The 3 Things I Hate About Brewing...

[Thommo]

My only real pet peeve is being happy with a beer I've brewed, then trying someone elses of the same style and thinking "Bugger, wish I'd brewed this".

I don't mind bottling anymore, because I now only do it for case swaps, and it just means you're getting a whole different bunch of beers to try. Woo Hoo.

 

[Renegade]

1. My laziness borne form drinking too much
2. Cleaning (the empty bottles after sucking them dry - they pile up and become a big job)
3. Summer heat without a fermenting fridge

 

[Mantis]

Used to hate bottles so the last 4 batches have been 38L to fill 2 kegs neatly - yah

Doing double batches with BIAB , so now have mash tun - yah

Kegs blowing - ongoing and unavoidable

Milling with the marga, now have a monster, 9kg in less than 2 min. Not sure how good the crush is as only done it once and got f**ked efficiency

F**ked efficiency in general

:icon_cheers:

 

[mr_tyreman]

thing i hate about HB is how 'damn' good it tastes!

like pringles, once you pop you cant stop!!!

 

[HoppingMad]

1. Infections (was reusing yeast cakes and ruined 3 batches - having a break from that)
2. Burning my flesh with hot wort when cubing up (have gloved up since)
3. The rank smell of spent grain making me gag when I leave it a couple of days in the drained mash tun (now clearing the muck out right away)

I guess at least I'm learning from my hates/mistakes!

Hopper

 

[WarmBeer]

1. Wankers on this forum
2. Nope, that's it...

 

[Renegade]

1. Wankers on this forum
2. Nope, that's it...

Are there any that you can point out to us ?

More importantly, how does this affect the beer you brew ?

 

[Kleiny]

1. Wankers on this forum
2. Nope, that's it...

:lol: :lol:

 

[Mantis]

1. Wankers on this forum
2. Nope, that's it...

All of which you could put in your ignore list, then you would have no problems/hates at all it seems
h34r:

 

[Dazza_devil]

1. When the last bottle of a batch is the best one you have tasted.
2. Falling asleep when there's still beer in the jug.
3. The day before bottling.

 

[absinthe]

when your like me and DONT want to pay for ANYTHING you could make/do yourself (thats why i make my own malt) it goes like this:


1. infections in the malt im making

2. not having enough malt to brew beer

3. time (or lack there of)

 

[mika]

1./ Brewing a whole 20L of average beer
2./ Brewing only 20L of good beer
3./ Brewing more average beer than good beer.

 

[wabster]

1. Infections not evident at bottling so reused yeast infects subsequent two brews too.

2. re #1 Having to put 90 odd bottles of brew down the sink and wash them out carefully so infection is eliminated.

3. No temp control so winter only brewing for me.

 

[technocat]

My hates are.
3. The constant want to purchase more equipment, regardless of the fact that HBing has cost your more than $3k since August last year.....

---O---

Yeah but it is a hell of a lot of fun. After a year and two grand later building my brew rig I have gotta say I have really enjoyed the experience. Starting from the ground up from an idea born from an American internet site which presented many challenges which were overcome by engineering friends that I drove crazy and of course much information gleaned from this AHB site...........thanks fella's.

:beer:
cheers

 

[Gavo]

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

Aw Chap Chap I know you love milling grain like that, I could have done that amount in two minutes....

Oh yea things I hate;

1. Cleaning equipment
2. Kegs Running Out.
3. Trying to manage bottling for camping holiday trips.

Gavo.

 

[Pumpy]

1) Making starters.

2) Never quite having all the correct ingredients.

3) Ending up with a beer you like, but not really wanting to drink 40 litres of it .

Pumpy

 

[Kleiny]

1. That one thing you swear you where going to change or buy to improve your system the last time you brewed. But you have forgotten to do or buy and now you run into the exact same problem.

2. Thinking that boil over watch is done as its settled, sitting down with a beer and a magazine to look up just in time to watch hot wort go everywhere.

3. Bottleing i hate i :angry: t

 

[sav]

1. hearing about chappos infections
2. When my kegs blow
3.Deciding what to brew next,its so hard.

 

[raven19]

1. Having to go to work, when I would rather be brewing! i.e. Not enough time!
2. Dealing with spent grain (limited garden/compost space due to living in a townhouse).
3. Wild Yeast infections also.

 

[Fourstar]

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!

Hmm, im not so much a tool tard that cant put together a simple project. If i had the resources at my hands i could probabaly knock something up. For me, it's just the fact i have to buy said tools to build a project that i could buy directly from a craftsman for the same price of tools+materials. The thing i love of buying a pre-built product is if its a hunk of junk, i can take it back to the 'craftsmen'. If i screw it up, its money down the sink.

I generally just consider myself a tool tard because i havn't had allot of tradie type work todo in my time. I know i'm quite capable of building projects and designing but the biggest problem for me is the intimidation of:
1. not having any tools.
2. not having the space to build anything.
3. not wanting to fail/give up on a project.

There is nothing more i hate than unfinished business. Maybe once i grow up, get myself a proper house and have some booty lying around i'll build up that tool cache i desperatly need.