I can finaly RDWHAHB!

Its been six long weeks but as of today I'm finaly drinking beer I brewed myself. You guys were right (but you already knew that didn't you), drinking a beer you made yourself is 1000 times better than what you can buy. The best part, my second batch has been in primary for three weeks now. Next weekend, when I bottle it, I'll be able to drink my own or at least I hope these two cases of beer last me a week. How long did it take you guys to drink/gift your first batch?

we drank/gave ours away pretty quick. you might think about keeping one from your first batch. i have it on shelf above the keezer, a little memento from batch #1.

by the second batch of bottles we'd decided to build the keezer! the only thing better than opening up a bottle of home brew is pulling your own pint.

congrats - YOU MADE BEER!!!

+1 Edie

I like kegging my beer because it can't leave the house.

Congrats on the first brew.

It is great drinking your own brew.

Now get a pipeline going. I would suggest picking up another fermenter or two so you can have brews fermenting all the time.

Cheers buddy. Have one for me!

I'm on batch twenty something and they still don't last much more than a week. We have enough BBQs/Craw-fish boils/football games/whatever that my batches never survive long. I've got too many friends to keep my pipeline healthy.

That's not a bad thing either.

I'm gonna need some carboys.

+1 on buying more carboys. I have an ale pale and a 5 gallon carboy and the next two purchases I'm going to make is gonna be a 6.5 gallon carboy and another 5 gallon carboy. I need a bigger pipeline!