I squeeze my toothpaste tube in the middle. When I'm a guest in someone's home, if their toilet paper hangs off the back, I will flip the roll.
A few years ago I lost my ability to smell.. Anything . I could have lived in a sewage plant and never smelled a thing. Had a cold and got nerve damage the doc said and it's common apparently. It was so bad I stopped home brewing cuz it all tasted bad . Fast forward 5 years and I have 80-85 of my ability to smell back.. Now I don't like hops .. Almost at all . The aroma is fine but almost all beers I taste are way way way to bitter . Anything over 15 IBUs is too much
And I can no longer appreciate deep rich dopplebocks etc like I used too. I lived in Germany for 3 years and they were my faves. Now.. Sigh... I like low hopped.
Blonde ales. Cream ales with corn notes. Etc etc . I feel like a turncoat to the spirit of home brewing , brewing these "commercial" beers that are all I can like now. IMO they are far superior but still. I feel a bit like a outcast faker. I know it's stupid but there it is.
I use Dawn to clean all my equipment. The sad thing is, I have an unopened tub of PBW sitting right out in the open in the brewery.
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I admit I've been drinking this lately since my homebrew pipeline went dry... Even my bmc friends give me crap about it. But I say it's $21 spent wisely in a time of need
A few years ago I lost my ability to smell.. Anything . I could have lived in a sewage plant and never smelled a thing. Had a cold and got nerve damage the doc said and it's common apparently. It was so bad I stopped home brewing cuz it all tasted bad . Fast forward 5 years and I have 80-85 of my ability to smell back.. Now I don't like hops .. Almost at all . The aroma is fine but almost all beers I taste are way way way to bitter . Anything over 15 IBUs is too much
And I can no longer appreciate deep rich dopplebocks etc like I used too. I lived in Germany for 3 years and they were my faves. Now.. Sigh... I like low hopped.
Blonde ales. Cream ales with corn notes. Etc etc . I feel like a turncoat to the spirit of home brewing , brewing these "commercial" beers that are all I can like now. IMO they are far superior but still. I feel a bit like a outcast faker. I know it's stupid but there it is.
I get lazy on my scheduled kegging day and sometimes let a beer sit in primary for an extra two weeks after it's done until I find the motivation to keg. Has something to do with having to clean the fermenter afterwards. Then I eventually do keg it and wonder why I put it off for so long since it is pretty quick and easy.....rinse, repeat....
I sometimes use only one hand to pull the paper towels out of the dispenser in the men's room even thought the diagrammed instructions clearly state to use both hands.
I spend too much time ogling fancy homebrew automation gadgets. So far I've held myself to a BrewPi style ferm temp controller.
I drank my first (and so far only) RIS as soon as it was carbed up in the corny and kept telling myself that filling the glass half full would make it last. I had to make twice as many trips to the kegerator though.
Todd
A few years ago I lost my ability to smell.. Anything . I could have lived in a sewage plant and never smelled a thing. Had a cold and got nerve damage the doc said and it's common apparently. It was so bad I stopped home brewing cuz it all tasted bad . Fast forward 5 years and I have 80-85 of my ability to smell back.. Now I don't like hops .. Almost at all . The aroma is fine but almost all beers I taste are way way way to bitter . Anything over 15 IBUs is too much
And I can no longer appreciate deep rich dopplebocks etc like I used too. I lived in Germany for 3 years and they were my faves. Now.. Sigh... I like low hopped.
Blonde ales. Cream ales with corn notes. Etc etc . I feel like a turncoat to the spirit of home brewing , brewing these "commercial" beers that are all I can like now. IMO they are far superior but still. I feel a bit like a outcast faker. I know it's stupid but there it is.
I stopped to pick up an empty bottle off the street that was half buried in slush and full if frozen I don't-know-what.
It will get washed and added to the rotation.
My hydrometer has long brunette hair. It usually only takes three if it finished to around 1012. After five or six I can tell if it was high gravity pretty easily. I have had her for over twenty years and have not dropped or broken her yet. She is very reliable.
sorry, double posted accidentally
i hear they have more fun.
When I buy liquid yeast....I make a starter, then double up on that starter, then harvest it all back into flasks in the fridge. Now I have 3-4 flasks of liquid yeast. Before the actual brew day, I make a starter. Risky? Yeah, it might be. But luck has been on my side and so far, so good.
I wonder if that wasn't the point of his confession. Most of the confessions on this thread are about how little care is given about different aspects of brewing ("and I still make amazing beers, not that I have ever put anything up for judging, but all my friends tell me it's great, so I must be doing it right!"), and now, to confess that you actually do something that shows more care to the process is ironic.That just sounds like good practice to me.
That just sounds like good practice to me. I think I'm doing that next time I buy liquid yeast. What flasks are you using? The regular while lab vials or something else?
I've been glued to this site all day and last night (after several commercial beers). Am obsessed with the beer I made last weekend. SWMBO is not pleased.
I literally tucked a carboy in for the night last week. That and the video I made of peak fermentation have my wife very concerned.
That's HILARIOUS! I actually put beer into a clear fermenter and not a bucket just because I love to watch the beer ferment. Its awesome to watch it bubble around.
That's HILARIOUS! I actually put beer into a clear fermenter and not a bucket just because I love to watch the beer ferment. Its awesome to watch it bubble around.
MOTHER OF GOD! This actually exists? Costco, you've gone too far
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