A good friend of mine went to an event like that a few months ago and brought me a pound of whole leaf centennial so I feel you on that!! Smoking ribs and a drunken chicken and drinking homebrew outside. Brewing happiness!Getting 26 oz of free CRYO hops at homebrew con, half price galaxy and other freebies to bring home.
I haven’t had one “blow”, but I’ve pitched slurry from the fridge and had days of lag time. Solution- do a quick vitality starter, even shaking it in a mason jar (without a tight lid of course) with wort instead of setting up a stir plate works.The constant learning process is something special to me... I knew I had learned something that will help me in future brews; namely, if your yeast slurry explodes on you upon opening (straight out of the refrigerator I might add), you might NOT want to use it.
I usually do vitality starters, for this one I didn't and don't know why. Lazy me!I haven’t had one “blow”, but I’ve pitched slurry from the fridge and had days of lag time. Solution- do a quick vitality starter, even shaking it in a mason jar (without a tight lid of course) with wort instead of setting up a stir plate works.
Seeing fermentation happen after days of waiting, is happiness too.
thinking, there is no other beer, home brew or commercial that I’d rather be drinking now.
Pulling the tap handle and filling my mug full of fresh, delicious, and satisfying homebrew. Then, most importantly, drinking it!
finding A competition that isn’t postponed would provide some happiness.
Me too. I had four entries all ready to go for a competition last month that has been postponed indefinitely. Same competition that I won my very first medal (silver) last year. I know at least three of them would have medalled, too. Oh well, now I have plenty of time to refine them for next year.finding A competition that isn’t postponed would provide some happiness.
Some happiness would be getting my gear back together after two lost batches after infections and find out its fixed.
Doing a group brewday over Zoom with your two very good friends (who live multiple states away) as we all got into homebrewing around the same time after much talking and no doing.
Oh….wait. I haven’t actually been able to experience that yet since our schedules never to seem to mesh….
They don’t brew often
I enjoy being in the local HBCs. Good people mostly, good fun and a great way to learn and hone skills.Yeah, we’ve sent vids of airlock activity cuzz…yeah it’s fun. I’ve had one attend a zoom brew session of mine, and I’ve attended one of another’s, but I really want to have us all brew the same damn beer together. Doesn’t seem like it would be that tough..but it has been. They don’t brew often, so that doesn’t help either.
Me thinks I need to join a local brew club vs waiting for schedules to align.
Try a triple-decoction Czech pilsner, that's a nine-hour brew day for me.The actual brewing is fun too. The sights and smells are the best, but brew day is only about 4 hours
Then enjoy. Decoction mashes just aren't worth it at all from what I've read.Try a triple-decoction Czech pilsner, that's a nine-hour brew day for me.
And I love it.
Maybe we could do a brew day together. I brew damn near every week usually on the weekend and I have been wanting to hang out and brew with somebody and talk beer but my friends just aren't into beer as much as I am.Yeah, we’ve sent vids of airlock activity cuzz…yeah it’s fun. I’ve had one attend a zoom brew session of mine, and I’ve attended one of another’s, but I really want to have us all brew the same damn beer together. Doesn’t seem like it would be that tough..but it has been. They don’t brew often, so that doesn’t help either.
Me thinks I need to join a local brew club vs waiting for schedules to align.
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