How Old And How Long Are We All?

[SJW]

Just out of interest

 

[PostModern]

I brewed a long time ago, but then stopped until just about when AHB came online and geeks discovered homebrew. So I put 5-10, tho I first brewed in about 1989.

 

[Brewer_010]

age group 30-35 doesnt exist, so I put 35-40.

Been brewing for around 10 yrs, the first couple of years with pretty ordinary results until I had a good HBS owner point me in the right direction (temperature, hops, yeast, grain etc).

 

[stillscottish]

As a 51 year old I feel slighted that our age group isn't represented in this poll!!!

I've been brewing for 31 years but 15 in the middle were K&K.
Do they still count?

Campbell

 

[dr K]

It seems that a good percentage of us are being left out here...being the 30 - 35 year olds, the 40 - 45 year olds, the 50- 55 year olds, the 60 -65 year old and the 70 -80 year olds, of course if you are less than 20 or greater than eighty there is no effect...

K

 

[Cortez The Killer]

27 next month

Brewing since October 2005
AG'ing since January 2007

Cheers

 

[Stuster]

I've been brewing for 31 years but 15 in the middle were K&K.
Do they still count?

Definitely not. h34r:

I'm intrigued by your brewing career though. What did you brew before the 15 years of K%K? :unsure:


And for the record, I've only been brewing for three and a half years but it feels so much longer.

 

[Adamt]

I've been brewing for about 3 years, and started a bit after I started drinking beer. I only "saw the light" about 2 years ago though.

 

[Lobsta]

how long are we?? :blink: :blink:
cant wait till sqyre gets hold of that one...
i have a feeling that i am the youngest AHB member, possibly the youngest home brewer of all time . can anybody beat 18 and 8 months? (born sep 04 1989)

Lobby

 

[kevo]

No go Lobby you old timer,

Meister of Puppets on the Brewing Network Forum is only about 15/16, seems he can only have a drink when his olds are away!

Kev

 

[dr K]

I bought my first airlock around 1971 or 1972, I had decided to make orange wine, around the same time my Uncle described to me this pumpkin rum that used to be made in the war years (more a pumpkin wine really) where one would cut the top off a qld blue pumpkin (odd term in state of origin times), scoop the seeds out, fill with brown sugar, then seal the top back on with candle wax, set aside and wait, well my wait resulted in an invasion of fruit fly and a stinking mess, made more so because as a 15 year old I had it hidden in a drawer in an old chest of draws I had in my "lab", the old kitchenette at the end of the verandah that had a sink and gas for my bunsen and no other use,,,the orange wine none the less was made, though I was only allowed to sip it ..probably should have put me off alc for life..unrelated I continued on in my virtually non drinking style even after I turned the magic 18, though it must be said that there were cheap and reasonable alternatives available at the time. Around 1977-1978 I had a bit to with homebrew but the product was, well crap, I wound up a home made "still" for "concentrating" cheap port to a clear blue light product (geerr I can still taste it), mucked with I think once only of the mid eighties coopers wort kits, did the kit bit on and off until around 2000 I met some AG guys..the rest is a bedtime brettanomyces story......

K

 

[Uncle Fester]

43 (not selectable in the poll)

Started brewing in 1988 when Brigalow kits were about all there was to choose from.

Stopped in about 1992. Received a coopers kit for father's day in 2003. Have been an avid brewer ever since.

Fester

 

[marlow_coates]

Mum let me get first brigalow brew kit in 1999 when I was 15. Used K and K till Febuary 2008 when Toro convinced me to AG brew. Won't ever look back now...

 

[Millet Man]

40 - I have a range to select from!

Brewed kits back in the early 90's in the first five or so years after Uni, then I got too busy with work and kids to have time to brew and I was paid enough that I could drink what ever beer I wanted so no need to make it myself.

Got back into it in 2003 when I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease, but this time full on into home malting and brewing with gluten free grains, best thing that ever happened to me career wise.

Cheers, Andrew.

 

[white.grant]

42, (another unheard victim of the agist poll conspiracy).

I started brewing in 1989, (from the records it was a Coopers Draught Kit) then stopped in 1998 before restarting this year on a whim. Am planning my first AG this weekend.

 

[stillscottish]

Definitely not. h34r:

I'm intrigued by your brewing career though. What did you brew before the 15 years of K%K? :unsure:


And for the record, I've only been brewing for three and a half years but it feels so much longer.

Extracts and partials.
When we moved to Australia and discovered Coopers Kits on supermarket shelves, I went down that route from the sheer convenience of it.
Then about 7 years ago moved rapidly through Morgans Extracts, James Squire kits and Fresh Wort Kits.
Have been all grain now for 5-6 years.

Campbell

 

[SJW]

i have a feeling that i am the youngest AHB member, possibly the youngest home brewer of all time . can anybody beat 18 and 8 months? (born sep 04 1989)

No one is that young

Sorry about all that age groups missing, I was a little under the ....................wahter...

 

[Ol'Wobbly]

Started in 2003 after I got my first (and so far only) DUI :angry: . I used to be a pub man before that, but stay home and drink HB nowadays. When I think about the money I've saved in 5 years ...

 

[Dave86]

Almost 22, been brewing since a couple of months after my 20th, haven't looked back. Took me about a year to move to AG, already figuring out what I can spend my pay on when I'm in the real world next year (uni student). I wonder how much gear I'll have accumulated by the time I'm 30...

 

[Screwtop]

First brew about 1966 in a plastic garbage bin using liquid malt extract, bakers yeast and dried hop flowers from the grocers, variety ??? (the grocer used to sell them, weighed out and put in a brown paper bag) will never forget that great smell. Recipe was Avon Ale, got it out of an English home brewing book from the city library.

Kits on and off till I found K&K, then Partial followed by AG.