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Golddiggie

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I'm curious to see how many people, here, have younger family members, or friends of the family, that are showing an interest in making mead (or brewing in general) since they started doing it...

I have one nephew that's very interested in seeing how you make mead. He's going to see if his mother (my sister, oy :o ) will let him come down to my place (my mother will most likely bring him) and see what's involved in making mead and/or home brewing... I've explained certain aspects of both to him already (he's a really smart kid) and he's been nibbled on by the bug (not a full bite yet)... ;D
 
There are quite a few younger members here I believe, I'm 25 for example. I haven't managed to infect anyone else yet though!
 
My son brews beer in his tiny Oslo apartment, he started slightly before I put together my first batch of JAO but after I'd started researching meadmaking (I chose mead because I don't like beer or wine and hoped I would like mead--also to give my friends gifts that you can't find anywhere else). My daughters like to help me and have on several batches. Daughter #1 likes the mead, but probably wouldn't take on the expense of doing it on her own. Younger daughter wouldn't either, because like her mother, she doesn't drink.

And I'm old enough to have a daughter who will be 35 in April. Of course, I was a child bride. :)
 
None of my kids yet - but that's because they aren't quite old enough yet. Unlike Jenn, I got a late start! ;) But I have taught meadmaking to quite a few folks younger than me, and I still try to get folks interested in mead wherever I happen to go. It's not hard - usually only takes a glass or two! ;D
 
Soonest begun, soonest done, Wayne. :)

My son's college roomate brews (they got started while in college), too, and he's almost like a son. :)
 
I'm 28, and have gotten a few of my friends to consider brewing. No one has joined this site as of yet, though. I'm also child-free for now, so it would be quite a while before I pass this gene on to the next generation. ;-)
 
I was at our city's brewclub meeting last night and was asked to maybe do a presentation on meadmaking next month. Not sure it'll actually happen, but would be a great opportunity to get some people interested, younger and older.
 
Im an old 22 *lol* Got a four month old that already has a batch named after her, she WILL learn my hopefully future trade of meadmaking... I am military though, I am always talking about my batches and giving my soldiers and my higher ups updates on my meads whether or not they want to hear about it, and when I stop talking about it, they always ask me about it, I invite some of my soldiers over when I start a batch to show them what goes into it, and let them smell and take a look at my batches in progress, I guess what im getting at is I am an avid recruiter to the hobby, the more of my people that make it the more people I have to trade bottles with and the more unique flavors I can try...
 
I'm trying to get a brew-day going this weekend... So far, no one else has RSVP'd for it... :p I'm thinking that I'll either offer up next weekend as an alternate time, or shelve it until after the holidays... With the batches of mead I have going, I'm fully expecting to be asked about them and work towards educating more people...
 
I've got friends and family who are interested in mead since I started making it, but they're not wanting to make it themselves. They just want me to make more mead for them. ;D

That's one of the great things about meadmaking, sharing it with others who appreciate it and ask for more. One of my best memories of the 2004 International Mead Festival in Boulder was the afterhours parties, how everyone was uncorking their meads, passing them around and saying "Here, try this one." Also the story swapping, how this person got interested in meadmaking, who had gotten them started by passing on that first sip of mead, the ups and downs of wanting to make some more of that wonderful stuff they had first tasted.

"You're not old until you're infirm." Nice quote, I'm not infirm, and I'm older than all of you! ;D ;D
 
You're older than I am, Dan? You don't look like it!

When my mother was my age she had a passel o' grandchildren, including one in high school. My kids are so totally slackers in that regard, ungrateful wretches. hmmmpf.>:(
 
35 here. A lot of my younger friends don't drink and I'm child-free, my nephews are just starting gradeschool and are currently growing up in a "dry" household... however, anyone who's tasted my JAO and its variations has been given the recipe... Oh, wait. I did back-infect my 40-year old brother in law :) So I'm not a dead end after all !!
 
I made wine (kits) for our wedding last year, and he wanted help making wine for his wedding this year :) And one taste of my blackberry JAO made him want to try it himself, so that was his dessert wine at the wedding! He didn't believe me that anyone could do it. I think I was the only one not surprised!

Oh, and one year for Xmas, I gave him a "kit" containing 3.5 lb honey, a bag of measured spices and yeast, an empty gallon jug and instructions to add all ingredients to jug, add one orange, top off with water, shake, don't open for 2 months, enjoy...
 
I firmly anticipate that I will still be carrying 7 gallon carboys of honey must/finished mead up the basement stair steps for the next couple of decades. ;D

I like telling newly teened daughter Rachel stories of how Daddy used to walk to kindergarten for something like 1/2 mile, in all kinds of weather, or the days before microwave ovens, all tv programs in black & white, how it wasn't the end of the world if you didn't see the latest summer movie blockbuster, and so on.

Keeping with the theme of the thread, maybe I'm not quite a slacker. I've been telling a friend who just got into brewing on how to put together a JAO, telling him how this mead might taste so good that his wife may be more open to him buying extra brewing equipment. ;D

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