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

[seatazzz]

Not following what part is illegal... brewing is legal, most places the host can provide free beer(if the venue allows it)...

Homebrewing is definitely legal. Selling it...not so much. Nor is providing it at a venue that has a liquor license. I WILL be bringing my own brew to my own daughter's wedding next month, but only to the rehearsal and with a picnic tap. I can borrow one of my buddy's kegs if I need to (licensed brewery) but only if I can prove the beer was brewed in a licensed brewery. Also crossing state lines (WA to ID). I don't want to take the risk. Still want to get the stupid neighbor for something though. I've called WA state HUD but didn't get a response. Imagine that!

 

[mongoose33]

Homebrewing is definitely legal. Selling it...not so much. Nor is providing it at a venue that has a liquor license. I WILL be bringing my own brew to my own daughter's wedding next month, but only to the rehearsal and with a picnic tap. I can borrow one of my buddy's kegs if I need to (licensed brewery) but only if I can prove the beer was brewed in a licensed brewery. Also crossing state lines (WA to ID). I don't want to take the risk. Still want to get the stupid neighbor for something though. I've called WA state HUD but didn't get a response. Imagine that!

I live in SW Wisconsin; my daughter's wedding was April First (no foolin!) and we had the reception in Dubuque, IA at the Hotel Julien.

They categorically would not serve my homebrew to guests. We had an open beer and wine bar, and you'd have thought they'd be happy to serve something that cost them nothing, since we'd paid a flat fee per guest. But no.

It was something to do with the distributor, so they said. Sure.

How'd I get around that? We had a suite just 50 feet from the ballroom where the bar was (and dinner was served). I stocked that with homebrew and other libations, had family and friends there, and that was that. It was a private suite in which we could do what anyone in any other hotel room could do. I'm not certain, but I think some of those beers made their way into the ballroom in opaque cups.

Good luck and enjoy the wedding! I sure did.

 

[rlmiller10]

I live in SW Wisconsin; my daughter's wedding was April First (no foolin!) and we had the reception in Dubuque, IA at the Hotel Julien.

They categorically would not serve my homebrew to guests. We had an open beer and wine bar, and you'd have thought they'd be happy to serve something that cost them nothing, since we'd paid a flat fee per guest. But no.

It was something to do with the distributor, so they said. Sure.

How'd I get around that? We had a suite just 50 feet from the ballroom where the bar was (and dinner was served). I stocked that with homebrew and other libations, had family and friends there, and that was that. It was a private suite in which we could do what anyone in any other hotel room could do. I'm not certain, but I think some of those beers made their way into the ballroom in opaque cups.

Good luck and enjoy the wedding! I sure did.

Best of luck to your daughter. I got married to my first wife on April 1 myself. Can't say I recommend it.

 

[Biscuits]

I have stopped bringing up the fact that I homebrew unless someone specifically comments on it or has a deeper passion for craft beer than the average bear.

Most of the typical responses have been well documented in this thread, but the one that gets my goat is when people ask my wife if she likes my homebrew and she replies with something to the effect of, "Yeah, but I don't drink it very much because his cleanliness standards aren't up to mine".

My wife is an administrator for child youth services on a military installation and has to take all of the FDA food preparation courses...so since I brew in the garage where there is dust and open access for bugs, she thinks my beer has all kinds of crap in it. I've literally never had an infection....whatever, more beer for me!

 

[mongoose33]

Best of luck to your daughter. I got married to my first wife on April 1 myself. Can't say I recommend it.

Based on your experience, I will look to avoid marrying your first wife.

 

[Miraculix]

I have stopped bringing up the fact that I homebrew unless someone specifically comments on it or has a deeper passion for craft beer than the average bear.

Most of the typical responses have been well documented in this thread, but the one that gets my goat is when people ask my wife if she likes my homebrew and she replies with something to the effect of, "Yeah, but I don't drink it very much because his cleanliness standards aren't up to mine".

My wife is an administrator for child youth services on a military installation and has to take all of the FDA food preparation courses...so since I brew in the garage where there is dust and open access for bugs, she thinks my beer has all kinds of crap in it. I've literally never had an infection....whatever, more beer for me!

There is only one thing to do for you.... Brew her something with wild fermentation

 

[kristiismean]

Best of luck to your daughter. I got married to my first wife on April 1 myself. Can't say I recommend it.

april 1st marriage here as well. (2000)

I happily distribute my beer for tasting, but I normally don't get annoying responses, or negative responses. (and between 2016-current, at 41 different beers brewed)

 

[seatazzz]

I live in SW Wisconsin; my daughter's wedding was April First (no foolin!) and we had the reception in Dubuque, IA at the Hotel Julien.

They categorically would not serve my homebrew to guests. We had an open beer and wine bar, and you'd have thought they'd be happy to serve something that cost them nothing, since we'd paid a flat fee per guest. But no.

It was something to do with the distributor, so they said. Sure.

How'd I get around that? We had a suite just 50 feet from the ballroom where the bar was (and dinner was served). I stocked that with homebrew and other libations, had family and friends there, and that was that. It was a private suite in which we could do what anyone in any other hotel room could do. I'm not certain, but I think some of those beers made their way into the ballroom in opaque cups.

Good luck and enjoy the wedding! I sure did.

Thanks! We're doing something similar but just at the rehearsal. Since I doubt we're going to go through an entire keg at the rehearsal, I may just have the keg in a trash can filled with ice in the back seat of our car at the reception; if anyone cares to step outside and have some, it'll be there and the venue can't say squat as long as they don't bring it inside.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Thanks! We're doing something similar but just at the rehearsal. Since I doubt we're going to go through an entire keg at the rehearsal, I may just have the keg in a trash can filled with ice in the back seat of our car at the reception; if anyone cares to step outside and have some, it'll be there and the venue can't say squat as long as they don't bring it inside.

You can invite the Hunchbach of Notre Dame! Just have the party tap coming out of his jacket sleeve! LOL

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[Schlenkerla]

He could be wearing a fat man suit to help disguise it...

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[seatazzz]

Eeew. Just eeew.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I once told my mom that I had a couple batches of wine (12 gallons) of wine I needed to bottle. She asked me "What are you going to do with all that wine; become a wino?" I patiently explained that you don't drink it all in one sitting & no, I wasn't standing on the corner, sipping wine from a bottle in a brown paper bag. Mom doesn't get anything I make, be it beer, wine, mead, or cider. She wouldn't like it anyway, she's told me, and I quote: "I like that Mogen David." <sigh>
Regards, GF.

When people decline my homebrew, mead or wine, I just cheerfully say or think "more for me to enjoy". Your mom's taste in wine reminds be of the Frazier episode when the brothers mixed table sugar into a couple glasses to make it taste like Manoshievetz. My mom liked sweet stuff too.

 

[Schlenkerla]

Eeew. Just eeew.

What?? You don't like the Fat Man Quasimodo? LOL

I was thinking the fat suit would hide the keg and act as insulation. :rockin:

 

[Schlenkerla]

If you haven't named the beer.... I think "Fatman Quasimodo" is a good name.

What style are your bringing?

 

[corkybstewart]

My dad rarely drank beer, when he did it was cans of Miller High Life(ice cold) when he was doing yard work or fishing. But he was always open to trying my homebrews, he especially liked my brown ales and porters.
BTW I do have a cider on tap that is so dry I even put a sugar cube in the glass before I fill it.

 

[Temptd2]

My dad rarely drank beer, when he did it was cans of Miller High Life(ice cold) when he was doing yard work or fishing. But he was always open to trying my homebrews, he especially liked my brown ales and porters.
BTW I do have a cider on tap that is so dry I even put a sugar cube in the glass before I fill it.

This was my Dad too, except he liked Heineken. We brew a brown ale that he loved - in fact it's now called "Lloyd's Brown Ale" in his honor. He bragged on us making that beer to anyone who would stand still long enough to listen to him, LOL! Lost him at age 91, last November. I still have an ear to the phone waiting for him to call as he did every day, sometimes multiple times.

Miss you, Dad!

As for annoying responses, my least favorite and most often heard is "isn't it just easier to go BUY some beer?"

 

[bleme]

As for annoying responses, my least favorite and most often heard is "isn't it just easier to go BUY some beer?"

I reply with "Since it is illegal for homebrewers to sell their beer, I can't just go buy MY beer..."

 

[Temptd2]

I reply with "Since it is illegal for homebrewers to sell their beer, I can't just go buy MY beer..."

LOL! I should use that.

Usually I just give them "the look" (as any good wife has it perfected) and wait for them to squirm and go away.

 

[BigCrazyAl]

I just got "are you any good yet?"

I'm mildly offended but I know they meant well. I enjoyed most of my batches so far and I'm always improving.

 

[Mainer]

People always ask how much beer I make. I tell them I make five gallons a month, and currently have fifty gallons stored in my cellar.
They always respond, "Wow! You must drink a lot of beer!"
And I say, "Nope. If I drank as fast as I brew, it wouldn't all still be in my cellar."

 

[jojacques]

Oh you brew beer?
"Disgusted face" Oh go to hell with your homemade wine from a kit!
"Cool, can you explain to me how you do that?", then space out and not interested after 30 seconds of explanation. Y u do dis?
"You brew pales? I don't like pales" (Referring to bitter beers like IPAs) Wut?
"Can I try one? And then not say a single word about it" I bet if I hand you a Coors Light you'll be happy?

 

[Mainer]

Mostly I get positive responses, but the annoying one I get lately is, "Oh, cool. Can I have some? But only sours. I only drink sours and bretts."

Yeah, because that Flanders Red I've been patiently and meticulously aging in my cellar for two years, *that's* the one I want you to take. Don't even bother *sampling* my easy-to-make wham-bam done-in-three-weeks saison, which is equally delicious.

 

[Trail]

People always ask how much beer I make. I tell them I make five gallons a month, and currently have fifty gallons stored in my cellar.
They always respond, "Wow! You must drink a lot of beer!"
And I say, "Nope. If I drank as fast as I brew, it wouldn't all still be in my cellar."

How are you cellaring? That's a hell of a lot of containers no matter how you slice it...

 

[Trail]

Mostly I get positive responses, but the annoying one I get lately is, "Oh, cool. Can I have some? But only sours. I only drink sours and bretts."

Yeah, because that Flanders Red I've been patiently and meticulously aging in my cellar for two years, *that's* the one I want you to take. Don't even bother *sampling* my easy-to-make wham-bam done-in-three-weeks saison, which is equally delicious.

I'm conflicted on this. On the one hand, I know people who only drink porters and stouts, and it doesn't seem like it should be rude that they're telling you what they like...

...but on the other hand, sours and bretts are the new ultra-hipster beer and the way you portrayed it makes me think about an annoying ****ass with a full beard he isn't old enough or man enough to operate, a skinny tee shirt with a beer pun on it, and total denial about that period he only drank IPAs back before everyone was drinking them.

 

[Mainer]

I'm conflicted on this. On the one hand, I know people who only drink porters and stouts, and it doesn't seem like it should be rude that they're telling you what they like...

...but on the other hand, sours and bretts are the new ultra-hipster beer and the way you portrayed it makes me think about an annoying ****ass with a full beard he isn't old enough or man enough to operate, a skinny tee shirt with a beer pun on it, and total denial about that period he only drank IPAs back before everyone was drinking them.

It's more that they're people who don't realize that sours take a whole bunch of time, and that maybe if I'm being nice enough to offer you free beer, you shouldn't ask for the most demanding one.

It's like offering to buy somebody lunch and them ordering the surf and turf.

 

[Mainer]

How are you cellaring? That's a hell of a lot of containers no matter how you slice it...

5 gallons of it is a Flanders Red that's bulk cellaring in a carboy.
The rest is in bottles. Last count I was at about 296 bottles, mostly bombers and 750s, but some 12s and 500s.

This is most of my cellar. There's another shelf over to the left.

 

[Barley_Bob]

5 gallons of it is a Flanders Red that's bulk cellaring in a carboy.
The rest is in bottles. Last count I was at about 296 bottles, mostly bombers and 750s, but some 12s and 500s.

This is most of my cellar. There's another shelf over to the left.

Stop! My penis can only get so erect!

 

[mongoose33]

5 gallons of it is a Flanders Red that's bulk cellaring in a carboy.
The rest is in bottles. Last count I was at about 296 bottles, mostly bombers and 750s, but some 12s and 500s.

This is most of my cellar. There's another shelf over to the left.

I call foul. It's obviously a Photoshop effort.

Nobody has a basement that neat and well organized.

 

[Mainer]

I call foul. It's obviously a Photoshop effort.

Nobody has a basement that neat and well organized.

Ha! Not photoshopped, but definitely a selective photo. I keep the finished stuff pretty organized, but if I turned the camera around so you could see the part of the cellar where I keep the empties and my gear, you'd see the chaos.

 

[Mainer]

I call foul. It's obviously a Photoshop effort.

Nobody has a basement that neat and well organized.

Let's see if I'm organized enough that I can remember what they all are. Left shelf on top is Concord Grape Helles Lager (don't ask), Berliner Weisse, second shelf is DIPA (I say DIPA, but at 9.4% it came out more like an American Barleywine) and Dogwood Pilsner, Bottom shelf is Irish Stout and a vacant spot I'm reserving for the Australian Sparking Ale that's upstairs til it's done carbonating. THe right-hand shelf is on top Maple Vienna Lager and Anise/Cardamom Baltic Porter, second shelf is Rauchbier, bottom shelf is Hoppy Farmhouse and cider. Off to the left, not pictured, are a Cherry Black Saison, an Orange Coriander Saison, Scottish Ale, and Nutmeg & Rum milk stout.