What are your medium and long range beer plans?

Maybe your goal should instead should be homebrewing? Make the beers exactly the way you want and save HUGE bucks in the process.

Cheers!

 

Good idea, just don't open a brewery.

 

I never thought I would be open to it, as Id rather make more and advance in my career to afford more Ale. But I might reach out to you about it. It never seemed like slmething I would do. bit you never know.

 

Not 51? Is DC screwed again regarding "statehood" representation?

 

Short term: Visit that brewpub in Iqaluit just to see if @PapaGoose03 is there.

Long term: Westy, Cantillon, and Drie Fonteinen in Belgium; cask ales in England and tours of Scotch distilleries.

 

You posted: "What is certain is i need to go to the land where my heart is, England."

I have traveled to England many times in the past and I certainly would not discourage you to do the same but permit me to state that brewing an English Ale is much, much cheaper than airfare and hotels in England. Of course if you become a millionaire per your goal this is not a big deal?

A few months ago I brewed my 25th batch of an English Bitter Ale.

Cheers!

 

I like the idea for this thread. Here goes:

Short term: Continue to work on drinking what I have rather than continuing to increase stock. You have to buy some things as they disappear (like IPAs), but other things you can fight the FOMO and consume what you have.

Continue to only drink on Fri/Sat in an effort to continue being healthier, and maybe one day I can finally break through the plateau I have been at for awhile and drop below 195-200.

Medium term: Work to maintain a good cellar. For everything I said above, I enjoy having a nice cellar with options. What I have now is a few too many of the same beer. In the future, as I drink some of that down, I need to work harder to try to replace some of those (if I am going to) with different beers rather than the same beers.

Work toward slowing transitioning approx. 1/3 of my efforts to bourbon from beer. Less storage needed, similar enjoyment, and I suspect more manageable at times to have a 0.5 to 1oz pour if bourbon when you have a small child, compares to having an entire beer (which, since I am a stout fan, often means 10-15%).

Long term: Cross at least one major bucket list item related to beer off my list every 15 years. These would include such events as attending an Oktoberfest. I would include spending some time just trying German beer all over Germany to be another.

 

Medium range plans are to drink through my cellar and eliminate these bottles. Long range plans are to drastically reduce / potentially stop my alcohol intake for health reasons. I decided to stop my intake completely for a month and I can't believe how much better I feel 3 weeks out.

 

Medium range - get to Brooklyn NY for a day/weekend of touring the breweries there. Grimm, Other Half, Three's, Interboro, Sixpoint, etc.
Long Range - Visit Dublin in 2059 for the 300th anniversary of Guinness! I will be 83 (same age as the OP when he visits Weihenstephan in Bavaria in 2040).

 

Medium Range: Start homebrewing and sample more West Coast IPAs and Belgians
Long Range: Open a brewery

 

I've had The District. Not had Puerto Rico, which is in the same boat, figuratively.

 

Yeah, become a distributor. Get cash from both sides.

 

Translated: spend good money up front, find out you need more and more equipment, spend many unpaid hours (put a value of at least your local minimum wage on every minute you spend)doing grunt work, and, eventually you could reach a point where your fifty cent bottle of home brew is almost as good as a 10 buck sixer.

I've got nothing against homebrewing. I've had both great and terrible homebrew. If someone wants to get into it as a pure hobby, not as a cost saving tactic, great. To encourage folks to spend money, and increasingly rare spare time, to, maybe, eventually, make a beer that's almost as good as an equivalent of the offerings from Deschutes, Troegs, Bells, SN, FW (insert local/regional fave here), is a bit disingenuous.

Again, if someone is the type of person who likes doing projects, homebrewing is for them. There is no end to the amount of gear one could spend nights and weekends building. Not counting actual brewing costs and time. Strokes for folks. Shrug.

 

Nietzsche would be proud.

DC Brau gets incorporated (read: lumped) into MD or VA and gets no representation. Again.

Short term: finish this Oktoberfest
Medium term: find more Oktoberfests
Long term: find more Oktoberfests.

 

Jack I am a Medievalist and have dedicated my life to it. Maryland Has Nature, Ale and Gothic Churches but we dont have everything that someine in my position needs. they are making me content fir now.

 

Or..., he is fairly “mature?”

 

We’ve not chatted yet, may I send you a private message to ask a few things that may not be directly beer related?

 

Sure, I appreciate that yout from PA. My first drinking days were spent there.

 

Where in PA? @JackHorzempa and I are both located in different areas within SEPA.

 

Pioneer Park in Somerset and Coopers Lake Campground in Slippery Rock.