Beer brewers have become a nervous bunch....heh

[fuelish]

I dunno...I started brewing brewing beer back in the '90's....Charlie P's book(s) was the bible, so to speak, and brewing was pretty casual, relaxed, etc. Made some meads back then, no big t'ing.... Got back into home fermenting last year, concentrating on meads.....reading this forum, seems beer brewers have become overly anal about every little detail ....oooooooh, oxidation....oooooh, this and that.....ooooh, oooooh..... I have to chuckle, as I always had very good to great results without wringing my hands over every little detail....it's homebrew, for cryingoutloud, it ain't rocket science.....nice to see the mead makers and wine makers are still pretty laid back about their obsessions It boggles my entire mind (to quote former Phila mayor Wilson Good)....Love the mead, hate the wait, but worth it....

 

[dkevinb]

Beer was made successfully for thousands of years before thermometers, hydrometers, sanitizing solutions and personal hygiene were invented.

 

[ICWiener]

On one hand I agree with you. Some homebrewers definitely need to RDWHAHB.

However, I didn't get into this hobby to make mediocre beer. I've spent far too much money and time to make 'decent' beer. I want to make something as good as, or better than, commercial breweries. Otherwise I might as well just buy it from the store.

If that means I have to spend time boning up on the research and paying extra attention to detail throughout the process...so be it.

 

[evanmars]

Yeah, but how long has good beer been made?
Nobody is saying that you can't make beer by just throwing the ingredients together, just that to make better beer requires a bit more attention to detail.
Not all of us make beer just to get drunk, some of us like to make the best beer we possibly can.

 

[jbaysurfer]

Suddenly HBT is inundated with people worrying about how much other people are worrying about brewing.

Classic. Themes catch on like wildfire around here.

 

[smcinco]

How one does anything is how one does everything.

 

[wardens355]

Feed the troll.

 

[SuliBrew]

I dunno...I started brewing brewing beer back in the '90's....Charlie P's book(s) was the bible, so to speak, and brewing was pretty casual, relaxed, etc. Made some meads back then, no big t'ing.... Got back into home fermenting last year, concentrating on meads.....reading this forum, seems beer brewers have become overly anal about every little detail ....oooooooh, oxidation....oooooh, this and that.....ooooh, oooooh..... I have to chuckle, as I always had very good to great results without wringing my hands over every little detail....it's homebrew, for cryingoutloud, it ain't rocket science.....nice to see the mead makers and wine makers are still pretty laid back about their obsessions It boggles my entire mind (to quote former Phila mayor Wilson Good)....Love the mead, hate the wait, but worth it....

Amen.

 

[MindenMan]

I mostly brew my own beer as a source of pride, but I can brew great beer inexpensively. Okay, that statement is relative, but the beer I would buy at the store is at least $8.00 a six pack, and 48 bottles in theory would cost $64.00. I do have yeast mother strains at home, so that saves $8.00 a batch. Most of what I brew is between 1.045 and 1.060, so including hops, I average $22.00 to $26.00 a batch for ingredients, and that does make it worth my time to brew and bottle my own.

 

[FermentedFruit]

Farm girl/baker forced to work in the restaurant industry. I waste nothing! I can get all the fruit I will ever need from my family orchard and farm, honey either from the bee guy who pollinates the cherries or cheap through work so all I have to do is order some good yeast, sanitizer and such. So for way less than $9 a bottle I have enough booze to keep me from lighting my co-workers on fire. 😝 this is why I brew. Lol

 

[On-target]

Yes homebrewing can be an obsesion. But if it starts to create more stress than you can drink away then you have a problem!

 

[FermentedFruit]

Hear hear! Lol