The 3 Things I Hate About Brewing...

[Pollux]

My hates are.


1. Cleaning, I swear it's 90% of what we do,
2. Never having enough time to actual fill all my kegs, I really need a fermentation fridge capable of holding 3 kegs.
3. The constant want to purchase more equipment, regardless of the fact that HBing has cost your more than $3k since August last year.....

 

[brenjak]

1. Lack of space. Damn worst thing about living in a townhouse.
2. Being a tooltard - would have built a decent 3 vessel herms/rims by now.
3. Liver not being strong enough to consume as much as i want

I think i have commented on this before, as have you Fourstar. I am a tooltard also. If you can buy it for several hundred dollars you can't afford to spend...that's me!

 

[Stubbie]

1. Cleaning and washing up.
2. Cleaning and washing up. (I really really dislike this part so it merits 2 guernseys)
3. Some brew days that stretch out to be soooooooo long.

 

[Maple]

getting the OK from the CFO to further indulge my habit addiction hobbie

 

[Muggus]

1. Cleaning. Obviously, but especially cleaning bottles before bottling. Pain in the ass!
2. Bottling. I do have kegs these days, and that has somehow made the effort involved in bottling a batch just so much worse.
3. Moving full fermenter from point A to point B. I know I should HTFU, but moving a 24L of fresh wort around down stairs and through short doorways is a tough job. Especially after a few 'brew day' beers!

 

[winkle]

1. Mid-week attempts to empty a "almost empty" keg (how can 5 litres weigh so little) :icon_drunk: .
2. The speed a full keg empties on a weekend :blink: .
3. Complaints about beery farts.
4. Leaking keg seals.

Edit: no. 3 doesn't count

 

[brettprevans]

1. Mid-week attempts to empty a "almost empty" keg (how can 5 litres weigh so little) :icon_drunk: .
2. The speed a full keg empties on a weekend :blink: .
3. Complaints about beery farts.
4. Leaking keg seals.

so #4 resembles #3? leaky seals.....

 

[bum]

3. Complaints about beery farts.
4. Leaking keg seals.

Just be thankful that these are two separate points.

[EDIT: I'm about to make Fents a very happy man]

 

[chappo1970]

1. It hurts my asshole
2. It tastes like shyte
3. Gives me beery fartz

h34r:

 

[Muggus]

1. It hurts my asshole
2. It tastes like shyte
3. Gives me beery fartz

h34r:

Obviously not doing it right Chappo! :lol:

 

[winkle]

1. It hurts my asshole
2. It tastes like shyte
3. Gives me beery fartz

h34r:

Your pouring it in the wrong hole knucklehead!
Nyuk. nyuk, nyuk...

 

[Asher]

The money I have to spend at the IBS for a 'good time' these days

 

[daemon]

For me:

1. Not having a dedicated brewery area yet, shed (6x9) will hopefully be funded and constructed in 2010.
2. Not having a system that's easy to use / automated, still too much manual labour involved.
3. Not having enough time to brew everything I want! Too many different styles and recipes that I want to try and no time to do them!

Hopefully I can rectify all three over the next 12 months, I'll certainly be trying to do so

 

[riverside]

Sharing my beer..... :icon_vomit:

 

[Steve]

1 hr for 11kgs on your Marga Chappo? How are you cracking it? A handful of grain at a time? My marga takes 10 mins for 9 kg with an electric drill that isnt flat strap.
Cheers
Steve

 

[white.grant]

I love everything about brewing, even the cleaning. You get better beer that way :icon_cheers:

cheers

grant

 

[bradsbrew]

The three things I HATE about homebrewing...

1. Constant cleaning of every bloody thing - Seems like 90% of my time brewing is spent cleaning
2. Milling grain - Yeah I know I should have passed on the Marga but 1hr to crush 11kg of grain is riddiculous
3. Wild Yeast Infections - Trust me I am over it!

Feel free to add or comment

Chap Chap

I think Number 3 is enough to make numbers 1 and 2 seem not worth the time. Mate your a good brewer, you just need to be more messy and ferment out in a temp controlled tucker box. nothing gets in and the C02 stored inside is enough to kill anything.

Cheers

 

[under]

Yeah cleaning bottles is a PITA.

I found hand cranking my grain bill this afternoon relaxing 5kg went through the BC pretty quick. Well under 5 min.

 

[Gulpa]

+1 bottling - love everything about the brewing process except the bit a the end.
+1 wild yeast - time for a new set of fermenters/taps/hoses etc.
+1 visitors who leave crappy megaswill after drinking the homebrew (especially when they roll their eyes when you first tell them you have homebrew)

cheers
Andrew

 

[argon]

One thing, and only one thing: Going to a restaurant and not wanting to drink any of the beers on their menu cause the stuff at home is 10x better.

Not only that... I've stopped wanting to go to the Belgian beer cafe on a Friday lunch!!! $15 for 500mL?! I used to be the first one at the bar, now I baulk at buying any beer. Be it good bad or indifferent.... Can't see the value in the commercial stuff anymore. I figure I used to spend a lot on golf as a hobby, now I spend about half that on my hobby brewing. So essentially what I brew is free.

Edit: spullin'