Comments on: Why We Brew

By: Kristy

Kristy — Tue, 29 May 2012 17:02:41 +0000

Good for you – home brewing still reminds me of my Dad and his demijohns full of Boots recipe paint stripper, good that you’re having better successes. From memory his brews loitered in the attic until my mum shouted at him enough to tip it away – no one was ever suicidal enough to try drinking the stuff!!

By: Proifessor Pie-Tin

Proifessor Pie-Tin — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:57:11 +0000

There’s a reason why I don’t home-brew and it’s the same reason why I rarely drink beer at home.
I’ve always associated beer with being out.Finding new pubs and new beers.Meeting up with old friends and total strangers.
I don’t know why but whist I’m happy drinking wine at home there’s something about supping beer at home that’s not quite right.
I can’t really put my finger on the reason why but there it is.
Once, and only once, I purchased a barrel of beer for Christmas. Timothy Taylor’s Landlord.
I even borrowed a pint glass from my local to enjoy it properly.
I hated it.Not the Landlord,which was superb, but drinking out of a pint glass at home.It felt like sacrilege.
To solve the problem I got a gang of mates round to demolish the contents of the barrel and then we all fucked off to the pub to drink proper pints.
I knew the instant that I walked into the pub and called a pint that I’d never ever drink another one at home.
And I never have.

By: ErlangerNick

ErlangerNick — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:22:03 +0000

Good for you. As an important leader in American home brewing famously says, relax, don’t worry, have a homebrew. You brew for sport, as I did when I lived in Oregon years ago, but now I brew out of necessity.

Incidentally, my last batch of the month is boiling away in the garden shed nicely even as I write this: a dark, dry mild for May. (Big flavour hop addition will make it non-traditional though. Oh well.)

By: broadfordbrewer

broadfordbrewer — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:18:57 +0000

I started brewing out of curiosity more than anything else… 40 pints of beer from a 1.5kg can of gloop? surely not! Once I understood this stage, I progressed through to all grain brewing and as you say, it lends a better understanding to the beers that we enjoy, or not as the case may be. I did at one point brew thinking it would save me money, but I’m not sure it has yet, mainly because homebrewing introduced me to the choice of beer available out there….and I buy a fair bit! Having said that, brewing your own beer and brewing a beer that you really like has the edge over buying beer that you really like