Whats your hobby #2 and beer.

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JCH

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I don't know how close we are getting to the thread limit so here goes. I have been brewing beer for 2+ years. I will say no more, as I am 22yo, other than my parental unit gave its blessing. I brew because I can brew beer that is very good, very cheap. By "very" good I mean awesome beer. I can't say better than Irish , just your own. After I tasted my first batch I said "Holy crap, I pay X for this!". I invested about $70 and I got 5 gallons of beer. After that I have learned to love this hobby. With time you can come up with anything you want. The only link I have is http://www.ebrew.com . This is too easy! A few hours time (-4) and a few weeks(-12), you get great beer.

Back to the hobby thing. Whats yours?

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DUM SPIRO SPERO
While I Breath I Hope
 
After the gun thing and my wife I would say the barn and horse thing. Everyone needs to have a horse to go with each sixshooter. :) :) Sure does beat trying to pack a dead elk on your back for 20 miles too. :)
 
From one expensive hobby to another. I skydive. Got a new Laser 9 rig that is dying to be jumped. It's just so expensive for the lifts here in TN that I can't go but just a few times a year. Wife goes apesh*t when I go also. When she's at work I try to get in one or two, then tell her I made a hop. After the initial "OH MY GOD!!!" She usually says that she's glad she didn't know.

[This message has been edited by Tony White (edited July 30, 2000).]
 
My first hobby is study of the RKBA. Second is shootin, third horses. Read Radom's reply to my wife. She told me to tell him that she agrees completly.... a horse to go with each sixshooter.

I've got a little appy mare who is being shown this comming friday in the National Appaloosa Show in Red Bluff.

Tried and still do have the workings to make beer and wine... Just can't seem to find the time to brew up a batch. Working for a winery, I can and have gotten a few gallons of free run juice and finished it off. Better than trying to crush all those little critters by hand.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
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JCH...thanks for the link. Been studying the idea of home brewing for a couple of months-gathering info right now on it and saving those bottle with the little metal thingy and ceramic plugs. :)

Hobbies...Hmm...I make Native American jewelry and Medicine pipes, carve hiking staffs and sell occaisionally [[one went to Great Britain a few months ago. :) ]]

I'm also an avid fossil/rock hunter which gets me into mountain climbing and cliff hanging.

Prepping is a new hobby [[You know, Y2k, Govt Conspiracies and Natural Disasters]]

Photography and writing...poetry and short chiller fiction [[got a couple of novels in progress]]

Web designs and Graphics along with computers.

Antique hunting...digging thru old abandoned buildings for 'treasures'.

Firearms, of course. :)

I love horses...ran a small Thourobred ranch a few years back...those are my best memories.

Hiking..camping....

I could go on but what's the point? Y'all are getting the idea. :)

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I do something different with yeast, I bake bread. I have a loaf in right now, onion white.

I would have to say that my No. 2 hobby, thought, actually my No. 1 but for the purposes of this discussion I'll say that guns are No. 1, are my two dogs.

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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
 
With kids around it is hard to keep up with hobbies but I do/did have a few.

I collect white tiger things. They are all over the place and if I see something in the store with a white tiger on it, I have to have it. :)

I make candles. Thinking about making some RKBA ones now, maybe even little bullets if I could find a mold for it. I also have a collection of candles that I don't burn, just let collect dust.

Drawing cartoons if you want to call that a hobby. Just something I do when bored, not all that great at it but it takes my mind off of things.

Of course computers and graphics, I am really getting into that, probably my #1 hobby as of right now.

I used to make all kinds of crafty stuff, but don't have much patience with that, I end up with twenty things that are half done :D Again, it's the kids fault.

Oh yeah, I have a little keychain collection of mini guns now. My daughter hits the gumball machines and I put all my money into the gun keychain one. They have a little tiny bullet necklace, I've been trying for that one but have had no success yet lol. I think I have 25 keychains so far, still working on getting that entire machine :D

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We are as one as we all are the same fighting for one cause -Metallica
 
1. Brewing
2. Wine Collecting
3. Wine drinking
4. SCUBA diving
5. Rifle shooting
6. Politics (i.e. harassing my wife with views she probably already shares).
 
Hey, some fellow Brewmasters here! There are 2 guys I brew with every other month, we generally brew all grain in 15 gallon lots and divide it three ways. 5 gallons ends up costing me about 25 bucks and a day spent with some cool dudes. I'm getting ready to bottle the second car boy this week.
My other primary interests are Classical Guitar (which I studied for a few years), Hiking and reading, Cooking, Staying in shape, JKD, ah heck you name it - Life in general!
 
After my family and shooting, I'd have to say my hobby is motorcycles...no, wait- flyfishing...nooo- gardening....see, there's just not enough time, and I didn't even put work into the mix.
 
Let's see..................hobbies.......that's those things you do in you spare time, right?? Don't have much of that, I guess what takes up my time would be considered 'hobbies' just not your 'normal' ones:

1. Volunteering at a science museum for kids
2. Active in church activities
a. Eucharistic minister
b. Lector
c. member of the Youth Commission
d. Catechist (4th and 8th grade)
3. Active member of a local gun club (membership chair)
4. Walking my two dogs (mini poodle and lab/chow mix)


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Kim

NRA Millenium Life Member
 
Beer? Did someone say beer? A subject very near and dear to my heart.

There is a fellow TFL member who is, IMNSHO, the best brewer of beer in this country. He does it professionally, and I have never had a beer that he brewed that was anything less than delectable. I'm not going to "out" him here just yet, but I will give him a call and tell him of this thread, as he never reads general discussion.

My hobbies? I camp, fish, read books and play guitar.



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Audemus jura nostra defendere
 
Knives.

I seem to be getting back into cars since my wife test-drove a '95 Camaro three days ago only to have the seller change her mind. I thought I was out of all that! Sucked all the cash out of my youth, it did.
But now I gotta find a red '93-to-'96 Camaro with T-tops, auto, and the cool CD player that flips open when you turn on the key. I must find all this, in perfect condition, for 10,000 or less. And I must do it IMMEDIATELY lest she start crying again. ;)
 
Forgot my poetry. Don't really think of that as a hobby but I guess that's what it is, seeing as how it hasn't made me rich and famous.....yet...
:rolleyes:
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Don Gwinn:

But now I gotta find a red '93-to-'96 Camaro with T-tops, auto, and the cool CD player that flips open when you turn on the key[/quote]

An automatic, in a Camaro? :confused: Pony's were made for manuals. ;)
Eric


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Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.
 
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2- Scanner Monitor
3- Practicing Solitary Witch
4- Musician who plays several instruments,
a- Bass
b- guitar
c- harmonica
d- dulcimer
 
Weeeelllll, I agree. I had a Mustang with an auto once, and when I drove a 5-speed I couldn't believe what I'd been missing. And we could get a Z28 for about $500-1000 more, with a 350, 6-speed and all the other options she wants. In fact, Z28's seem to be more common, if anything.

But she just refuses to learn to drive manual trans. She says she doesn't want to learn, and she doesn't want to buy a car with a manual trans because she's afraid that if she can't learn to use it she'll be stuck with it. I keep telling her there's no "can't" about it--how does she think people drove cars before there were automatics?

But it doesn't matter. She's never gotten to pick her own car or drive one she really likes, and now that she's married to me she's damn well going to get the one she wants. And if that's an automatic in a Camaro (sigh) then that's what she'll get. :rolleyes: Sometimes love makes you do goofy things....

(PS--all is not lost, however. Soon, it will be time for my next car, and I'll be purchasing a REAL car--a Mustang, early '90s, 5.0 but in an LX hatchback, with a 5-speed. Then the real fun starts.)
 
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