You know you're a home brewer when?

WilliamSlayer said:

*sob* No one should have to live like that man!

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How close does a HBS have to be to be considered the LHBS? There's one that just opened about an hour away from me, the next two closest are in the same parking lot, two and a half hours away.

But then, the nearest Walmart is a half hour away, if that puts things in perspective.

skw said:

Wen you see an empty bottle and are not sad because there's no more beer in it, but because there's no beer in it yet.

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that's downright poetic.

dkwolf said:

How close does a HBS have to be to be considered the LHBS? There's one that just opened about an hour away from me, the next two closest are in the same parking lot, two and a half hours away.

But then, the nearest Walmart is a half hour away, if that puts things in perspective.

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Wait... are we neighbors?

skw said:

Wen you see an empty bottle and are not sad because there's no more beer in it, but because there's no beer in it yet.

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You know you're a homebrewer when you're kind of hungover yet here you are on HBT reading about beer.

When you plan a trip to the beach, not bc of the ocean but bc that is where the closest lhbs is.

When someone asks to you: 'Banana nut bread?' And you distractedly reply: 'No...haven't brewed that one yet...'

When you ask the guy at Lowes if they have any food grade storage buckets for you grain so you can store it behind your couch.

emjay said:

You go into a store for the sole purpose of buying beer, and walk out empty-handed.

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I have done that more than once!

ButchV12

unionrdr said:

When you still come up with more recipes than you can brew right away.

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I am constantly doing this.

When the only friend you have to talk to is HBT because all of your other friends are tired of listening to you talk about beer but you find that's all you have to talk about.

You can tell what style your friend is brewing from one blurry Facebook photo.

When you watch Breaking Bad and think "man, what a waste of all that stainless!!!"

reply 1337 I must be leet!
When your only fridge has a custom built shelf that only houses beer and only two shelves of your fridge are used for actual food.

biohaz7331 said:

reply 1337 I must be leet!
When your only fridge has a custom built shelf that only houses beer and only two shelves of your fridge are used for actual food.

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I made sure to get that work order so I could weld the "1337" unit. I also made sure to get the order for #999. I made a lot of methane pumps.

dmbGator said:

When you ask the guy at Lowes if they have any food grade storage buckets for you grain so you can store it behind your couch.

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You can also drill and grommet the lids for air locks and use them as fermentors. Or, just don't snap the lid all the way down.

When you take one last look at your brew plan for the next day and realize your SRM is 1 point below where it should be so you RACE to your LHBS, get there just as he is locking up, to purchase .125 lb Carafa 1.

But its for a competition beer so its OK, right!!!

davekippen said:

When you take one last look at your brew plan for the next day and realize your SRM is 1 point below where it should be so you RACE to your LHBS, get there just as he is locking up, to purchase .125 lb Carafa 1.

But its for a competition beer so its OK, right!!!

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Right! ....

Billy-Klubb said:

I made sure to get that work order so I could weld the "1337" unit. I also made sure to get the order for #999. I made a lot of methane pumps.

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Nice that's awesome!

You have 4 fermentors full of brew, but keep thinking of how to get 'just one more' squeezed into the brewing area....

I have a beer and a wine that have been ready to drink for a bit, a beer I just bottled, mead fermenting, and beer fermenting, I think I should have some more stuff fermenting.

When you feel guilty for cleaning the basement instead of building up the pipeline for summer.

Lushife said:

I have a beer and a wine that have been ready to drink for a bit, a beer I just bottled, mead fermenting, and beer fermenting, I think I should have some more stuff fermenting.

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Yep.
I have 10 gallons of beer and 5 gallons of wine in fermenters, about four cases of beer and 3-4 gallons of wine bottled, and 7 1/2 gallons of beer kegged. I really should get off my lazy butt and brew some more.

when you read about the proposed legalization of homebrewing in Alabama and think, "ONLY 52 gallons a year?"

GrogNerd said:

when you read about the proposed legalization of homebrewing in Alabama and think, "ONLY 52 gallons a year?"

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When your wire says you spend more time brewing than with her.

GrogNerd said:

when you read about the proposed legalization of homebrewing in Alabama and think, "ONLY 52 gallons a year?"

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I believe we're currently at 50 gallons a person per year in Georgia... so they get 2 more than I do.

mcangeli said:

I believe we're currently at 50 gallons a person per year in Georgia... so they get 2 more than I do.

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you guys were only just legalized in the past, what? 7 years?

Virginia allows up to the federal limit, but only allows "Any person who manufactures beer in accordance with this subdivision may remove from his residence an amount not to exceed fifteen gallons of such beer on any one occasion for (i) personal or family use"

so I guess a ½bbl would be over the limit

GrogNerd said:

when you read about the proposed legalization of homebrewing in Alabama and think, "ONLY 52 gallons a year?"

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I think the point of that limit is that someone making mash for distillation will usually use a 55 gallon drum. That way they can still be nailed for it and can't claim it's "homebrew". Though technically, until it's distilled, it is.

Leadgolem said:

I think the point of that limit is that someone making mash for distillation will usually use a 55 gallon drum. That way they can still be nailed for it and can't claim it's "homebrew". Though technically, until it's distilled, it is.

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yay, Georgia! way to stomp on that pesky Presumption of Innocence some dead white guys wrote about a couple hundred years ago

Ouch, and I thought WE had it bad up here in New England. At least I get 100 gallons of both wine and beer a year!

There are laws telling u how much u can brew, in your own home? Wtf

timcadieux said:

There are laws telling u how much u can brew, in your own home? Wtf

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taxman


and seriously, I've been hounded for the past week by mods complaining about my long signature

you really feel the need to tell us you have 3 empty primaries?

I do actually

No limits here in Manitoba -or anywhere in Canada, actually...and malt and yeast are food products not subject to provincial or federal tax.

You know you're a homebrewer when you cook up jettes d'houblon for your local representative, trying to convince him that hops, too, are a food product, and need to have taxes removed from their sale.

Why do all the work trucks on the road have mash tuns on them?

When you kick your family to the curb to make room for more carboys

wife drug me to a thrift store yesterday. she found a hollow ottoman. i started thinking about how i could make a beer cooler out of it

When you have to get a hobby to distract yourself from brewing