What your pet peeve about Brewing

[Silverbullet]

Beersmith. For me that thing crashes more than Billy Joel.

Odd. Never had a single issue with Beersmith. Back on topic - pet peeve/annoyance would be cleanup after a long day of brewing.

 

[WileECoyote]

Glitches. Usually I roll with it when the unexpected happens, but when glitch after glitch piles up and makes a crappy brewday, it sucks.

Funny how the more I drink, the more glitches there are. I may need to study this further.

Ill drink to that

Cheers

 

[TNGabe]

Is it terrible I don't have a pet peeve with brewing? I love repetitive minutiae, what can I say?

 

[Bulls Beers]

The longer I brew and the more equipment I buy, I seem to have less and less pet peeves. If I had one, It might be brewing in the summer. I brew mostly lagers, so it's a pain in the ass with the heat. I have chest freezers for fermenting and lagering and when I hear the compressor cranking so much, I stress...My freezers are in a very hot area of my house in the summer. Other than that, it's all good.

 

[sdillow]

Forgetting I've left a ball valve open on my kettle or MLT when pouring something in.

Lol. I do this waaaaay too often. Nothing beats the feeling of beer splashing on my feet when I'm racking to the bottling bucket.

 

[squeekybobo]

Forgetting I've left a ball valve open on my kettle or MLT when pouring something in.

I've done this the past couple times I've brewed, but only when I'm putting water into the mash tun. Still sucks, but not as much as if it were wort

 

[porky_pine]

Spending the holidays with my inlaws 3000 miles from my brewing equipment and homebrew.

 

[WileECoyote]

Spending the holidays with my inlaws 3000 miles from my brewing equipment and homebrew.

Ouch, better you than me lol

Cheers

 

[Klickmania]

Not having enough time to get a consistent pipine setup. I would kill to be able to brew twice a month but I haven't been able to make it happen.

I am also not a fan of bottling. I only bottled my two first batches then switched to kegging. It took me two hours to clean, sanitize, and bottle my imperial stout last week. I guess it didn't help that some of the bottles from my first batch in March didn't get rinsed out before I stored them. Talk about a mess. Kegging is the bees knees.

 

[schooner427]

Using a flat top stove instead of a nice gas burner on the back porch. I am gonna solve that after Christmas tho.

 

[BudzAndSudz]

Lack of help with any of it except drinking it. My friends and family are good at that. And give me my bottles back dammit.

That's it man, that's the number one thing for me all the way. All my friends love drinking the homebrew, but none of them want to contribute in any way whatsoever. Don't want to pitch on grains, don't want to clean bottles, don't even want to clean the counter in the kitchen after I'm done even though I just spent 2 hours cleaning everything else. I even had a roommate beg me to brew with him last friday so I agreed. What actually happened was that I bought all the grains and hops, then milled it all up. He helped me mash in, and then invited 10 other people over and ended up playing beer pong while I brewed by myself in the garage. Around midnight when I finished brewing he even had the audacity (while completely hammered) to say "Nate, where have you been all night man?"

"In the garage, brewing beer that you absolutely will not be allowed to drink."

I'm usually very down with sharing my beer, but that one pissed me off, and it is now my private reserve batch.

 

[Klickmania]

That's it man, that's the number one thing for me all the way. All my friends love drinking the homebrew, but none of them want to contribute in any way whatsoever. Don't want to pitch on grains, don't want to clean bottles, don't even want to clean the counter in the kitchen after I'm done even though I just spent 2 hours cleaning everything else. I even had a roommate beg me to brew with him last friday so I agreed. What actually happened was that I bought all the grains and hops, then milled it all up. He helped me mash in, and then invited 10 other people over and ended up playing beer pong while I brewed by myself in the garage. Around midnight when I finished brewing he even had the audacity (while completely hammered) to say "Nate, where have you been all night man?"

"In the garage, brewing beer that you absolutely will not be allowed to drink."

I'm usually very down with sharing my beer, but that one pissed me off, and it is now my private reserve batch.

I absolutely hate that man. Although it hasn't happened to me to quite that extent. I invited over a few friends for some brewdays and they sat inside got drunk and watched football while I brewed for 5-6 hours. Doesn't make sense to me at all.

 

[stompbox]

Gaining weight from making heavy beers

 

[MaddBaggins]

When too many neighbors and friends come over to my garage on brew day. The door is open cause the burner is on and I hate it when the whole street turns my garage into a party. It really ruins my Zen. One or two people and a couple of beers and I'm cool with it. Much more than that and I get grumpy.

 

[jaynik]

Removing labels and sanitizing bottles. People also seem to resist returning te bottles to me so I have reduced seriously the quantity of beer I give away.

 

[bscott1011]

Scrubbing the stove after a serious boilover

 

[Channel66]

My biggest pet peave is not enough space. I have a big house, just 2 people and a cattle dog living in it. And I still cant find enough room for my brew gear bottles, fridges, freezers, kegs, kettles, grains, I need a bigger garage. Its either that or tell SWMBO that she cant park her car in the garage any more (Im obviously not taking my classic camaro out of the garage to make room for her brand new subaru)

 

[WileECoyote]

That's it man, that's the number one thing for me all the way. All my friends love drinking the homebrew, but none of them want to contribute in any way whatsoever. Don't want to pitch on grains, don't want to clean bottles, don't even want to clean the counter in the kitchen after I'm done even though I just spent 2 hours cleaning everything else. I even had a roommate beg me to brew with him last friday so I agreed. What actually happened was that I bought all the grains and hops, then milled it all up. He helped me mash in, and then invited 10 other people over and ended up playing beer pong while I brewed by myself in the garage. Around midnight when I finished brewing he even had the audacity (while completely hammered) to say "Nate, where have you been all night man?"

"In the garage, brewing beer that you absolutely will not be allowed to drink."

I'm usually very down with sharing my beer, but that one pissed me off, and it is now my private reserve batch.

Find new friends

Cheers

 

[WileECoyote]

Lack of help with any of it except drinking it. My friends and family are good at that. And give me my bottles back dammit.

Find new friends

Cheers

 

[msa8967]

Spending the holidays with my inlaws 3000 miles from my brewing equipment and homebrew.

I spent the last 4 winter holidays at my inlaws in southern Georgia. Everyday seemed to have highs in the mid 50s-60s which is perfect brewing weather except that my equipment is 1023 miles away.

I feel your pain brewing brother...

 

[histo320]

Cleaning, Sanitizing, Cleaning, Sanitizing, Cleaning, and Sanitizing again. Other than that

I love the entire process

 

[Billy-Klubb]

again: not enough time. why the hell can't we be Romulans or Vulcans to get a few hundred years to get this stuff right?

 

[vrodbrad]

Broke my Hydrometer, thank goodness I had another one.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Broke my Hydrometer, thank goodness I had another one.

IMO, having 2 is essential.


and I think my face is holding me back. WTF, face?!? it rubs the lotion on it's skin!

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Emptying the mash tun definitely sucks. But what grinds my grain is when my brew partner slacks on the clean up. Last time I brewed (by myself) I had to scrub out the kettle he used previously for his half of the boil (which is my HLT) because he did a half a$$ job. Next time we brew together I'm going to tell him that he better leave it in the same condition he found it in.

 

[dryboroughbrewing]

having to rig up my rain tarp in the middle of a boil. Nothing like seeing those first couple of drops of rain land in the kettle, and realizing it's raining while I brew... AGAIN!

 

[neko]

The cleaning part is annoying but the worst part is when you say, "Ok, just gotta rinse this funnel and then I'm all done." Then you turn around and there's a pile of dirty equipment you forgot about.

It's also funny how everyone wants to help on a brew day until the day actually comes. If someone surprises me and shows up they are usually happy about drinking the beer but not the process as much.

 

[jcam91]

I live in a small apartment so space is a pet.peeve.

 

[Hopzilla]

I would say sanitizing and cleaning up afterwards are my pet peeves.

 

[ICWiener]

My inconsistency. Years and years of doing this and I still get bad batches for reasons that I can't figure out. In fact, I still can't make a great IPA. Frustrating.