First World Hombrewer Problems

[bransona]

First world homebrew problems: college student edition

Can't lager because I can't afford another fridge, nor can the apartment hold it.

Brew 1.5 gallons at a time MAX due to equipment and space restrictions.

It's hard as sh*t to find good 2-gallon fermenting buckets at local stores, whereas I've found 82884628252837 5-gallon buckets for free.

Liquid yeast? You're joking, right?

Cider means my room suffers through ultra concentrated rhino farts.

I have a single produce drawer in he fridge for hops and yeast, but would rather buy bulk hops and keep lots of harvested yeast.

The list goes on and on, but damn, I love homebrewing. Thanks to my first world problems, I've reached a really minimalistic setup and have solid results. Swmbo appreciates that I'm only taking my share of the apartment, and the cider is for her since she's gluten free.

Oh, there's another: have to make cider because swmbo has celiac disease.

O, woe is me

 

[sleepspeaking]

I have ingredients for a batch of beer that I really want to brew, but I'm out of space in my temp controlled chamber.
And I'm looking into a job 2100 miles away, and might have to move before the batch would finish.

Facepalm

 

[ChelisHubby]

Hey now.. there's a really great solution!
Is there some type of cheap packaging that can be filled from kegs and is not breakable? Don't want to have to comb the streets on Monday morning looking for my empty growlers or add to the smashed beer bottle mess already littering our town.
Hmm I'd actually do this if I thought it was possible and not get arrested. Imagine the joy on the faces of the homeless.

2 liter plastic coke bottles they seal and don't cost much if someone drinks cokes!

 

[BeerAddikt]

Not enough room in my freezer to freeze enough 2 liter bottles, 1 gallon jugs, and mid sized Tupperware for cooling fermenter. I swear my freezer never shuts off...

 

[Photopilot]

Dunno if there's another thread like it, but I might as well give it a shot...

My pipeline is clogged with homebrew. Even if I finish all of my tapped and bottled beer within the next month (25+ gallons), I would still have an ocean of beer to drink before I needed to brew again. Which is really starting to interfere with my biweekly brewing schedule...

Anyone else got some gripes over the severity of their homebrewing habits?

It could be worse, your consumption could be keeping up with your brewing, then your wife would be the one on here complaining of problems at home.

I have 3 dedicated beer fridges or freezers and the food fridge still needs to store a beer or yeast on occasion. This makes the wife unhappy.