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My wife got tired of the smell, but not the finished product. I actually enjoy brewing out on the deck. It’s reflection time for me.

The SMELL? Geez… how could nobody love the smell? A hot pot of malty wort is as nicely aromatic as baked bread, IMHO! The smell is about 75% of the fun! JJM

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Is papazian supposed to be the man or the woman?… hmmmmmmm.

Or maybe it was his parents posing! Charlie Papazian, age 15, bestselling author, beer prodigy, and future brewmeister! JJM

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hmm – hot tub supping? Sounds like you need a beer fridge RIGHT next to the tub with a kegging system inside and the taps reachable from a sitting position in the water.

Who needs glasses with that set up. Just insert keg hose into mouth and drink… Scott

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This ng has answered, or helped me to answer almost every question that I have ever had. Except for the ones about sex… I had to find out for myself. :{ My current problem is that I’ve just started in this fine hobby and we’re depleting our brew faster than we can create it!

I have had that problem as well… The way that I have started fixing it, is buying the ingredients for two batches at once… With three carboys/buckets, you can get a good rotation going. I have brewed two batches in one day, but most of the time I brew two days in a row. This way I transfer two days in a row, and bottle or keg either on the same day or once again two days in a row. Beer….mmmmmmmmmmm It’s disappointing to hear about some folks here who are banished to the garage.

My wife got tired of the smell, but not the finished product. I actually enjoy brewing out on the deck. It’s reflection time for me. My reflection looks real fine in a glass of homebrew. ha FINE SIGHTS: Watching a new brew happily bubbling away. I wonder if that will ever get old!

no Any idea if the guy in the pictures is Papazian himself?

Is papazian supposed to be the man or the woman?… hmmmmmmm. Jonathan

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Ah yes, the discovery that home brew is good enough to drink and the dilemma that it never gets to its full potential because it’s good enough to drink ! Given a consumption level of a mere 10 or 12 pints a week (volumes keep increasing when friends and neighbors discover the brew is good) a 20 litre brew only lasts 3 or 4 weeks ! Once-a-month brewing barely keeps pace with this and you need at least 2 untouched brews to keep the beer all of a reasonable maturity. The only solution is to brew like fury for a month or two. Make a batch every weekend until you can store no more! Then think about kegging ! (c: Enjoy ! Chris – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My current problem is that I’ve just started in this fine hobby and we’re depleting our brew faster than we can create it!

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My beer has been improved from reading this n.g. Thanks to all… :-} FINE SIGHTS: Watching a new brew happily bubbling away. I wonder if that will ever get old!

Not yet, I do get worried when it doesn’t. FUNNY SIGHTS: The husband-wife brewing pictures in Papazian’s "Joy of Homebrewing" book. I mean, look at them! They’re constantly carrying around these fully topped-out mugs of beer while they produce their batch. It’s actually cute, however I find the last thing I can deal with is hefting mugs of beer while I’m trying to juggle funnels and hoses in a sterile environment! :^) Any idea if the guy in the pictures is Papazian himself?

Try looking at the pictures in reverse order, the woman starts out helping brew, and one of the last pictures she is almost flat on her back on the floor, still holding onto that beer though. ;-} Andrew M

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Howdy John, Funny how 5 gallons of beer seems like alot until you drink it eh? I second you on the great folks who contribute to this NG. Thanks guys! About the JOHB, I don’t know if that’s Papazian, but I’m hip to the retro do’s! -Brett – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just wanted to say what a lively, helpful newsgroup this is! I can’t stand most newsgroups because of the petty arguing and bickering that usually goes on. The signal-noise ratio here is pretty impressive, and I always come away with many new tidbits of brewing wisdom. My current problem is that I’ve just started in this fine hobby and we’re depleting our brew faster than we can create it! My first recipe was a London Brown kit made in the typical cheap bucket apparatus. My wife and I were floored how this cheap effort created such an excellent beer… nearly as good as some of the West Coast microbrews! On Halloween one of our friends who hates beer ended up drinking 4 of our homebrews during a Halloween party. She couldn’t get enough of it! Our nightly hot tub dips have depleted the rest of the batch. I have a wheat beer kit in secondary fermentation right now… but it’s two weeks until it’s drinkable! :^( However I did vary the recipe by dumping a cup of honey into the wort and cut the batch size from 5 down to 4.5 gallons, so I’m looking forward to seeing how it comes out. Preliminary tasting shows it’s extremely sweet, but I do have a hard time judging flat beer. UPS should be bringing a Munich Helles kit Monday or Tuesday. I guess the moral of the story is if you enjoy brewing that first batch, don’t wait around to brew that second one! Getting properly situated on the production vs. consumption curve is quite a challenge. And I’m glad to have a sympathetic wife (actually one who’s extremely interested in helping out). It’s disappointing to hear about some folks here who are banished to the garage. FINE SIGHTS: Watching a new brew happily bubbling away. I wonder if that will ever get old! FUNNY SIGHTS: The husband-wife brewing pictures in Papazian’s "Joy of Homebrewing" book. I mean, look at them! They’re constantly carrying around these fully topped-out mugs of beer while they produce their batch. It’s actually cute, however I find the last thing I can deal with is hefting mugs of beer while I’m trying to juggle funnels and hoses in a sterile environment! :^) Any idea if the guy in the pictures is Papazian himself? JJM

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I guess the moral of the story is if you enjoy brewing that first batch, don’t wait around to brew that second one! Getting

Not wrong! Flat-out production is the solution, as is getting a few more tubs for primary fermentation. hmm – hot tub supping? Sounds like you need a beer fridge RIGHT next to the tub with a kegging system inside and the taps reachable from a sitting position in the water. FINE SIGHTS: Watching a new brew happily bubbling away. I wonder if that will ever get old!

Not so far. It’s like waiting for baby to be born. Although I’m assuming a lot here FUNNY SIGHTS: The husband-wife brewing pictures in Papazian’s "Joy of Homebrewing" book. I mean, look at them! They’re constantly carrying around these fully topped-out mugs of beer while they produce their batch. It’s actually cute, however I find the last thing I can deal with is hefting mugs of beer while I’m trying to juggle funnels and hoses in a sterile environment! :^) Any idea if the guy in the pictures is Papazian himself?

Good question and one I’ve wondered about myself. Another picture of the man with a beard (is that on the back of the book?) shows someone older and I couldn’t decide if it’s the same. — Space Corps Directive #723 Terraformers are expressly forbidden from recreating Swindon. — Red Dwarf

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Just wanted to say what a lively, helpful newsgroup this is! I can’t stand most newsgroups because of the petty arguing and bickering that usually goes on. The signal-noise ratio here is pretty impressive, and I always come away with many new tidbits of brewing wisdom. My current problem is that I’ve just started in this fine hobby and we’re depleting our brew faster than we can create it! My first recipe was a London Brown kit made in the typical cheap bucket apparatus. My wife and I were floored how this cheap effort created such an excellent beer… nearly as good as some of the West Coast microbrews! On Halloween one of our friends who hates beer ended up drinking 4 of our homebrews during a Halloween party. She couldn’t get enough of it! Our nightly hot tub dips have depleted the rest of the batch. I have a wheat beer kit in secondary fermentation right now… but it’s two weeks until it’s drinkable! :^( However I did vary the recipe by dumping a cup of honey into the wort and cut the batch size from 5 down to 4.5 gallons, so I’m looking forward to seeing how it comes out. Preliminary tasting shows it’s extremely sweet, but I do have a hard time judging flat beer. UPS should be bringing a Munich Helles kit Monday or Tuesday. I guess the moral of the story is if you enjoy brewing that first batch, don’t wait around to brew that second one! Getting properly situated on the production vs. consumption curve is quite a challenge. And I’m glad to have a sympathetic wife (actually one who’s extremely interested in helping out). It’s disappointing to hear about some folks here who are banished to the garage. FINE SIGHTS: Watching a new brew happily bubbling away. I wonder if that will ever get old! FUNNY SIGHTS: The husband-wife brewing pictures in Papazian’s "Joy of Homebrewing" book. I mean, look at them! They’re constantly carrying around these fully topped-out mugs of beer while they produce their batch. It’s actually cute, however I find the last thing I can deal with is hefting mugs of beer while I’m trying to juggle funnels and hoses in a sterile environment! :^) Any idea if the guy in the pictures is Papazian himself? JJM

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