I might be a bad influence :D

[dummkauf]

So yoopers 60 min IPA clone got the fiance's father drinking beer, something neither of us have seen since he's generally a brandy drinker and gave up beer years ago. However, now he's been bugging me about when I'm gonna brew up another batch, which unfortunately will be another year until I can get the pacman yeast again(but I do have another variation of that recipe going now with a different yeast, so we'll see)

Then I brewed up a wheat beer for my Fiance, she's not a big beer drinker but she normally sticks to wheat beers when she does. Well we just cracked the first bottle 2 nights ago and she's been drinking 2 or 3 a night now, and ALSO apologized for giving me crap about drinking more now that I've started brewing, she understands now

At this rate I'm going to have to step up production as so far I've converted 2 not-really-beer-drinkers into, can't-get-enough-homebrew addicts

Just thought I'd share, these great brews wouldn't have been possible without all the advice I've gotten on this site!!!

 

[Pommy]

If every homebrewer can convert non beer drinkers to beer drinkings and beer drinkers to brewers then imagine what a beautiful world we would live in BMC beer will die and good beers will rule the world. Keep up the good work

Ive obviously had a couple of bottles of the good stuff

 

[studmonk3y]

Get yourself some bottles of Rogue beers (or maybe your own clone would do) and bottle harvest that yeast. Make a big starter and save some in slants or wash the yeast after fermentation and save it. Then you won't have to wait a year to buy pacman yeast!

 

[Pommy]

+1 on culturing up yeast from one of your own bottles if possible or else buying a bottle to use, that way you also get a beer! Sorry I got off topic

 

[Homercidal]

If every homebrewer can convert non beer drinkers to beer drinkings and beer drinkers to brewers then imagine what a beautiful world we would live in BMC beer will die and good beers will rule the world. Keep up the good work

Ive obviously had a couple of bottles of the good stuff

When BMC die, we will find another style to rail against, like lambics (my choice).

 

[ForRealBeer]

When BMC die, we will find another style to rail against, like lambics (my choice).

Some folks like lambics, and despite being odd fringe beers, beers they are.

I know people that rail against "liquid hops" that "have no balance whatsoever" and continue to talk about them not being "real beer" (whatever the H__l that means, considering they have malt, yeast, water and hops in them.)

That usually gets an eye roll from me, and I point the obvious: no one forces you to drink from another man's glass. If it's a crappy brew, I just say no thanks and save room for something I do like.

 

[archiefl98]

When BMC die, we will find another style to rail against, like lambics (my choice).

Lousy lambic drinkers.




Oh yeah, +1 to bottle culturing. I used a bottle of Shakespeare stout and cultured up Pacman from the dregs. This yeast is ridiculous and I wish I'd done this years ago!

 

[keiths]

You can get Packman yeast here:
http://www.rebelbrewer.com/shoppingcart/products/Pacman-Yeast-from-Rogue-%2d-Wyeast-1764.html
Or Here:
http://store.homebrewheaven.com/rogue-pacman-ale-yeast-1764-pc-from-wyeast-p1534.aspx
And here:
http://mountainhomebrew.com/wyeast1764roguepacmanaleyeast.aspx
and also here: just a simple Google search
http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/brewing-ingredients/yeast/wyeast-1764-pacman-ale-yeast.html

 

[ak40kush]

I think Almost all of us have a story like this lol My best friend and I prefer Ales but before I started homebewing we would be the typical cunsumer and get the generic lagers. I always loved stout and now that I brew Ales and dark beers Ive converted him to stout. My Girlfriend as well loves my stouts and she doesn't like beer, shes the girly drink lover and now when my beer is ready to drink i make sure she tries some and now she starting to aquire a taste for beer.

Now that ive got some people hooked on my homebrew I find that Im running out of beer faster...

 

[Sedge]

Lousy lambic drinkers.

Watch it now...there's more of us than you think.

 

[brownsbrews]

Dont feel bad i have done the same thing to my wife. She realy aint a beer drinker but i have brought her over to the dark side with commercial beers for now till my HB is ready.

 

[dummkauf]

Actually, neither of them were really BMC drinkers to begin with, they weren't really beer drinkers...the homebrews just turned them onto to beer as a whole as they never liked the BMC to begin with and figured that was all that was out there

 

[Mateo]

I don't want to bust anyone's bubble, but when I moved to Belgium and proudly ordered a lambic, my Belgian coworkers told me that lambics were what Belgian girls drank.

I had to buy my Framboise and drink it in the seclusion of my apartment to avoid the harassment on the street.

 

[Pommy]

Actually, neither of them were really BMC drinkers to begin with, they weren't really beer drinkers...the homebrews just turned them onto to beer as a whole as they never liked the BMC to begin with and figured that was all that was out there

IMO BMC drinkers are not beer drinkers either, I know each to their own but its like a member of the Hells Angels riding a moped. :rockin:

 

[smizak]

When BMC die, we will find another style to rail against, like lambics (my choice).

May all of your brews be infected with Brettanomyces for your insolence.

 

[demonrichie]

my old lady dont like beer and i doubt my brew will ever convince her otherwise but thats y i gots apfelwein in the fermenter. i am convincing my buddy to brew his own soon too so yes us homebrewers r evil in our influential ways MUHAHAHAHA

 

[dummkauf]

I don't want to bust anyone's bubble, but when I moved to Belgium and proudly ordered a lambic, my Belgian coworkers told me that lambics were what Belgian girls drank.

I had to buy my Framboise and drink it in the seclusion of my apartment to avoid the harassment on the street.

Which just goes to show....drink what you like

This was meant to be a "my beers so good non-beer drinkers love it" thread, not a bash BMC thread(there are plenty of those already).

 

[schmagy]

Weeeeelll, i for one personally hope BMC NEVER EVER dies... there is a reason i can buy a micro quantity of well modified and consistent grain at .88 a pound... BMC scale of economics to the rescue.

Totally agree on how much better my home brew is... if only because i always drink it at its peak,..... or 4 weeks to soon as the case may be