Dear readers,
There comes a time, albeit rarely, that one looks around the house and starts opening cabinet doors and looking through cupboards and fridges and storage closets to find…
There is NO HOME BREW Left in the HOUSE!
Is there any bigger tragedy?
Well, yes of course…but this is a pretty big deal.
I gotta start brewing.
Mike, bring over a growler. Help a brother out.
Aaron
I gotta say, I have the complete opposite problem.
I’ve been brewing about a batch a month, and since I drink about a beer a week, I’m growing beer faster than I’m losing it. It’s gotten to the point I consider offering beer to strangers, just as long as I can have the bottles back.
I’ve got 8 cases in my guest room right now.
Aaron
And, of course, those 8 cases don’t include the 5 gallons of pilsner in the lagering fridge, 5 gallons of mead in secondary, and one gallon of blueberry wine waiting for me to do something with it.
chemgeek
John,
Oh dear God, Noooooooo!!! I am in your same boat. I just ran out of homebrew. It’s embarrassing really. Thankfully, I have 9 5-gallon batches at various stages of fermentation. By the middle of next week I should have something on tap.
Aaron, how do you survive life on one beer a week. Wow.
Matt
Thats why you have no-boil kits and wort kits or no-chill cubes on hand ,dont worry I worked in a brewery and we had no beer to drink for ourselves on a Friday afternoon at the brewery because it had all been ordered by our customers ! So we just sucked it up and went to our customers pubs and paid for our beer .
Señor Brew™
Ouch. You have to keep the pipeline full. Everytime I see I’m getting low, I brew a double batch. It helps to keg too–no waiting for bottles to carbonate, or putting off bottling day because you’re dreading it.
It’s going to be tight pretty soon though–I’m giving away a bunch of my Xmas lager for Xmas, my cream ale is almost gone, and my dunkel is lagering and won’t be ready until January 1.
Adam
I hate that when it happens. The double batch thing seems to help though. A bit easier for me as an extract brewer. I can boil up a big batch easily without a big mash tun.
The problem, and joy, is that I keep giving my beer away to family and friends and the holidays make it extra hard. This year is the first year I felt on top of things with som porter, barleywine and cider all kegged up.
Quick get yer home brew friends together and brew an extract batch with WLP002. If you keg, you can turn it around in 10-15 days.
Jason
John,
I hear ya!! I’m in the same boat. I have one full carboy with a Munich Dunkel and I just bottled my Christmas Spiced ale. I’m brewing two batches tomorrow (taking the day off :-)) so thankfully that problem will be solved soon, but it really stinks when you have none left!!!
Cheers,
Jason
chris
I know this may seem like heresy but get out there and buy a beer that you’ve never had (should one exist) or one you love. I’m in the same boat as you, my porter will be ready by the shortest day. Meanwhile Great lakes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter is filling a hole rather wonderfully.
Cheers.
David Palm
I just started brewing again after a 10 month hiatus and I can definitely relate to the panicky feeling of not having any homebrew and also that oh-so-secure feeling of having some on tap and more in the pipeline.
Aaron, I could definitely help you with your “problem” if you live in southwest Wisconsin ;o)
Mike
I understand we have something to celebrate over there, so I’ll loan you a keg!