You know you're a home brewer when?

When you call off sick because your co2 tank went empty

... when you come up from the cellar and tell your wife you're worried that your homebrew supply is running low, so she asks you how many bottles you have, and it's 6 cases in bottles plus 25 gallons in carboys.

Mainer said:

... when you come up from the cellar and tell your wife you're worried that your homebrew supply is running low, so she asks you how many bottles you have, and it's 6 cases in bottles plus 25 gallons in carboys.

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40+ gallons. You have more beer than basement.

When you pledge to the campaign to buy ABInbev

When you wake up in the middle of the night and hear the humidifier gurgling and wonder how your fermenting bucket made it up to the bedroom.

bgriff said:

When you wake up in the middle of the night and hear the humidifier gurgling and wonder how your fermenting bucket made it up to the bedroom.

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When you already *have* a fermenter in the bedroom because the cellar is a few degrees off optimal temperature.

Mainer said:

When you already *have* a fermenter in the bedroom because the cellar is a few degrees off optimal temperature.

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Man, I used to have a fermenter in the bedroom. SWMBO was up after me ALL NIGHT wanting to get busy. Had to put it in the basement under a blanket to get ANY sleep!!!

When you take a trip and leave the AC on, so the fermentors don't get too warm.

When you get the itch to brew so bad that you walk SWMBO through starting a cider fermenting through Skype, so that it has a month head-start when you get home from deployment. Only bad part... she's getting to taste the hydrometer samples, and not me!

Tried to talk her into brewing an all grain batch via Skype... wasn't going to happen...

Your wife asks you to pick up a new freezer because the old one some how went from the garage into the basement and turned into a kegerator.

To this day I have no idea how I sold that one!

When you manage to somehow order 6 pounds of hops through a group buy, even if you use 3-8 oz a month.... At least my kegerator has a freezer at the top and won't fill the family freezer,, so the wife won't kill me before I have a chance to use the said hops.

When you have to promise your wife she can buy whatever she wants if she lets you buy a few more kegs because they are on sale.

When you get rear ended, and instead of using the cash from the guy to replace the bumper, you start googling kegging setups.

...you can't trust a fart

When you get the email from Hops Direct that the 2017 harvest is almost ready for sale And feel twitchy even though you have 15 pounds of all the hops you need in the freezer...

myndflyte said:

When you have to promise your wife she can buy whatever she wants if she lets you buy a few more kegs because they are on sale.

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When you promise your husband that he can have that nice 4k hdr tv for his birthday so you can buy more kegs.....actually it wasn't really necessary but WTH.

4k is awesome even with just a 1080p input! Way sharper picture than my old TV that was only 1080p!

stella_tigre said:

When you promise your husband that he can have that nice 4k hdr tv for his birthday so you can buy more kegs.....actually it wasn't really necessary but WTH.

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Murphys_Law said:

Your wife asks you to pick up a new freezer because the old one some how went from the garage into the basement and turned into a kegerator.

To this day I have no idea how I sold that one!

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A really experienced homebrewer would have found a way to use the new freezer as the kegerator.

Just sayin'......

When you use a 6” diamond tipped hole saw to cut an exhaust and make up air vent in your brick home!

Mainer said:

When you already *have* a fermenter in the bedroom because the cellar is a few degrees off optimal temperature.

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I do this. The master bedroom stays a few degrees warmer or cooler depending on the season. Saves walking to the kitchen where one of the kids, whom I will call the "Flour Fairy", cannot disturb my projects by dropping his hastily concocted food experiments on my fermentor - something that's already happened once.

When you spend most of the day busting your butt to help get the office moved to the new location, but still have the energy to start a brew after 8 hours of hard work. Oh yeah that wort smells DIVINE. And my back is killing me.

you dont care about your family or friends..all you care about is homebrew

When a friend of friend heard you’re a home brewer and he wants you to teach him how to home brew! I’m pretty excited to bring another person into the hobby/obsession!

MattyHBT said:

you dont care about your family or friends..all you care about is homebrew

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When your friends don't care about you, all they care about is your homebrew.

mongoose33 said:

A really experienced homebrewer would have found a way to use the new freezer as the kegerator.

Just sayin'......

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Like buy a deep freezer that is 2 inches to big and, while "attempting" to get it to fit,accidentally denting it
on the side so it can't be returned?

Forgot to account for the baseboards...
Guess I'll have to take my beer out the old one.

Jwin said:

Like buy a deep freezer that is 2 inches to big and, while "attempting" to get it to fit,accidentally denting it
on the side so it can't be returned?

Forgot to account for the baseboards...
Guess I'll have to take my beer out the old one.

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Careful, bra. That only works once

One never really knows if one is a home brewer or not. It is an eternal mystery.

When you go into the butter-bin in the refrigerator, and realize all you have in there is yeast.

lumpher said:

When you go into the butter-bin in the refrigerator, and realize all you have in there is yeast.

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And pectic enzyme...and you remember that you forgot to add the pectic to your recent apple brews! On the to do list for when I get home...

jonny24 said:

When you get rear ended, and instead of using the cash from the guy to replace the bumper, you start googling kegging setups.

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Follow-up: When you get ahead of yourself planning your kegerator... and it turns out the guy has no cash, so the bumper has to go through insurance...

...But you decide to build the kegerator anyway.

When you only buy beer from the store on occasions when your homebrew isn't finished conditioning and you don't want to waste it by drinking them too early

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When you go to a football game, look at the sidelines, and all you notice are the mashtuns.

You pass a pickup truck on the freeway and he has 3 small chest freezers in the back...you wonder if he’s a home brewer (and are slightly jealous)

When you have a >4 hour brewday....and are p*ssed that you are out of empty fermenters to do another one because you now have the rest of the day to do....nothing.

When you go into the basement, notice the aroma from the washing machine, and think: "Floral, what hop is that?"

When everyone wants to taste your brew to give it their stamp of approval, but you already know you brew good beer. You only brew award winning recipes. You make it a point not to invite them over, or tell them anything, when you're brewing, etc.

It's mine............ my precious............. precious............ precious. :rockin:

When your more stoked that you found the co2 leak in your kegerator than qualifying for 12 days in Italy on your company trip

When all of your existing HB is too young to drink, you buy some cheap commercial beer to get you through the weekend, but end up rather drinking some undercarbed HB than the crap you bought.

You might be a long-time homebrewer when every time a friend or acquaintance gives up the hobby, they give you all their gear because they don't want to deal with it and they know you'll get it into the hands of people who will put it to use. Oh, and maybe you'll keep a keg and a blickmann beer gun...

When, after drink a beer, you catch yourself washing the bottle... ...a bottle you know you will not re use and is going to the recycle bin.

Habits...