1977Brewer
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When you try to weasel ingredients into the grocery budget, entertainment budget, and savings budget.
You know you're a home brewer when?
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Cheesy_Goodness
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When you know you have enough bottles that you only save the ones that have labels that are easy to get off.
I had one that was giving me a hard time the other day so instead of wrestling with it I threw it in the recycle bin.
I felt like a king.
I had one that was giving me a hard time the other day so instead of wrestling with it I threw it in the recycle bin.
I felt like a king.
grrickar
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You wander the hardware aisles thinking about how mundane everyday items could improve your brewing process...
Natdavis777
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When its 42F and 1145PM and you are still boiling in your garage!
Cheesy_Goodness
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Just remembered a random one
Back in middle school we did one of those murder mystery problems. We were given a list of suspects and had to eliminate suspects based on the facts of the story (ie it couldn't have been John because the forensic analyst suggests the killer was right handed, but John signed his statement with his left hand).
One of the suspects was somehow allergic to grapes, and since there appeared to be two half finished wine glasses at the crime scene, we were to eliminate that suspect. I didn't get it right because I knew wine didn't HAVE to be made from grapes.
You know you're destined to be a homebrewer when you know more about brewing at 11 years old than the publisher of a textbook.
Back in middle school we did one of those murder mystery problems. We were given a list of suspects and had to eliminate suspects based on the facts of the story (ie it couldn't have been John because the forensic analyst suggests the killer was right handed, but John signed his statement with his left hand).
One of the suspects was somehow allergic to grapes, and since there appeared to be two half finished wine glasses at the crime scene, we were to eliminate that suspect. I didn't get it right because I knew wine didn't HAVE to be made from grapes.
You know you're destined to be a homebrewer when you know more about brewing at 11 years old than the publisher of a textbook.
You try to figure out a way to move your brewing equipment to the basement and still have room for the family in case you need to take shelter for a tornado warning.
- True story... and I'm a consulting meteorologist. I opted to leave it in the garage. Last rest of my decoction mash ended up going for 3 1/2 hours as I had to help clients through the storms. Brew day done at 1am. -
- True story... and I'm a consulting meteorologist. I opted to leave it in the garage. Last rest of my decoction mash ended up going for 3 1/2 hours as I had to help clients through the storms. Brew day done at 1am. -
TheBeerGuy
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When most of your garage and basement is brewing gear, bottles, posters and signs of commercial beers, your kids start to taste your unfermented wort and tell you that its not hoppy enough, when your wife asks if there will ever be a night that is not all about beer.....
You are watching the spin cycle happen in your washing machine and wonder if the same thing could be used to pull wort out of a BIAB setup instead of the traditional squeeze. You search Craigslist for old washers to mod as a mash tun.
BadDeacon
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Your new fridge has a measured pour on the dispenser in the door and you ponder using it for filling your HLT for your brewing water. Then realize that you are going to have to do this by the oz, and that the filters for refrigerators are ridiculously expensive.
Oh and get one with a stainless drum. Easier to clean.
You know you are a homebrewer if there isn't a bottle of beer on the planet that when you pour it you don't leave a 1/4 inch of brew in the bottom just in case you want to harvest the yeast out of it.
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How about when your son wakes up in the morning, inhales, and says: Dad's mashed in already!
When you're ready to go paleo on a certain microsoft engineer for erasing BS2 when you told him not to right before he signs off!
plumber_bob
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When you're ready to go paleo on a certain microsoft engineer for erasing BS2 when you told him not to right before he signs off!
Been there, recovered from that! The cloud is where it's at!
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Beersmith guy helped me get my stuff back. Definitely gotta use the cloud this time. Got crushed grains sealed up & stuff outta the freezer/fridge to try again this morning.
Hm...might make a cool avatar?...
Thats awesome. When my boy was about 3 he called helicopters hopcopters. Fits perfectly lol
When your list of beers in the fermenters/bottles/casks/etc is long enough that HBT won't let you fit it all in your signature without abbreviating stuff.
I think I found my next beer name.
It works especially since I work for a helicopter company.
Noxiousbrews
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When you just pitched a batch of beer, and you immediately start thinking of your next one.
Or when you already have ~150 gallons penciled on the calendar thorough the rest of the year
supermutantbrewmaster
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Mike_kever_kombi
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Or when you already have ~150 gallons penciled on the calendar thorough the rest of the year
I am so glad to hear I am not the only one who plans their brews for the year.
Que "Just drink X Brewery's beer which is too sweet and underattenuated" joke in, 3, 2, 1...
Just drink @biochemedic 's beer which is too sweet and underattenuated
You must have had the cranberry braggot I brewed a few yrs ago! At the time it hadn't dawned on me that adding 2 lbs of crystal malt to my steeping grains was a bad idea...
When you brew your coffee in the morning and always add a good pinch of roasted barley cause it just does not have the same depth without it. (Seriously, this is amazing)
When you have to lower the temperature of your entire apartment to control fermentation and now feel like 68 is really warm and 71 makes you sweat during light physical exercise (even though you are in shape).
When your fridge is 95% beer and 5% food (everywhere beer does not fit), with the rest of the food residing on the balcony since it is cool enough right now, but not stable enough for beer.
When you have to lower the temperature of your entire apartment to control fermentation and now feel like 68 is really warm and 71 makes you sweat during light physical exercise (even though you are in shape).
When your fridge is 95% beer and 5% food (everywhere beer does not fit), with the rest of the food residing on the balcony since it is cool enough right now, but not stable enough for beer.
fuzzy2133
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When you start making vanilla extract and vinegar because you realize how little effort it takes and what they charge in the store does not seem right. Thanks home brewing for teaching the skill of patience.
philjohnwilliams
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When every cooler you own has a ball valve and some sort of manifold/false bottom.
PlexVector
Mellow Goose Brewing
When you show the wife how PBW cleaned the haze from the inside of the
ss cooking pot after you boiled your hop socks in it.
ss cooking pot after you boiled your hop socks in it.
Sounds good, I bet it would remind me of Postum...used to have that when I was a kid... I may have to get a few ounces of roasted barley next time I'm at the LHBS and try this!
AkTom
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I now have 2 sinks in my basement brewery/wood shop. One deep utility sink and a single kitchen sink. I love it.
1977Brewer
Free Dan Hess.
Beer in twist off bottles just makes you sad. I could drink 1000 Shiner beers and I'll never enjoy it. Throwing out perfectly nice glass that just got molded wrong is awful.
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