How fast do you consume 5 gallons of home brew?

[kpr121]

I have the opposite problem. My kegerator is in the house, but I spend 90% of my beer drinking time in the garage (separate from the house). So I fill a 32 oz. growler and take it to the garage in a cooler every night. :rockin:

I was just going to suggest a growler to this guy, but 32 oz? WTF, go big or go home!

 

[cruckin78]

I have the opposite problem. My kegerator is in the house, but I spend 90% of my beer drinking time in the garage (separate from the house). So I fill a 32 oz. growler and take it to the garage in a cooler every night. :rockin:

Nice, I need to start doing that! On another note...It is a good problem to have. :rockin::rockin::rockin:

 

[nanop]

I'd say 3-6weeks for me (with my wife drinking a few), depending on the brew. I don't only drink the homebrew, so it depends on the season and what else is in the house. I'm always a sucker for mix-packs for Sam Adams, Harpoon, Magic Hat, Boulder, etc.. so that sometimes slows things down...

 

[Gduck]

With the three taps going I'd guess we average a gallon on the average week. My drinks a pint here or there and I have a couple every night. Generally I end up having a party now and then to clear up some space for other beers I have ready that I want to get on tap. Plus I always like trying new beers so I pick up odds and ends at the bottle shop every so often.

 

[shaggybudd]

Well last night i had planned on bottling a 12 pack for different purposes but in the process of filling the first bottle i killed the keg. :-( i had made a super tasty Indian brown ale that lasted only a week.

 

[BonnieJ]

Two people here takes a little over two weeks. It would probably take less if we had more around, which with two fermenters going now will soon be the case!

 

[SwampassJ]

About 6 weeks. I still have cream stouts from December though...

 

[shuckit]

I bottle in flip top liter bottles, so it take me about 23 days to drink 5 gallons.

 

[Brewnoob1]

Resurrecting this thread since I was thinking of asking the question. Just trying to gauge if I'm turning into an alcoholic or not haha. I'm the primary beer drinker in my household and finished my last 5 gallon pumpkin by myself in just under 2 weeks. Though, that was with the Thanksgiving break and having a few extra that day. I drink about 24-48 ounces a night on average.

 

[phoenixs4r]

I brew with my girlfriend. We trade off, I brew a beer I want, she brews one that she wants. Generally it doesn't go super fast, but sometimes we brew a beer we both like, like a pale ale with oak. Plans were to leave it soaking in oak for a while in the keg. Killed it in a weekend.

Lol

 

[Riopel]

Depends a lot, me and my girlfriend couls take 2 months, having three taps some may live 4 to 6 months, but last year december 31, I put two news 5gal at 3Pm, 12H later nothing left...

 

[friday]

It depends on what kind of disaster they have for me at work on any given day.

Sometimes 4 days, sometimes 4 weeks for a 5 gallon keg.

 

[coastwx]

House beers like my pale ale will make it 3-4 weeks. Others like my oatmeal stout, porter or IIPA will last more than a month, but not more than 3-4 months. I just finished off a wheat beer that was 3.5 months old and have the second corney of that 10 gal batch freshly tapped. With this said, I do get a six pack of a craft brew almost every week and have at least 3 different beers on tap at a time and some bottled.

 

[ajbram]

5 gal = about 19L = about 38 UK pints. If its just me that could last a couple months, especially if I have 2 or more on the go. If I have friends over, that could last 5 hours.

 

[Tinga]

if i give away a couple six packs of the stuff it might be gone in a month if I'm lucky. I gotta get my roommates to drink more of my stuff.

 

[ciphin78]

I took a full 5 gal keg to poker night once. 5 guys + 5 hours = empty keg. I was shocked when it blew. That was the last time I took a keg to poker night.

 

[kpr121]

if i give away a couple six packs of the stuff it might be gone in a month if I'm lucky. I gotta get my roommates to drink more of my stuff.

Ahh the classic homebrewer's mentality. My friends always feel like theyve committed a crime when a kege kicks during their pour. I am happy I get to put the next one on tap!

(This mentality only works when you have an adequete pipeline. When I am running low I tell them to grab a commercial brew after the first 2 or 3 pints)

 

[BBL_Brewer]

2-3 weeks for me by myself. A lot faster than that if friends are stopping by frequently.
There for a while I had some friends that were starting to take the free homebrew thing for granted. Never around when all the work is being done. It's like they just think that beer magically appears in the keggerator or something. I finally put a tip jar on the keggerator and my consumption rate has become a little more manageable

 

[Zamial]

I thought this was a challenge...

But it would seem in my home we go through about 5 gallons in 4-7 days on average.

 

[Brewnoob1]

I thought this was a challenge...

But it would seem in my home we go through about 5 gallons in 4-7 days on average.

How many are drinking on the keg?

At least this thread makes me feel less of an alcoholic haha. I'm more the norm it seems at average 2 weeks per keg.

 

[LKABrewer]

4 to 5 weeks for a 5 gallon back myself. My first keg I went through in less than two weeks alone..That was a fun week.

Yea, that first keg always seems to go pretty fast!

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

About a month if it is just me having a couple here and there.

If I am on vacation, 2-3 weeks.

 

[Whippy]

I'd say around 3 weeks alone for me if I had to guess, sometimes 2 weeks.

 

[Lucky_Chicken]

well... I dont keep track, but if i brew a 5 gallon batch every 2 weeks i keep ahead of myself and the ocasional friend that stops by but, if I get busy and only brew one every 3 or 4 weeks i run out like now... time to refill the pipeline!

 

[JMcC76]

I found it depends on if I kegged or not. I usually go through 5 ga in 2 weeks if it's good and on-tap, 3 if it's decent and 4 if it's mediocre. Bottles however are much harder to calculate because I put them in my stock pile, right not I have 18 cases in my fermentation room, 5 carboys in various stages of fermentation and 10 ga on tap. Sometimes I rotate a keg around for a week or two dependant on what I want on tap.

 

[richbrew99]

Week and a half to two weeks for me.

 

[unionrdr]

Being of the Woodstock generation,I honestly have to say that one thing still holds true. If you remember it clearly,you weren't there. :cross:

 

[KevinM]

I had the same result as Ciphin. 5 gallons, 5 guys, 5 hours. And I had originally worried I was going to come back with too much over the thanksgiving weekend. Now I know to bring more next time.

However, if it's just me, it varies. I'm a light drinker and actually prefer spirits & liquers, so the shortest was 2 months, and I also have a keg on tap from Feburary (still good, no off flavors, and even better since day one).

 

[Bradinator]

I use a simple formula
# Pints a day x 7 days a week x 4 weeks a month/Beer is awesome + Fatness^2 = About a month.

Science.

 

[Schnitzengiggle]

I use a simple formula
# Pints a day x 7 days a week x 4 weeks a month/Beer is awesome + Fatness^2 = About a month.

Science.

I think I've seen this formula published somwhere.