A sad sight for my home brew

[cabron99]

This is a story of hobby gone bad. I have a 15 tap kegerator in the back yard. It was hard to generate enough brews to be worthy of their own tap. Then I have 2 sixty gallon barrels aging with a solera process. My daughter is getting married in 2 weeks and have brewed 18 cornies for 200 people. Not to mention 2 taps by the big screen. After the wedding effort, I'm tired of brewing, but need to kick out an IPA for personal consumption. My son will be helping me today or I couldn't do it. I'm 71. He needs a keg also. Like I said, hobby gone bad. Almost out of gas.

Pat

 

[brewcat]

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I have 4 empty kegs. I was finally able to brew last week and today. Two straight weeks. Probably need to brew three more straight to be full.

 

[JohnSand]

This is a story of hobby gone bad. I have a 15 tap kegerator in the back yard. It was hard to generate enough brews to be worthy of their own tap. Then I have 2 sixty gallon barrels aging with a solera process. My daughter is getting married in 2 weeks and have brewed 18 cornies for 200 people. Not to mention 2 taps by the big screen. After the wedding effort, I'm tired of brewing, but need to kick out an IPA for personal consumption. My son will be helping me today or I couldn't do it. I'm 71. He needs a keg also. Like I said, hobby gone bad. Almost out of gas.

Pat

You are either the King of Homebrew, or you need professional help.
We're not worthy.

 

[Dr_Jeff]

10 tap kegerator in my garage, all have beer on tap.
One faucet is a stout faucet, being pushed by beer gas.
Two ten gallon oak barrels ageing, a ten and a 7.75 gallon solara
plenty on deck

stout tower not in pic, because pic is old

 

[cabron99]

Dr Jeff, I see you are a sick person also! I'll post some pics this weekend. Good to know I'm not alone!

Pat

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I'm working my way out of the dry pipeline right now. I never went fully dry, but as I've been brewing new beers there were few that I dumped the dregs of because I just didn't feel like drinking a mint milk stout or a rye IPA brewed from extract any more.

So now on a 6-tap kegerator I have:
Oktoberfestbier (~3-4 gallons on tap and 5 gallon backup keg)
Piggy Beer IPA (RR Blind Pig clone, ~2 gallons on tap and 5 gallon backup keg)
Blood Orange Blonde (~3-4 gallons on tap)

Fermenter:
10 gallons of pilsner

On deck:
Brewing 10 gallons of hefeweizen this Sunday

I set a goal of having an Oktoberfest party which will be Sat Oct 7, so I figured that would spur me to brew. I just need to keep up the pipeline after that party, as this is only 5 unique beers and I have 6 taps. Will probably brew another IPA shortly thereafter as IPA goes quickly at my house.

 

[Murphys_Law]

Just dry hopped my house ale (a somewhat clone of Kona Big Wave) and plan to get it in a keg in a few days. Next on deck will be my Bulldog Slobber, an English IPA with MO as the base, a few specialty malts, English yeast and hops and a lot of rye (malt and flake). I named this after our bulldog we lost this July. From there it will likely be a Pilsner and then a Vienna. I'm still looking to pull the plug on a 2nd fermonster so I can get a few going at once (I am trying to stay away from buckets, for now).

I start a new job at the end of Oct so I better use this time wisely and brew while I can!!

 

[Mainer]

I bottle, but the pipeline is still an issue. I did a series of bretts and fruit sours this summer, requiring long secondaries, so I have lots of empty bottles and lots of full fermenters at the moment.