Drunk on packaging day

Biergarden · Dec 28, 2013

Again???? It happens every freaking time! lol
Well, it's an important part of the process and just makes sense. How can you be around gallons of beer and not nip a bit?

jonmohno · Dec 30, 2013

I wait til Im done personally, I dont want to kill myself in the process. Let alone make mistakes, thats my own judgemnet though, have at if its your thing . I tend to be less focused and lazy if I have some.

Homercidal · Dec 31, 2013

I've done it a time or two. Never anymore. A beer during brewing, and only more after yeast is pitched. By that time I'm only interested in finishing up the cleaning and putting stuff away. Packaging involves cleaning a keg and filling it. Not much time to get drunk.

Hello · Dec 31, 2013

Homercidal said:
I've done it a time or two. Never anymore. A beer during brewing, and only more after yeast is pitched. By that time I'm only interested in finishing up the cleaning and putting stuff away. Packaging involves cleaning a keg and filling it. Not much time to get drunk.

Glad you explained what packaging was because I was envisioning packing up beers or something and in that case, I am not ever drunk because I have to drive shortly after.

I've gotten buzzed while brewing once but the buzz wears down, I get tired, and then the whole racking to my carboy becomes a chore. Cleanup is dreadful and it is just not worth it. Now I have a couple beers and more after I am all done cleaning.

Biergarden · Dec 31, 2013

It's old tradition for me, but I didn't mean hammered falling down so drunk that I couldn't even make a post. lol I meant happily buzzed off hydrometer readings and not wasting a drop of usable beer, although green by all standards. I don't know about you guys, but I still get excited and happy at packaging day. Because by then you know that all the hard work of developing and brewing a recipie is right on track to be a very good beer. Even though it's green and needs to age.

Bulls Beers · Dec 31, 2013

When Brewing I never drink, mainly because I brew pretty early in the morning. Tonight, I'll be kegging a batch and I will have a few, maybe even a bunch of beers. Kegging is pretty easy, so I don't sweat it too much.

Plus it's New Years Eve, so I guess I have to drink some homebrew.