Warning signs of homebrew addiction

[Stevo2569]

When your addicted enough to think you can watch a 2 year old AND pull off and all grain brew day simultaneously... I made it happen... but never again.

I do it every weekend. You just need more practice.

 

[btgold29]

I do it every weekend. You just need more practice.

God bless you. My daughter will get into everything. It was not a relaxing day. So much for Charlie's rdwhahb.... ! Seriously, I commend you.

 

[Budzien]

When you wonder what a hop "high" would be like...

When your daughter is selling Girl Scout Cookies and you wonder if anyone has ever attempted a Thin Mint Porter, or a Samoa Scottish...

 

[Reno_eNVy]

When you wonder what a hop "high" would be like...

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude :cross:

When your daughter is selling Girl Scout Cookies and you wonder if anyone has ever attempted a Thin Mint Porter, or a Samoa Scottish...

I've made a Chocolate Mint Sweet Stout... does that count?

 

[Chuginator]

When you throw away milk jugs, water bottles, beer cans, and pour used antifreeze and oil on the ground, but pat yourself on the back for being environmentally friendly for recycling beer bottles. I'm guilty!

 

[theDeutscher]

When you throw away milk jugs, water bottles, beer cans, and pour used antifreeze and oil on the ground, but pat yourself on the back for being environmentally friendly for recycling beer bottles. I'm guilty!

Wait. Why are you pouring antifreeze and oil into the ground? What's wrong with you? Haha

 

[Chuginator]

Wait. Why are you pouring antifreeze and oil into the ground? What's wrong with you? Haha

I'll make it known right now that I was joking - about the antifreeze and oil, anyway...

 

[uncommonsense]

call off of work and tell your boss you cant come in on a sunday because you have competition brewing to do.

 

[unionrdr]

You feel a bit better about the home budget getting tighter because you just realized how much cheaper HB is. You then can't wait for retiree payday to get going...not to mention,loosing more weight till it's ready!

 

[anthonyadams]

God bless you. My daughter will get into everything. It was not a relaxing day. So much for Charlie's rdwhahb.... ! Seriously, I commend you.

I have 4 kids one in the way and brew twice a month you just need some practice

 

[odinsgift]

When a beer have lees on the bottom, and you HAVE to culture it, no matter what.

 

[donjr721]

You have so many empty Sam Adams bottles (cause you havn't brewed in a while) that you could start a Sam Adams micro brewery. I'm the OP

 

[HerbieHowells]

SWMBO and I are moving in the morning. As I had anticipated, she didn't want me to take up any space moving empty bottles to the new place. She just went to bed 30 minutes ago. 10 minutes ago, I was taking a secretly stashed box of empty label-less bottles out to my car for transport to the new place. She didn't really expect me to start from scratch at the new place, right?

My name is Herbie, and I am a home brew addict.

 

[Dan]

HBT as your homepage!

 

[whitehause]

When your wife gives up on moving all your brewing stuff out of the kitchen and just works around it, and a sink full of soaking bottles dosn't even get a reaction. In fact she'll even reach in at grab the labels that have started to float.

 

[paulster2626]

I was at the uncle's cottage on the weekend. Saw a chest freezer. Opened it to see where the hump was, how many cornies/fermenters I could fit in there. Thought "what a waste, filling this with food". Yeah, I'm hooked.

 

[2doorsdown]

Your 72 hour emergency bag (aka Bug-out-bag) contains a list of your favorite recipes and instructions to grab some yeast from the fridge, just in case of an end-of-times scenario.

 

[liquiditynerd]

Your 72 hour emergency bag (aka Bug-out-bag) contains a list of your favorite recipes and instructions to grab some yeast from the fridge, just in case of an end-of-times scenario.

Sweet!!! I am adding a photo ID book of edible fruits ranked by sugar content to my BoB!

 

[billf2112]

You go to bed real late and your wife wakes up and ask why and you tell her you were looking at internet porn and she says "bullcrap, you were on beer sites again"

 

[Qhrumphf]

You go to bed real late and your wife wakes up and ask why and you tell her you were looking at internet porn and she says "bullcrap, you were on beer sites again"

Our as my wife calls it, beer porn.

 

[donjr721]

Bump

 

[unionrdr]

When you've been brewing for a while,& you worry like a noob over your 1st partial mash.

 

[odinsgift]

When your wife asks you to do the dishes, and you wash all of your glassware first, and get distracted by what it should be filled with.

 

[beaksnbeer]

When your wife asks you to do the dishes, and you wash all of your glassware first, and get distracted by what it should be filled with.

Nope, you put all the dishes "EXCEPT" your beer glasses just so you know that you have no soap residue.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Nope, you put all the dishes "EXCEPT" your beer glasses just so you know that you have no soap residue.

This. I've got enough glasses that I get lazy about washing them. My wife won't touch them (even though she knows how to properly clean a beer glass she doesn't want me blaming here if they get cleaned incorrectly), so I eventually get yelled at to wash my glasses.

 

[ronsky]

You brew beer at church and your church sponsors homebrew contests. Ask how I know.

Now, that is a church I would attend.

 

[Packman715]

When you have fridge full of beer in your garage your kitchen fridge has more beer than food and you have fridge in the basement with at least 3 kegs of beer and four full fermenters and most are done.

 

[sawbossFogg]

Wow, yup!

 

[tuxnerd]

When you convince your better half to let you provide the beer for the 200+ family get together, just so you can justify getting another keezer and more kegs

 

[jheld00]

I'm sure this has been said/happened before but having a girlfriend end a relationship because you are more concerned about brewing than her "feelings". What are these things called feelings?

 

[jcam91]

When you wonder what a hop "high" would be like...

When your daughter is selling Girl Scout Cookies and you wonder if anyone has ever attempted a Thin Mint Porter, or a Samoa Scottish...

Okay when your actually interested in a recipe for thin Mint porter......

 

[itsernst]

When you buy from a HBS on principal alone. A deal so good to pass up, even if you know for a fact you don't need it, you buy it anyway.

Man the girlfriend is going to hate me.

 

[PowPow]

When you get angry seeing people using coolers to keep food cool. THEY ARE NOT MEANT FOR THAT.

When you don't make a gingerbread house for Christmas anymore. Instead you make a gingerbread Blichmann Top Tier brewing system.

 

[Grantman1]

You swear you can smell an airlock bubble from a mile away.

 

[beaksnbeer]

I'm sure this has been said/happened before but having a girlfriend end a relationship because you are more concerned about brewing than her "feelings". What are these things called feelings?

I have feelings, I feel like I need a beer + my wife said I had a feeling........I may only have one but hell I like it. :rockin:

 

[rusty416]

When your 4yr old tells her kindergarten teacher she wants to be a brewmeister when she grows up.

 

[thaworm69]

When you are planting hop rhizomes along the neighbors fence because "they would grow perfect right there" ""burp""

 

[CatHead]

When you find yourself figuring out how many beer bottles you need to empty before next bottling day AND actually plan out what nights, how many on those nights, how many I need to buy/ how many I already own, and the number per size to reach my goal.

 

[LTownLiquorPig]

When you find yourself figuring out how many beer bottles you need to empty before next bottling day AND actually plan out what nights, how many on those nights, how many I need to buy/ how many I already own, and the number per size to reach my goal.

The "empty bottle math" is constantly running through my head at this point.

 

[pm5k00]

Checking HBT on your phone as soon as you wake up.