If you had to HATE one thing about Homebrewing...

[Geohound]

Cleaning out the mash tun. Especially if I'm brewing late at night and forget about it for a day. I have to remind myself that even though i made it for cheap i shouldn't just throw it away and make a new one.

 

[philrose]

mopping the floor. Even when I don't spill a drop or brew outside, there are always footprints leading to the door.

 

[ak-71]

Waiting. When I already know I made a good beer, but it will get better with time - I always want to take sample to see how it develops, but feel sorry to waste the beer it will be.
Worst is when I want to change something and have to wait till the old version is done.

 

[evo8ur8]

The waiting is the hardest part.

i will second this all day long, i am now addicited to brewing, even though i have only one brew under my belt.

 

[kh54s10]

Cleaning.

Though I have moved my brewing to my porch and have recently obtained a utility sink so that I can do my cleaning right there. No more carrying everything to the kitchen sink or rinsing with a hose in the yard.

 

[tre9er]

Edit: commenting went nuts, sorry for double-post

 

[kh54s10]

Cleaning.

Though I have moved my brewing to my porch and have recently obtained a utility sink so that I can do my cleaning right there. No more carrying everything to the kitchen sink or rinsing with a hose in the yard.

 

[tre9er]

Cleaning and waiting. I don't feel like cleaning up usually after a brew, but then again, I can control that. I have no control over waiting...and I always keg early as a result. Then by the end of the keg I'm thinking, "damn, this is even better than when it started! I wish I had a whole keg of THIS!"

Pipeline goes too fast, kegs don't last 2 weeks. Stepping up to 8g. batches likely now that I have 11g. keggle. Even 7 or 7.5 is another case of beer over 5.

 

[tre9er]

Cleaning and waiting. I don't feel like cleaning up usually after a brew, but then again, I can control that. I have no control over waiting...and I always keg early as a result. Then by the end of the keg I'm thinking, "damn, this is even better than when it started! I wish I had a whole keg of THIS!"

Pipeline goes too fast, kegs don't last 2 weeks. Stepping up to 8g. batches likely now that I have 11g. keggle. Even 7 or 7.5 is another case of beer over 5.

 

[Proboscidea]

Everybody here seems to hate cleaning up afterward. Me too. I'm dreaming of an informal "apprentice" program where newbies watch and learn from the more experienced brewers in exchange for doing all the grunt work like cleaning, sanitizing, scraping labels off bottles, and making last-minute trips to the LHBS to pick up that one thing you always forget in the middle of brewing.

(sorry if this ends up in multiple posts ... it seems commenting is going haywire right now)

 

[kh54s10]

Cleaning.

Though I have moved my brewing to my porch and have recently obtained a utility sink so that I can do my cleaning right there. No more carrying everything to the kitchen sink or rinsing with a hose in the yard.

 

[Airborneguy]

Definitely the amount of space necessary. I honestly don't mind any of the work, including cleaning, but all the equipment just takes up too much space.

 

[tre9er]

Everybody here seems to hate cleaning up afterward. Me too. I'm dreaming of an informal "apprentice" program where newbies watch and learn from the more experienced brewers in exchange for doing all the grunt work like cleaning, sanitizing, scraping labels off bottles, and making last-minute trips to the LHBS to pick up that one thing you always forget in the middle of brewing.

(sorry if this ends up in multiple posts ... it seems commenting is going haywire right now)

This is, I'm told, the traditional way to learn brewing (before books and the internet made it easier). I suppose it still is a good way to see the practices in place and make sense of it all in person. I'm game! Will teach n00bs to brew in exchange for countless hours of cleaning labor!

 

[monkeymootj]

Removing labels off bottles is the worst for me.

Absolutely the worst!

 

[hopmomma]

Waiting for my hops to grow and be plentiful.

 

[bottlebomber]

It's a toss up between cleaning up after brew day and bottling... My god I hate bottling..

 

[BrewinHooligan]

I absolutely hate bottling... I wish I was in a position to buy a kegorator and kegs. I don't mind anything else, including the cleaning. Bottling just takes too much time and work for my liking, but I will keep doing it until I can make the big switch.

 

[tre9er]

I absolutely hate bottling... I wish I was in a position to buy a kegorator and kegs. I don't mind anything else, including the cleaning. Bottling just takes too much time and work for my liking, but I will keep doing it until I can make the big switch.

I did it slowly. Got a keg for $50 shipped, regulator for ~$40 shipped (cheaper on CL/ebay), got a 20oz. paintball tank and adapter for $35 shipped, lines/fittings were ~$20. So about $150 total I guess. Check CL though. You'll find whole kegerators for $200 on there sometimes with large CO2 bottles, taps, lines, etc. Then you just need to switch the fitting over to Ball-lock and get a corney. I got two more ball-locks from McEver Distributors for $91 shipped.

 

[adamjackson]

Waiting is probably the worst part. I love cleaning. Maybe it's the fact my LHBS charges 2-3X the price for ingredients than online so I order online and then have to wait for them to arrive

I'm talking like $30 just for two standard bags of DME is what it costs my my LHBS

 

[johnheather125]

No doubt bottling

 

[chiteface]

No doubt bottling

Yup...the worst. Still you know what they say a bad day of brewing (fishing) is better than a good day at work.

 

[GoldMiner]

Siphoning.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

I'm on the cleaning bandwagon. Very important but time consuming and tedious.

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Cleanup. I started this hobby thinking I would practice brewing.

Turns out it more a practice on cleaning since that is 75% of the workload.

 

[Hernando]

I don't mind sanitizing as much as cleaning.

This and waiting for my beer to condition/carb.

 

[VonAle]

Waiting.....for the next brew day.
The 4-5 days leading up to brew day are agonizingly long. Once I get to Flame-On, it's all good.

 

[Wirk]

Cleaning its the worst part for me, not sanitising.

 

[neosapien]

I hate that I only get to do it twice a week

 

[tre9er]

Waiting.....for the next brew day.
The 4-5 days leading up to brew day are agonizingly long. Once I get to Flame-On, it's all good.

Another good point. I would brew every 2 days if I could. I've brewed back to back two weekends ago (Fri night, Saturday AM) and this last weekend I did a partigyle (two batches/boils from one mash). If I can't be drinking the beer that's fermenting, I'd rather be brewing than just waiting

 

[Stauffbier]

I used to hate label removal, as well, but I no longer remove the labels. I just leave them on now. I have 400+ bottles without labels and 100+ with labels, so if I want something presentable I'll use a de-labeled one. If it's just for my own consumption, I don't really care....