Connect with Us!

Subscribe to our Blog!

Your email:
guide-to-professional-beer-tasting

Craft Beer Blog

Current Articles | RSS Feed RSS Feed

6 Reasons to Brew Beer At a Location & Not At Your House

  
  
  

Looking to brew your own beer but not ready to purchase the equipment, ingredientsbeer-brewery-location and required reading to get started?  Then don't, find a local brew-your-own-beer place and get started brewing with expert help.

We don't recommend always brewing at a location over brewing in-house, but we definitely think there are some benefits to visiting a location and they are as follows.
 

5 reasons to brew beer on-location:
 

  1. Recipes: Most brew-your-own-beer locations will have the most popular recipes available as well as some lesser known ones.
      
  2. Equipment: They have all the equipment necessary so you can try a few test runs before you purchase your own equipment to in-house brew.
     
  3. Ingredients: Don't worry about purchasing all the ingredients before heading up - most places will include the fresh ingredients to make the beer in the price of brewing.
     
  4. Knowledge: Brew your own beer locations have one thing that you probably don't have - expansive knowledge. They know when things are going wrong and how to fix them. Having them readily available helps to ease your mind, walk you through the process and remedy any potential bad situations.
     
  5. No clean-up: This one is huge. Until you brew your own beer in-house, you won't know the amount of cleaning required. Brew your beer on-site and take advantage of the spic and span equipment and save your self time clean-up time. 
     
  6. Bonding experience: If you're going with family, friends or even coworkers - brewing your own beer is an amazing experience that can bring people together. Plus, if everyone does a different beer you can swap out some of your own stash with others to try some of their own beers. 
     
These are just a few of the top reasons to brew beer at a location rather than in-house when getting started. 


Have you brewed in your house and on-site before? Which one do you prefer and why?

beer-lovers-gift-giving-ebook


Comments

Although I've been homebrewing for a couple of years, I'd love to find an on-site. All my experience is extract brewing and the step to all-grain seems to be a large one.
 
Alas, there isn't an on-site anywhere near my home, so I've taken the step of asking the local micro-brewery about the possibility of an unpaid internship. 

 
Being semi-retired has its advantages.
Posted @ Tuesday, February 28, 2012 11:24 AM by Dave Bowers
Great post! Onsite brewing is definitely a great way to get started. And to brew without having to clean up afterwards must be awesome! And similar to Dave, I'd love to try all-grain at an onsite place so I don't pick up any bad habits.
Posted @ Sunday, March 04, 2012 11:57 AM by Brian McMullin
I've done both onsite brewing and home brewing. With the onsite you are just adding ingredients and coming back 2 weeks later to bottle. Don't get me wrong, its a great experience, but you don't get to pitch the yeast and do any of the racking. I love to cook, so having the ability to do everything at my house lets me experiment like I do with my meals. Since I've been brewing at home, I haven't gone back to onsite.
Posted @ Monday, March 05, 2012 8:03 PM by John Hanselman
That certainly would be a great experience. There just aren't many places to do that.  
 
Some local breweries in NC are beginning to consider opening up and allowing classes, but it's not widespread.  
 
There is also something to be said about buckling down and getting dirty with your work. Most in my beer community seem to enjoy the closet-fermented process.
Posted @ Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:37 PM by Andrew
Post Comment
Name
 *
Email
 *
Website (optional)
Comment
 *

Allowed tags: <a> link, <b> bold, <i> italics