Homebrew vs. Commercial beers

I would probably estimate closer to 50/50, but with a slightly edge to commercial stuff... At least for now.

 

Homebrew at home and often at parties and other social gatherings. Commercial when out at a pub. But overall, more homebrew I think.

ETA: I'm curious as to why you picked the commercial examples you did. I suspect Bud and Coors Light don't have a lot of fans here.

 

Pretty evenly split for myself also, I would say. I don't anticipate ever having the time to generate enough home brew throughput to have enough variety on-hand to quell every beer craving I have. I also have to rely on commercial beer for certain styles that I haven't yet built up to trying to brew for myself....sours primarily, but that's next on the docket.

 

I'm probably around 75% homebrew and 25% commercial

 

I chose Commercial in the poll only because I haven't brewed in over a year. If I have homebrew available I'll still drink some commercial beers for variety because I don't think that I've ever brewed enough of my own beer in a short period of time to have a homebrew variety.

 

I am with @VikeMan across the board. At home and gatherings, homebrew. Out at restaurants or pubs, then commercial Craft Beer only (never BMC). But I drink more homebrew since I drink more at home than I go out. I do buy a few commercial beers to drink at home when I have a hankering for a specific beer (B15 Sticky Hands) or when I am out of that particular type of beer on the homebrew side, or rare beers from the cellar.

I too wonder why you put Bud, Coors, Heineken, as your choices... and then Sierra Nevada and Troegs.

 

+1. Exactly what I was going to say.

 

Well, I could be wrong, but I've been here (the homebrewing forum) for many years, and I think for the most part they don't. But now I understand why you listed them.

 

Happy to be drinking homebrew 90% of the time.

 

Drinking more and more homebrew these but since I only have one keg I tend to have a pale/IPA on tap then buy stouts/porters. Then when I have a stout on tap I buy a lighter beer. Since I have 5 gallons of homebrew at a time I usually drink @2 beers of homebrew to 1 commercial, excluding going to restaurants/bars/breweries. However, I drink at home most of the time.

 

I said 'Homebrew' but on second thought, I probably drink more commercial. I give a lot of homebrew away so at most I probably get half the batch for my own consumption. Then I frequently have to restock bottles so I'll buy commercial and drink all of those. And the occasional canned beer, I prefer that format but usually I buy for the dual purpose of reusing the bottles.

Also, every time I order beer out at the bar it's not my own homebrew. So I'm pretty sure in all I drink more commercial.

 

I'm on the same page as @VikeMan and @jbakajust1 too for the most part. I drink almost exclusively homebrew at home and when with friends, but going out obviously lends itself to commercial beers on tap. Today was the first time in 2016 I purchased beer for home consumption. I had planned on going all year without buying packaged commercial beer, but a minor surgery which will prevent me from lifting a full carboy or kettle for a month or two put a dent in my pipeline.

 

I brew a 5 gallon batch once a week and it is just enough to not have to buy beer very often. I usually only buy beer when i'm on a trip, at bars, or see something new or am doing "research" for my buddy's blog

 

I tend to drink about 85% homebrew and 15% commercial. When I'm at a restaurant (not often), I'll have a commercial beer. If I'm at a friend's who doesn't homebrew, I bring along homebrew for him to try and sometimes accept a commercial beer. When I go to a local beer meeting, most bring homebrew, but some also bring new or hard to get commercial beers to try. I also try new commercial beers from time to time or have some on hand when my supply runs low, or if a guest prefers commercial (although I absolutely refuse to stock Bud Light or Coors Light). I once had Bud Light on tap at a dinner, and it is the first free beer in my life that I had to spit out. It was the worst beer (if one can call it that) that I've ever had, and the only one that I couldn't keep down. It wasn't that it had gone bad, as everyone else seemed to enjoy it.

 

If I lived in Canada I would probably be drinking more homebrew. That stuff in the great white north is expensive.........

 

Commercial... For now.

 

Definitely more homebrew, but still drink commercial for "scientific research purposes"

 

Not now :-) you save 34% on your dollar. For every $US you can purchase $1.34 worth of Canadian goods. That's why so few are travelling to the US lately.