Homebrewing Truths

[fastricky]

Let's start a thread on some truths encountered through homebrewing. Here are 2 of mine:

- Any time you brew a dark beer/stout, somehow there will be splatters that you'll continue to find on walls/tile/etc for weeks if not months.

- Those splatters that you didn't notice, will be apparent to your wife immediately.

 

[wailingguitar]

All that matters is what hits the glass

 

[MichaelsBrewing]

Soot from the propane will be licked all over the bottom of you brew pot from the flame. This black plague will be all over everything! You wife will talk about how it is on her car and everything else that belongs to her.... (which if it is not brewing equip, it's pretty much all hers) I cannot win

 

[Airborneguy]

There is more than one "right" way to do almost everything in this hobby.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

You are not a true homebrewer until you have used a mop on a ceiling.

 

[E-Mursed]

A new brewer will drink a case of bottles from their first batch, "testing carbonation", in the first 4 weeks after bottling.

 

[passedpawn]

The wort will boil over during that 30 seconds when you run to the bathroom. Doesn't matter how long you watched it.

Until your first beer is finished and being drank, you will not RDWHAHB.

 

[fastricky]

You are not a true homebrewer until you have used a mop on a ceiling.

Ha! Good one!

 

[jeffd10]

Every new brewer will think his first or second batch is infected

 

[JoeyChopps]

The best part of waking up is not folgers in ur cup its the sound of a blow off tube bubbling away

 

[E-Mursed]

No airlock activity DOES NOT mean your beer is done fermenting.

50 million bottle bombs can't be wrong.

 

[TheG3RG]

Every new brewer will think his first or second batch is infected

Lol I was very picky on sanitation for my first brew... and yet I still worried about infection lol

 

[BBL_Brewer]

For every pound of grain you put into the mash tun there will be 2 pounds of crap to dig out.

 

[BrewerinBR]

Soot from the propane will be licked all over the bottom of you brew pot from the flame. This black plague will be all over everything! You wife will talk about how it is on her car and everything else that belongs to her.... (which if it is not brewing equip, it's pretty much all hers) I cannot win

Um,.... soot means your burners are not properly adjusted, you need to adjust the amount of air flow into the burner until only the very tips of the flames are yellow, or no yellow at all. Soot means lots CO and unburned gas.

 

[ktblunden]

The bottled beer will not last forever, but the stains on your shoes from spilling while racking will be there forever!

 

[MichaelsBrewing]

Um,.... soot means your burners are not properly adjusted, you need to adjust the amount of air flow into the burner until only the very tips of the flames are yellow, or no yellow at all. Soot means lots CO and unburned gas.

THIS is my problem!!! It drives me nuts. No matter how I adjust it does not seem to work.

Thanks for the info...

 

[stellaontap]

The wort will boil over during that 30 seconds when you run to the bathroom. Doesn't matter how long you watched it.

Until your first beer is finished and being drank, you will not RDWHAHB.

So true

 

[Waynep005]

The one time you decide not to use a blow off tube your airlock will explode.

 

[madcow_number_6]

Noobs will never know how to use the search feature before asking questions

 

[MyNameIsPaul]

The first time you taste someone else's homebrew, you immediately think yours is superior.

 

[Teromous]

The kitchen will be dirty before starting a brew day...it can be clean every other day of the month, but the one day you want to brew, it's dirty

 

[motobrewer]

The kitchen will be dirty before starting a brew day...it can be clean every other day of the month, but the one day you want to brew, it's dirty

this drives me motherf**king nuts.

 

[Ramitt]

There is more than one "right" way to do almost everything in this hobby.

That should be posted before you can click submit on any reply

 

[JoeyChopps]

You will start liking styles of brew u didn't before until u homebrewed the style. For me it was wheats never like them now I've brewed a few and I really like them

 

[Pilgarlic]

Once you start siphoning or bottling, you'll find that you left the beer you were drinking JUST out of reach.

 

[urbanmyth]

Checking Craigslist for cheap Igloo coolers becomes a daily routine.

 

[falconnuke]

You will be disappointed in your first 5 or 6 beers. Not that they're not good (they may very well be good/great beers), but that you'll say it should be better.

 

[Dan]

It will change your life.

 

[Grinnan5150]

Your wife will be irritated with all the mess you make brewing

 

[philjohnwilliams]

Many of the commercial beers you once loved will now taste like putrid swamp water

 

[Stauffbier]

You NEVER stop wanting to upgrade!

 

[Atog]

Once you start siphoning or bottling, you'll find that you left the beer you were drinking JUST out of reach.

Every F***ing time.

 

[JoeyChopps]

You NEVER stop wanting to upgrade!

This should be gospel

 

[user 103238]

Agreed - never had a liking for an IPA before I started brewing. Still not my favorite, but I am learning to appreciate the hoppiness.

You will start liking styles of brew u didn't before until u homebrewed the style. For me it was wheats never like them now I've brewed a few and I really like them

 

[MedicMang]

You start to watch a movie with your gal, when 10 min later, she catches you looking through forum threads about how to make a fermentation chamber.

 

[Cacaman]

Everyone around you will simply assume you only drink and brew "dark beer".

 

[urbanmyth]

People will assume you are an alcoholic.

 

[JoeyChopps]

Everyone around you will simply assume you only drink and brew "dark beer".

That hits home I live in the south and if its not bud light its garbage

 

[Cacaman]

That hits home I live in the south and if its not bud light its garbage

Yep! After running out of Bud Light last night at a cookout, I hand my uncle one of my SNPA, and after 30 minutes of baby sitting he cracks this comment, "It's alright, I just get a lot more flavor out of the bud light".

 

[ndsgr]

That session beer that couldn't get you drunk if you tried, did.