You know you're a home brewer when?

[MaryB]

PBW is great for cleaning canning jars people sell on garage sales or give you!

When you find that Starsan is great for cleaning a glass desk. And PBW for cleaning sudden stains in the carpet. PBW solution can work better than carpet cleaner...

 

[unionrdr]

PBW is great for cleaning just about anything. Including the plastic internal vacuum cleaner parts!

 

[brewcat]

You think that brewing beer would make an awesome date.
or
You make a date to brew beer.

 

[beerkench]

When you forget the irish moss!

 

[unionrdr]

When you forget anything at the point you need it...

 

[dkwolf]

When you forget anything at the point you need it...

That doesn't mean you're a homebrewer, it just means you're old.

 

[GrogNerd]

That doesn't mean you're a homebrewer.

can say this about 99% of the posts in this thread

if you don't count the ones which boil down to "you brew beer at home"

 

[beernbourbon]

That doesn't mean you're a homebrewer, it just means you're old.

This. Yup, this is exac... Wait, what were we talking about?

 

[brewcat]

Just when you think your system is set, another variable bugs you.

 

[Oceantendency]

When you walk into the brewery supply store and the owner calls you by first name then asks whats next on the brew schedule

 

[m1k3]

Your fiends text you photos of the Ale Camino. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1472592750.085399.jpg

 

[unionrdr]

Well, hey...they fill up on the fly in jets! Just the thing for Freddy flameout ...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

When you know that weed growing in your yard is mugwort.

 

[unionrdr]

Gruit herb, yeah!

 

[Onkel_Udo]

When you walk into the brewery supply store and the owner calls you by first name then asks whats next on the brew schedule

Especially if your LHBS is 75% a hydroponics store.

 

[Blomman]

When the first and the last thing you do every day is to check your fermenting vessels that everything is ok.

 

[bruteforce]

When you get a second job to afford more shiny SS gear.

 

[catdaddy66]

When the first and the last thing you do every day is to check your fermenting vessels that everything is ok.

Preach it, brother!

 

[Yeastieboy]

They know your wife at the Homebrew store because it's so close to her office that she always gets the distinguished task of picking up orders. Today mama rolled in there, baby in tow, to pick up a pound of Citra. You know, she parties.

 

[jerbrew]

Preach it, brother!

Yup

 

[jerbrew]

When you walk into the brewery supply store and the owner calls you by first name then asks whats next on the brew schedule

The guy I go to always talks s@$t to me. Especially if there are first time customers around. He likes to let them know what to expect.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

You walk into the room where you're fermentors are, for the first time after pitching your yeast, and see that the bubbling has started! Joy!

 

[brewcat]

When you have a countdown clock for tapping a keg. Only 5 hours to go!

 

[olephart]

When you know that weed growing in your yard is mugwort.

Gruit herb, yeah!

... when you wish there was a way to find out the IBU's of the herbs you're using in your Gruit so you can plug them into the brewing app you are using....

 

[WBCo]

When your Vegetable Drawer in your kitchen fridge looks like this...

 

[catdaddy66]

When your Vegetable Drawer in your kitchen fridge looks like this...

Have you taken a pic of my beer fridge??!

Lol!

 

[khannon]

Your fingers look like you were eating cheetos because you were out harvesting your hops.

 

[unionrdr]

When you're soaking a fermenter, cleaning bottles & finishing a gunstock all at the same time while still feeling the effects of the beer & tequila the other night...

 

[olephart]

... when you catch yourself looking at the weeds beside the road as you drive, wondering if they're yarrow or some other herb...

 

[MidAtlanticBrew]

When your 8 year old, for birthday, father's day, and christmas, gives you gift cards to the LHBS

 

[hagar]

When you KNOW that the herbs and berries growing by the roadside would be good in your ales, but don't dare harvest for the crap the county sprays on them.
The juniper trees and such in the woods around my house are not so lucky, however.

 

[m1k3]

In a staff meeting I used the phrase "we opened the kimono wide"

The trademark Jamil line from can you brew it.

I turned 6 shades of red when people just stared at me.

 

[shetc]

When your wifie buys you a T-shirt like this:

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[shetc]

When your wifie buys you a T-shirt like this:

That's better :sly:

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[pshankstar]

When you walk down to the basement and always go over to your home brew equipment, supplies, ingredients, fermenters (full or empty), when you are there for something else. i.e. laundry, looking for something non-beer related, etc...

I just kegged my beer last night and since then I keep going over there every time I head down to the basement. So I have nothing to check on currently. My stuff is even on the other side from where the stairs are!!!! LOL

 

[DevilNuts]

When you get nervous after your wife tells you she cleaned out the fridge, because last time she threw away all of the "old bottles full of some nasty brown stuff"

 

[beaksnbeer]

When the wife doesn't throw out the "old" hops because she knows there for an up coming lambic

 

[zmanzorro]

You notice an ingredient in your shampoo is saccharomyces.

 

[bleme]

When the wife doesn't throw out the "old" hops because she knows there for an up coming lambic

When your wife can tell old hops from fresh. And knows that lambic doesn't have anything to do with sheep.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

When vacuuming your car, the bulk of the debris is malted barley.