im happy when my beer is good .

[fluketamer]

i find my mood is very closely related to the quality of my beer. when i brew a really good batch it makes me happy. when my beer doesnt come out as expected i find i am in a sour mood. at least until the next great batch.

when i had my business i found that my mood correlated directly with my bottom line. generally unhappy during financial struggles. although i was mostly in the red then. lol.

does making good beer make you happy too?

 

[wepeeler]

100% agree with this! SO much time/research/planning goes into brewing beer, and it's disappointing when you don't hit the mark. 2 weeks ago I had my first ever brew day go so horribly wrong I aborted the mission. Ruined my entire night.

 

[mashdar]

Just having two beers tapped makes me happy. Hard to find time.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Yes and no, it depends on the beer for me. I had my first infection in my 13 years of brewing last month, that pissed me off a little but it was a small batch and luckily a cheap one. Now I missed gravity on a beer a little while back because I used my steam condenser lid and didn't adjust my boil off rate, I was really upset with myself so the rest of that day I was in a bad mood, but the beer turned out good, just a little low on abv. But I will say, when the beers turn out as planned it definitely puts a smile on my face.

 

[Kornssj]

If I know exactly what I did wrong then I feel a little bit better. However If something goes wrong and I have no idea what occurred, it will bother me until that is resolved.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Disappointed sure, thoughts to figure out what went wrong? Absolutely. Chastise myself for wasting money if it was a dumper? You bet. With that said, I take a lesson from a dog… kick some dirt on that and carry on.

 

[Agent]

For $0.30/pint, I give myself a lot of grace in how batches turn out.

Of course, I also have a seemingly endless supply of barrel aged beers to drown my sorrows of mediocrity in, so all it seldom lost.

 

[seatazzz]

I'm sitting here in my garage brewery supremely happy right now, because my latest attempt at a wheat-ish lager turned out absolutely amazing. Also my husband can't keep his grubby paws off the current batch of house NEIPA. So yes, that makes me happy. A bad batch (particularly one so bad that it gets burial at sea) can bring me down a bit, but no matter what the cause of said bad batch I rally. I haven't yet gotten to the point of 'never again'. This is a happy hobby, at least for me.

 

[Sailingeric]

I have had only two beers I had to pour out and even my "worst" beers my friends rave about how good it is. It is hard to make bad beer...since Bud has been in business for a long time

 

[Dland]

does making good beer make you happy too?

Absolutely it makes me happy, and a pint or three of my brews at the end of the day is one of the things I look forward to.

To anyone who has brewed beers they did not love or even have had to chuck, I've been there. But practice makes for better beer, got to keep at it. Brew batches of beers you like, correct any mistakes. Just like anything else you want to get good at.