Throwing in the towel

None of the above.

 

None of those would stop me.

Maybe my own death, or being so broke I couldn't make hooch in a stolen flower pot.

 

gotta be death for me!!

 

I'm not sure what xerosis is but man it must be serious if it makes you consider giving up home brewing.

 

When I was diagnosed with diabetes the first question I asked was can I still drink beer? The nurse said matter of factly "No. You're done with that." I almost cried. She may as well taken my dick too. Jerk.

My for real doctor and I talk about brewing and beer. It's ok for me, more or less.

If and when my blood goes to shit then yeah, I have to give it up.

 

I'd give it up for health reasons and if the addiction became so bad that it was hurting my family in some way. I love to brew and my wife loves it too because while I'm brewing, she is doing her own crafts. It's a win win situation

 

If it became a total obsession and I then realized it was a total obsession. Oh, crap...

 

Haha no problem. I just couldn't resist making a smart-ass comment.

 

I agree. I may cut back drastically if my life was in danger or if the love of my life threatened to leave, but a life without homebrew isn't a life worth living.

 

I think even if the doctor said I couldn't drink anymore, I would still brew. I just wouldn't drink as much. It's pretty much the only thing I'm passionate about. I definitely wouldn't give it up for a girl. Those are a dime a dozen.

 

Like just about any other hobby I think most people just give something up when they get bored or lose interest. Sounds impossible but I know it can happen, just hasn't happened to me.

 

Being hired as a professional brewer would do it for me.

 

I think I would stop if it became too much like work and not enough like fun. Also, if it cost me more in ingredients than comparable finished beer from other brewers, and I couldn't consistently make something that I enjoy as much as something I can buy locally, then it wouldn't make sense for me to spend the time and effort on it.

It's one of the reasons I almost immediately went into making styles that are challenging or hard to do in some way. I don't waste my time making "swilling beer", as my friends and I used to call it. That stuff is simply too cheap. Buy it from the pros.

 

Bingo! I've had hobbies come and go throughout my life. I enjoy the hell out of brewing, but, at the end of the day, it's still just a hobby.

 

When commercial brewers offer a really bad ass IPA that is easily affordable and available fresh whenever I want to purchase it. Therefore - not going to happen.. Haven't brewed in months due to family obligations etc. and finding a good, fresh commercial IPA around here is nearly an impossible task.

 

That's what the internet's for!

 

If I physically couldn't or my tongue fell out.

 

I gave up homebrewing from about 1992-2005. It wasn't that big a sacrifice at the time, because in 1992, I made really lousy beer. Graduate school, a job that kept me travelling, marriage, and more graduate school kept me away. During grad school, I abandoned several hobbies. I cut back on consumption too, because I worked really hard. During the early years of marriage, my wife and I explored new hobbies together and some more of the old ones went by the way side. When we moved into a small apartment, getting rid of a plastic bucket fermenter, some old tubes, and a bottle capper that hadn't been used for 4 years was not a tough decision.

Homebrewing is more firmly entrenched in my life now than it was in 1992. And I brew much better beer. It wouldn't be as easy to give up again for any of those earlier reasons. However, there are things that are more important than homebrew. If it came down to my wife or homebrew, I'd give up homebrew. If I thought homebrew were making me less effective at work, I'd give up homebrew (but see thread I started a few days ago - homebrew makes me more effective at work!). If it ever came down to my health and homebrew, I'd give up homebrew.