Quote Originally Posted by SuperChuck
Home brewing is another hobby of mine. You see the same problems in beermaking. Beginning brewers tend to freak out if ANYTHING is imperfect. They sterilize their brewpot, triple-filter their water, and start to panic if they don't see bubbles in the first 15 minutes. They start to get concerned that they killed their yeast because it's only 69 degrees, not the recommended 70.

Meanwhile, brewing is a rediculously inaccurate science. I've had fermentations that go strong for a week, I've had fermentations go three days. Once I even brewed the day before a heatwave and came home to a fermenter that had erupted like Mount Vesuvius! And you know what? All those beers came out just fine.
One of my best friends does home brewing. He makes this dark stout that litterally begs to be drank while you are smoking a fine cigar. Well, it's a dark stout MOST of the time... Regardless of how it tastes, it packs a hell of kick!