You know you're a home brewer when?

WilliamSlayer said:

Which of course in and of itself is just not fair! Senior year chemistry/biology classes should do brewing!

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My high school advanced chemistry class actually did distill alcohol. But then, a LOT of our experiments would give the average school board nervous fits -- and this was in the late '90's. (iodine 'bombs', playing with thermite, determining the ideal mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gas for the most powerful explosion....) My chemistry teacher ROCKED.

dkwolf said:

My high school advanced chemistry class actually did distill alcohol. But then, a LOT of our experiments would give the average school board nervous fits -- and this was in the late '90's. (iodine 'bombs', playing with thermite, determining the ideal mixture of hydrogen and oxygen gas for the most powerful explosion....) My chemistry teacher ROCKED.

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Yeah, Mr. White, science!

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when you are standing in front of some scrap metal and you are thinking of a way to use it to improve your burners efficitncy

Then you go home and the idea works

When you keep walking around your back yard, trying to determine the best place to build a brew house, even though you don't have the money or materials to build one.

ilan34 said:

yeah, mr. White, science!

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He blinded me,with science!

.....when you look at the line of water bottles at the office and think " I wish those were all full fermenters in my basement".

Probably been mentioned before, but when you buy more and nicer beers for trades then you do for yourself

Psycotte said:

.....when you look at the line of water bottles at the office and think " I wish those were all full fermenters in my basement".

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It's hard for me to believe that, that's only 85 gallons!

But when you think of it as, a "tad shy of 2.5 barrels", then it sounds about right.

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finsfan said:

Probably been mentioned before, but when you buy more and nicer beers for trades then you do for yourself

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Dubbel post

finsfan said:

Probably been mentioned before, but when you buy more and nicer beers for trades then you do for yourself

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Guilty. Or you send cellar beers in MAWs/Swaps that you'd have a hard time trading, much less "gifting"

Psycotte said:

.....when you look at the line of water bottles at the office and think " I wish those were all full fermenters in my basement".

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as someone who bottles, no.

About half of those would fill my large bottle stash. What a sight it would be,though! Looking across from the comp hutch to see all those boxes full of beers!

When you go to the brew shop and realize you don't have any cash so the owner just gives you the hops and says you'll be here next Saturday anyway

amfukuda said:

When you go to the brew shop and realize you don't have any cash so the owner just gives you the hops and says you'll be here next Saturday anyway

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Like a bookie frontin a gambler on the next bet! Nice!! And the owners of both LHBS places I go wud do the same. I call it "enabling"

You go to target with your wife and see huge glass vases shaped like carboys and tell her we should buy one because I could brew in it

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johnpcook1 said:

Like a bookie frontin a gambler on the next bet! Nice!! And the owners of both LHBS places I go wud do the same. I call it "enabling"

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Mine has offered to do the same for me before-hell just the other day. I once forgot my GF had my card, but thank goodness I had $ in the car. I hate owing people...

My lhbs is 500 miles away.
I send the guy an email,he posts the grain to me and tells me to pay the next time I am at the bank.

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I'm going to need to start posting in the, "you know you're a professional brewer when..." Forum. I'm on my way to an automated single tier blichmann setup.



I just acquired my 3rd and final kettle for my system. Scored big getting the 20 gallon Blichmann kettle, a banjo burner, over $180 in stainless morebeer quick disconnects and hoses. A couple of march pumps the 809HS—one with an assembly. An oxygenation thermometer set up for my plate chiller.... Etc

Basically scored about $1200 worth of equipment for $500. By the time I sell off the extras, that kettle will be free to me.

Now I can focus on my controller build... I got a raspberry pi for Christmas. Let the fun begin...

I kinda want to rob you now

When you're legitimately disappointed you can't brew this weekend because all of your fermenters are full

On the bright side, all of my fermenters are full

amfukuda said:

I kinda want to rob you now

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Do your best... I have vicious attack pugs. If their bite doesn't get you, their farts sure will.

insanim8er said:

Do your best... I have vicious attack pugs. If their bite doesn't get you, their farts sure will.

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Where are you and what extras are you selling?

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I bottled an IPA on Sunday. a few hours after bottling, I wanted to pop one open to see if it was carbed yet...

insanim8er said:

Do your best... I have vicious attack pugs. If their bite doesn't get you, their farts sure will.

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insanim8er said:

Do your best... I have vicious attack pugs. If their bite doesn't get you, their farts sure will.

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Ha ha home brew farts no doubt.

When you rate beer as sucks, ok, good, and "I want to brew that". And when you get home you google for a clone recipe of the ones you like.

When your pipeline is getting low,you have to get cars through E-Check,& those $25 kits are starting to look really good...

...You drink one of your wife's Bud Light Platinum's, just to see if it's any good (I know, I know) because I wanted to get an idea of the taste for something similar but GOOD / REAL that I could brew for her, and because I haven't touched a BMC product in over 2 years. Turns out, it has practically zero flavor of any kind. I had literally forgotten how bad that stuff is. So much for that idea....

zardozap said:

I had literally forgotten how bad that stuff is.

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Ouch it burns, it burns!

When a "simple strawberry strain" has up until 1 AM creating this MacGyver rig for an emergency blow off can from a pop bottle and your siphon hose you had to cut up and your daughter's fun size toothpaste for sealant!

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Someone introduces themselves as "Brett,"
you nod and reply, "Funky."

When you go to a sleazy dive bar and it delivers on all the sleaze and dive you could want, but its really missing something, like a decent homebrew Cream Ale or IPA. And you realize how sweet Bud Light really is, cause you havnt had any in years!!

when the wife cant park the car in the garage anymore because of all the brewing stuff you have.
when the wife stops complaining about the house stinking like barley all the time because she is finally used to it.
when you dont really drink beer to get drunk, but you get smashed one night so you have enough bottles to brew tomorrow

Guilty of #3.

...actually, check that. Working on being guilty of #3.

Terek said:

when the wife stops complaining about the house stinking like barley all the time because she is finally used to it.

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I was doing a mini-mash on the stove today, and the wife actually said, "That smells kinda nice." So hopefully she's getting there.

Terek said:

when you dont really drink beer to get drunk, but you get smashed one night so you have enough bottles to brew tomorrow

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LOL! Totally guilty of this.

When you have a dream about trying to fit in a quick brew.

When you walk into the LHBS and they greet you by name and are excited to show you which hops and yeasts they just got on this weeks order.

When the main character in your book has a bigger brewery then you do. But you can bottle while he can only keg!...

Terek said:

when the wife cant park the car in the garage anymore because of all the brewing stuff you have.
when the wife stops complaining about the house stinking like barley all the time because she is finally used to it.
when you dont really drink beer to get drunk, but you get smashed one night so you have enough bottles to brew tomorrow

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I guess it's better than, "you know you're a homebrewer when your wife always complains she can't park in the garage because of all my brew stuff, and she always complains the house smells like barley. So I drink until I'm smashed."

blake_park said:

When you have a dream about trying to fit in a quick brew.

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I do this all the time