Homebrewing Truths

[Stauffbier]

You NEVER stop wanting to upgrade!

 

[Atog]

Once you start siphoning or bottling, you'll find that you left the beer you were drinking JUST out of reach.

Every F***ing time.

 

[JoeyChopps]

You NEVER stop wanting to upgrade!

This should be gospel

 

[user 103238]

Agreed - never had a liking for an IPA before I started brewing. Still not my favorite, but I am learning to appreciate the hoppiness.

You will start liking styles of brew u didn't before until u homebrewed the style. For me it was wheats never like them now I've brewed a few and I really like them

 

[MedicMang]

You start to watch a movie with your gal, when 10 min later, she catches you looking through forum threads about how to make a fermentation chamber.

 

[Cacaman]

Everyone around you will simply assume you only drink and brew "dark beer".

 

[urbanmyth]

People will assume you are an alcoholic.

 

[JoeyChopps]

Everyone around you will simply assume you only drink and brew "dark beer".

That hits home I live in the south and if its not bud light its garbage

 

[Cacaman]

That hits home I live in the south and if its not bud light its garbage

Yep! After running out of Bud Light last night at a cookout, I hand my uncle one of my SNPA, and after 30 minutes of baby sitting he cracks this comment, "It's alright, I just get a lot more flavor out of the bud light".

 

[ndsgr]

That session beer that couldn't get you drunk if you tried, did.

 

[mvcorliss]

Once you start siphoning or bottling, you'll find that you left the beer you were drinking JUST out of reach.

SO TRUE!! Also the reason I let my wife "help" me brew.

 

[DannyD]

you will, in the begining, drink more green beer then any other......(and then b!tch about the taste)

(and Revvy WILL rip you a new one, if you mention "under carbed bottle conitioned", "need for secondery", "Bad tast in green beer"....ect......that guy:rockin: is my hero!!!!!)

 

[hansaurelius]

You will suddenly develop an interest in the syrup/honey aisle at your grocery store.

 

[SwampassJ]

THIS is my problem!!! It drives me nuts. No matter how I adjust it does not seem to work.

Thanks for the info...

Take the burner apart and check to see if there is anything inside clogging up the flow. Maybe even dremel it a little smoother.

 

[SkyHighBrew88]

It may seem like homebrewing will save you money, but in the end you'll end up spending more in equipment and upgrades.

Yet, you won't care because you're making some damn good beer!

 

[BobBailey]

No matter how great your last batch was, you gotta try something different next time.

 

[Euphist]

Everyone around you will simply assume you only drink and brew "dark beer".

and your own definition of what constitutes a "dark" beer will change!

 

[TheG3RG]

Many of the commercial beers you once loved will now taste like putrid swamp water

Lol already so true, especially after I fell in love with craft beers lol

 

[davekippen]

You will spend 10X more time doing reading, research, studying, and learning about beer than you EVER did about ANYTHING ELSE in school.

 

[jfrans84]

I can second that note. I had to clear out a whole shelf of my wife's romance novels so I could put my home brew books in it.

 

[unionrdr]

The hardest thing you'll ever do is to convince a BMC drinker that there's more to beer than pilsner & lager from big companies.

 

[TheGreatHambino]

You will occasionally buy a bomber of beer specifically for the coolness of the bottle and the prospect of bottling your own beer in it.

In fact, many of your beer purchases will revolve around ease of label removal and lack of twist off caps.

 

[rifraf]

The amount of physical space taken up by your brewing equipment is directly proportional to the number of beers you've brewed...

 

[Rip]

....You purchase a 12 pack of something commercial just because you've never tasted it before... only to realize that it tastes like Heineken (damn you newcastle founders ale). Then justify the purchse with "Those are some nice brown non-screw-top-bottles - I'll be using those ******* fo shure!".

 

[unionrdr]

You never stop coming up with new brew ideas,even though you've set your mind to going back & brewing favorites.

 

[DRUNK-I-AM]

You constantly worry if the shelves in the closet need to be reinforced to hold the weight of the hundreds of bottles of homebrew.

 

[stikks]

You tend to do much more kitchen cleaning than you ever did
before you started brewing.

 

[fletchsj]

you discover purgatory is in fact a great place to find new, different, and CHEAP yeast!

&

Develop a love affair with anything stainless steel

 

[PistolPete2]

You will say that next time you are going to write up a brew day schedule, but you won't.

 

[lou2row]

Seeing someone drinking straight from their bottle at a bar suddenly seems so wrong.