You know you're a home brewer when?

When you can spot a pry off bottle in the ditch along the interstate @ 70 mph.

When you come into work on a monday morning and you get asked... "what'd ya brew up this weekend...? When'll it be ready..? What's bottled now...? When'll they be ready..?"

BrewChem said:

When you come into work on a monday morning and you get asked... "what'd ya brew up this weekend...? When'll it be ready..? What's bottled now...? When'll they be ready..?"

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+1 every Monday I get this.

cl330b said:

+1 every Monday I get this.

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+2 me too. Matter of fact I just bottled up some for coworkers lol

When you go to home depot 10 minutes before close to replace heating elements 12 hours before your next brew!

When you are teaching the cops how to brew after they came over from a complaint from a neighbor that you were running a meth lab.

ralex999 said:

When you are teaching the cops how to brew after they came over from a complaint from a neighbor that you were running a meth lab.

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Love it! I kinda like that my neighbors are creeped out by all the copper coils and plumbing and steam rolling outta the garage every weekend! But im talking about my meth lab not my brew rig.....

When you have favorite styles of bottles.

When you arrange your favorite bottles so they get first do you can refill them with more.

You save the unmarked bottles specifically for the state fair competition and bottle a six pack "just in case".

When you find some reason to always visit your LHBS every week.

You call your wife from work to ask if you accidentally left the picnic tap connected while force carbonating.

When it's ok to drink beer before work because you need to see how the keg is carbonating.

(Just because I'm drinking a little beer at 6:45am doesn't make me an alcoholic!)

when you can read 38 pages of posts and admit you have done most everything you've read, and laughed about them.

m1k3 said:

When it's ok to drink beer before work because you need to see how the keg is carbonating.

(Just because I'm drinking a little beer at 6:45am doesn't make me an alcoholic!)

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My theory is if coffee is considered an adult beverage and beer is also, why is it socially acceptable to drink one in the morning but not the other?

All your coworkers know you think about beer more than work. And don't care because you feed them samples once in a while.

RandomBeerGuy said:

When you find some reason to always visit your LHBS every week.

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This. I was telling my coworker this week that the brew shop was Disneyland for me. The fridges full of fresh hops and yeast, ogling the ss conical fermenters that I will never buy, and smell of the grain as I am milling it. Doesn't matter how crappy my time at work was, if I am crushing grain at 5:30 I can safely put it in the good day category.

When you contact a tattoo artist to design a homebrew tattoo.

When your wife clears the camera to make space for family pictures and finds 90% of the pictures were of your homebrew, brew space, equipment and your brew sessions with friends.

Chia said:

When you run out of beer and start drinking flat, half fermented, wort, but lie to yourself by saying "But I had to take a gravity reading!"

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HAHAHAHA

maddad said:

When your wife clears the camera to make space for family pictures and finds 90% of the pictures were of your homebrew, brew space, equipment and your brew sessions with friends.

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hahaha, thats like my cell phone 95% homebrew pictures and 5% random family ones.

My other hobby is djing. I dj at a local bar. Ontop of the pay I get to drink for free. You know you're a homebrewer when you bring your own brews to drink instead of taking the free beer.

unionrdr said:

Now that's harcore home brewer addiction!

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Agreed.. I'm not by any means a beer snob, its a small bar with little variety, I can only drink the same beer for so long!

Chia said:

When you run out of beer and start drinking flat, half fermented, wort, but lie to yourself by saying "But I had to take a gravity reading!"

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I'm doing that right now

... When you take your toddler to the children's museum and when he is playing in the "Water" exhibit, you're wondering if you can use some of these ideas for recirculating and whirlpooling.










And then post about it on this thread.

when you contemplate putting in a walk-in fridge where the hot tub used to be.

When you start handing you're better half beer recipes to see if if the brewing process might peak their interest in you're ever-growing hobby.... and find you were both thinking the same recipe.... :cross:

You make iced tea and preform a vorlauf

jbsg02 said:

You make iced tea and preform a vorlauf

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I have made coffee off the HLT... is that close?

when your on HomeBrewTalk for hours on end : D and always find something new.

Cheers

when you go downstairs to fold laundry and end up inspecting carboys and sniffing airlocks

when after a brew session, your back porch looks like there was a mr bubbles massacre (from the overuse of starsan )

When you come to the realization that the more you brew, the less you know... Years ago, when I started brewing, I thought every wacko idea was something brilliant and new. Now I realize that it's probably not new and there are SO many brewers out there that I am not even WORTHY to hold their mash paddles....

When you mumble the mantra "grey gas, black beer"

When you think stainless is a prettier metal than gold or silver.

m1k3 said:

When you think stainless is a prettier metal than gold or silver.

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+1! gotta be brushed, not polished!

when you wake up on the garage floor wondering what the hell happened!