh!t! I bet it would be great for hops.

I wasn't thinking that pathogens would find their way into the finished beer for the reasons you mention. I grow tomatoes, salad, berries, etc. in the same garden as my hops. I eat many of those while in the garden. I'd be more worried about that route of exposure.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_035763.pdf
USDA says not on food.

 

[Kirkwooder]

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_035763.pdf
USDA says not on food.

Yet they allow the importation of produce from countries that commoly have unteated human waste spread on agricultural fields.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Yet they allow the importation of produce from countries that commoly have unteated human waste spread on agricultural fields.

But, like, we wiped it off on our shirts before we shipped it to you. Its all good.

 

[soccerdad]

It doesn't take much to get you guys off on a poop tangent !

 

[wbarber69]

Human Poo and since they are fed the same garbage we eat, dog poo is bad because it may contain up to 1% McDonald's food which is detrimental to your health and the environment in general

 

[GrogNerd]

I just rolled my eyes so much, my a$$ fell off

 

[Onkel_Udo]

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_035763.pdf
USDA says not on food.

So either I misremebered (likely) or the stance has changed. My prior "knowledge" on this was from the discussion of the test plant for composted humanure in Ohio for use on feed-corn plots. It was a join venture of USDA, AEP and an Ethanol conglomerate. Talk about competing agenda's.

AEP wanted the composting done in a controlled environment to recapture the natural gas.

The USDA wanted it to succeed and use the same methods as pig and/cow manure so that farmers could use it in the same hoppers.

Ethanol conglomerate wanted it to fail...but only a little...so that they could have a cheap method of producing composted manure for their NON-feed corn.

 

[Oberon67]

[Harrumph, Harrumph, and more Harrumph!]

Dude... you really need to see a doctor about getting that stick removed.

 

[Kiichi]

This thread kinda has turned to sh*ts recently...

 

[Oberon67]

You know you're a homebrewer when you check the recycling to make sure nobody threw out any beer bottles.

 

[Hamaki]

Dude... you really need to see a doctor about getting that stick removed.

Better a stick than a head, Mr. Hat.

That's a joke, mkay?

 

[monkamillion]

This thread kinda has turned to sh*ts recently...

Well, my wife says her's smells like roses. I reply mine smells like hops.
It all comes full circle...
Badabing!

 

[Oberon67]

Better a stick than a head, Mr. Hat.

That's a joke, mkay?

On reading back over our interaction, I have come to realize that I am at fault. Please accept my apology; I should know better than to give voice to my inner child.

 

[dmarc85]

You take the first sip of your 'best brew yet', only to find your moment of bliss crushed by an overwhelming feeling of despair because you just realized you only have 5 gallons of it.

 

[Hamaki]

On reading back over our interaction, I have come to realize that I am at fault. Please accept my apology; I should know better than to give voice to my inner child.

No apologies necessary and no hard feelings. Just voicing an opinion, that's all.

 

[SPR-GRN]

YKYAHBW - you walk into a package store for the first time in years and realize that beer has somehow gotten even more expensive, and since it's so ridiculously expensive to buy beer, you can merit buying another SS perlick for your keezer since you are saving so much money by brewing instead of buying.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

YKYAHBW - you walk into a package store for the first time in years and realize that beer has somehow gotten even more expensive, and since it's so ridiculously expensive to buy beer, you can merit buying another SS perlick for your keezer since you are saving so much money by brewing instead of buying.

For the win!

 

[BadDeacon]

Back on topic.... Just bought a new house and you know it is meant to be when you find a half empty keg left in the garage and a Newcastle cap sign tucked away in the attic. AND since there is no outside storage, SWMBO agreed that the storage shed that needs to be built can be upgraded to a full brewshed!!!!!!!

Also, I have been wanting to start kegging and this just made it happen.

 

[badlee]

When your toddler becomes very quiet on the back porch and has a huge grin on his face: eating dad's stash of aged hop pellets!

 

[Rotor_Head]

When you look forward to firing up your computer to read about the latest home brew follies and chat with your fellow beer folks right here.

 

[unionrdr]

Ha, home brew follies. I like that, rather descriptive. Then you realize it's Friday as well, so it's time to break out those home brews chillin' in the fridge!

 

[coolharry]

You know you're a home Brewer when youve mopped a ceiling. I know its been said, but I just had my first experience with it and had to come share. Went to unhook the liquid side of my root beer keg and the out post stuck. 30psi can make a pretty impressive geyser!

 

[Black Island Brewer]

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