To Share or Not to Share

I like to share generally because I want to brew more faster than I can drink it. If you're running on empty though and want more, then keep it to yourself.

 

I'm all for sharing with family and friends. A work party? Different story--at least in my case.

As a rule, I like to share. I take pride in providing beer for friends' parties, family events, christmas gifts. But I don't feel any obligation to bring beer to work events where I don't even know half of the people there, don't like half of the people I do know, and feel pretty sure only one or two of 'em would even notice the difference between a painstakingly homebrewed robust porter that cost me $35 in ingredients and the better part of a Sunday to brew and the bud lite lime they normally drink. If you work in a place where you know and like everybody, then it's a different story, but I don't ever bring homebrew to work events. Sometimes I give a few bottles to co-workers who I know will appreciate it, but that's it. If that's being stingy, I'm fine with that.

 

Sharing gives you beer karma points. Share away.

 

This is a new level of beer snobbery. You think the beer you brewed is so good it's not even worth sharing with a few BMC guzzling plebeians.

 

This question largely depends on the people you'll be sharing with.
If I had a work related party I wouldn't show up.

 

I prefer to share my beers with people I do appreciate,like friends and familiy, and if I think a certain stranger is a good person capable of discern the differences between my beers and a Bud lite then I would be glad to share them with him/her.

 

Strawberry IPA eh?

 

35$ seems cheap. I need to shop where you are...

 

Nope, you definitely added this part.
The OP just had a short supply left and didn't want to share something he cared about with people too drunk to notice it.

 

Nah, I don't think I added anything. If he cares about the beer then he must think it's good. Who would care if the beer was bad? Apparently someone has to be deemed worthy of drinking it before it can be opened.

 

I got the impression that because he only had a few bottles left he didnt know if he wanted to bring it to the party.

 

Yeah? Read the end of what you quoted. How does he know someone else won't appreciate it? He even starts off the OP by saying it's probably lousy of him that he doesn't want to share his homebrew. Nobody needs to share anything with anyone but I find the reasoning completely ridiculous.

 

It's a homebrew. It doesn't have to be Pliny for him to care about it. People care about their homebrews.

 

like I said, that was the impression I got.
you got something else.
to each their own...

 

Ok. People care about their car and it might not be a BMW. What's your point? He can brew another batch and drink the whole thing himself next time.

 

So you'd go to an office party, throw your car keys on the table, and invite all your drunken coworkers to drive it? /overextendedmetaphor

Picture if you will, a pair of office bros finding a pair of weird bottles and having a chugging contest, sediment and all. I don't know how you'd describe that other than "waste".
He's made no indication that he wants to drink the whole thing himself. He wants to share, he just wants to share his hard work with people who want a strawberry IPA and not people who just want ethanol. If the office doesn't 'Respect Beer', then why bother?

 

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Seems like a drastic over-generalization of the situation. I'm talking about assuming people can't appreciate your work just because they're drinking Miller. Letting people drive your car drunk? Respect beer? Lol

Picture something that actually happened. I went to a party once and brought the last couple of bottles from something I brewed. Everyone was playing drinking games with BMC. A stranger asked what I was drinking and I let them try it. Him and his buddies loved it. Doesnt matter what you drink. You can still appreciate a good beer.

 

I cannot believe some people are hating on the OP for not sharing with people at the party. He has shared the beer before, so it isn't like he is stingy. Even if he was, so what, he brewed it, he gets to decide what to do with it. I share the majority (about 75%) of the beer I brew. However, I wouldn't bring it to the type of event described by the OP. I spent a lot of time, effort, and money on making my beer, I want it to be appreciated whether that is at a party, giving 6 packs to friends, or sharing a bottle with a guest.
I have no problem sharing with someone who drinks BMC, but if they are only interested in the beer because it has alcohol, then there are plenty of other options out there.

 

So what you're saying is "nobody needs to share" ... but if they don't share, they better have a good reason? And you're the one who decides whether their reason is good or not?

 

Other than what's in quotes I didnt say any of that. Wow...hahaha derp