Dumping Beer - Life is Too Short

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I found this for the BBQ sauce: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/2017/Beer-Lovers-BBQ-Sauce117972.shtml

 

[drkwoods]

I take all bad batches (rare) and distill them (in New Zealand of course) Makes fantastic small batch Whiskey.

 

[nutty_gnome]

Wow... dummping beer. I made myself drink 8 gallons of the 'sterling gold' recipe even after it fermented in the high 70s with US05. Tasted like bandaids and shyt, but what are you gonna do? Gotta learn from your mistakes.... and I won't neglect fermentation temps again. Right now I'm drinking somehting that has too much roasted barely and that has negatively impacted the taste.... but how else am I gonna learn if I don't personally drain the bottles?!?

 

[Ravenshead]

I dumped about a half batch last week. It was passably drinkable but not as good as it's brothers. That keg stayed full in my fridge for 5 mos as batch after batch were consumed.

Last week I had to take it out of it's misery. It was like watching Old Yeller.

 

[NorCalAngler]

but how else am I gonna learn if I don't personally drain the bottles?!?

Interesting. You're punishing yourself in order to imprint the lesson in your brain? I guess I'm lucky I don't have to subject myself to bad beer in order to remember that improper wort aeration or low pitching rates will cause off flavors and stalled fermentation.

If I tried to make brownies and accidentally left them in too long and they burned I wouldn't force myself to eat the entire pan just to teach myself a lesson. Even if they were $30 brownies they would go in the trash. For me the money wasted is a far bigger reason to learn my lessons than drinking bad beer.

 

[Clef051]

I have had a few that I choked down the only one that I dumped was my first that never started fermenting.

 

[nutty_gnome]

mmmmmm.... brownies.....

 

[Ravenshead]

If they were $30 brownies, I'd probably still eat them since I wasn't necessarily making them for taste alone.:fro:

 

[Bobby_M]

I have dumped a crap ton of beer. It's like snow skiing. If you never fall, you're not trying hard enough.

 

[edasaurus]

I don't really make enough beer to dump yet, but I can see the issue bad beer clogging up the pipeline if one were to make beer a bit more regularly.

I take all bad batches (rare) and distill them (in New Zealand of course) Makes fantastic small batch Whiskey.

Hmmm...interesting. Tell me more. Do you have pictures of this distillery...in New Zealand? I'd like to know more about this. Just for informational purposes...

 

[Hawaiianbrewer]

Last batch I dumped was called "Big Foots Yeast Infection". It was pretty bad.

 

[gunner65]

I'm completely the opposite, although I have enjoyed everything I have made so far. I hate dumping a beer, even half a beer.

one time a few months ago during a football game I had enjoyed more homebrew than I can remember and I was on my last beer about halfway through and SWMBO said it was time to go and reached for my beer, apparently I then grabbed the beer away and said "I have to finish my beer, I made it with my own two hands and if I dont finish it I am disrespecting myself"

Thanks for the new sig