You know you're a home brewer when?

SWMBO is caught surfing the internet not looking for an AA meeting place but actually if there is such an organization known as HBA (home brewers anonymous)

BiloxiBrew said:

SWMBO is caught surfing the internet not looking for an AA meeting place but actually if there is such an organization known as HBA (home brewers anonymous)

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There is. Its called HBT.

Step 1: Admit that you have a problem....

Thank you for sharing

Haha my 2 y/o (just turned in dec) wanted to eat. I sat him down with some food and gave him the last little sip of my soda.

He looked in the cup then looked at me and asked, "is it beer?"

A short tale.

HE: "it's so nice, come outside while I am welding this". "This" is a very cool 3 burner brewing tree he is building me. Pic's later.
ME: OK that sounds good.
Meanwhile I grab a chair, coat and a Deception Cream Stout (amped up a bit). The stout is in a beautiful cut crystal glass.
HE: look away when I weld.
ME: OK
I turned my chair a half turn and break my glass with the stout in it.
ME: OH, that was the stout I was aging and I only had one sip.
HE: Don't you care about the glass?
ME: Yeah, I guess I do.

RIP Deception Cream Stout, oh and the glass too.

My 3 year old told his great grandma he wanted a beer with lunch...

Had another brewing dream last night. Must be close to payday

When the chores around the house only get done when it interferes with brew day.

Basement is cleaned to store brew gear.
Yard is managed to make room for the brewing.
Dishes are cleaned to make room for sanitizing gear.
Bathroom is cleaned to make room for cleaning kegs.

I'm building a outdoor living room equipped with electricity, tv, surround speakers and a gas fireplace. Everyone thinks it for their enjoyment, but really it's so I have an under cover spot to connect my gas up and brew in all weather.

Maybe I need to brew more, so more gets done around the house?

Shush! We don't want the missus finding out our little secret. Just let them think we're helping out!

The wife and I were at the in laws yesterday celebrating a birthday and my FIL recently got a Blue Moon sampler pack. I've got no hate at all toward Blue Moon so I popped a top and took a sip before hunting down a glass. My wife gave me the most appalled look I've ever seen and called me out on drinking a sip (just one!) from the bottle.

I've never been more proud/embarrassed.

Hey,don't be embarrassed. It ain't easy bein' cheesy!

your're saving up for a $685 sabco plate chiller

When you brewed yesterday and woke up today to the most wonderful little bubbling sound

5hrs after your brew is fermenting you rush to the store buy a new fermenter and start an entire new batch

When your wife says she's taking a vaction day next month to do a school thing with your daughter, and she suggests you take the day off so you can brew during the week.

When you watch Beerfest and think, "If this was made by homebrewers it'd be completely different!"


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rockbasementbeer said:

When you watch Beerfest and think, "If this was made by homebrewers it'd be completely different!"


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You mean the goat piss? Or the attitude overall?
Yeah I know what you mean


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When your wife walks into the walk-in closet/fermentation chamber and finds you sniffing a carboy or the blowoff bucket. I have two stouts fermenting away with both blowoff tubes going into a large bucket. It smells so good in there.

You're a homebrewer when you're showering and you think your shampoo smells like a fresh IPA.

beersk said:

You're a homebrewer when you're showering and you think your shampoo smells like a fresh IPA.

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Can you dry-hop a bottle of shampoo/conditioner? Will it work?

Try it and post back, then we'll all know

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Try it and post back, then we'll all know

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You know you are a home brewer when you and others take this kind of question/musing seriously and has to experiment. Now to find a neutral enough smelling shampoo to try it out on. I am sure I have hops to spare already.

I can hear SWMBO now; hey honey you need to go see the doctor you have green dandruff and that cant be good.

Who knows, maybe hop oils are essential to good hair care and we dont even know. Dibs on the idea

Johnsons baby shampoo

You know you are a home brewer when you think Constipation = stuck Sparge

I say make the hop shampoo anyway I think half of us would buy it just because its hop shampoo


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Thats it! I am throwing some(a) pellet(s) into a $1 travel shampoo bottle. I will report back.

DrunkleJon said:

Thats it! I am throwing some(a) pellet(s) into a $1 travel shampoo bottle. I will report back.

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You've probably just cured baldness.

Oh, you know I just did. I dub thee.. Hop-poo

Okay, granted. I may need a better name. Here is to Cascade Baby Shampoo. For your IPA-by

Holy Crap! It already exists!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Y6UENQ/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

DrunkleJon said:

Holy Crap! It already exists!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007Y6UENQ/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

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If it isn't fulfilled by Amazon it doesn't exist. Prime for the win.

of course now we will need to try different hops to find the best one for hair and scalp...this brewing thing could get carried away

When you hear someone's personality described as being bitter, and the first thing you think of is hops

...and the hair care products associated with hops

DrunkleJon said:

Oh, you know I just did. I dub thee.. Hop-poo

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Well, the pellets have fully expanded and after shaking, the hop-poo is now looking like the bottom of your BK after draining to fermenter. After I run a couple doors down to let my sisters dogs out I am going to try it out.

Wish me luck?

I've created a monster...haha. Can't believe it already exists though! My Herbal Essences has a tropical fruity smell, made me think of citra or mosaic or some kind of tropical fruity hop variety.

bleme said:

You've probably just cured baldness.

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It worked too well! But don't I look amazing in my new fez and sunglasses?



Actually, I must say it worked fairly well. Although it does look like hop poo, surprisingly I do not have a head full of chunks of vegetation, though to get better hop aroma (it was there, but overpowered a bit by the shampoo) i kind of fear breaking the hop:shampoo ratio. My hair actually feels softer, though that could just be me. Not to mention that I have this sudden craving for a good IPA.

DrunkleJon said:

It worked too well! But don't I look amazing in my new fez and sunglasses?

Actually, I must say it worked fairly well. Although it does look like hop poo, surprisingly I do not have a head full of chunks of vegetation, though to get better hop aroma (it was there, but overpowered a bit by the shampoo) i kind of fear breaking the hop:shampoo ratio. My hair actually feels softer, though that could just be me. Not to mention that I have this sudden craving for a good IPA.

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Maybe try an unscented shampoo as the base?

When you've been waiting to pull the trigger on a thermapen due to cost. But you wake up in a scramble to get your wallet when you get an email that they're having an open box sale.

Finally got one! $74 plus $3 shipping and $11 for a magnetic cover. I've only been awake 20 minutes, but It's a good morning!

http://thermoworks.us2.list-manage2...5dce66cb24c996a012&id=21b3f0c6e9&e=1f696a711e

Oh and I finished my r2 beer2 last night. 6 gallons of portable awesomeness on wheels