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

[BrewZer]

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.

No snark at the Mr Beer, please... I still use my 6-gal Mr Beer fermenter 'cause it's easier to set up and deal with than my HDPE conical...

Of course, I don't use their kits. I don't use ANYBODY's kits...

 

[day_trippr]

Agreed, everyone has to start somewhere, and my sons kicked off my brewing with a Mister Beer kit gift.
It didn't take long before I realized it made economic sense to source the ingredients elsewhere, but those fermenters were hella handy as cheap infrastructure...

Cheers! ("And the rest is history" )