Besides the obvious buying and drinking beer, what other beer related activities have you done? I've traded beer, home-brewed, aged/cellared beer, collected brewery items (glasses, signs, clothing), attended breweriana shows, attended and volunteered at beer fests, volunteered at a brewery, made day trips to liquor stores/brew-pubs/breweries, attended brewery nights at bars, hosted tastings at my house, converted small fridge into a kegerator. I haven't gone to a brewery-only release, or made an overnight trip specifically for beer. What beer related activities have you done and what's still on your beer-bucket list?
Fist fights and sex? ...rarely with the same individual. Other than that, I've cellared, traded, attended festivals, gone to brewery only releases, atrended anniversary celebrations, tried my hand at brewing, gone on beer specific overnight out of town vacations and done everything reasonable within my power to spread the craft beer gospel to my close friends and family. All this and less than five years ago I didn't/wouldn't drink beer of ANY kind. Cheers!
I'm getting into homebrewing (have my 3rd batch in the primary right now.) I go to local beer tastings and fests (in fact, I have one coming up Feb 9th.) I'm planning a brewery tour trip for the spring up through WI. I like to check out local craft bars when on vacation. I have my own beer blog and just started a fb page for it.
Home brewing (more learning than doing at the moment) and digging into the history behind styles, breweries, ingredients, etc. There's so much to learn, understand, and appreciate - doubtful I can catch up, but I enjoy the quest. Not a big festival type. I have enjoyed some of the more or less controlled sit-down tastings I have done where you can taste the beer and talk it over.
