Why do you brew?

[Netflyer]

I think being in the Beer Zone, helps to balance my life. Although brew day can be a tad stressful, well more busy than stressful I guess, it's a different kind of stress. As much as I love brewing I am always happy on brew day after everything is cleaned and the fermenter is in a dark cool place and I can put my feet up and enjoy a home brew whilst I think about the potential of the batch I just created...

 

[humann_brewing]

The main reason I got into brewing seriously after a few extract batches spread out over a couple of years is because I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and grew to really enjoy the beers up there.

I am now in California and have a really hard time finding some of the beers I grew to love. Now I try to replicate them in my own way.

In the meantime, I have found a few California beers that I like but still hard to find where I live for things like Pliny but still doesn't fill the void of not having northwest beers at the nearest corner market.

 

[JuanKenobi]

I've had a ton of hobbies over the years that I've spent ridiculous amounts of money on and didn't really get anything out of. With brewing I get beer! Perfect.

I love drinking beer and brewing has opened my horizons to a myriad of styles I never knew of or never appreciated out of ignorance. I still drink big IIPAs, but now I brew them to my tastes insted of paying upwards of $15 a sixer for a beer that I don't love.

Plus the science, the toys, the DIY projects, the smiling faces of family and friends who just tasted my latest creation, SWMBO's aggrvation that there's no hefe left and she has to wait 3 weeks for the next batch to be ready, growing hops, pretending I snuck into a giants chemistry lab to conduct evil experiments...

 

[Netflyer]

I think it may have been called, 'The Year of the Cloud'... Anyhow the main scientist dude who saves the world had the foresight to stockpile beer being that it was a source of safe liquid and had water in it. This poison cloud thingy ruined all the water in the world, turned it to jello or something... it was a long time ago that I read it but the take home point is that beer can and will save your life...

:fro:

 

[khanti]

Because I get to actually make something!

I'm a cubicle dweller. I push electrons around on computers for a living and I often wish I was actually making something in the physical world. I get a far greater sense of accomplishment when I sample a homebrew that turned out great than I do finishing some project at work that resulted in nothing tangible.

I like my job, but I LOVE my beer.

 

[Urban]

I brew to drink. But its more than that its the research of styles, ingredients, techniques, tools and gadgets, the basic and complex science, the peaceful solitude of brew day or late night label scraping, the symphony of multiple carboys airlocks bubbling away, the personal satisfaction of the finished beer, and the personal satisfaction of doing something I enjoy but others find weird.