You know you're a home brewer when?

Peyope said:

How about this one I found myself doing recently. You know you're a homebrewer when you avoid commercial beer with impossible to removable lablels (Im talking to you stone, my label doesn't look as good stuck over yours).

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You know you're a homebrewer when you're secretly just a little bit relieved when you can just chuck one of those obnoxious painted-on or plastic-labelled bottles in the recycling with nothing more than a quick rinse to keep from stinking up the garage, because even though you've already got 18.75 gallons worth of longnecks (and another 19.8 in stubby/odd-shaped 12-ouncers, and 6.36 in bombers), you'd still feel compelled to do the whole triple-rinse oxyclean-soak song-and-dance if it had one of the easily-removable paper labels.

Well, maybe not all homebrewers...

I saw a picture frame at Hallmark today. it was an oar shape and said something like "Days are better at the lake". my first thought was, "Why in the flocc would you need a mash paddle at the lake?"

When you're adding crackers to your soup and you think to yourself that you're doughing in the crackers.


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Brewenstein said:

When you're adding crackers to your soup and you think to yourself that you're doughing in the crackers.


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LMAO!


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...or when adding them to your chili!...

When you know exactly how far up to tilt the bottle to see the bottom is clean without pouring water in your eye.

When shopping with the wife today for "holiday baking goods" and I cant stop staring at all the different extracts on the shelf and the possibilities.

Sorry to bring back the label discussion: I remove the plastic ones with Very Hot water. It softens the glue, mostly coming off clean. Buff immediately with steel scouring pad for any remnants.
You know you're a homebrewer when you read a two page thread on removing labels...

When every single GD edible ingredient you come across makes you wonder if it would work in a beer recipe.

Quit wondering.

There is such a thing as oyster stouts.

Anything is possible.

Black Island Brewer said:

Every judge every in competition.

Plus, not taking the labels off looks white-trashy. But to each his own...

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I keep the hard-to-find beer bottles and try to keep the labels clean to fool friends

When you keep your fancier special bottles to yourself, using the plain craft bottles to label & send out. I save the old Paulaner with the bearded monks around the shoulder for me, as they don't make that bottle anymore. Kinda cool that I used a bunch of them to bottle my dampfbier in. Quite appropo.

wbarber69 said:

Quit wondering.

There is such a thing as oyster stouts.

Anything is possible.

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considering a batch of beer cost 20-30 bucks to make..i prefer to wonder first

That's cheap as hell compared to buying up 5-10 gallons of commercial beer.

You know your a home brewer when you are 2 miles deep in the woods deer hunting and come across a beer bottle from ages past and you shove it in the game bag of your vest. Because you know that it will clean up and hold beer again!

I did stuff like that when I could still hunt. Found ancient pepsi bottles & such too. But you know you're a home brewer when your latest version of a favorite beer is in the fridge for the holiday, calling out to you pleadingly...

When your family calls to ask if you're bringing beer today and you're caught off guard because you always bring beer to every party.


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Yeah. It's like, " Why ask why"?

Sometimes I hold back the beer to see if they really like me or just my homebrew lol

ABVIBUSRM said:

considering a batch of beer cost 20-30 bucks to make..i prefer to wonder first

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Make a small batch. Then only 10 to 15 bucks.


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ABVIBUSRM said:

considering a batch of beer cost 20-30 bucks to make..i prefer to wonder first

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Make a pale ale, cream ale or brown ale with washed yeast, $6-7 a case

When you offer to take your wife to the yarn store one hour away (which just happens to be next door to a really good hbs). Like she needs more yarn! Some people and their hobbies...

When your wife says she can't stand when you drink so much craft brew but 75% of the beer you drank was your own

When you plan your brewing schedule around a weekend getaway with the wife that is still two months away to another city where you can buy bags of malt from your favorite maltsters. And she encourages it.

When you go through so much computer bs just to be able to get back on here!

You start asking questions about how to change the flavor profiles of various yeast strains.

I've been doing that for a few months now. The yeast can definitely be part of the flavor complexity.

You wonder why Cascade doesn't make a grapefruit and pine scented dishwashing liquid.

Schmoogdaddy said:

You wonder why Cascade doesn't make a grapefruit and pine scented dishwashing liquid.

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New niche market. Hops scented laundry detergent and dish soap.


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Ha, lolz. Make my drawers smell like noble hops! Then my farts will smell better than roses!...

When you visit family and they have been saving empty craft beer bottles to repay you for the home brew they drink and know you can never have enough clean bottles!

Then you save up so many you give'em away to fellow members...like this guy;

When 150 miles away from home you still rinse bombers for the trip home.

wbarber69 said:

Quit wondering.

There is such a thing as oyster stouts.

Anything is possible.

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DatBrew said:

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It's actually not that bad

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You can barely taste the oysters in there.

Abita makes one. It doesn't taste like oysters, exactly. They just boil oysters in the wort.

There was an oyster stout recipe in Zymurgy not too long ago too.

...When you talk about making malt vinegar on purpose! :rockin:

I've been contemplating for years a way to use a similar take on this and do a boiled crawfish-esk lager.