So...has anyone had the cops called on them for brewing?

[BendBrewer]

I think I would hide inside if I was on the westside. Over here in the east I have a 40:10:1 ratio of Beer, food, drugs.

Yeah, over on the Westside it's more like 40:5:35. But we do what we have to do!

Plus when the cops do knock on my Westside door, I can normally just point to another house on the street and tell them they have the wrong house. It's about 50/50 that they find something more interesting over there!

 

[JarrodH]

Only one cool cop episode with myself. Our house got robbed a while back and the officer who came out for the police report saw my 15 gallon megapot goes, "oh you must be a home brewer." Instantly raised my opinion of him.

 

[springer]

only once and not at home I went to my nephews apt and I had the wrong apt # .... The woman who answered the door mouth must have dropped about a foot .. Guess a guy with a 5 pounds of DME and some Corn sugar in plastic bags and three vials of yeast does look a little suspicious ..



cops do come to my house for other things .. seems the one neighbor don't like 5 grand hole shots done in the driveway with a 396 with open headers ..everyone else was there maybe he was pissed I didn't invite him over

 

[mordantly]

cops do come to my house for other things .. seems the one neighbor don't like 5 grand hole shots done in the driveway with a 396 with open headers ..everyone else was there maybe he was pissed I didn't invite him over

i thought i was the only one that does burnouts in my driveway or in front of the house.

 

[Baldy_Beer_Brewery]

I've actually wondered what keeps some overzealous Alabama or Oklahoma deputies from being a pain in the ass to home brewers.

 

[joeybeer]

I was brewing in my shed last weekend and the neighbors kid came over (about 10 years old) as I was sparging.. he says "what are you doing?" - "making beer" - "is that illegal" - " no it's not illegal, it's just a bunch of grains and water".. I grabbed a pack of hops off the workbench and dumped it into the boil and he goes "now I KNOW that's illegal, we talked about THAT in school"

 

[Moose777]

LOL, I was sorting my hops and vacuum sealing them in the garage Saturday and it looked like a pot distribution operation, lol, my 9 year old had a friend over and asked, what is that, I told her and she just plugged her nose...lol

 

[KYB]

All the streets around me are filled with college students, so no

I have had people ask what I was cooking. I say beer and then they get all excited and interested. My grain compost pile is in the bushes in between my house and the neighbors.

 

[bad coffee]

No cops, but the fire department.

I just threw the wood chips on the smoker, and someone "SAW SMOKE SO I DIALED 911!!!"

Hey ******, didn't you notice the smoke was a perfect pillar, and it SMELLED LIKE MEAT?

 

[thunder]

No cops, but the fire department.

I just threw the wood chips on the smoker, and someone "SAW SMOKE SO I DIALED 911!!!"

Hey ******, didn't you notice the smoke was a perfect pillar, and it SMELLED LIKE MEAT?

I had a similar situation right before a tropical storm.Winds about 25-30 mph
pouring rain i got sent home early due to the storm coming.It was friday and i had planned to cook my brisket satuday.so I said why not and fired up my pit
on the patio of my second story apt @ the time.My girlfriend was over meat was smoking away when i heard a knock at the door.I said "who in hell would be out in this weather" I opened the door and there was a fireman @ my door complete with a team of them includind a ladder truck,ambulance.So he say's to me "we had a report of a fire here i can see it is your bbq pit" we both
laughed and they went on there way.

 

[gmtech825]

I have not had a cop-stop yet. But I have had a neighbor fill my mailbox with pamphlets on how bad deep fried turkey is for you. After talking to a few neighbors, the prevailing theory is that I eat 1-2 deep fried turkeys per week.

thats pretty funny

 

[sjlammer]

Hey ******...

I love the term ******!!! could mean "one who has their head in their ass"

I prefer to think of it as a unit vector in the ass direction!

 

[Hegh]

I keep expecting a visit, but so far nothing. I live in a neighborhood with young and old families, and there's an alley with garages on it between our street and the next. We don't have a garage, but we do have a concrete slab where it used to be, so I generally brew on that. People ride their bikes past, walk their dogs, drive... No questions or even a second look from any of them.

Maybe if I start growing my own hops I'll get some attention

 

[schadelh]

I love the term ******!!! could mean "one who has their head in their ass"

I prefer to think of it as a unit vector in the ass direction!

damn engineers!

 

[knelson]

I only have 1 batch under my belt so no cops yet. I decided to brew in my garage for my first beer and the outside temp was around -10F with wind chills in the -30-40 range. When we opened the door to put the boil pot out in the cold to chill the steam buildup was amazing. It just poured out of the garage. It reminded me of the car in Cheech and Chong where you couldnt see anythign but smoke. I thought for sure someone would see it and call the cops. It probably didnt help that there were two drunk idiots laughing histarically like stoners as the "smoke" poured out of the garage...

Good times...

 

[rocketcrab]

I've never had the cops called to my house for my homebrewing, cuz....well......I are the cops. In fact, at one point, two other guys in my department besides me were all homebrewers.

 

[springer]

Hey ******, didn't you notice the smoke was a perfect pillar, and it SMELLED LIKE MEAT?

Smoke-smells like meat-NYC, could be a dumpster fire rats have meat yanno

 

[joeybeer]

my other story wasn't brewing, but burning my firepit.. one of the neighbors called the fire dept.. i was standing in the back yard with a 10 foot fire, a big glass of red wine, and the hose lying on the ground.. i saw the lights and wondered what was going on, when the fireman walked up I think I said "great hat" before noticing it was a fireman.. he said "theres not many places where a fire like that's appropriate, but I gotta say, that's one of them.. good job on the hose." then they stood around for 5 mins and left..

 

[mordantly]

i had one like that with similar sized flames leaping out of a washer drum-pit. they told me to "roast some weiners next time" and off they went.

i 1/4'd a honda crx with a sawzall. then decided to get the oxy-acetylene out. well the carpet padding and glue from 1985 was, lets say a blocks worth of nasty black smoke. like a pile of tires. the fd rolled up. i showed them the hose and x-er a few feet away. they advised me to wear a respirator and left.

 

[Dalarast]

I never had the cops called on me for my brewing; but was brewing when the cops happened to be doing a "safety survey and public information" thingy they were doing. I ran to the door and told him I had no problem doing the survey if they could come with me as I dropped hops into my wort. They were amazed and of course told them to come back in two months so they can pick up some beer once it was bottled and conditioned. Sure enough those guys held up and came back by off duty and I hooked them up. It also benefited that one of the officers was on the case when my wife was hit by a dumb arse drunk driver and I really wanted to hook him up.

 

[mordantly]

i've been "contacted" (detained and attempted interrogation) so many times by the fuzz, i can't remember. usually, when i am en route to or from my vehicle at a shooting spot on the side of state hwy 41, i see chips and they see me with 5 rifle cases and other people with multiple cases, and don't feel it necessary to inspect if any are "loaded."

 

[Pappers_]

What? LOL!!!

i've been "contacted" (detained and attempted interrogation) so many times by the fuzz, i can't remember. usually, when i am en route to or from my vehicle at a shooting spot on the side of state hwy 41, i see chips and they see me with 5 rifle cases and other people with multiple cases, and don't feel it necessary to inspect if any are "loaded."

 

[thedude27]

i thought i was the only one that does burnouts in my driveway or in front of the house.

Far from it I do a holeshot or 2 on the Hayabusa before I change out the rear tire.


I live in one of those fancy neighborhoods but we have larger lots and are all far enough away that its not much of a problem, cant really smell it and nothing to see except when I run the chiller outside the garage.

Most of my immediate neighbors are drinkers and after a night across the street we were racing lawnmowers (full helmets, gloves, and I had a cape) in the neighborhood at 2 am. lol One of them was even over on new years and was putting a hurtin on my keg of pete's wicked ale clone.

No problems with the police as of yet and I dont really foresee it.

 

[mordantly]

last time i drunk raced my craftsman mower, i had the blade engaged, and decided to "mow" a fallen tree.

 

[thedude27]

last time i drunk raced my craftsman mower, i had the blade engaged, and decided to "mow" a fallen tree.

Haha, nice. I can tell you the V-twin craftsman can rip a nasty wheelie especially on an uphill paved driveway.

 

[mordantly]

i had chains, and uphill in 5 (sometimes with a fatty on the back instead) mine would. it was only 15hp iirc.

 

[Brewpatrol]

I too am a cop (CHP) and have been brewing for about a year now. Was turned onto it by a fellow officer and when I transfered to my new area I gained the interest of many at my new office. We now have 5-6 huys who brew. I'm thinking of starting a Brew Club. We trade brews every now and again. I stopped a guy not too long ago and when I walked up on the truck I noticed several cases of bottles, no labels and only permanent marker on the caps. The guy had a nano brewery and was traveling from pub to pub trying to sell his beer. I couldn't write him a ticket, only a verbal warning. He tried to give me a sixer but I just couldn't accept. I wanted to though. Looking back I wish I would have.

 

[mordantly]

it cracks me up the deputies won't come for dirt bikes on the street.. "that's a chp problem"... so by the time the guy travels 40 minutes to my house, all he can give me is a warning, and to "always wear a helmet."

 

[Brewpatrol]

it cracks me up the deputies won't come for dirt bikes on the street.. "that's a chp problem"... so by the time the guy travels 40 minutes to my house, all he can give me is a warning, and to "always wear a helmet."

We call it "kissing it off." Deputies will kiss anything vehicle related off to us and we do the same back to them when it comes to domestic issues.

 

[mordantly]

yeah, sometimes one has to say there was somesort of car accident.. i heard really loud screeching tires and BAM! when it's a party at 0400 and they won't show up.