BEST/WORST thing anyone has ever said about your own HB?

[SwivelHips]

Best: "It's like an angel peed on my tongue"

I LOL'd. Great comment!

About a year later, I over heard him talking to another coworker about beer and he stated that rolling rock tasted like piss.

And it does.

Not much opportunity for comment so far since I only have a couple of batches under my belt, but from my wife (after a sip on my Amber Ale):

"Mmmm. Whoa!"

And my American Wheat:

"That's a nice beer."

I'll be very interested to have my folks try it since they happily drink the worst swill imaginable and tend not to like the same beers I like.

 

[spak]

I have heard nothing but positives for my brews, even extremely amazed comments from my latest IPA. This is mostly because I havent even dared to give anything out that I didn't approve of myself. My first batch was purely awful. Noone but myself experienced that wreck. Everything after the first batch has been consistently good.:rockin:

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Worst: My wife tasting my first batch "This tastes like ass!!" (it was not good...)
Best: My award winning homebrew buddy tasting my 2nd batch "This is AWESOME!!"

Only 5 brews under my belt so I am sure there are plenty more to come in both categories.

 

[msa8967]

One of the "worst comments" I heard was "don't quit your day job." [This was from a college student that was in my chemistry class that I teach. He didn't believe beer could be made at home.]

One of the "best comments" I heard was "you should consider doing this full time." This was from the head of our science department after he sampled a brew of mine at a depeartment picnic.

 

[justkev52]

Just for fun...

What's the BEST or the WORST thing anyone has ever said about your own homebrew?

There's gotta be some good answers out there.

Smells like fruit loops, tast's like captain crunch.
I said more like smarties

 

[D5000]

Of my hop bursted IPA, 'that smells like a bouquet of flowers'
Of my bottled ESB. 'I dumped it because it had stuff floating in it'
I explained how to pour it but wasn't there to show him.

 

[KYB]

Imperial Smoked Porter: "AH! This tastes like a meaty campfire! Gross!"
It won a Bronze in a large comp.

Monolith RIS: During a vertical group tasting of Dark Lord and Bourbon County... referring to Monolith - "What beer is this? Can I get another pour?" "Dude's homebrew" "No really, what is it?" "My homebrew" "No ****ing way." I explained further, bottle was killed before the vertical bottles were.
Too good to enter until I brew more.

 

[Disintegr8or]

"tastes like ear wax" but the wife says that about all IPA's, so I don't feel bad.

 

[neko]

"tastes like ear wax" but the wife says that about all IPA's, so I don't feel bad.

Okaaay...How does she know what ear wax tastes like?

 

[TheBluePhantom]

Worst: From the wife: "I like this one better."

I had gotten a Mr Beer kit from a guy at work (I wanted the plastic bottles for the beach). It had an expiration date 4 years earlier. I was in a good mood so, on kind of a self dare, I boiled up some water, threw in the HME from the kit, a pound of dextrose, and pitched some harvested s-23. Put it in a 2.5g keg a week later. It had fusel, was going to dump, didn't get round to it for a month. she tried that (the fusel cleaned up actually) and liked it. Like it better than the nicely hoppy ale I had in the keezer next to it, the nice ale that I had just fallen in love with....

On a side note, it wasn't hideous, just rather boring. I will give them credit, 5+ years old and no mold in the can. And no, I didn't try the included yeast.

 

[marc1]

The neighbor was helping me stack some firewood and we drank a good deal of low ABV kettle sour during the process. He said that he was going to hang out with some other friends that night that would really like it, and he wanted to know if he could take a growler for them to try. Of course I said yes.

Later that evening he stops by to fill up, fills up one growler, then pulls out another and says, "Do you mind if I take 2? This is really good!"

He's since bought some kegging equipment and brews with me now.

 

[Jtvann]

Worst- My own comment ... “I name this beer Yeti’s Taint”

Best is pretty much the same as everyone else’s.

 

[gunhaus]

My son brought a drinking buddy and his new girlfriend over once. Knowing they were both big fans of Killians, and Smithwick Red, he drew them both pints of a Red Ale i had on tap. Both took big pulls off their glasses , and yummy noises ensued. The young fellow asked, "What brand is this." My son proudly replied "Dad's brand" explaining that i had brewed it. Both smiled politely, and nodded approvingly, and neither one ever touched their glass again!!!! I asked my son some time later if the beer had put them off - He said, "No, they thought it tasted great. But they were afraid home made beer might be poison or dangerous somehow!" He said they were that way about nearly anything homemade - canned goods, preserves, pickles, cheese, bacon, you name it! He said they had read somewhere that such food and items would give you food poisoning

 

[camonick]

“I name this beer Yeti’s Taint”

That’s f’d up and hilarious at the same time.

 

[deuc224]

My brother to my NEIPA " its good man, coo, want another, naw im good lmao!!!!!

My brother to by chocolate stout "i think im on my 9th one, this is scary smooth"

 

[OldDogBrewing]

My brother to my NEIPA " its good man, coo, want another, naw im good lmao!!!!!

My brother to by chocolate stout "i think im on my 9th one, this is scary smooth"

Is your brother drinking all your homebrew? Hahaha

 

[OldDogBrewing]

Worst, my parents, both macro lager drinkers foe years, "this doesn't taste like beer", duh that's the whole point, if any of my brews ever taste like their favourite beer, I'm out hahaha

Best, my buddies came for a bbq, I pulled some samples from a couple fermenters, one was an Imperial stout made with kveik, didn't told them what was that, they just saw it was dark, flat and at room temp, all enjoyed it but one of my mates only drinks smooth or sweet thinks, he's not into hoppy beers or bold flavours in general, he said he loved it and asked for more, so considering the beer was young, at room temp, flat and he's really picky with everything, best compliment ever hahahaha

 

[wepeeler]

"Tastes just as good as anything I can get in the store."

"I'd buy a case of this!"

"DAMN!'

 

[3 Dawg Night]

"I forgot it was a homebrew halfway through."

 

[myndflyte]

I'm always fond of the "I don't normally like sours but if I did, it would be good" comment.

 

[monkeymath]

I think the wife of a (homebrewing!) friend of mine simultaneously scored in both categories when she tasted my Belgian wit:

"I hate witbier, but this tastes really really good!"

 

[JAReeves]

Worst: I think it was my 2nd or 3rd batch, a Centennial Blonde, and my sister says, "Wow, you made Corona!" She wasn't wrong, the oxidation was so bad, it had to have a lime wedge to get past the gullet.

Best: My neighbors and friends asking for more of my Red Rye IPA, even though one of them works at a really good local craft brewery and we get free beer from her. My homebrew is better than free professional beer? That is sold at real stores? Well damn.

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

Best and Worst: SWMBO "It's OK."

 

[myndflyte]

I always enjoy watching my wife make gagging sounds on any beer I make with an SRM greater than 20.

 

[deuc224]

Is your brother drinking all your homebrew? Hahaha

Mostly LOL , Im kegging him a grapefruit hefe and gonna burst carb it for thanksgiving.

 

[Transamguy77]

Both were at some beer tests my club was pouring at.
Best: “where can I buy this at?!”
Worst: guy takes a sip of a lemon wheat and literally spits it on the ground and says “ oh god that is terrible! That was the worst beer I’ve ever tasted!” Glad I respect the fact that everyone has different tastes and likes different styles.

 

[Mad Mann]

"If you made better beer your wife would drink it." Note: My wife doesn't drink beer

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

Best: "That is good! This is the way beer used to taste like when I was younger! How'd you make this? " <---- My Dad after sampling some of my Lutra Kveik Pseudo Lager.

Worst: "OMG! WTF IS THIS SH*@ ??? " <------ Myself after sampling a homebrew that went south on the express train to Nasty Town before I even had a chance to bottle it.

 

[camonick]

Best— This is sick!
Worst— This is sick!

 

[day_trippr]

Long ago when I was still doing extract brews an extraordinary set of circumstances led to a Master BJCP judge and his spouse ending up in my home sampling the half dozen brews on tap. I had never met either before, they were friends of a friend and were there to pick up said friend's house keys, but they were forward characters and were entertaining in that regard, and we did have common interests in super-insulated homes.

By the time they left The Judge had proclaimed five of my brews as some of the best all grain beers he'd ever enjoyed, though he did ding the sixth as being a bit sweet for an ESB.

No way was I going to tell him those were all extract beers, including the imperial chocolate stout with which he and his wife kept "ending" the evening numerous times...

Cheers!