What do you do when you have 8 beers down the pub but your homebrew is still better?

These days if I find just one beer I want to drink at a bar - even at the most highly rated beer geek bars in the boston area -I consider it a success.



Paying 2-10x retail is not when I want to be experimenting with trying something new - especially when the cost of a 10 oz pour of something precious costs as much as one of my favorite six packs.

Originally posted by Countbeer
No no, keep going to the pub, you need bad beer to know how good yours is!

Sort of +1 on this...

Its fun to see what and how others are doing...you know how fun it can be to try new things...


Then again, using the pub to just have a relaxing pint of something you know that you like better than some of your homebrews is also fun.

Originally posted by biere_froide
Open one!

I live in the burbs without any good beer places within safe driving distance. I’ve stopped going altogether. When the wife is with me (and she doesn’t mind driving) we will venture out.

Originally posted by tommann
On a more serious note, go to the pub and pick what you know you’ll like. If I walk into a pub and see an oakham, I’ll have it whether I’ve rated it or not cuz I know I’ll like it.

Sure why not ? i wonder is everybody on here always drinking different beers just to keep rating and score as many as they can ?
I rarely rate outside of my hown, most beers i rate i got thru trades so are new to me.
but when i go to the pub i always drink what i’ve had 10000 times before just because i like it, or they must have something new that’s very special then i’ll drink one as well ...
Btw most beer i’ve ever drunk is Dupont Avec Les Bon Voeux everytime i go out i’ll at least have one ...


But to respond to the original thread: keep going to the pub ! if it’s not for the beers than do it for the friends and atmopshere ... it’s just not the same at home ;-)

If it’s a brewery, and one of the only ones in your area, I say go for it. It’s good to support local business. Maybe you can get friendly with the bartenders or brewer(s) and start bringing in your homebrew to share. Maybe they’ll take your suggestions seriously and start making better products. Maybe you’ll get asked to help out sometime for fun. Who knows.

If it’s not a brewery, ask the owner/bartenders if they can get something else on tap because you’re a regular customer and you’d like to enjoy some beers there. If they’re stubborn and tell you too bad, then find another pub.

Originally posted by BelgBeerGeek
i wonder is everybody on here always drinking different beers just to keep rating and score as many as they can ?

I always drink different beers because I like to try different beers.

If there aren’t any different or interesting ones on tap, I’ll go with ones that I know to be solid.



As to the OP, if you have a great variety of homebrewed beers on tap and in the bottle and all are of excellent quality then you would probably have no reason to go to the pub. However, going to the pub isn’t all about the beers that they have. It’s about the environment and the atmosphere in which you drink said beers and the conversations that you have while doing so. At least it is for me. YMMV.

Find a better pub.

Take a bottle of your beer in, talk to the brewer, and see if you can blag a brewday doing your beer big-scale. Then you’ll see how it’s done for real...

I remember, as a homebrewer, the first time I helped out with a brew (1995 at Swale Brewery) I was amazed how much more complicated everything was but it gave me a huge insight into how brewing works.