How Many Generations?

[Katherine]

Due to another thread the other day it got me thinking... What generation brewer are you?

I'm third generations and both of my grand dads on either side brewed.

:icon_cheers:

Cheers Katie

 

[reVoxAHB]

first gen here.

reVox

 

[Benniee]

Second Gen. My dad used to brew and my father-in-law still brews.

Dad was an extract brewer - worked off the one recipe all the time. FIL is a kit + kilo brewer and my efforts to shift him away from white sugar have proved pointless. But, brew whatever you like to drink I say.

Ben

 

[Bribie G]

My Dad brewed in the 1940s until the day he died in 1985 starting off after the War with liquid malt extract and whatever hops, and bakers yeast maybe? In those days bottling was a breeze because in the UK, bottled beer meant quart (2 pint) bottles with stone stoppers lined with a rubber grommet and they were virtually everlasting. No PET or woosie crown sealers.

In those days the vicar would call round to his flock every couple of weeks to say hello. I (five years old) let him into the council flat just as Dad was bottling and a bottom cracked and fell out of one of the quart bottles completely covering Mam with beer (she had been putting something away in a drawer under where Dad was working). Took some explaining as to why the little flat reeked like a brewery and the lady of the house was saturated with grog at ten o'clock in the morning.

As an adult in my 20s I went back to live with the folks for two years before Dad died, we bought a bruheat boiler, Dave Line's big book of brewing and made magnificent all grain brews using Saaz, hallertau, true yeasts, Euro grain malt etc, and the craft had advanced a century in just a few decades.

 

[0M39A]

Im not really first, not really second.

Apparently my grandad used to brew, although how close to beer he got would be debatable. Heard stories of his sassafrass beer (using sassafrass bark) and bakers yeast to ferment :icon_vomit:

old man has never been interested in brewing, nor drinking decent beer (carlton cold, tooheys red, extra dry or pure blond). Never interested in trying any of the beers i make, and when he finally does comes out with some stupid comment. eg, american ipa, ~55ibu, bursting at the seems with hop flavour... "its not very hoppy"

 

[Katherine]

FIL is a kit + kilo brewer and my efforts to shift him away from white sugar have proved pointless. But, brew whatever you like to drink I say.

Yes the same with my father... he just shakes his head at the effort I put in. 6 hours a brew he says grab yourself a can opener! But he did say the other day "you brew because you enjoy to brew, I don't enjoy brewing, I like to drink" Though I must say he brews a drinkable beer. He has being doing since I can remember he wont change his ways.

 

[raven19]

2nd generation with a gap... or does that make it 3rd... or 2.5...? :lol:

My grandfather brewed his own, my dad does not, but I do brew...

Bring on brew day over the weekend.
Cheers.

 

[Effect]

first gen...

my grand parents and parents don't drink beer

 

[warra48]

Second generation, but backwards.

My son actually brewed before I did, but only the odd K&K.

Daughter and son bought me a Brewcraft kit for my birthday. Only 6 months later I was brewing AG, and haven't looked back.

 

[reviled]

Yes the same with my father... he just shakes his head at the effort I put in. 6 hours a brew he says grab yourself a can opener! But he did say the other day "you brew because you enjoy to brew, I don't enjoy brewing, I like to drink" Though I must say he brews a drinkable beer. He has being doing since I can remember he wont change his ways.

Isnt Pistol Patch your dad? He wouldnt just open a can opener would he? :unsure:

Im a first gen, but im trying to get my old man into it, and my 6 month son is destined for brewing too :beerbang:

 

[petesbrew]

first gen...

my grand parents and parents don't drink beer

Same here.
But I hope to pass my "learnings" onto my kids when they grow up.

 

[Gerard_M]

Big gap between generations here. My great-grandfather worked for The South Australian Brewing Company when they opened a brewery at the northern end of Beryl Street, Broken Hill in about 1890. (I believe that Wes Smith was involved with the initial installation of this plant ) This brewery was closed in 1926, from which date all supplies were transported from Adelaide. My Grand-parents lived in his house opposite the Beryl St brewery until the mid-1980's.

Cheers
Gerard

 

[Katherine]

Isnt Pistol Patch your dad? He wouldnt just open a can opener would he?

ROFL.... his my BIAB daddy.... not my real daddy!

 

[randyrob]

the first thing i did when i moved out of home was get a coopers home brew kit and start brewing (well we'll call it brewing for this case)
it was something i thought i wouldn't be allowed to do while i was still living at home then i found out my ol' man used to brew ginger beer!

so i'd like to think second tho i didn't actually learn anything brew related from him!

 

[jeddog]

My dads dad was a publican, my dad was a publican , my mum was a barmaid, my brother is a winemaker, my other brother is a brewer. :huh:

So that makes me a third generation piss head :lol:

and first generation brewer

 

[~MikE]

dunno what i am, i got into brewing before i knew dad used to brew his own for a short period of time... so technically second gen?

 

[Pollux]

Grandfather brews his own, both my parents drink beer but don't brew and now I brew...

 

[wakkatoo]

guess I'm second. Old man was a k'n'k'er back when I was a young fella, but he stopped well before I took it up. He sees my keg setup now, gets a tear in his eye, slaps my back and says 'that's my boy!' :lol:
He might brew again. Makes the odd comment about how good it must be to have beer on tap. Might leave a keg to condition at his place with gas bulb and bronco tap attached

 

[jimi]

My great grandfather owned or ran (depending on your history) the white flag hotle in bradford just outside Maldon. That's the reason for my avatar. Apparently his daughters were the only family members to see the inside of the place and all the dozen or so sons were forbidden to enter. It's been suggested that the "lock out" may have sporned the interest in brewing in the subsequent generations. It must have skipped a my father though - he's a tea totaller

 

[crowley]

Second generation, but we started at the same time.