Friends over tonight to help work on the brew shed, served up 4 pitchers as we worked! Best part of home brew is 2+ cases of beer cost me a whopping $12 or so! And I can brew a wide variety of beers and usually have 3 kinds on tap. My house ale that is most popular I brew 11 gallons at a time, IPA's and stouts 5 gallons at a time. With 10 kegs I can have some backup carbonating outside the fridge, and dark beers like stouts benefit from a 4 month aging in the keg at room temp. Right now I have 4 kegs that are aging, Barleywine, Chocolate Milk Oatmeal Stout that tastes like red velvet cake, a regular stout, and an experimental Morat which is a mulberry mead. The mead takes a year to be good, 2 years is better! Stout at least 4 months and 6 is better. Barleywine can vary but I am guessing 12 months plus for this batch. These are all high abv beer/mead that are 10% alcohol minimum... the last batch of Morat I tapped at 6 months and it was very good but needed more time, nobody complained at Christmas at Mom's house where it was gone in a day(45 people... yes I have a big family). I brought 2 kegs, my house ale and the mead and both were gone by the end of the 3 day get together.