Do You Still Purchase Commercial Beer ?

[helibrewer]

Ummm. You tell me...

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I like your taste.....

 

[celebran2]

Research only accounts for so much. After that its just enjoyment of life. Which is what we should do.
I find now that my homebrew quality is increasing, I am buying less commercial beer. However I do keep a good stock of dark heavy strong brews in the cellar aging away for a vertical tasting night in the future years. (Such as Hermannator)

 

[DogFace_Brewing]

I have been brewing 5 gallon batches every week for the last 2 months to stock up...I have not bought commercial beer in that time and proud of it

 

[kapbrew13]

My commercial beer consumption went up dramatically when I first started homebrewing. Research, you know.

Now it's a sixer or two a month of commercial beer, but mostly homebrew. Inversely proportional to the quality of my batches (i.e., bad homebrew = buy good beer)

+1 yes research. I like making commercial knock offs.

 

[1fast636]

Ummm. You tell me...

You showed yours ill show mine

 

[Tabb]

I have been brewing 5 gallon batches every week for the last 2 months to stock up...I have not bought commercial beer in that time and proud of it

I wish

 

[uxo]

I dont have the money to buy beer like i used to. Growler fills are just too much. I haven't bought beer since i started to Homebrew. I will say that my wife will bring me a pliny the the elder sometimes.

 

[olz431]

I have 4 cases of beer that are ready to drink, and two are not. I am done buying beer and havent bought but a sixer and a few other single bottles just to try new stuff in the last 3 or so weeks. Im building up my beer warehouse( spare bedroom) to get to the point I do not need to purchase at all, except to sample of course.

 

[downtown3641]

I still buy commercial beer for a couple of reasons. First, my wife enjoys beer and, with an eight month old, I can usually only squeeze in one brew day a month. That's not even often enough to have two kegs full simultaneously. Second, I never want to be pigeon-holed into one person's idea of what beer should be, not even my own. So, I like to try as many different beers as I can. I prefer to do this by visiting breweries, but am not at all opposed to purchasing bottles and visiting beer bars.

 

[SeraphX117]

I only drink commercial beers when my local breweries come out wit something new. They fill up my growler for 8$. AZ has a few great breweries and they like to test new stuff. If you want a night you won't remember try "Nimbus's Old Monkeyshine" it is tasty yet 8-9% abv.

edit- I, however, did buy some Stone Ruination IPA recently, I saw it and just had to

 

[Piratwolf]

Each Friday, my wife & I hit the Pub for 2-3 great craft beers or sours. That's almost entirely my commercial beer consumption. I drink my Homebrew pretty much exclusively. Went in the beer cooler at the grocery store this week & almost passed out when I saw how expensive craft beer has gotten!

 

[azfalcon]

Absolutely I do and I will. I'm odd because I don't buy basic miller lite bud etc. I go to unique stores and get micros and love them.

 

[RIC0]

I do but not near as often as I used too. I think I've bought keystone light 2 times since the year turned and that was mainly because I had guests coming over that don't like home brews.

 

[Beergazzi]

I now only drink Grolsch so as to build my bottle collection. My brews are all aging now so, if they are good I'm going to probably just buy an occasional chocolate stout bomber as a treat

 

[free2scour]

I mainly drink what I have on tap at home but if I'm craving a style I don't have available, I'll bring in some commercial.......

 

[shoreman]

If i'm out I will or sometime on the weekends ill pick a 22oz but craft beer is outrageous in price these days- I'm sorry but I'd rather have a nice entree at a sweet restaurant that take a chance on your $20 'extreme' overhopped 750.

 

[TNGabe]

I buy about 5% of the beer I used to and still seem to spend about the same. Slight exaggeration, but since I never buy 'drinking' beer any more, it's easier to spend the money on the stuff I really want like FV-13 for dang $17 for a 375ml bottle.

 

[Zuljin]

Of course I do. Especially with build your own six packs. There's some great beer out there.

And research too. Do I really want to spend the time and money to make a gallon or five or so and so style? Lemme go buy a few bottles and see.

 

[woknblues]

I do, but I have cut way back. Mostly as other's have stated, for research/enrichment into style that I am exploring. Around 3/4 of my beer making revolves around session beers.

 

[Channel66]

I buy a selection when I run out of commercial stuff. But I don't ever have more than this in my fridge. I've got some Belgians and sours aging in my basement but mostly homebrew for me. Usually have a growler of something local. There may be a 4er in the regular fridge from time to time. Usually pull my beer off the kegerator, and I don't have room in my pipeline for commercial kegs.

For the record those angry orchards were left in my fridge by some random. They drank a few then I let them try my cider, the rest of their orchard stayed with me.. yuck

 

[KingKlong]

I do for research like others have said. I don't want to brew something that I have never had. So maybe once a month I buy a six pack or a few 22s. I've got a few great bottle shops to choose from plus my local grocer has an ok selection of craft stuff in addition to the BMC stuff.

 

[Reggie22]

Still buying the pick sixers for "research" and to support my neighborhood liquor store. Want to get to the point to where I don't have to buy any except for the case I buy when a couple of friends and I get together on Wednesday evenings.

 

[Nightshade]

I buy it by the pint at the local taphouse, but honestly I haven't bought a sixer or a bomber in months...even my taphouse trips are infrequent to rare.

 

[krenshaw]

You showed yours ill show mine

digging on the troegs you have in there.. jealous you still have mad elf left :rockin:

 

[E-Mursed]

Sure I do....my R&D department demands a steady supply of samples for cloning and style comparisons.

This one of the benefits of being a one-man operation.

 

[GarageDweller]

I run 4 taps at the house, but I pick up at least 3 bombers (750ml) a week. my beer is excellent, but there is always something I want to try. its nice to have a mad assortment of styles from different parts of the world. its never enough! and there's always the one you haven't had yet.

 

[1fast636]

digging on the troegs you have in there.. jealous you still have mad elf left :rockin:

2 mad elfs and 5 nugget nectar now there is 5
Sucks beside the nectar so the top row is nice to open up to lol might have to have a
Mad elf some time soon

 

[Early8]

I have a four tap keezer and tend to keep One as a "guest tap". Currently Sierra Nevada Pale occupies the guest tap. Carol Stoudt's American Pale is a regular as well.

 

[user 125772]

very very seldom...just for research

 

[DaNewf]

I don't but my wife will occasionally come home with a half dozen Molson Canadian on the last day of three consecutive 12 hour shifts. She's especially prone to do this when she's knows there is no homebrew blonde ale in the house.