Most annoying response when you tell someone you're a homebrewer?

[CreamyGoodness]

By the way, bwarb, is it just me or is that the smallest glass of beer in history your pic? I know my eyes are playing tricks on me, but it looks like the glass Id get at easter when I was a kid

 

[saltwaterwop]

Back when I first mentioned to SWMBO that I wanted to try home-brewing


"Yea, sure..
How much space are you going to want to add on to the house for THAT!" ?

 

[BinghamtonEd]

Assuming you are single... and that she is single... I cant think of a better ploy than "a bunch of us are brewing this weekend in fact... care to come over?"

Followed on brew day with "Everybody else cancelled" and "Good eye. You are correct, I do not have pants on. That's a common rookie brewer question, don't feel stupid."

 

[gometz]

My girlfriend actually gave me a "it tastes like... real beer!" when we tried out my Black IPA. I was a little upset but I know what she was really saying was "this is a lot better than the previous attempts of your I have tasted"

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

By the way, bwarb, is it just me or is that the smallest glass of beer in history your pic? I know my eyes are playing tricks on me, but it looks like the glass Id get at easter when I was a kid

No, it's not a small glass. I'm a giant.




(Actually, it's a Cuvee des Trolls glass, which appears to be quite small; 25 cL / 8.5 oz).

 

[BinghamtonEd]

My wife does not like beer at all. With enough badgering I can get her to taste a sample of mine. I made a Cascade/Willamette IPA that tasted like grapefruit, and her response was a shoulder shrug and "That's not that bad." She still won't drink beer, but if I get a shoulder shrug and a passive response, I know I brewed something really good.

 

[brewguyver]

Every time my father inlaw comes over he sees my keggles in the garage and says that just looks wrong. What? Your making moonshine. Dude wtf! He said that again on Saturday when he saw my IC sitting on e counter in my garage. Irritates the crap out of me.

Seems like something my father would do - but would say the wrong thing on purpose to drive me crazy. He may know what that is by now, but it's way more fun to piss you off.

Goes along with hey, how's wasting time on that x-crate going? Still playing rings and fighting the overflow?

"It's halo, and they're called the flood, and this is an x-box ..."

When do you have time to date Consuela while doing that?

"Sigh ... "

At least he doesn't bug me about the beer brewing. Apparently hobbies are ok now that I've had a job, a car, and my own place for a decade or so.

 

[whitehause]

I always love the old " I had homebrew once, I didn't like it"
As though there is only one kind of homebrew that was ever made.

 

[gometz]

With all of this being said though, I would like to say that a lot of the time when I meet someone for the first time and they offer me a homebrew, I get a little worried. I have had (and made) some terrible beers made by inexperienced people.

 

[ColeR]

My neighbor is a county sheriff. He loves my brews.:-D

In my 7 house dead end street, 4 of the houses are Padged Law Enforcement of one kind or another and yes they all love my home brew. I'm not worried about cops.

sad thing is, not a single marked car!!!!

 

[blefferd]

My wife does not like beer at all. With enough badgering I can get her to taste a sample of mine. I made a Cascade/Willamette IPA that tasted like grapefruit, and her response was a shoulder shrug and "That's not that bad." She still won't drink beer, but if I get a shoulder shrug and a passive response, I know I brewed something really good.

I have this problem with my wife lol. I will get her to taste it every now and then and she says "tastes like beer it all tastes the same to me since I dont like it!" oh well lol

I wish she did I would rather have her honest opinion than a "oh this tastes good" and they dont finish the glass lol.

 

[Crito]

Got annoyed that my inlaw was requesting a imperial stout for christmas even after I said I was not interested in that style of beer. (To much time and to much abv for my taste).

Just made one to make it. Turned out awesome. That's the one he tried.

Even told his wife to tell me to make it a week later.

 

[ColeR]

Was in Harbor freight tools and was getting a some stuff to help move kegs around, I told the cute 19yo cashier what it was for, she said she was only 19 and couldn’t buy any beer.. I told her this home brew stuff is awesome and I can make anything wanted and its cheap. She started asking if I would bring her some!!!

I got close to her ear and said “you don’t have to be 21 to make beer, at the LHBS they don’t even check your I.D.”

REALLY ?!?!?! was her reply as I was walking away.. I was smiling all the way home.

 

[jperry]

I rarely ever take extra home brew, to parties/gatherings because of the typical responses, mentioned here already. But, when I do, i'll be sharing some home brew, and somebody asks questions, out of interest. For example, how do you know what alcohol percentage is?, or how do you bottle it? etc... People asking genuine questions, is great, I love answering them. However, the really Annoying responses, aren't from the people asking questions, but they are from my friends/guests, that have had one to many to drink, and think they know everything about beer, from what little info, I've given them. They'll spout out a bunch of bull****, that they've somehow jumbled together, and they totally bombard a simple question, with difficult terms and no background info.

I try to be as easy-going as possible, and not overload a noob, which is very easy to do. I always try to answer simply, but some of my friends, will confuse the crap out people, leading them away from further questions.

One of my friends, always tells people, I grow all the hops in my beer. WHY?, most people don't even know what hops are, so why are you telling them this. Damn, its just annoying to me. Let me answer the questions, shut up, and enjoy the beer. Stop acting like you know everything.

 

[unionrdr]

JP,that seems to be the most common problem with beer snob wannabees. So do be a do bee,don't be a don't bee... would be a good reply. See how many know where that one came from if they're so intelligent.

 

[locusta]

The most annoying/worst response I've ever gotten was "But girls don't drink beer". I removed myself from that conversation pretty fast.

When people say they don't like beer, I understand. I use to think it was terrible. It took a homebrewer sharing a wheat beer to bring me around.

 

[DanH]

Followed on brew day with "Everybody else cancelled" and "Good eye. You are correct, I do not have pants on. That's a common rookie brewer question, don't feel stupid."

I totally read that and heard Ron Swanson saying it.

 

[gometz]

Was in Harbor freight tools and was getting a some stuff to help move kegs around, I told the cute 19yo cashier what it was for, she said she was only 19 and couldn’t buy any beer.. I told her this home brew stuff is awesome and I can make anything wanted and its cheap. She started asking if I would bring her some!!!

I got close to her ear and said “you don’t have to be 21 to make beer, at the LHBS they don’t even check your I.D.”

REALLY ?!?!?! was her reply as I was walking away.. I was smiling all the way home.

Oh how I remember the fun of picking up extract kits when I was 17. I thought it was hilarious that no one seemed to bat an eye at me obviously trying to get a hold of some alcohol.

 

[m3n00b]

I've noticed a trend from all my friends and family trying my HB for the first time. It's almost like a back handed compliment.

"Wow! That's actually good!"

Like they expected my beer to be bad or something....even though they all know and love my culinary skills.

I always reply, "Yeah of course it is. What did you expect? If it were bad do you think I would make 200gal a year?"

 

[podz]

I've noticed a trend from all my friends and family trying my HB for the first time. It's almost like a back handed compliment.

"Wow! That's actually good!"

Like they expected my beer to be bad or something....even though they all know and love my culinary skills.

I always reply, "Yeah of course it is. What did you expect? If it were bad do you think I would make 200gal a year?"

Didn't you know that producing alcohol is a black art?

In Finland, "kilju" used to mean pre-distallation mash (20% ABV sugar wine) that hardcore alcoholics still like to make, but nowadays people have come to call nearly all homebrew "kilju". Yes, it sounds just like the english "kill you", and that is also precisely what the Finns mean when they say it - the result of drinking it being anything from a headache that makes you wish you were dead up to physical death by methanol poisoning. In other words, drinking "kilju" is highly socially stigmatised, not least of all by the tax authorities.

My friend visited the other day and I asked him if he wanted to try some of my cider. He said "how is it?" I said "hasn't killed me yet!". He at least pretended to like it, and went on about how clear it was. I told him that I cold crashed it, which led us into a whole long conversation about the black art of making booze. It was fun.

 

[Dudest]

Why do you like that motor oil, as they sip a bud lite. Tardive.

 

[Marc77]

I've noticed a trend from all my friends and family trying my HB for the first time. It's almost like a back handed compliment.

"Wow! That's actually good!"

Like they expected my beer to be bad or something....even though they all know and love my culinary skills.

I always reply, "Yeah of course it is. What did you expect? If it were bad do you think I would make 200gal a year?"

Don't take it personally, I get the same thing. Usually it comes from trying a LOT of crappy homebrewed beers. One of the guys my brother in law hangs out with "brews". He thinks because he loves beer that it'll translate to his making beer. I haven't had a single decent beer from him yet. In fact his first 2 or 3 beers had to be thrown out entirely.

So when I hear someone say that I take it as a compliment or if they're just being a d*ck I usually toss out oh...sorry, you should have had the last one I did (insert the type), it was even better.

 

[roastquake]

"So how did you build your still"? *smack myself on the forehead*

I live in an apartment that's attached to an auto-shop. One day a couple of the guys came out while I was using my immersion chiller to cool a batch. One of them poined at the hoses and said to the other "see, that clear stuff the beer" *smack myself on the forehead*

Anyone alse run into the assumption that you're a moonshiner?

 

[m3n00b]

Yes I get "you should try distilling it " all the time. I tell them I don't want any felonies thanks.

 

[beaksnbeer]

Yes I get "you should try distilling it " all the time. I tell them I don't want any felonies thanks.

A guy I work with "processed" a beer that was mediocre at best, as the hops I had used smelled good just no real bittering. I use it for soaking things that go into secondaries. Nothing could survive in this stuff.

 

[DrewschBag]

The first response i get is almost always "Is it any good?"

I usually respond "You probably wouldn't like it." More for me.

 

[amfukuda]

I brew out of a shed next to my grandfathers house and when he found out the first thing he said was don't blow up my pump house

 

[whitehause]

When I first started using keggles and propane burners, my wife said
" Don't do that on the porch, if it spills out on that open flame it'll set the whole porch on fire"
I just said "don't worry dear, I'll be careful" and went about my brewing.

To her credit, she did figure out on her own that wort isn't flammable.

 

[honreth]

I've found that this almost always works. SWMBO wants to go to TJ Maxx, and look at every single thing possible? It's always less boring when I've been drinking.

This is the "Doing something boring? Apply beer until it is no longer boring" principle. (Not that brewing is boring, but like in all things everything is more fun drunk)

Addendum: Other than getting arrested.

Sorry But I loved this.

the few people I have spoken to generally have the same response.. "Oh really? That must be interesting"
I did get a few "Is it legal?"

My faviorite HB conversation:
Them: "It's quicker to go to the store"
Me: "Sure but not as good tasting"
Them: "But it's cheaper"
Me: "And then I add in the cost of gas going round trip to the nearest store to buy beer as opposed to going to the LHBS on my way to work"

As I live out in the country it is a long road to buy beer... And a beer kit doesn't need to be chilled in my car over night while I am at work.( Yes I know I brew kits... No shame in my game though :rockin

 

[Yellowirenut]

Was talking to a friend the other day, beer n golf came up. (I used to golf)
He was telling me with the nice break in the weather we have he went out and shot 18 holes after work. Then his 4 sum went out and shot another 18.
so from 4 till 9 ish they golfed.
later in the conversation

him- How long does it take to make beer?

me- About 6 hours from start till everything is cleaned up then about a month till its ready to drink.

him- 6 hours! that's taking up the entire day, I have other things to do besides that!

me thinking - he just told me you spent 5 hours chasing a white ball??