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bleme said:
I agree. My wife is the complete opposite of me in so many ways. We don't have to be clones. We can complement each other. Yin and Yang.

She's also not a big beer fan. She is very supportive of the hobby and helps me brew and bottle. She tastes everything I make but rarely drinks a whole one. It's nice to always have a designated driver though.

This sounds like my wife, other than the occasional hard cider she doesn't drink, but she helps me brew and bottle. Having a constant DD is always nice too.
 
When you go to the church picnic and the newly wed guy that just joined the church walks up to you and says "I hear you are a home brewer. Tell me about it". An hour later the group discussion has grown to 5 guys and 2 of their wives.
 
when you need to relocate a few carboys before the shower can be used.

when your wife can explain how cold crashing works.
 
more along the lines of signatures.

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Your LHBS knows your wife better then you:D

The LHBS knows your wife better than you know her?

or

The LHBS knows your wife better than they know you?

One is a big problem and one is a bigger problem. You determine which one.
 
When you go to the church picnic and the newly wed guy that just joined the church walks up to you and says "I hear you are a home brewer. Tell me about it". An hour later the group discussion has grown to 5 guys and 2 of their wives.

I just had a "welcome to the company" dinner at work where it was revealed I brew at home. 3 weeks from now I'm throwing a brew day/clinic/beer tasting with the work people.:rockin:
 
The LHBS knows your wife better than you know her?

or

The LHBS knows your wife better than they know you?

One is a big problem and one is a bigger problem. You determine which one.

Probably, both it's all women and one husband so they love getting women in there once in a while she gets better deals then I do;)
 
I just had a "welcome to the company" dinner at work where it was revealed I brew at home. 3 weeks from now I'm throwing a brew day/clinic/beer tasting with the work people.:rockin:

clinic? gah! all this time no one ever showed up to mine. good people of the HBT, listen to me now: it's a clinic, not a colonic. :smack:
 
when you need to relocate a few carboys before the shower can be used.

This is why I hate having company over haha

When walking by a biology class you overhear "lactose sugar" and your initial reaction is to pop in and say that it can also be used in brewing.
 
When walking through a chemical refinery you just can't stop thinking about all the stainless coils could be amazing wort chillers instead of being wasted on making gas
 
This is why I hate having company over haha

When walking by a biology class you overhear "lactose sugar" and your initial reaction is to pop in and say that it can also be used in brewing.

Overheard some women at work talking about lactose sugar and I chimed in that it adds sweetness and can't be fermented. One girl looks at me and says that they were talking that it's low calorie as well. I replied that a glass of my "Milk Stout" is over 400 calories (I have about 8% body fat) YOU SUCK! is the comment from them :D
 
Overheard some women at work talking about lactose sugar and I chimed in that it adds sweetness and can't be fermented. One girl looks at me and says that they were talking that it's low calorie as well. I replied that a glass of my "Milk Stout" is over 400 calories (I have about 8% body fat) YOU SUCK! is the comment from them :D

Lolz...hero to zero in less than 5 seconds! Are you SURE we don't know eachother?...:drunk::D
 
Overheard some women at work talking about lactose sugar and I chimed in that it adds sweetness and can't be fermented. One girl looks at me and says that they were talking that it's low calorie as well. I replied that a glass of my "Milk Stout" is over 400 calories (I have about 8% body fat) YOU SUCK! is the comment from them :D

Im going to start marketing beer for bodybuilding. "Gain mass and get drunk doing it!" Im pretty sure it would be an easy sell.
 
a FB friend posts: Just ate my first ear of corn right out of the garden! Seriously, why do people cook it?

and your comment is: to break down the complex starches into simple sugars that yeast can turn into alcohol
 
When at work, you see someones email signature as 'Aerospace Logistics Engineering Specialist,' and you think: ALES, thats beer!
 
When you look at these for a year and wonder how you did not turn it I to a brewhouse!

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When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
(4) 6.5 gallon glass corboys
(2) 6 gallon glass carboys
(8) 1/6 kegs
(10) 1/2 kegs
(12) ball lock corny kegs
(2) 5 gallon aluminum CO2 tanks w/ regulators
(2) 20 gallon CO2 tanks
(2) 1/4 kegs
(3) temp controlled fermentation chambers
(1) conditioning/carbing/lager fridge
(1) sanyo converted dual tap kegerator
(1) 20 ton air over hydrolic shop press converted into to a cider press

and countless Sankey couplers, Corny in and out couplers, kegerator taps and handles and faucets and...

I am an addict... err I mean Homebrewer. Anyone live near Portland who wants to buy some stuff off me? lol seriously

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That's seriously only 80 of the bottles... damn craigs list. Why do I have to find such awesome deals!
 
insanim8er said:
When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
(4) 6.5 gallon glass corboys
(2) 6 gallon glass carboys
(8) 1/6 kegs
(10) 1/2 kegs
(12) ball lock corny kegs
(2) 5 gallon aluminum CO2 tanks w/ regulators
(2) 20 gallon CO2 tanks
(2) 1/4 kegs
(3) temp controlled fermentation chambers
(1) conditioning/carbing/lager fridge
(1) sanyo converted dual tap kegerator
(1) 20 ton air over hydrolic shop press converted into to a cider press

and countless Sankey couplers, Corny in and out couplers, kegerator taps and handles and faucets and...

I am an addict... err I mean Homebrewer. Anyone live near Portland who wants to buy some stuff off me? lol seriously

That's seriously only 80 of the bottles... damn craigs list. Why do I have to find such awesome deals!

You obviously have a problem and won't get any better till all of that is gone so ill just give you my address and you ship it here and ill "dispose" of it for you
 
When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
...
Hahahaha, when reading that I had the mental image of you pulling all that out of a dusty basement, stacking it in a pile and then standing back and saying "Damn, where did all that come from?" :D
 
You obviously have a problem and won't get any better till all of that is gone so ill just give you my address and you ship it here and ill "dispose" of it for you

Thanks man! The good people of Home Brew Talk always seem to always be looking out for me... Appreciate it! :mug:

Hahahaha, when reading that I had the mental image of you pulling all that out of a dusty basement, stacking it in a pile and then standing back and saying "Damn, where did all that come from?" :D

ya, you almost hit the nail on the head. Once I had everything organized, It was one of those, "Oh ****," moments.

I feel like home brewing is one of those tower defense games. You're always upgrading your arsenal.

:off:

My goal was to make a bunch of big beers, barley wines, ciders, apple wines, so that's why I got all those kegs. I'm starting to ferment 5 gallon batches in the 1/4 kegs and store them long term (year +) in the 1/6 kegs. Session beers I can secondary in the corny kegs, so I need to sell those carboys and bottles and probably a *ahem* "few" other things.
 
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