Is this a compliment ?

[adrianmole72]

I had a barbeque the other weekend, and when I checked the garage, I have accumulated 48 cans of Carling !! Upon investigation, I have found that my lager buddies have annihilated 2 budget kegs of exmoor gold clone, and 21 bottles of a short-brewed Just A Minute Brewery recipe I was given up in Spennymoor... One guy was swigging it from the bottle (short brewed to roughly 7%!), he didn't care about yeast dregs... .. he was a bit poorly-sick in the morning !

I got the usual "this isn't homebrew", etc, but then I bore them for an hour with the whole process

Someone has asked me to brew something silly strong, but in purist style, I said I didn't work like that ! :grin:

Stephen
P.S. See you all at the Hot Break thingy !

 

[graysalchemy]

What are you doing letting lager drinking mates drink home brew and swigging it out of a bottle, thats like giving an 18 year old a Laphroaig Single Malt and adding half a bottle of coke to it :nono: :nono:

If you are going to let them drink it make sure they appreciate it properly. :lol: :lol:

 

[adrianmole72]

I think the fact that I had 15 pint glasses to wash up showed me (well,the wife!) that some of them drank it properly...however, I was a bottle and a half of port in then :

Stephen

 

[adrianmole72]

also, GA, a lot of them were very complimentary; however, aren't we all when its free ?? :whistle:

Stephen "Shush !! It's Joy Division for fu**s sake" - that's what I was quoted as yelling at 11-30

stephen

 

[graysalchemy]

I think if joy Division was playing then I would tell you to STFU :lol: :lol:

Sorry drinking out of bottles is a pet hate of mine as you don't get to appreciate the flavour and aroma you may as well stick a close peg on your nose :lol: :lol:

I would take it as a compliment. :thumb:

 

[adrianmole72]

It was only one guy...the rest took heed of my warning

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

then I bore them for an hour with the whole process

I love that bit, it makes me feel like a beer boff for an hour.

BB :ugeek:

 

[adrianmole72]

then I bore them for an hour with the whole process

I love that bit, it makes me feel like a beer boff for an hour.

BB :ugeek:

I hear that, bro

Stephen

 

[BIGJIM72]

I can see how the lager drinkers could have made the leap to Exmoor.Nice pint

 

[adrianmole72]

I can see how the lager drinkers could have made the leap to Exmoor.Nice pint

It's easy-drinking, and just hoppy enough- hopefully, it swayed a few to the delights of ale !

 

[Baz Chaz]

Yes I'll never forget a mate, Jack, a lagerholic, he tried a pint of mine followed by a few more until we ran out .... then he took a swig out of a can of lager and poured it away saying 'what have I been drinking that shyte for' :lol:

The joys of home brewing, well done buddy :thumb:

 

[Cyclops]

sounds like a good party you had there stephen. :)

 

[BigYin]

to answer the thread title, yes, that's a compliment

Beer drinkers vote with their feet (well, with what they drink) - if they had all brought along cans of what they knew they liked, then tasted your brews and liked them so much they guzzled that instead of the cans of weak cats piss they'd brought along, you know they preferred your beer - result! :drink:

Now the down side...

The same thing happened to me at my wife's 40th party - the beer her Dad had provided (all very expensive ales and premium lagers), and all the random stuff brought along by guests, was 99% untouched, while my two cornies of ales were almost completely emptied :shock:

All well and good, only I didn't get to take the tonnes of unopened bottles home, just the two empty cornies :evil:

plus point - everyone in the family now views me as a master brewer :mrgreen:

negative - none of them have shown any practical moves to so much as try a kit brew

Oh well.

 

[PD]

well I don't give a monkeys toots to what folks think I enjoy my brews and so does the family, and unfortunately those that have tried it do too.
September we are having my wife's 60th birthday party at home with friends and neighbours. I've just bottled 80 bottles of the brew that seems to be a favourite " session " drink ( Better brew premium IPA ) I know that will get drunk, I'm working on others ( a stout and a bitter ) there's cervezas and red ruby and a dark ale to go at. So they can sup whatever they wish...If they prefer their dribblepiddle in some other form they are welcome to bring it. My only stipulation is that they take any un-drunk rubbish home with them. I'd rather drink me own fanks...