BeerBorg

I’m not judging!
Where does all the beer that you brew end up? When I read the “How much beer did you brew last year” thread I’m amazed by how much beer people make.
I have two 2.5 gallon kegs on tap and a dozen or so bottles of older brews plus some commercial bottles and cans.
I’ll never get through that by myself and will end up throwing a good amount of it away so that I can brew something new.
Do you share it, drink it, enter it in competitions or dump it?

I brew what I drink, and drink what I brew.
If we have people over for holidays, they often drink plenty of homebrew. Superbowl, St Patrick's Day and Easter I serve a lot. Otherwise I drink my own and bring an occasional growler to a dinner or party, or holiday with family. A few bottles go to homebrew meetings.

Banjo-guy wrote:Do you share it, drink it, enter it in competitions or dump it?

All of the above, well, except for the last one of course.

Hey All, Some folks may think that I drink too much! I say pish posh! I drink what I think is just the correct amount. I'm the only one in the household that drinks my brews,and I don't often offer any to family. Once in awhile I 'll give one or 2 to my neighbor. I like to concoct recipes,brew them and then enjoy them. I'm usually limited to brewing times due to my lack of temperature control,but this past summer I brewed 5 gallon batches using Munton's HMEs,Breiss LME and Belle Saison yeast.Of the 3 batches I brewed so far,as such,all of them are at least FootBall beers.(Meant to be guzzled watching Steeler's games).So,if I brewed 50 gallons,I drank as much. Cheers.

I share lots of mine with friends sometimes twice a week. It goes faster than you think. Plus I buy way too much craft beer to try and I'm working on getting less of that in the future.

I share it, but I drink much of it too. ~2 pints a day like a brit.

Much of my beer is low in abv compared to commercial beer (at least what Americans think of as such). Beer to me is an enjoyable type of food/sustenance that keeps me from losing weight. I don't drink to get buzzed, I rarely drink when out anywhere.

I don't buy much commercial beer at all, I mostly drink what I make. I will sometimes buy a random bottle or can of something once a week just to see what's "new", but if it is more then 6%+ ABV, I generally ignore it and could give a crap if it's new or cool or whatnot. IE for example, most Stone IPAs I find offensively high in alcohol, as in I can taste/feel the alcohol, and I don't want to. I want to taste the hops without the burn. To me Levitation was their perfect beer. Obviously I don't agree with most Americans on this, otherwise they'd still sell it.

Not enough! Went through bout 6 5-gallon kegs and 10 2.5 gallon kegs. My brewing/drinking has been a little low this year. I did not even share much!

I was worried that when I posted this people would think I was getting moralistic about drinking. I don’t really care how much or often people choose to drink. I just have never been able to wrap my head around the amount of beer people produce. I made a few 5 gallon batches early on and it sat in my garage for months. Now I only brew 2.5 gallon batches and it’s still too much.

On the other hand it seems like too much work to make 1 gallon batches but at least I would get to brew more often. I actually care more about the process of creating recipes and learning about all the small details of brewing than drinking the beer.
My wife’s no help because she is a wine drinker and my daughter doesn’t drink at all. I guess I need to join a home brew club and enter more competitions.

According to me almost as much as I wanted to. According to my wife a bit more than I should have. Go figure?

I started a thread like this back in January. It was getting decent responses until I started posting a graph of consumption for those who had responded to-date

It was adding in the Trappist Monks that put things into perspective!

Banjo-guy wrote:seems like too much work to make 1 gallon batches but at least I would get to brew more often. I actually care more about the process of creating recipes and learning about all the small details of brewing than drinking the beer.
My wife’s no help because she is a wine drinker and my daughter doesn’t drink at all. I guess I need to join a home brew club and enter more competitions.

Ditto! I love to brew when I get the time, I enjoy sharing my beer but of late I've been pretty dayum grouchy so no one comes round to drink it. Soo, for now, I brew less. Used ta be as quick as I kegg'd/conditioned, ppl stopped by with glass' in hand. Now I live in the middle of no where, and I'm a seriously grouchy bastard, no one comes around. I wonder why? LOL Time for another shot.

My consumption has dropped some. I used to drink 3-4 per day. Which sounds like a lot unless you're retired. I am, and generally was having one with lunch, one in the middle of the afternoon, one or two with dinner. But I was gaining weight, and cut back to one or two a day. Even at my peak, it was only about a case a week. I've known guys who drink a case a day and still go to work.

I do have to mention that those Trappist Monks (during the Holy Roman Empire times 12th century or so) were drinking 2%ish ABV beer, pushing 3% at max normally. About 50-60% oats in what they drank too. It was liquid food and much safer then water.

Still, I bet they were merry monks.

John Sand wrote:My consumption has dropped some. I used to drink 3-4 per day. Which sounds like a lot unless you're retired. I am, and generally was having one with lunch, one in the middle of the afternoon, one or two with dinner. But I was gaining weight, and cut back to one or two a day. Even at my peak, it was only about a case a week. I've known guys who drink a case a day and still go to work.

If they were drinking a case a day, they were never sobering up. Unless you consider a 12 pack to be a case. I've always used case to mean 24 beers, but I've heard people refer to a 12 pack as a case.

I mean a standard case.
I still have friends that are drunk every night.