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

[fearwig]

I gave up long ago on trying to explain the legal and practical hurdles in the way of selling homebrew. Assuming I was crazy enough to want to....

If friends want to fill a tip jar when they're drinking so I can buy hops and grains, I won't say no, but you'd be a pretty big fool to set up a homebrew lemonade stand. But yeah, people always bring this up. Of course people sell stranger things and get away with it.

Given the cost of a basic craft beer--at least $1.50 each--I suppose it's not that surprising people are curious about it.

 

[Malty_Dog]

Its been said over and over again but I got the classic "do you have anything like Coors Light?" this past weekend. Answer: "No."

I don't even bother to try explaining any more.

 

[beaksnbeer]

A friend and I were brewing Sunday and a couple of older guys walking around (down from Illinois visiting someone) stopped to see what we were cooking. I explained what we were doing offered them a beer. Invited them in they looked at the keezer and freaked a little.
1st guy: Damn how many taps?
me: 12
2nd guy: thats a lot
me: Nope, it's just enough
1st guy: How many beers is that?
me: I have about 800 glasses/bottles/servings in there
2nd guy: you don't think thats to many?
me: No, it's Hurricane prep everyone down here is suppose to stock up on necessities in case of a hurricane....I didn't point out the fact that I have 12 other kegs cooled or conditioning in the lagering fridges

 

[plumber_bob]

A friend and I were brewing Sunday and a couple of older guys walking around (down from Illinois visiting someone) stopped to see what we were cooking. I explained what we were doing offered them a beer. Invited them in they looked at the keezer and freaked a little.
1st guy: Damn how many taps?
me: 12
2nd guy: thats a lot
me: Nope, it's just enough
1st guy: How many beers is that?
me: I have about 800 glasses/bottles/servings in there
2nd guy: you don't think thats to many?
me: No, it's Hurricane prep everyone down here is suppose to stock up on necessities in case of a hurricane....I didn't point out the fact that I have 12 other kegs cooled or conditioning in the lagering fridges

You're my new best friend!!!

pb

 

[amfukuda]

A friend and I were brewing Sunday and a couple of older guys walking around (down from Illinois visiting someone) stopped to see what we were cooking. I explained what we were doing offered them a beer. Invited them in they looked at the keezer and freaked a little.
1st guy: Damn how many taps?
me: 12
2nd guy: thats a lot
me: Nope, it's just enough
1st guy: How many beers is that?
me: I have about 800 glasses/bottles/servings in there
2nd guy: you don't think thats to many?
me: No, it's Hurricane prep everyone down here is suppose to stock up on necessities in case of a hurricane....I didn't point out the fact that I have 12 other kegs cooled or conditioning in the lagering fridges

And here I am all proud of myself for putting in a second tap


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[troy2000]

And here I am all proud of myself for putting in a second tap


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I was patting myself on the back a couple of weeks ago because I had two 5 gal batches fermenting at the same time....

 

[revelation]

Its been said over and over again but I got the classic "do you have anything like Coors Light?" this past weekend. Answer: "No."

I don't even bother to try explaining any more.

My response has always been: "No, I always flush after I pee."

 

[day_trippr]

And here I am all proud of myself for putting in a second tap

You'd wet your pants if you saw his tap rig...Look around, he's posted it up a few times

Cheers!

 

[MaxStout]

Just filled my containers with RO water at WallyWorld last night for this weekend's brew session. When I pulled my cart into the checkout, the clerk looked at the three 5-gallon jugs and said, "either you're preparing for the zombie apocalypse, or you're a home brewer."

I said, "both."

I was impressed the guy even considered home brewing. Most people just say something like, "gee, you must be thirsty!"

 

[GrogNerd]

Just filled my containers with RO water at WallyWorld last night for this weekend's brew session. When I pulled my cart into the checkout, the clerk looked at the three 5-gallon jugs and said, "either you're preparing for the zombie apocalypse, or you're a home brewer."

I said, "both."

I was impressed the guy even considered home brewing. Most people just say something like, "gee, you must be thirsty!"

saw a guy at Wally World pushing a cart with 4 or 5 of those big jugs full of water, so I asked if he was a homebrewer

he laughed, said, "no" and continued on

 

[roastquake]

My response has always been: "No, I always flush after I pee."

I'm using this one this weekend. Taking homebrew to a bluegrass festival Saturday, I'm sure I'll get all the standard questions and comments

 

[troy2000]

I'm using this one this weekend. Taking homebrew to a bluegrass festival Saturday, I'm sure I'll get all the standard questions and comments

Getting smart-*** is fun, and I do my share of it. But it isn't necessarily the best way to win friends and influence people.

The normal response if you call someone's favorite beer piss water isn't gonna be, "gee. That really makes me feel kindly towards homebrewers, and gives me the urge to learn more about it instead of kicking this guy in the head."

 

[paulster2626]

Getting smart-*** is fun, and I do my share of it. But it isn't necessarily the best way to win friends and influence people.

The normal response if you call someone's favorite beer piss water isn't gonna be, "gee. That really makes me feel kindly towards homebrewers, and gives me the urge to learn more about it instead of kicking this guy in the head."

Indeed.

My first taste of real, actual BEER was at the Alchemist brewpub. I was a total n00b there, but the fact that the bartenders there were totally chill and liked to educate people on beer really is what made me look at homebrewing. The rest, as they say, is history.

A can of coors/coors light has it's time and place. I'd rather have a couple cans of ****ty lager after a softball game than a snifter of my belgian strong.

 

[copyright1997]

saw a guy at Wally World pushing a cart with 4 or 5 of those big jugs full of water, so I asked if he was a homebrewer

he laughed, said, "no" and continued on

I get my brew water at a local spring. When I do so, I usually get 40 gallons or so at a time. Sometimes other people are there with four or five one-gallon jugs. They usually ask me why I am getting so much water. I tell them that cooking meth is water intensive. For some reason, they usually don't have a lot of communication with me after that.

 

[bleme]

Getting smart-*** is fun, and I do my share of it. But it isn't necessarily the best way to win friends and influence people.



The normal response if you call someone's favorite beer piss water isn't gonna be, "gee. That really makes me feel kindly towards homebrewers, and gives me the urge to learn more about it instead of kicking this guy in the head."

I never took you for a Dale Carnegie graduate Troy!

 

[revelation]

Getting smart-*** is fun, and I do my share of it. But it isn't necessarily the best way to win friends and influence people.

The normal response if you call someone's favorite beer piss water isn't gonna be, "gee. That really makes me feel kindly towards homebrewers, and gives me the urge to learn more about it instead of kicking this guy in the head."

I only use that type of smart assery with my friends.

 

[troy2000]

I never took you for a Dale Carnegie graduate Troy!

Actually, I'm a drop-out.

But being unable to follow good advice doesn't keep me from recognizing it when I hear it, or stop me from passing it on anyway....

 

[roastquake]

I only use that type of smart assery with my friends.

^this,

I (like to think I) have more sense than to tell that to a stranger

 

[MaxStout]

For friends who prefer BMC...yeah, I'll rib them a bit. But not with strangers. We'll never win over anyone by mocking their tastes. Doing that only perpetuates the "beer snob" stereotype of craft beer drinkers and home brewers.

I think there's an unlocked potential within many BMC drinkers. Certainly, many will prefer BMC and stick to that. That is their taste. But there are others who, given the right beers to taste, would soon become more adventurous.

 

[atx_brewer]

"That's awesome! Now, like I said before, give me your wallet, or I'll stab you."

 

[Hello]

"That's awesome! Now, like I said before, give me your wallet, or I'll stab you."

 

[MaxStout]

"That's awesome! Now, like I said before, give me your wallet, or I'll stab you."

 

[geoffm33]

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

You: "Howdy stranger, I'm a Homebrewer"

Someone: "That's awesome! Now, like I said before, give me your wallet, or I'll stab you."

 

[Hopinista]

An annoying response is when multiple people beat the dead horse on a joke that isn't funny

 

[geoffm33]

An annoying response is when multiple people beat the dead horse on a joke that isn't funny

 

[cheezydemon3]

"That's awesome! Now, like I said before, give me your wallet, or I'll stab you."

 

[troy2000]

"That's awesome! Now, like I said before, give me your wallet, or I'll stab you."

One of the unsung benefits of BMC: it can repel muggers.

I work out of town, and keep a motor home parked in the back yard of a friend/landlord. It's about a five-minute walk from there to a liquor store/gas station, where I buy most of my booze. Late one evening on my way back, an idiot jumped out from behind some oleander bushes and yelled, "awright, Mo'fo'! Gimme yo...."

That's as far as he got. I was walking along swinging a 24-oz can of Bud in a plastic grocery bag (they were out of the little paper ones), and he popped up at the perfect moment for me to accelerate my swing and lay that can up alongside his head. As he dropped to his knees, I kicked him in the face. He made a weird sound, and just laid on down sideways.

I made sure he was breathing steadily and not bleeding too much, and headed on back to the motor home. I was tempted to take his little nickel-plated, Italian-looking toy with me, but decided no good could come of it.... And I did drive instead of walk for a while, just in case he was the sort who would hold a grudge.

By the way, the beer was fine - even though the can was caved in on one side. I thumped the top a few times before pulling the tab, and it poured like a champ.

 

[amfukuda]

That's a fantastic story. We should start a how beer saved your life thread


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[unionrdr]

Or maybe they should've mentioned this sort of thing in "How Beer Saved the World"?

 

[cheezydemon3]

An annoying response is when multiple people beat the dead horse on a joke that isn't funny

I find it even more frustrating when a joke is HILARIOUS, but mean people don't get it.