Brought Another Into The Fold

[DecoJuicer]

I helped my brother-in-law(my favorite one) make a his first batch of beer last night. We made Rocketmans' "Launch Pad's Pluto Porter" and a Blue Moon clone. I let him use my equipment and took him to the LHBS to let him buy his own ingredients. Then we sat around in his garage drinking beers and making beer. At the end of the night, I told him that he could have one of my primary fermentors and a bottling bucket. A buddy of his that used to brew dropped by and told him that he would donate a 5 gallon carboy to the cause. Joe said that he is going out this week to get a stainless steel brew pot and a turkey fryer.

He is so hooked.

[Goban]

Outstanding, Keep’em coming!

[justin27]

Has he done this head yet?

Justin

[gone_fishing]

You are an official beer disciple... so far I'm just supporting the habits of other drinkers! Now, when are you bringing him over here?

[SoxyinMO]

Good going Deco!

I may have one soon. Mwahahahahaha. My soon to be son-in-law claims he wants to learn...we'll see when he gets here.

[Otis_The_Drunk]

Give a man a beer and get him drunk for a day, Teach a man to brew, he gets drunk for a life time.

[Kyle_Draven]

I just got somebody started here at my college and have another one that is saving up to get started. Maybe I could put reverend in front of my name. I could use an extra tax break. Maybe I could call it the First church of Zymergy.

[DecoJuicer]

I never thought about that. I am already an ordained minister through the Church of Universal Life (www.universalministries.com). On sundays, we could brew up a batch and read from the texts of homebrewing books. Just picture it, men all over the Metro Detroit area getting out of bed on Sunday mornings and being so excited to go to church that they could hardly stand it. During football season, the service would be 6 hours long!!

Hmmmm...Thanks for the idea Kyle.

By the way, my brother-in-law says that he thinks that my father-in-law would probably like to try it to when he comes home from Florida in the summer. This is kind of like a pyramid scheme. If I get 2 beers from Joe, and then 1 beer from every person he recruits, and 1 beer from everybody THEY recruit...

[corkybstewart]

I let my computer tech brew a batch with me a couple of months ago. We'll bottle his second batch this weekend and he's pushing to gewt started on the next. He wants to brew with me about 5 or 6 times to get the hang of it before starting out on his own. And he's determined to go all grain from the start. He's started talking to our shop foreman/welder about a 3-tiered setup like mine. He bit, the hook is set, and I'm reeling him in.

[chazwicke]

Originally posted by DecoJuicer
I am already an ordained minister through the Church of Universal Life (www.universalministries.com).


Me too!

[MikShau]

I like the church idea. The supreme court just ruled that the church holds services using halucengenic tea can't be harrassed by the police. Maybe a church built around a 10 bbl brewhouse could get around the tax laws.

[DecoJuicer]

Chaz,

I got "ordained about 4 years ago. The dive shop that I worked for runs a charter boat, and we joked about offering underwater weddings. I found the website, and in about 5 minutes I was a minister. Sadly, nobody ever took us up on the underwater wedding idea, but I am still a man of the cloth. Most of the people I know thought that it was hilarious, but a few were extremely offended. Screw 'em if they can't take a joke.

I wonder how quick the ATF would be here if I opened a brew pub and then claimed it was a religious building. I could offer sanctuary to men who are hidin from their wives. I could grant anullments to people who have been married for 10 years. I could marry people who had a blood alcohol level 3 times the legal limit. The best part would be that all the people drinking there could write off every pint they drank as a donation to the church!!

Wow, what a racket. This almost like real religion.

[chazwicke]

I've been one for a while now too. My nephew, his buddy and I all were ordained around the same time. Basically because my nephew wanted one of us to conduct his wedding. His buddy did the job in fine fashion. I usually don't tell folks about it. But I also do try to take it fairly seriously. I love the fact that you can make your own church personalized and that Universal Life is non denominational. Suits me just fine.

[DecoJuicer]

I actually wouldn't have done it if it had been some crackpot religious order. I liked their statement about how respecting others rights and beliefs and trying to live your own life in a moral and ethical way.

[Beer Monkey]

I joined up in the late '90s but haven't done anything with it, threatened a few times.

I keep looking for a brewer around here to brew with I like the idea of gaining that inside knowledge from the other brewers, the books are great ways to learn but hands on is always better. granted I keep pushing back when I'm gonna get into it, I've got some major shoulder surgery coming up in april and the lifting of carboys let alone ones full of beer is pretty much out of the question.

[gone_fishing]

Deco and Chaz, I've long claimed that my fishing was really going to "The Church of the Open Pond" (came up with that one when the wife was giving me grief for never going to church with her)... perhaps I should look into becoming ordained myself!

[Damon93]

Must be something in the air. I just got my brother in law juiced to get on board with the homebrew revolution after I had him help me brew up a batch of Cerveza. He ran right out and got all the equipment he needed and hasn't looked back.

[DecoJuicer]

I just talked to my brother-in-law today about how the beers were doing. He told me that his beer got off to kind of a slow start, but is bubbling away really well now. The beer I brewed on the other hand is rocking, and has been since Sunday.

I used a blow off tube for mine instead of an airlock, because I have had wheat beers come through the airlock, and I thought this beer might be the same. He said that the growler that I put the tube inot was actually jumping in the pot large dish that I put the growler into.

He sounded like a proud papa when he was telling me about how his porter was bubbling.

My next step is to get him to sign up here. He likes to waste time on the computer, so this place is perfect for him.

[gone_fishing]

Wait...this is wasting time???

[Goban]

Sure it is, didn’t you know that?

At least that is what most of our wives think. Uh, husbands too I'm guessing…

[jdubbmancandy]

thats cool non denomination just belive and resoect others and dont bash everybody else because they don't beleive what you do thats a cool deal i like your idea deco id start one on some property and write it off.

[Goban]

I agree. My wife gets made because I rarely go to church with her.

But if you, Deco, were to open a church around here, I’d probably never miss mass again. :)

[Otis_The_Drunk]

I also have a Minister's License.
What I am wondering is how will we despence communion?
Will we be serving pints of English Brown Ale and sub sandwichs?
Never like that dry wine and crackers that the other churchs hand out.

[DecoJuicer]

I was thinking Pints and pretzels.

[chazwicke]

Real Ale and fish and chips.

[DecoJuicer]

Originally posted by chazwicke
Real Ale and fish and chips.

I like your idea better.

[Kyle_Draven]

I have created a monster. If the church gets large enough we would have to elect a beer pope. When the smoke coming out of the mash tun is white a new beer pope has been decided. I think we should use steak and beer for communion.