What I learned from brewing beer

[British_ale_head]

Kegged my beer this week, I don't know if I can wait much longer to try it. But while doing it I was thinking of what I learnt from brewing beer.

1. Brewing beer requires a lot of patience
2. My mum knows a lot about beer
3. brewing beer is quite fun
4. The beer smells nice when it is fermenting
5. As soon as people hear you are home brewing you suddenly become extremely popular
6. Everybody wants to help when it comes to the brewing or kegging but as soon as it's time to wash up everyone is busy

What have you learnt when brewing beer?

 

[poptarts]

1 agree
2 nope
3 agree
4 agree / wife says no
5 nope
6 more like everyone wants to come over and drink the whole time, no help at all.

 

[RM-MN]

1. Beer takes a varying amount of patience. A wheat beer won't take too long before you can drink it but a barleywine might be almost ready to drink next year.
2. I don't know about that, I haven't met your mum.
3. Agree, nothing like a hobby you can drink. Much more fulfilling than stamp collectiing.
4. You haven't brewed enough different beers with different yeasts. Search this forum for the term, "rhino farts".
5. Didn't happen that way for me. Maybe I'm too old for that.
6. Nobody gets in my way when I'm brewing. It's my hobby and you stay out of my kitchen.
7. There always seems to be more to learn about brewing. Lots of people will try to inform you but a lot of them speak nonsense. Try to sort out the ones who know about brewing from those who brew without knowing the science behind it.
8. I like most varieties of beer I've sampled. Some breweries do a better job than others. Some breweries don't do a good job at all.

 

[Hello]

1. agree
2. not mine
3. agree
4. disagree (I don't hate it, I just don't care for it)
5. I guess I did something wrong then, it never happened.
6. Nope. No one has ever asked to help me.

I also learned:
A decent amount about the real basic science behind brewing.

 

[roastquake]

Here's something I've learned: you don't have to worry nearly as much as some literature suggests.

your #3 really resonates, I love the wizardry of it!