Boredom is a terrible thing. "Idle hands are the Devil's tools", as my old metalwork teacher used to say.
Here's a few ideas:
1-Get a couple more kits on the go.
2-Do a complete inventory of the kitchen, garage and loft to see what can be pressed into service as brewing equipment.
3-Having done 2, Order the makings of an all grain beer and research how you're going to make it.
4-Hang around bottle banks in a dirty white mac and accost people who might have beer bottles before they throw them in.
5-Compose beer poetry "Ode to a Foster's Lager" or something of that nature.
6-Check out the homebrew suppliers' pages of shiny vessels and expensive measuring equipment. Print out the pictures and stick them in a scrapbook with the title "Brewing Porn".
7-Again, go though the online catalogues of the homebrew suppliers and make a spreadsheet comparing the prices of various types of malt, hops, yeast and kits.
8-Design, print and cut out labels for the bottles of beer you have yet to make.
9-Organise a homebrew competition.
10- Compile a list of all the authors of home-brewing books (Graham Wheeler has passed away). Find out their contact details or enquire about them from the publisher. Write a letter to each one explaining how their work has inspired you to follow in their hallowed footsteps and asking what advice they might offer a poor rooky like yourself.
11- Go to Asda 4 for £6 section and buy a cartload of "research" beers. Taste each one and make careful notes about its properties, good and bad points, whether you'd like to copy it, etc etc.
12- See 11 and for those that claim to be bottle conditioned, make a culture of the yeast.
13- Write a list of another 12 things to do tomorrow.
How a brewer can be bored is beyond me. there just isn't enough time.
