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Hi guys,

Just a quick intro.

Heard about you guys at a Nobal Grape, then sampled a delicous beer at RockBottom that had something to do with Brewnoses (receipe by a forum member maybe?)

That night I went home and started on a mission... First, decode that delicous Chipotle Chicken Pasta receipe (DONE) next, dive into homebrew!

My father in law got me started, and since then I've done 3 Festa Brews myself, and helped him with a morgans kit...

I'm going to do a few more entry level kits then move onto a partial grain!

What an exciting hobby.

With a few hundred bottles going, I'm also looking into a Kegorator, already have a beer fridge!

With endless beer on tap - How do you guys keep from gaining tones of weight and being perminately shitfaced all the time??

Cheers!

BenFrank wrote:With endless beer on tap - How do you guys keep from gaining tones of weight and being perminately shitfaced all the time??

Work and being too busy to be shitfaced all the time does it for me.

Welcome! I gave in.

I run marathons, and cycle or walk just about everywhere. I move my car once per week on average.

LOL.

I haven't handled the putting on a ton of weight bit - and you'll notice that it's mostly the young guys in this hobby that aren't packing a little extra...

As for being permanently shit-faced, I try to brew mostly lower gravity beers. That doesn't do much to prevent adding weight - unfermented starches are just as fattening as alcohol - but it means I can drink 3 pints a day.

BenFrank wrote:With endless beer on tap - How do you guys keep from gaining tones of weight and being perminately shitfaced all the time??

Cheers!

You'll soon find that you have a large number of friends willing to help out with all that surplus beer.

akr71 wrote: You'll soon find that you have a large number of friends willing to help out with all that surplus beer.

That depends where you are. Out here in the middle of nowhere, not so much...

BenFrank wrote: With endless beer on tap - How do you guys keep from gaining tones of weight and being perminately shitfaced all the time??

Cheers!

First, welcome.

I have a sizeable beer gut for my size but I'm trying to get rid of it without exercise or dieting.. just using the power of my mind. So far
I'm shit out of luck.

And I like to brew session beer so I can have a few pints without being shitfaced all the time.

Tony L wrote:I'm trying to get rid of it without exercise or dieting.. just using the power of my mind. So far
I'm shit out of luck.

There are some great responses here. Like Jeff I don't seem to have time to be shitfaced, although it does sneak up on you. Especially at meetings when there is so much tasty beer to try (at least our meetings out here in SAAZ). As for the spare tire, all I have to say is wait till you get to all the things you can cook with an unlimited supply of wort/beer. That's when your in trouble land.

Yeah, our SAAZ meetings can definitely sneak up on you. We always seem to have so much great beer that needs to disappear in one evenIng.

welcome

Some funny replies here guys, happy to be a member.

I guess I missed the meeting lastnight, hope it went well...

As for an endless supply of friends willing to help drink the beer, I'm partially to blame... I'm so excited to be brewing that I've given away half my first batch and I've been given requests for more!

Maybe it's time for a bigger house, carboys, buckets and bottles take up a lot of space.

Beer gut: Novice - Average size but I've got plans to go pro soon...

benwedge wrote:I run marathons, and cycle or walk just about everywhere. I move my car once per week on average.

but isn't that because it broke down?

bluenose wrote:

benwedge wrote:I run marathons, and cycle or walk just about everywhere. I move my car once per week on average.

but isn't that because it broke down?

Pushing a car around town once a week sounds like a good workout.

bluenose wrote:

benwedge wrote:I run marathons, and cycle or walk just about everywhere. I move my car once per week on average.

but isn't that because it broke down?

The car was never out of commission, it just needed a pricey repair to not wind up out of commission. But Kyle is right, if I start pushing that up Duke St I'll be fit in no time.

I had to push my motorbike up quill once... I wouldn't recommend pushing a car around

Bluenose,

What kind of bike to you ride?

I'm from New Glasgow too.

Are you also in New Glasgow?

I have a 750 shadow... I can imagine having to push something larger and it would suck

Great meeting you and the Missus today Ben