To drink bad, or even mediocre, beer. Just dumped 10 gal. of Vienna lager. Not bad, but bland enough that I just wasn’t drinking it.
Thats too bad 
Better to dump it than drink mediocre beer.
What was the issue with it? It’s one of my favorite styles. I have tried to “back-chloride” and “back-sulfate” a beer where I thought I whiffed on the water composition and I think I used hop extract in a beer where my IBUs were low and the beer was too malty.
It’s sad to see that big of a batch go down. I had to do that with a Weizenbock that failed not long ago… I need to try that again.
Mainly just bland due to dickchimping the water profile. It had been on tap for 6 weeks and every time I went for a beer I got something else. Finally decided to cut my losses and reclaim the space. I’ve got close to 40 gal. of other beers on hand.
I have a keg of ‘I hope it gets better with time’ in the conditioning fridge now.
I tapped it a few weeks ago and it was OK but like you said I kept pouring from another keg.
So, I leap frogged it with another beer and put it back in the conditioning side.
I am about to kick the keg I’ve been leaning on so it’ll come back into rotation for another chance. We’ll see how some time out treated it.
I’m glad you have other beers to drink.
It’s been awhile since I had a dumper but I have had some ‘not-as-good-as-I-hoped’ batches. When that happens I tend to just drink it anyway as long as it’s still decent. If it’s got an issue that makes it undrinkable, down it goes into the toilet. Hey, it would have ended up there anyway. 
I totally agree. Not too long ago, I posted about how I had to dump two 5 gallon batches. The beer and cider that took their place in the kegerator have been very enjoyable. Early on in my brewing, I thought it would be wasteful to dump beers that were less than desirable and just power slowly through them. Now at my age I think I’ve gained some wisdom and I don’t have time for that.
If I didn’t have anything else around, it would had have been OK. But I have so much beer at the moment I just didn’t need it. Why ingest calories you don’t enjoy?
I agree so very much! If it isn’t great beer then why bother?! I’ve dumped plenty of beer. I just dumped 3 gallons recently, which was drinkable and I could have tried to “fix” but figured, nah, that’s a pain in the a$$, so I just dumped it. Certainly if I would have to choke it down, it’s gone. But even mediocre beer just ain’t worth it.
I’ve also reached a decision recently that I need to stock more commercial German lagers, because that’s what I love above all else, yet I never seem to have any around… because I probably had some and drank it all already because it was better than everything else! After 46 years on this earth I’m finally starting to wise up a bit.
Cheers all. 
dickchimping
I’m going to leave it right there!!
LOL!
Funny, as I was reading this post, I was sipping on recently tapped, Vienna-ish amber lager that, although perfectly fine and well-brewed, just isn’t doing anything for me. And so, it has been targeted for termination. It’s my Sarah Connor Lager.
Every sip of an alcoholic beverage does damage to the body (more than people realize, trust me). My philosophy for a long time now has been to make every sip count. If I’m going to drink a beer–commercial or homebrew–it has to seriously wow me. Otherwise, it’s not worth the bodily damage. I’ve been brewing for a long time now, so fortunately, most of my beers do wow me. But some are definitely meh. Funny how a recipe can taste great in your mind but not in the glass.
Also fortunately, I’m able to brew so often that when I do have to dump a beer, it’s not long before another, likely better one, takes its place.
My father is 92 and loves his beer. People ask him his secret and he always says “the golden elixir!”. I know you’re correct that the body is damaged by alcohol but it’s gotta be doing SOMETHING good too.
+1
Dumping a keg of beer when I was a newbie brewer made me nauseous. I could not believe I would spend that time and money and effort on making beer and then dump it out. That was when my kids were little and I had less money, etc. and it just seemed like a crazy thing to do… make a keg of beer and then throw it down the drain. 
Good call and don’t look back. I dump more beer than some of my close friends make - and they drink my beer! Any flavor issue, it’s gone. On tap too long - it’s gone. Just tired of it and no one is drinking it - out it goes. I also don’t eat stale bread and a fair amount of leftover meals go into the garbage. Good and fresh is what I prefer, mediocre and any hint of staling is what I don’t. First world problems, indeed.
Caveat: some beers improve with a little lagering and I will give them that chance. I have 17 5 gallon cornies, 2 smaller kegs, 3 chest freezers and a four tap kegerator, so I am rarely out of space. A beer doesn’t have to be a best of show to stay in my pipeline, but it should be something I wouldn’t be afraid to enter in a competition.
Others who brew less frequently may feel otherwise, but I am blessed with the time and resources to be selective. Cheers to great beer!
I’ve never dumped a beer in my entire brewing career. Not once. Everything I do is perfect and low oxygen. Don’t you forget it.
Well yeah, and I have some ocean property to sell…
Meh, use to feel guilty about it but it’s just a regular occurrence unless the beer is stellar, out of the park homerun, which happens more frequently now… which still isn’t very often… but maybe if I bought piece of equipment X or did process Y… thing is I can’t ever replicate a stellar beer… it just happens and I don’t really know why; all other variables being equal. Yeah, maybe 1 in 10-20 are that good, everything else is definitely drinkable, haven’t made an undrinkable beer yet… but you know what unless you’re talking macro brews, Bud, Coors, Miller, etc… I’d say it’s the same for most of the brew pubs I’ve been to. Mostly drinkable, meh type beer, except that one which seems to stands out, often times it’s the last one.
I think I’m in the same camp as most. If I don’t like the beer, I just don’t drink it. Whenever the next one comes up in line, the keg I don’t like gets pulled and dumped. There’s always another beer to brew.
This is me. I have a 3 tap kegerator and when my next brew is ready, I take a beer off and dump whatever is left in the keg. It could be the one closest to being kicked, it might be one that is most similar to the new beer I brewed, or it could just be one that I’m not enjoying as much as the others for any reason. I have no issues with pouring a gallon or two of my own beer down the drain for any reason.