When your girlfriend suggests that you should brew at her house, and her dining room, kitchen and basement are full of your brewing supplies and fermenters]
What a mistake on her part. She must be trying to keep you!
When your girlfriend suggests that you should brew at her house, and her dining room, kitchen and basement are full of your brewing supplies and fermenters]
When the cleanest things in your house are 6.5 gallon buckets and 10 gallon pots.
When you become secretly disappointed about weekend events you must attend, because you'd rather be brewing.
When you see this and your first thought is, "what a waste of fermentation space"
And your second thought is, "I could make a fortune off my old buckets!"
We went and looked at reception halls today. One of them -- and far and away our favorite -- was a winery about 25 miles from where we're planning the wedding. Guy is INCREDIBLY easy to work with - he has only two hard and fast rules: No hard liquor, and if he sees anyone carrying a box of Franzia, he's going to beat them with it. Outside of that "he has a rigid policy of being flexible". Discussing the bar, we can serve any of his wines, but he does not have a beer license and doesn't want it. We can bring in cans or kegs, he will keep them in his cooler and stock them in the fridge - said he can do everything but physically hand the beer to our guests.Congratulations! A word of warning, though:
My daughter was married over the weekend and we had the reception in Dubuque. Of course I wanted to have some homebrew at the reception and was told I could not. Something about Iowa laws....this despite the fact they would have gotten the beer from me for free, whereas otherwise it was part of the contract.
We provided beer and wine at the reception but I was told I could only supply beer from their distributor. And you can guess what they had available (BMC). Ended up holding my nose and going Miller Lite and MGD.
Maybe it's different where you live in IA, maybe I don't have the laws right, but before you get too far along make sure you can do it at the reception venue.
Yes trunk of a juniper he cut down. Any hidden pun meanings I'm afraid are beyond my english skill (though I have a hunch...)
No pun or innuendo intended.
I have never heard of anyone's neighbor giving them a log before and thought it was funny in a WTF? sort of way.
When you're out of carboys and buckets, and unable to start something else, because you have several batches of beer, mead and wine going at the same time.
When Father's Day is approaching and your wife says "I have no idea what you need or want for your brewing needs, so maybe you should just order what you want". My response "Really"? Wife's "Yes, I can't keep track of what you do". Me "Ok, since there's no spending limit...". Wife very quickly "Slow down, I didn't say you have a blank check"! HAHA
Finally bought myself a Fermonster for my birthday, because two (six gallon) carboys is not enough.....
We have a bucket and 5 gal plastic carboy, and several glass carboys, but we don't like buckets (can't see what's going down!) 5 gal too small for beer- krausen and won't fill a 5 gal keg. And glass is purely used for bulk aging of wine and cider 'cause safety issues, and weight.
So we have quite a collection of fermenters!
When you totally lose track of time browsing websites filled with all sorts of shiny new gadgets you'd love to add to your home brewing set up.
When you sleep with your beer under your pillow? And stick a nipple on one to suck on to fall asleep. What!
when someone walks into your kitchen, sees an ehrlenmeyer flask spinning away on a cigar box stir plate, looks at you and says "what the hell are you doing?"
Every cooler looks like a mash tun
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