Hobby thread again

Hobby thread again.
State your hobby. Do you make $ out of it?
I make and sell some of my own beer. I also drink it but I had to stop a bit because liver.

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Pic related, a pilsner with a fair amount of wheat flour to enhance the head (they said) but created these giant bubbles of gluten

Photography, nothing major just like animals and flowers n stuff. No, I wish I did, but everyone and their brother is a "photographer" now a days

shitposting

I liek photography too. I own a Nikon P7700
I love it.

i'm an electronics tinkerer. i make a few coins by repairng peoples gadgets, used to make some serious cash by modding consoles, from 16bit to ps3/360. had to stop because i was getting too well known and the law is weird about modchips and such here.
i'll still softmod your shit if you catch me on the right day though.

You could easily be a millionnaire.

My hobby is my job. I install, aquascape, and maintain heavily planted aquariums. I also breed on the side.

I stay freshwater because saltfags are a bunch of would-be elitists.

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Nikon coolpix b500 here, I love the nikon cameras. HUGE step up from the PoS GE camera I had

>I also breed on the side
there's no need to boast

As a homebrewer and a biochemist, I never heard or understand why gluten would create large bubbles. Also there is nothing on google talking about gluten and large bubbles during fermentation...just saying

I make autistic videos of my travels and I edit it poorly and upload it to vimeo

vimeo.com/maskettaman

I paint graffiti style murals for corporate wankers trying to tap into the edgy hipster market etc. I also grow a bit of weed outdoors.

How much alcohol does it take to damage the liver? I've been drinking 1 or 2 Guinness 440ml cans per day for the last week or two. Is that fine? I usually drink one with breakfast, and one at around 6pm.

Also, I have no more hobbies because of clinical depression.

Kek. I do have a client that hits on me every time I come for maintenance. Only problem is she's 64 and hideous.

Care to post pics of your work? I'd like to see.

Well that's a somehow specialist that told me it could be that.
You are the mead maker of yesterday, right?

I was drinking a total of 9 litres per week...

Thats cool.

How much do you charge? Do you make them pay the paint? Montana cans?

I used to LOVE graffiti when I was younger (before clinical depression hit me hard). I thought I'd do it all my life. Still have like hundreds of cans and tips at my parents house. Old Krylon, Rusto, one Molotow, some Plutonium G, a Montana Gold, Alien. Too bad I didn't keep one of the mythical Montana Hardcore.

Feels bad.

>clinical depression
A hobby could help you.
Try brewing your own stout, it is easier than you think and the result will be better than Guiness, I promise you.

This is one of my personal tanks.

>vimeo.com/maskettaman
Starting price for a simple piece is about $1500 all the way up to $10k

You should have kept it up, a lot of graff guys have moved into other areas; illustration, tattooing etc etc.

Of 4-5% beer? For how long before the problems?

Beautiful

>somehow specialist
wat?

>you are the mead maker of yesterday, right?
One of them, there were a couple, I gave the recipe with:
15lbs honey
~3.75 gal water
D-47 yeast

Yes, 9 lts of pilsen.
I got there gradually.
>2 guiness
You are out of danger don't worry.
I stopped thanks to kratom. You should try that. It's also recommended for depression.

photography... mostly for me, but occasionally do shoots for people, use a Canon FTb film cam tho.

Do you use your cans, or you make the clients pay for them? Does the 1500 price include the cost of the cans?

I have a degree in graphic design. Was a natural choice since I liked computers and was good at drawing. Too bad that I didn't find a job in the field and ended working in a minimum wage factory.

Can't have a hobby because of the depression. No dopamine/serotonin production in my brain. Can't enjoy anything.

I do drugs

Weed, coke, crack sometimes. Psychedelics are my favorite though.

But truly, altering conciousness, meditating, and learning are the hobbies, drugs are just the ritual initiating thoughts.

I also make longbows. Tooling around on anything really

I dont fuck with fish but that's nice work there.

Largest aquarium you have owned? And what was it stocked with? Your missing out on salt though they are awesome ran one for a few years but am all fw now the costs behind salt is pain

>somehow specialist
There are people that work in the area that they are specialists without having the corresponding degree.

Mead = hydromel, right?
I have the honey at $6,40 per litre, its 33,81 floz.
The nutrients were my concern. You told me about raisins. How much of them? Do you have an idea?

I like it when its full of green and only a few fishes

I miss going out and painting. Used to at least twice a week with my buddies. I'm in a new city, no one to paint with, so I now post stickers once in a while because I'm too much of a pussy to go out painting alone

Price includes all design, email ping pong, materials and installation. For a low end $1500 job they dont get much in terms of my time, the bigger jobs is where the money is. Generally do about 10-15 pieces a year.

I used to work as a graphic designer and yes its one of those titles that doesnt really pay much.

I'm also a brewer, started as a hobby but now I own a brewery. I went to school for art, and now I own an art gallery. So neither are really hobbies anymore. I'm starting to build furniture as a hobby, but that's turning into more-- I bought $15k worth of woodworking equipment and I'm about to go pick up a few tons of raw juniper to start building at a larger scale. I guess my hobbies don't stay hobbies for long. I either push them forward or leave them behind.

I grow my own bud legally.

Solo painting is awesome; climbing buildings looking for high rooftop ledges, exploring off limit areas. Gets sketchy as fuck sometimes.

No clue on the amount of rasins, Id go looking through homebrew forums or mead forums to see what people do.

Side question do you use any programs for recipe building for your beer? I use a free online one I'd recommend called brewtoad

Whats with that scrog?

I outsource gigs from Fiverr to other freelance networks.

Make around 1000-1500 a month.

Day job is gas station clerk.

ikr...

Do you have pics of your pieces? I can only see pics of alcohol and other photography stuff. (it's nice btw)

Where are you?

Similar story from me, back in the 90's i used to chip PS1's so you could played copied CD's was fucking piss easy i used to utilize the limited internet and i searched up shit loads of stuff on how to solder, install modchips etc. made a good living for a 16 year old lad money lasted me for fucking ages too. Using some of the money from the little modchip business I now have my own Phone Shop and online PC Repairs service got 4 people working for me as apprentices so i can legally pay them slave wage.

Fucking power of the internet, straight up fucking knew what to do with it when i first got it. Lifes fucking great

I just like having someone watch my back while I focus on the art. My buddies and I would take turns painting and being look out. I have painted solo but it's hard to focus on the painting and surroundings

Had two other girls in there. that sativa ran longer and didn't need a second one.

Can you give us entrepreneurship tips? How much do you make with your brewery?

Am I missing something? 9 litres per week isn't that much. That is like 2-3 beers a day, no?

STL

>Can't enjoy anything.
That sucks.
Depression could be fair and while it prevents you from enjoying stuff, it should also prevent you from feeling bad.
Wouldn't you be better not feeling anything at all? Like a robot mode until it gets better?

Genuine question

I use an old version of Beersmith renewing the free try period all the time.

Nice, what size brewery? And I hope you create all your own bottle labels

I am a musician without the money for the equipment create quality tunes to make money.

I like to teach myself new instruments from scratch. I don't look up anything, I just pick something up and work out scales/chords by ear. I don't often get far but it's fun. I'm learning Italian as well, if that counts.

I tried to paint alone, but it scares me. Even during night. I remember in high school I would make marker tags on busy streets during lunch time... but I was always with my crew. We weren't scared.

But I'm fucking paranoid when I'm alone... I'm always feeling that someone might be watching and calling the cops from a window or a car.

where bouts ya from lad?

Or some asshole who doesn't like the art and jumps you

its 304 floz per week

If you get sick of that try brew toad

It's a community of brewers. you can see and make variants of recipes fromwhat other people created or something completely new

I came out of a 5 year relationship about a month ago and I have the robotic feeling. I've been sleeping for 12-14 hours most days, fucked my sleeping pattern and barely do anything while I'm awake, haven't been to work or anything. It really sucks.

lol that vimeo link isnt mine, accidentally ctrl v'd it.

Heres some old ctuff for a tech company foyer, it a robo octopus

I play poker.

Currently I'm breakeven, or profitable after rakeback for pokerfags.

I hope within the next month or two I will start making some progress and move up stakes.

london

I fly giant show kites at festivals and events all over the world. I also design and make smaller kites.

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It will get better eventually. We all get through that at least once. In my case I now laugh at my own face while remembering how much I cried that day because of her.

Another brewerfag here. The only things I can think of that would contribute to glutenous bubbles during fermentation would be:
>using a very fine wheat flour
>using an unmodified wheat flour
>low diastatic power in the grain bill
And even so, you might need all three for glutenous bubbles to form. I've personally never seen it happen, and I've used a lot of unmodified wheat in brewing. Gluten is almost always broken down enough from mashing and boiling, and basic clarifying agents will generally keep it from even creating a protein haze.

whats that?

i made some elderberry wine when i was a kid, it was powerful stuff, and actually tasted good too.

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It was bread flour yes. But anyway this beer went straight to the sewer.

I already feel like a robot. Exactly like you described. That's what "clinical depression" is.

People often mistake it with "being depressed", which happens when you break up with your gf, don't get a promotion at job, during rainy days, lack of sun, and so on. This is normal and it's just a down that lasts a few days max.

What I have is hell. My brain shut down the whole emotional part. No more dopamine/serotonin. No fluctuations... which means no ups and no downs.

The best example I can give you is this... If tomorrow you came to me and told me I just won 40 millions, or you told me I have terminal cancer/would end in jail for the rest of my life... I would feel EXACTLY the same in both situation, and just say "oh, ok" with zero emotions.

My mother could be raped, killed, and chopped in pieces in front of my eyes... and, sorry to say this, I wouldn't mind. I would have ZERO reaction.

I wouldn't kill myself because of sadness like people tend to think... but because life is empty. You wake up, and you have no dreams, no desires, you don't think or anticipate to do something. Life gets boring. I wouldn't even mind getting put in some nasty jail in Brazil...

>elderberry
You should do it again.

techno production. not a fucking cent but watevs

You brewed with bread flour for this ?

Thanks. I know realistically it will but it isn't any better so far. I'm going to try a new hobby and see if that helps. When we were together I was shit and always chose seeing her over friends, so now I don't have anyone else to talk to either.

Share recipe

London U.K? Or London, Ontario in Canada?

If U.K, which part are you in?

homebrewfag here

But then if you are not feeling anything, good or bad, how comes that it's hell to you? Genuine question, again.

kölsch and irish red

yes.

english brown ale

belgian witbier in the fermenter

I will open one of my pilsen. Now.

same belgian witbier in the glass

and a mixed berry honey mead. this bad boy will get you fucked up

I'm sitting here crying that all these people have good hobbies and all I have is singing badly : D

>Can you give us entrepreneurship tips?
As with pretty much every business, have a solid business plan. If you want a brewery, the saying is: you can make a small fortune by starting with a big fortune. So you either have to make money elsewhere first, or propose a plan to investors. The thing about beer is, if it is not poisonous, it will sell. All of it. So it comes down to what kind of operation you can afford to build, and what kind of hours you can put in to run it (or how many employees you can afford to hire). Figure this out, put it on paper, and find investors, as long as you're willing to have about half of your business go to other people. Or, save up, which is what I did (10 years running a web development company).

>How much do you make with your brewery?
Money: it depends on what you're looking at. My gross sales are great, and I sell a fair amount at retail (1600% markup by pulling pints). So once I make back my initial investment, I could live a very comfortable life off of it. Less so if I pay other people to run it. Beer: it's a 20bbl operation. I've considered an expansion, but I kind of like where it's at.

>And I hope you create all your own bottle labels
I do. I do all the branding, and I did the website, and I wrote automation programs for the brewing equipment. I'm a hands-on sort of person.

Well you are here. Go and see your old friends and explain. They are willing to hear, believe me. Even it's only by pure curiosity. How long since she left?

Because it's boring, like I said. You know, when you're normal, you always think about something, might it be a girl, a movie you will watch, something you will say to your friends, a videogame you will play, etc. You always think about things, and you get emotions from it.

I, on the other side, wake up... and have literally nothing in my mind. I don't feel sad, I don't feel happy, but I think about nothing. I just stay on the PC, because it's the easiest thing to do, or else I would stare at the wall. It's hard to describe until you feel it. But it's like being dead... which is true, because the brain shut down some functions.

I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy. Not even on the mexican cartels that torture people and post vid. Not even on them.

Wow. A break up did all that? I mean, your brain chemistry all fucked up ...

How much were you making with the web development company? Wordpress or not?

Do you mind sharing your beer brand?

i was 13, i didn't make detailed notes on quantities.
basically, elderberries boiled in water with some sugar, carlsberg yeast leftover from my dads beer kit and a couple of teabags. brewed in the laundry cupboard where the water cylinder provided constant heat.

strained off the fruit pulp afer a few days, and then a few days later siphoned off the shit that settled.
it would not win any gourmet awards but it was much nicer tasting than i expected and got me and my friends pretty darn hammered.

i build furniture from scraps and pallets

I bee keep. Have about 1500+ bees. Get so much fresh honey. Give it as gifts all the time. Occasionally I max bees wax products. I could make money but I'm not in it for the cash just for the environment and my own sanity.

OP here thats exactly my problem. I have a rather big install for a hobbyist. The next step should be opening a legal structure, paying taxes etc, but then I am way too small and I would fail. Since I have another job I am a bit stucked ATM.

I remember you. wait.

Nice set up

that's pretty cool dude