Brewing beer by yourself is kinda boring, a little company would be fun don't ya think?
Oddball said:What I did was have my cousin buy the ingredients under the condition that I would show him how to brew, he could use my equipement, and I get a 12 pack out of the deal. It only took one time for him to buy his own kit and now we trade...
You know that you can't actually expect him to compensate you for giving him your beer, right? It's against the law.
Just tell him it's illegal if you don't want to share.
In this case, it's about as enforceable as Prohibition was.
About four months ago swmbo asked if the in laws could stay with us while buying a house.
About four months ago swmbo asked if the in laws could stay with us while buying a house. I said yes. My FIL who only drank bud his whole life ask if he could have some of my hb. I again said yes. Now four months later my pipeline has been drained down to my last two gallons in a keg all other 6 kegs are empty...
No thought from him as to how much money goes into a batch or time even though he watched me brew a red ipa.
Little does he know that the two cases in the basement are ready to drink. Those will be going into the fridge Saturday night since they are moving out Saturday morning!
Time to brew again.
I'm pretty stingy with mine, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. But I have no problem offering beer to people who are visiting or bringing it to gatherings outside of my house.
BUT, I go absolutely mad when someone asks for it or otherwise tries to obligate me to provide some. I find that to be wildly insulting and disrespectful and make it damn clear to the offending idiot. If anyone ever asked me to fill 12 bottles for them, they would be lucky if I only returned them filled with water.
Lol. If that's why he is drinking my beer then he can have all he wants. Not much left anyways
Kinda how I picture all New Yorkers being.
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I had an awesome time in Tennessee.
personally, i prefer brewing alone. I've only made mistakes when brewing with other people around. Plus, its my unwinding time. My wife leaves me be on brewing days, i don't pick up the phone... It's my decompression time.
I've just started brewing but it seems to me like about anything else. Someone expecting something that I do for nothing or next to nothing is a bit of an insult to me. E.G.: I work with computer for a living and for 20+ years I've had friends & family wanting "a little consultation" which turns to sizable time consumption. Now I'm willing to help friends & family but when it's over & over for years on end it gets to be called a loss in my spreadsheet. I'd say it's similar to home brewing. One puts time, effort & money into brewing and it looks "free" to others. In my opinion it's just best to sit them down, explain the particulars to them & see where they sit. There's nothing like a truthful conversation to clear the cloudy line between you & others.
And if all else fails a 12ga always works well
In another thread, I read about a kegging home brewer that would set out a "fresh" keg at a group gathering with the dip tube cut half way. the keg would "run out" and then magically refill itself after the party had broken up.
dbrewski said:+1 on this! Time to cut a dip tube.
I don't keg, so I'm really having trouble envisioning how that works
Shaft333 said:I got a text from a family member who's been wanting some of my beer. It said something along the lines of, "so, if I brought you 12 pack of empty bottles. Would I get them back full of home brew?"
He's been wanting to buy it (can't), have me deliver it (without offering any tacos), and now just going for the handouts (and not just a couple; he's shootin' for 25%!!!!). I appreciate that he's a fan, but the man needs to understand that I brew for the fun of brewing, drinking something special, a bit of braggery, and the fellowship of tipping a couple back with a bud or two. But I'm not looking to start passing it out like the clerk at the packaged goods store.
The kicker is that he's family so I still got'ta be tactical about turning his offer of filling bottles for him down. Otherwise I will catch hell from others about being stingy or something (damn right I'm stingy!)
I know some of you have dealt with similar stories.
I figure I may have this guy come over on a brew day so he can see what goes into it. But he still isn't getting 25% without bringing over at least a burrito!
Since he is family, tell him to bring over the 12 pack of bottles filled with your favorite commercial microbrew. Trade beer for beer.
sheeshomatic said:Imagine a drinking straw suspended halfway above the bottom of a glass. Try as you might, you ain't getting the bottom half of that liquid sucked through that straw.
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