It's been said before: don't brew drunk!

[cubalz]

I brew in the early morning, heating my strike water and doughing-in no later than 8 am. I do not taste any home brew until the fermenter in filled, yeast pitched and is in the chamber. The reason? When I used to drink while brewing in afternoon or at night in the early 90's, avoidable issues/mistakes kept happening and my consistency and quality suffered because of it.

 

[PhoenixCoyote]

I brewed 2 batches last weekend. Had 14 beers in me before finishing the second bathch. Thought i forgot to pitch the yeast. But it went ok lol.

 

[iijakii]

Brewing is pretty damn easy, are you guys really getting that toasted you can't operate the valves right or forget to sanitize? Sheeeit. All of the tricky part is at the front end when I'm only on beer one or two -- measuring ingredients out.

 

[KIDD69]

My most recent alcohol influenced blunder came when I was creating a starter for a saison. After going through the usual steps, and making the usual mess on the stove, I placed my flask on the stir plate to do it's magic and proceeded to watch some playoff baseball. After the game and a few more Double Dead Elephants (8% IIPA), I strolled into the kitchen only to discover the pkg of Belgian Saison 2 yeast sitting on the counter! I'm glad my wife didn't grab it and throw it back in the fridge.

 

[beernutz]

Homewbrew club brewday at my house in July of this year. Three other brewers and I started around 9 with the plan being that the rest of the club would arrive around 1 for grilled sausage and a beer tasting.

About 7 more members ended up arriving noonish and even though I had had a few, or to be accurate more than a few, I was in good shape when everyone arrived.

Our fearless leader though instead of bringing homebrew to the tasting brought 3 types of dopplebock and a double IPA. Oy vey. After that even though a lot of club members were still at my house I went to my bedroom and took a refreshing two hour "nap" in the middle of the afternoon.

I still have no clear recollection of exactly how my fermenter made its way into the fermentation freezer that day but the beer turmed out pretty good!

 

[seabrew8]

I just brewed up a beautiful 2.5 gallon batch of IPA, and was enjoying a few home brews while doing so. I recently switched to a ported carboy, and unfortunately while I was filling it after cooling I didn't realize the valve was open and my wort was flowing into the sink while I was filling it... so I now have maybe 1 gallon of wort fermenting in my basement instead of 2.5 . All that work (wort) literally down the drain. So listen up when we say it kids: do not drink too much while brewing, and always pay attention to the moment, it can make the difference between a full case and a six pack. I learned my lesson the hard way, I hope you can learn from my mistake.

On to the next recipe - older and wiser.

I brew drunk all the time. I think it depends on the person and the equipment. I have a grainfather so my brew day is pretty relaxed.