“Homebrewing is my hobby. Beer is my reward” has been printed on many T-shirts. “#Homebrewing is my #hobby…#beer is my #reward” was cited on Twitter on May 31, 2014. It’s not known who authored the saying.
Twitter
Tim Gustainis Vela
@velatim
#Homebrewing is my #hobby…#beer is my #reward. Love my #craftbeer http://instagram.com/p/oq-G1-AK3g/
1:33 PM - 31 May 2014
Next Glass News
5 Of The Best Homebrewing Starter Kits
By Alexandra Flentje on October 24, 2014
(The “HOMEBREWING IS MY HOBBY…BEER IS MY REWARD” T-shirt is shown.—ed.)
Kokomo (IN) Tribune
For the love of beer
Club unites locals interested in home brewing
Posted: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 2:17 pm
By Martin Slagter
There’s an old saying Larry Barnhart likes to use to describe his philosophy on brewing beer: Home brewing is my hobby, beer is my reward.
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
Recent entries:
•“You telling me a crab ran this goon? (5/17)
•“I don’t drink alcohol, I drink distilled spirits. Therefore, I’m not an alcoholic, I’m spiritual” (5/17)
•“I don’t drink alcohol, I drink distilled spirits. So I’m not an alcoholic, I’m spiritual” (5/17)
•“Since we can’t use plastic straws anymore I’ve just been choking turtles with my bare hands” (5/17)
•Entry in progress—BP24 (5/17)
More new entries...
Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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