diff --git a/server/homebrew.api.js b/server/homebrew.api.js
index 6bcd293b0..37fded14b 100644
--- a/server/homebrew.api.js
+++ b/server/homebrew.api.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import _                             from 'lodash';
 import { model as HomebrewModel }    from './homebrew.model.js';
 import express                       from 'express';
-import zlib                          from 'zlib';
 import GoogleActions                 from './googleActions.js';
 import { hbfm }   from 'marked-hbfm';
 import * as yaml                     from 'js-yaml';
@@ -268,13 +267,8 @@ const api = {
 			if(!googleId) return;
 			newHomebrew = api.excludeStubProps(newHomebrew);
 			newHomebrew.googleId = googleId;
-		} else {
-			// Compress brew text to binary before saving
-			newHomebrew.textBin = zlib.deflateRawSync(newHomebrew.text);
-			// Delete the non-binary text field since it's not needed anymore
-			newHomebrew.text = undefined;
 		}
-
+		
 		saved = await newHomebrew.save()
 			.catch((err)=>{
 				console.error(err, err.toString(), err.stack);
@@ -374,12 +368,13 @@ const api = {
 			if(failedPatchCount){
 				throw (`Patch failure: ${failedPatchCount}/${result[1].length} did not apply`);
 			}
-			if(decodeURI(result[0]) != brewFromClient.text){
+			patchedText = decodeURI(result[0]);
+			if(patchedText != brewFromClient.text){
+				debugTextMismatch(brewFromClient.text, patchedText, `edit/${brewFromClient.editId}`);
 				throw ('Patches did not apply cleanly, text mismatch detected');
 			}
 			// brew.text = applyPatches(patches, brewFromServer.text)[0];
 		} catch (err) {
-			debugTextMismatch(brewFromClient.text, brewFromServer.text, `edit/${brewFromClient.editId}`);
 			console.error('Failed to apply patches:', {
 				// patches : brewFromClient.patches,
 				// result  : result,
@@ -423,11 +418,6 @@ const api = {
 		if(brew.googleId) {
 			// If google id exists after above actions, Mongo will store only a stub; exclude non-stub properties from update
 			brew = api.excludeStubProps(brew);
-		} else {
-			// Compress brew text to binary before saving
-			brew.textBin = zlib.deflateRawSync(brew.text);
-			// Delete the non-binary text field since it's not needed anymore
-			brew.text = undefined;
 		}
 
 		if(brew._id) // if the brew has a stub id, fetch and merge into Mongo stub document
@@ -504,8 +494,6 @@ const api = {
 				if(shouldDeleteGoogleBrew) {
 					// When there are still authors remaining, we delete the google brew but store the full brew in the Homebrewery database
 					brew.googleId = undefined;
-					brew.textBin = zlib.deflateRawSync(brew.text);
-					brew.text = undefined;
 				}
 				brew.markModified('authors'); //Mongo will not properly update arrays without markModified()
 				await brew.save()
diff --git a/server/homebrew.api.spec.js b/server/homebrew.api.spec.js
index 8bda5407b..68aeec616 100644
--- a/server/homebrew.api.spec.js
+++ b/server/homebrew.api.spec.js
@@ -700,8 +700,16 @@ brew`);
 				shareId     : expect.any(String),
 				style       : undefined,
 				tags        : [],
-				text        : undefined,
-				textBin     : expect.objectContaining({}),
+				text        : '```metadata\n' +
+    							'title: asdf\n' +
+    							'bleedSize: {}\n' +
+    							'safetySpace: {}\n' +
+    							'trimSize: {}\n' +
+								'\n' +
+								'```\n' +
+								'\n' +
+    							'asdf',
+				textBin     : undefined,
 				theme       : '5ePHB',
 				thumbnail   : '',
 				title       : 'asdf',
@@ -1233,8 +1241,7 @@ brew`);
 			expect(saveFunc).toHaveBeenCalled();
 			expect(saved.authors).toEqual(['test2']);
 			expect(saved.googleId).toEqual(undefined);
-			expect(saved.text).toEqual(undefined);
-			expect(saved.textBin).not.toEqual(undefined);
+			expect(saved.text).not.toEqual(undefined);
 		});
 
 		it('should retain google brew and update stub when multiple authors and extra author requests deletion', async ()=>{
diff --git a/server/homebrew.model.js b/server/homebrew.model.js
index e923ac928..b78ece631 100644
--- a/server/homebrew.model.js
+++ b/server/homebrew.model.js
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ const HomebrewSchema = mongoose.Schema({
 	lock : { type: Object, index: true }
 }, { versionKey: false });
 
+HomebrewSchema.pre('save', ()=>{
+	if(!this.googleId) {
+		this.textBin = zlib.deflateRawSync(this.text);
+		this.text = undefined;
+	}
+});
+
 HomebrewSchema.statics.increaseView = async function(query) {
 	const brew = await Homebrew.findOne(query).exec();
 	brew.lastViewed = new Date();
@@ -51,6 +58,7 @@ HomebrewSchema.statics.get = async function(query, fields=null){
 	if(!_.isNil(brew.textBin)) {			// Uncompress zipped text field
 		const unzipped = zlib.inflateRawSync(brew.textBin);
 		brew.text = unzipped.toString();
+		brew.textBin = undefined;
 	}
 	return brew;
 };