You know you're a home brewer when?

kmarkstevens · Mar 28, 2020

SEndorf said:
…… when you're getting text messages from people you don't even know, 'cause somebody said, that somebody said, that somebody said, that you homebrew, asking if you have any supply for them 'cause all the stores are closed.

My LHBS is considered an essential service in Washington State. He's got a commercial/wholesale license, is set up in a warehouse (not a retail space), keeps his big garage doors open, and for the past couple of weeks has always had a few socially distanced homebrewers taking advantage of work from home.

Dave Sarber · Mar 28, 2020

kmarkstevens said:
My LHBS is considered an essential service in Washington State. He's got a commercial/wholesale license, is set up in a warehouse (not a retail space), keeps his big garage doors open, and for the past couple of weeks has always had a few socially distanced homebrewers taking advantage of work from home.

Yeah, there are only 2 LHBS's in Tucson. One is a Mr. Brew store. 'Nuf said?

Imhoppy · Mar 28, 2020

You know you're a homebrewer when, my beer tastes better than yours!

Mutant · Mar 29, 2020

You'd rather watch yeast farts in the carboy than watch TV

Hoppy2bmerry · Mar 29, 2020

You know you’re a homebrewer when your spouse volunteers to wash the kitchen floor, but you say no wait until after I brew this next batch, just in case I spill some wort.

Snuffy · Mar 29, 2020

kmarkstevens said:
You know you're a home brewer when you buy back yard chickens. It's a given that every home brewer knows you feed the chickens spent mash, the chickens turn it into poop that is composted to put on hop plants in the spring. Obviously.

Circle of Life, Brother. circle of life...

Imhoppy · Apr 2, 2020

You know you're a homebrewer when, during a pandemic, you start hoarding brewmaking ingredients instead of hoarding groceries or toilet paper.

Elric · Apr 2, 2020

You know you are a homebrewer when you are rinsing rice for dinner and panic that you aren't collecting the sparge water...

tcarcieri · Apr 3, 2020

Mutant said:
You'd rather watch yeast farts in the carboy than watch TV

HAHAA...ironically, I have Sirius Octane on low and listening to my blow off fart like no one's business. Thinking of calling a gastro doc. HAHA!

Imhoppy · Apr 3, 2020

Lol yeast farts. At least they smell good.

wetmk · May 23, 2020

Hoppy2bmerry said:
You know you’re a homebrewer when your spouse volunteers to wash the kitchen floor, but you say no wait until after I brew this next batch, just in case I spill some wort.

"Just in case?"
I never brew without taking a towel out of the hamper to deal with my 'just in case' situations.

jschein · May 23, 2020

wetmk said:
"Just in case?"
I never brew without taking a towel out of the hamper to deal with my 'just in case' situations.

I have 10 towels, just in case,everytime

Gozie Boy · May 23, 2020

I've also added an industrial strength mop/bucket and a 24" floor squeegee. And use them (often) every brew day...

wetmk · May 23, 2020

Your ten towels brought to mind that time 15 years ago when I placed the second recently pitched fermenter on top of a too small table. It collapsed. 12 gallons of yeasty wort all over the basement kitchen floor. Under the molding, under the appliances, and under the relatively new laminate floor. Thank goodness my lovely bride wasn't home. An annoying multi hour clean-up. It took a while, but it eventually killed the new floor.

Kee · May 23, 2020

Imhoppy said:
You know you're a homebrewer when, during a pandemic, you start hoarding brewmaking ingredients instead of hoarding groceries or toilet paper.

I just flashed back to the (pre-pandemic) time that my wife and I went to a grocery store that sold Belgian beer. I took a cooler. After buying necessities, like beer and chicken, I put the beer in the cooler and left the chicken in the grocery bag.

dnr · May 23, 2020

I can't tell if you're taking about a boil over or drunken incontinence.
:drunk:

Snark_Wolf_Brewing · May 23, 2020

People all around you are freaking out about the possibility of commercially produced beer becoming unavailable due to depletion of the CO2 stockpile after all the production plants shutting down from COVID 19, and you just sit there with a look on your face like...

bracconiere · May 24, 2020

Snark_Wolf_Brewing said:
People all around you are freaking out about the possibility of commercially produced beer becoming unavailable due to depletion of the CO2 stockpile after all the production plants shutting down from COVID 19, and you just sit there with a look on your face like...

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hmm, i keg....but now you got me thinking about an inline reg and half full keg with priming sugar, instead of a co2 tank.....

Gozie Boy · May 24, 2020

wetmk said:
Your ten towels brought to mind that time 15 years ago when I placed the second recently pitched fermenter on top of a too small table. It collapsed. 12 gallons of yeasty wort all over the basement kitchen floor. Under the molding, under the appliances, and under the relatively new laminate floor. Thank goodness my lovely bride wasn't home. An annoying multi hour clean-up. It took a while, but it eventually killed the new floor.

Thanks for sharing this nightmare. Suddenly, my odd boil overs and mistakenly open valves don't seem nearly as bad...

connell89 · May 25, 2020

jschein said:
I have 10 towels, just in case,everytime

10 towels? That is what my wet/dry shop vac is for.

connell89 · May 25, 2020

Snark_Wolf_Brewing said:
People all around you are freaking out about the possibility of commercially produced beer becoming unavailable due to depletion of the CO2 stockpile after all the production plants shutting down from COVID 19, and you just sit there with a look on your face like...

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Damn! Time to start bottling again and I don't have enough.

seatazzz · May 25, 2020

You know you're a homebrewer when your husband plans a lovely (mildly expensive) camping trip for the weekend, in a cabin instead of tent, where we can take the dogs, at a private resort that a dear friend runs (and gave us a heck of a good deal), and all you can think about is will we get home early enough on Monday to get a beer kegged, another moved to crashing, and still have time to enjoy some homebrew after three days away from it. And yes we did. Sanitized keg chilling right now, if I play my cards right and do the fast-carb method I'll be enjoying a glass of my american strong when I get home from work tonight at 10:30pm.

khannon · May 25, 2020

You're cleaning some stuff in the basement and say to yourself "Wow, I guess I don't need to buy that extra hydrometer to replace the one that broke so I have a spare(but you've been putting it off for months)" because you find a spare that you didn't know you had. Two is one and one is none..

Jayjay1976 · May 25, 2020

Had our A/C serviced today. Had to lead the guy through to the breaker panel in the garage past my 4 tap keezer, my large-ish stainless brew rig not to mention the wall of bottles, and he didn't say a thing. Never glanced at all the paraphernalia nor did he acknowledge any of it. Weirdo, but I was prepared to send him off with a growler or two. Guess you know you're a home brewer when you are over prepared to share, just in case.

khannon · May 25, 2020

Funny, I had a sewer line guy in the other day.. Wrapping up, I handed him a sixer, and he said "Yeah, I saw you brewed.. I was going to ask, but it seemed impolite" Yesterday I got a message thanking me for the best beer he had..

Bohern · May 25, 2020

When you tell friends you can't go out cause you have kegs and fermenters to clean.

for a brew day of course

Saunassa · May 25, 2020

Mutant said:
You'd rather watch yeast farts in the carboy than watch TV

Yes and if you can watch the yeast as it flows around like a snow globe? Mesmerizing.

seatazzz · May 26, 2020

Saunassa said:
Yes and if you can watch the yeast as it flows around like a snow globe? Mesmerizing.

I can watch that for several minutes at a time. My ferment fridge has an alarm that goes off if the door is open too long, and I've been known to tell it to shut the eff up, I'm busy watching my beer here.

Jayjay1976 · May 26, 2020

seatazzz said:
I can watch that for several minutes at a time. My ferment fridge has an alarm that goes off if the door is open too long, and I've been known to tell it to shut the eff up, I'm busy watching my beer here.

You know you're a homebrewer when your refrigerator door has an 'open too long' alarm LOL.

jonny24 · May 26, 2020

Unicorn_Platypus said:
when the living room of your small apartment is filled with kegs, buckets, two large chest freezers, various tubing, and hand drawn beer labels stuck all over the walls

I guess that makes me more of an "apartment brewer" though

That was me for a year and a half. Upright fridge/freezer in the corner for kegerator/storage, storage table with shelves above and bucket storage below, and then a chest freezer ferm chamber. Top shelf of the coat closet was for bottle storage. Lots of people complain about not being able to do full batches in apartments but I never had any trouble.

Luckily I have a deal with SWMBO, she didn't care about the brewery and I didn't care how many pets we have. Both interests have only grown since buying a house last year! I now have a dedicated room in the basement complete with beer lines to the upstairs bar, and she's up to 2 cats, 3 geckos, 1 parakeet, and 4 hamsters.

bleme · May 27, 2020

Your 14yo daughter comes to visit you at work and says, "It smells like you are making beer! Where is that smell coming from?", and you point at the pretzel factory down the block.

SEndorf · Jun 4, 2020

Saunassa said:
Yes and if you can watch the yeast as it flows around like a snow globe? Mesmerizing.

I love my stainless conical, but I do miss watching the yeast go to town in the fermenter. Almost looks like it's boiling.

Jayjay1976 · Jun 4, 2020

SEndorf said:
I love my stainless conical, but I do miss watching the yeast go to town in the fermenter. Almost looks like it's boiling.

I'd miss that too. I love watching it swirl, sniffing the airlock and counting the bubbles per minute.

It would be cool to use a tilt or other fermentation logger to drive a video display, which would play a yeast swirling animation in the background that reacts in real time to the fermentation stats being presented in the foreground. Could even show the yeast storm on the right beer color via SRM.

danielthemaniel · Sep 27, 2020

Some of you dont know what a warm, uncarbonated thick hop particulate and yeast slurry liquid blend tastes like and it shows

Hoppy2bmerry · Sep 27, 2020

You know you’re a homebrewer when, you visit your local butcher shop a half hour before closing and notice a couple open bottles of Corona and think to yourself what beer should I bring them on my next visit. I did say to them you need a better beer, being a German butcher.

Cellar_Dweller · Sep 28, 2020

When you announce to your wife that you're going to brew and walk up from the basement after mashing in to find a walkway made of mats and towels across the kitchen floor.

Snark_Wolf_Brewing · Sep 28, 2020

When you look at a box of Frosted Mini Wheats and ask yourself "What would happen if I added this to a mash? Will it beer?"

fourfarthing · Sep 28, 2020

Snark_Wolf_Brewing said:
When you look at a box of Frosted Mini Wheats and ask yourself "What would happen if I added this to a mash? Will it beer?"

I bet it totally would

GrogNerd · Sep 29, 2020

when you hear the phrase "will it beer?" & you don't need it explained & it immediately becomes part of your vocabulary

Snark_Wolf_Brewing · Sep 29, 2020

GrogNerd said:
when you hear the phrase "will it beer?" & you don't need it explained & it immediately becomes part of your vocabulary

You know you're a home brewer when?

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