What do you do with all your beer?

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

I drink almost all mine. I have a watchtower outside my house. I sit up there at nights on a throne made by crates of homebrew. I am armed with a machine gun and will fire a hail of hellfire on any numbskull BMC drinkin' SOB that comes within sniffing distance of my beer. They refuse to be edumacated, so I will shoot them.

I'll give some to my son in law though. He understands about ale and stuff.

 

[TexLaw]

I drink and share it, like the other folks. However, I do not drink an average of 2-3 beers each day. It's not that I don't like to drink beer, mind you, but beer has a lot of dadgum calories in it (as Homercidal mentioned). I just don't like to work out that much, and I don't want to wear size 88 pants.


TL

 

[Evan]

i brew two 5 gallons batches about every two weeks give or take. i have 3 carboys, two full right now. i usually do alot of switching up between batches so i have a few very different styles bottled at any one time. i drink about 1 or 2 beers Sunday-Thursday, probably 3 or 4 friday/saturday. my girlfriend will drink some too, usually any blondes/APA/IPA i have, and whenever i go visit my family, i'll take almost a case of various homebrews up for my cousin and my friends.

 

[Yooper]

I drink a lot of beer. If a friend comes over, they have a beer too, but overall it's mostly me. I work out quite a bit, and eat very healthy (no junk food, no sugar, no white flour, no fried foods, no pastries, etc) so I can afford to have 3 beers a day, more on the weekend. A keg of beer is only 40 pints- so it's only about two weeks worth of beer. With two adults in the house, it goes fast!

 

[polecreek]

I have 5 dogs, I think they must be drunks. It cant be me draining a keg every 2-3 weeks.

 

[Dennis1979]

I'm drinking it mostly right now but I'm finally comfortable enough with my product to share with friends without fear they will hate it.

It's the time involved that is a limiting factor for me. I haven't added it all up but between brewing, secondary transfer and bottling including the sanitizing and cleaning everything up, I figure, what, 6 - 8 hours per batch in total? Less I suppose if you keg but still it takes a lot of time. My life is such that free time is hard to find so that's my big deal. Also, with 5 batches in various stages of completion, I have bottles of beer everywhere. I have run out of closet space so I'm putting it wherever I can but this is not pleasing SWMBO.

Dennis

 

[Coastarine]

I do my best to drink it buy I'm getting a little behind in my beer drinking. Or maybe I'm getting ahead on my beer brewing...either way I need some help here.

And before all of the smart***es in the room say "huhuhuh I'll help you drink it lolz", good! Man up (or lady up) and start driving south! PM me from the first wifi rest stop you hit and I'll send you my address! I'll feed you so much homebrew, you'll wish you hadn't!

Not only do I have all six beers in my sig on tap, but the stout and the ESB and kegged, chilled, and carb'd waiting for a tap. The orange kolsch and dopple o-fest are both just waiting for free kegs. All this, and I'm brewing on Saturday! I can't stop! At least I can start lagering without worrying about how long it will take.

 

[skeeordye11]

One thing that I haven't noticed come up (I only skimmed over some of the posts so forgive me if someone already mentioned it) is that I know of quite a few people that are more seasonal brewers in the warmer states. Meaning they may hit it hard brewing through the winter and into the spring when it's cooler to build up a stock to get them through the winter because for some odd reason they don't enjoy standing next to 5-10+ gallons of boiling liquid when it's 100 degrees outside. Personally, I think they're weak! But then again, I'm small time and brew in my air conditioned apartment in the summer, so call it what you will.

 

[SOB]

And before all of the smart***es in the room say "huhuhuh I'll help you drink it lolz", good! Man up (or lady up) and start driving south! PM me from the first wifi rest stop you hit and I'll send you my address! I'll feed you so much homebrew, you'll wish you hadn't!

You're on!!! But since you're calling us out why dont you man up and pack up your 6 kegs and bring them up here to cloudy Ohio? I'm sure you're about sick of the weather down there in FL anyways...

huhuhuh lolz!

 

[BierMuncher]

I drink it just fast enough to keep my pipeline moving.

Since I don't brew that much...there's no real chance of me drinking too much.

 

[flyangler18]

I drink it just fast enough to keep my pipeline moving.

Since I don't brew that much...there's no real chance of me drinking too much.

Stand back, BM is going to get struck by lightening. Shut down your computers and unplug all appliances. Don't take a shower or answer the phone.

 

[NJTomatoguy]

I drink it just fast enough to keep my pipeline moving.

Since I don't brew that much...there's no real chance of me drinking too much.

Was the wife looking over your shoulder when you typed that?

 

[BrianTheBrewer]

The couple threads about how many fermenters going at once some of you guys have got me thinking, what in the hell are these guys doing with all that beer? I think one primary and one secondary going at any time would be more than enough for any person to drink. So, are you guys giving tons of it away to friends, having parties all the time, drinking your ass off, or just storing it and you always have a large cache of brew?

Usually storing it so we have it for friends and family.

 

[Coastarine]

You're on!!! But since you're calling us out why dont you man up and pack up your 6 kegs and bring them up here to cloudy Ohio? I'm sure you're about sick of the weather down there in FL anyways...

huhuhuh lolz!

I already did my time in OH, Youngstown to be specific, and that's quite enough for me:cross:

 

[Dennis1979]

One thing that I haven't noticed come up (I only skimmed over some of the posts so forgive me if someone already mentioned it) is that I know of quite a few people that are more seasonal brewers in the warmer states. Meaning they may hit it hard brewing through the winter and into the spring when it's cooler to build up a stock to get them through the winter because for some odd reason they don't enjoy standing next to 5-10+ gallons of boiling liquid when it's 100 degrees outside. Personally, I think they're weak! But then again, I'm small time and brew in my air conditioned apartment in the summer, so call it what you will.

It's a good point and one I have considered, not because I'm weak and scared of boiling hot liquid in the boiling hot sun, but due to the fact that it's hard keeping the fermentation temps down that time of year. Because of the heat and humidity in Houston, there is no way I can get my AC down low enough to do the job 24/7 without going bankrupt and causing an nation-wide energy shortage to boot. I do the swamp cooler thing but I learned that in the summer time you have to tend to it constantly to keep it at a reasonable temp. I'm sure I will try to keep brewing year round, but I may back off a bit from July - September. I will definitely need to squirrel some away if I do.

Dennis

 

[ArcaneXor]

It's a good point and one I have considered, not because I'm weak and scared of boiling hot liquid in the boiling hot sun, but due to the fact that it's hard keeping the fermentation temps down that time of year. Because of the heat and humidity in Houston, there is no way I can get my AC down low enough to do the job 24/7 without going bankrupt and causing an nation-wide energy shortage to boot. I do the swamp cooler thing but I learned that in the summer time you have to tend to it constantly to keep it at a reasonable temp. I'm sure I will try to keep brewing year round, but I may back off a bit from July - September. I will definitely need to squirrel some away if I do.

Dennis

About $30 buys you an igloo cube cooler and a piece of styrofoam as a custom lid. That allows for ideal ale fermentations in the middle of Florida during the time of the living dead (i.e. March through October, when room temperatures rarely drop much below 80 degrees with the AC on) with two frozen 12-oz water bottles a day sitting in a water bath. If it works in Florida, it'll work in Texas.
Plus you can go multi-purpose and build a mash tun out of it, too.

 

[Yooper]

I already did my time in OH, Youngstown to be specific, and that's quite enough for me:cross:

Hey, stop knocking my hometown! But, the only decent beer I found in all of Youngstown wasn't in Youngstown at all. It was in Sharon, PA and this past winter they had Sierra Nevada Celebration on tap. Good beer, but not as good as homebrew!

 

[Coastarine]

Hey, stop knocking my hometown! But, the only decent beer I found in all of Youngstown wasn't in Youngstown at all. It was in Sharon, PA and this past winter they had Sierra Nevada Celebration on tap. Good beer, but not as good as homebrew!

Nothing AT ALL wrong with great lakes brewing. They are good people, and the only commercial beer welcome at my wedding, which was at the Buhl Mansion in Sharon, PA!

 

[Beau815]

This thread was interesting, and despite the crazy question that started it, i just saw 30 min fly by in seconds lol. And yeah i drink mine too and my friend who wont buy a damn kit but drinks my HB's helps me, he can drink my initial 7 brews but hes getting limited on my IIPA that im bottling Sunday Oh and im one of them guys that only brews 5 gallons at a time but someday i hope to have 10-15 on hand at a time.

 

[HSM]

You're just not trying hard enough if you don't drink 5 gallons of beer a month.

5 gallons a week is more my pace.

 

[Stef1966]

I never succeeded into having a pipeline going without having it run dry in between batches, i have 2 plastic primaries and 2 glass carboy, and...
I drink it alone...

Yeaaaah! with nobody else...
You know when i drink alone...
I prefer to be by myseeeeelf!!

well.... sometimes with a few chosen friends that know how to appreciate the stuff.

 

[InfernoBrews]

Well I Have 15 Gallon or more all the time Bottled/Kegged ! Just to give a example how it goes. short story here. I Had a buddy over he tried the Home brew then Liked it so much he became part of the obsession we are all in! Got him all set up and we ended up getting another buddy involved. we had a brew night a week ago. 1 corny and a few other assorted bottles gone by 3 of us in one night! Needless to say the one buddy got drove home in his own car! :cross:

 

[jgardner6]

I go though about 5 gallons a weekend w/a friend.

 

[JVD_X]

I give a lot out to friends... two-three six packs.... it's just fun to spread the beer wealth so to speak. During the summer we always have 8-10 neighbors over several times a week. The beer and wine goes real fast then. My wife has several direct sales businesses and she is always throwing parties... one is Slumber Parties, Inc.

 

[Corkster]

Yep drinkin' and sharin'...that's what we do!

I only drink maybe 6 beers a week... maybe 10 if it's a good week, so I give out more than I drink... but I also only do one batch at a time..... mostly because I can't afford to brew more than once or twice a month..... so sad...so very very sad...

 

[NJTomatoguy]

Slumber Parties, Inc.[/url]

Nice!

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[Baja_Brewer]

I... umm....wait, what kinda question is that?!? what do you think I do with it?? It's tasty

 

[mmb]

As has been said before, 40 pints isn't really that many when fight night has a half dozen guys over. We also host the holiday parties for our offices and always have a few beer drinkers holding the bar stools from floating away.

 

[bad coffee]

I have 6 roommates, and we tend to throw parties. This past party I went through 3.5 kegs. I'm almost out of brew! I'll be brewing every day this week, Hopefully.

B

It was in Sharon, PA and this past winter they had Sierra Nevada Celebration on tap. Good beer, but not as good as homebrew!

Where was that? The Lube?

 

[jbambuti]

I drink most of my beer, but also give some away to friends. SWMBO drinks one occasionally, but not much. I've been trying to keep the pipeline moving, as I'm currently supplementing with good commercial brews. Just bought a third fermenter and filled it with 5 gals. this morning. Now I have 15 gals. in the pipeline and should be closer to drinking mostly homebrew in a few weeks. Just in time for barbecue season!