BreezyBrew
IPA is my spirit animal
There's some aspects of homebrewing that when you pick up the hobby, you don't necessarily expect.
1.) If you brew outside, you become a master at the garden hose. Spraying kettles and pitchers, bags, carboys, heck, you even find yourself spraying the hose itself. You also have about $50 in garden hose accessories, that you didn't even knew existed before you started brewing.
2.) You become a master stirrer. And stir you will. Stirring wort, stirring extract, stirring minerals into water, sometimes asking yourself, why am I stirring this? But you continue...
3.) It's really easy to spend lots of money on accessories for this hobby. I don't know about you, but I have a plastic bin where all of my old gear goes for processes that didn't work out so well. Reluctant to throw it out, the bin keeps getting bigger. Nevermind that homebrewing library in your office.
4.) You become a master cleaner. You can clean a pile of dishes in the sink with one hand in just under a minute. Cleaning old food is quite pleasurable in fact, when comparing it to a carboy that has had krausen caked to the top for the the last couple of weeks.
5.) Thinking to yourself "why didn't I start homebrewing sooner?" Man, if I had only started brewing when I was 22 or so, I'd have that much more experience!
1.) If you brew outside, you become a master at the garden hose. Spraying kettles and pitchers, bags, carboys, heck, you even find yourself spraying the hose itself. You also have about $50 in garden hose accessories, that you didn't even knew existed before you started brewing.
2.) You become a master stirrer. And stir you will. Stirring wort, stirring extract, stirring minerals into water, sometimes asking yourself, why am I stirring this? But you continue...
3.) It's really easy to spend lots of money on accessories for this hobby. I don't know about you, but I have a plastic bin where all of my old gear goes for processes that didn't work out so well. Reluctant to throw it out, the bin keeps getting bigger. Nevermind that homebrewing library in your office.
4.) You become a master cleaner. You can clean a pile of dishes in the sink with one hand in just under a minute. Cleaning old food is quite pleasurable in fact, when comparing it to a carboy that has had krausen caked to the top for the the last couple of weeks.
5.) Thinking to yourself "why didn't I start homebrewing sooner?" Man, if I had only started brewing when I was 22 or so, I'd have that much more experience!