You know you're a home brewer when?

[TangoHotel]

Or watching the break. I caught myself watching the precipitate fall out of suspension one day after brewing. It was then I knew I was a nerd.

 

[unionrdr]

When you geek out with BS2 tweaking a couple IPA recipes before you even order the ingredients to brew them.

 

[jonnyp1980]

When you're constantly changing fermenting rooms cause the swamp cooler is making it stink.

 

[MaddBaggins]

When you spend an hour at the lhbs just tasting different grains while deciding on a new recipe.

I love that my lhbs is all hands on.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

When you seriously consider reaching in and snagging the Sam Adams bottles on the top of the county recycling bin.
It's right there and I'm going to reuse it over and over again...but I don't think wife would agree.

 

[hiphops]

When after leaving your date's place after getting laid, you're most excited about the empty beer bottles you get to being home from her house.

 

[Shuldawg]

When you seriously consider reaching in and snagging the Sam Adams bottles on the top of the county recycling bin.
It's right there and I'm going to reuse it over and over again...but I don't think wife would agree.

When you actually route through your neighbor's recycling bins on trash night and pull out the bottles!

 

[Hulud]

When you actually route through your neighbor's recycling bins on trash night and pull out the bottles!

Forget the neighbors, try dumpster diving behind a bar

 

[thatjonguy]

Forget the neighbors, try dumpster diving behind a bar

A local bar sorts and calls when they have a collection for you.

 

[danielofthedale]

When having a designated fermentation room is the number one thing you look for when apartment hunting.

 

[bigskygreg]

When you cut open a package of hops and turn off your burner so you can "enjoy the aroma" a little longer before adding them to your boil.

 

[Leadgolem]

When after leaving your date's place after getting laid, you're most excited about the empty beer bottles you get to being home from her house.

Haha! Either you are way more obsessed, or get laid a lot more then I do!

 

[Schmoogdaddy]

You wonder what the AA% is in your Cascade dishwasher detergent.

 

[TangoHotel]

Before I started homebrewing - .44 magnum is a firearm caliber.

After I started homebrewing - .44 magnum is a bittering charge.

 

[Schmoogdaddy]

Swimming in your pool is only of secondary importance to chilling your wort.

 

[Mojavejohn]

Catch yourself laying on the ground watching yeast go haywire in the carboy for 20+ minutes. It's like a huge, biological, beer producing lava lamp.

YES!, I love watching the fermenter.

 

[TangoHotel]

Swimming in your pool is only of secondary importance to chilling your wort.

And it then tips over.... Ffffffffuuuuuuuuu!

 

[mux]

Swimming in your pool is only of secondary importance to chilling your wort.

Is that an aluminum pot? Will chlorine damage aluminum?

 

[mux]

I think heated aluminum and chlorine are not good combos.

 

[TangoHotel]

You see this, and you have trouble deciding what to drink...

 

[Leadgolem]

You see this, and you have trouble deciding what to drink...

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That's beautiful. I think I'm going to cry...

 

[Schmoogdaddy]

Is that an aluminum pot? Will chlorine damage aluminum?

No, it's stainless...and I hang onto it so it doesn't tip over. Then it's off to an ice bath.

Just a photo op here.

 

[amfukuda]

When you hear the empty bottles clank together and your head snaps around like a hawk to see who is trying to throw your precious little ones in the trash

 

[Qhrumphf]

When you're drinking 4-6 beers a night, but only paying for beer once a month.

 

[Leadgolem]

When you're drinking 4-6 beers a night, but only paying for beer once a month.

You still pay for beer?

 

[Channel66]

You still pay for beer?

I think you underestimate how much some of us drink

 

[Hawkeye11]

You see this, and you have trouble deciding what to drink...

Is is your home beer fridge?

 

[beaksnbeer]

I think you underestimate how much some of us drink

Nope i haven't needed to buy beer

 

[TangoHotel]

Is is your home beer fridge?

Hopes and dreams, buddy boy. That's the selection at the bar I was at on Saturday and Sunday. Funny thing is that I've had 53 of the beers on it, and the other 47 were mostly local brews.

 

[r8odecay]

I saw a random license plate on the freeway today that said IBU155. I thought it was personalized, and said DAMMM can I try a frickin firkin?

 

[Kozzer]

When you're drinking 4-6 beers a night, but only paying for beer once a month.

This - I started this hobby a little under 2 months ago and have bought exactly one 6-pack since then (a dark lager). Though when I was in SW Michigan a couple of weeks ago I did go to a few microbreweries and try a bunch of different brews.

You still pay for beer?

Research, man!

 

[Malty_Dog]

I saw a random license plate on the freeway today that said IBU155. I thought it was personalized, and said DAMMM can I try a frickin firkin?

My plate starts with "ESB" which makes me pretty happy. Total coincidence.

 

[TheLionKing]

When you seriously consider reaching in and snagging the Sam Adams bottles on the top of the county recycling bin.
It's right there and I'm going to reuse it over and over again...but I don't think wife would agree.

At the front of a grocery store, I paid a college kid $5.00 for his two cases of empty Sam Adams bottles that he was taking to the back of the store to get his bottle deposit. (Michigan has a 10 cent bottle return program.) That kid must have thought I was crazy...

 

[Teromous]

You watch a new video on brewing extract when you've been brewing all-grain for years, just because you like watching brewing.

You then realize you've seen it before but keep watching anyway.

 

[beaksnbeer]

You have more beer podcasts then music on your phone

 

[uphillbrewer]

you have more beer podcasts then music on your phone:d

+111111111111!

 

[Brewmex41]

You agree to live with your SWMBO and her mother for a few months and one of the primary reasons is the capacity to brew on the deck because of the NG hookup, and the ability to have brewing equipment all over the basement.

One thing I can tell you is I'm never living with an in law again.

I even considered making my own Doppelbock and calling it mother in lagertor. Maybe an eisbock. Something strong enough to forget she was there any time she comes to visit.

Nothing like simultaneously raising a 1 year old and a 50 year old.

 

[rockbasementbeer]

When instead of going out to the bar on your 23rd birthday you have friends over to drink homebrew and brew your next batch!

 

[TangoHotel]

One thing I can tell you is I'm never living with an in law again.

Went through the same thing. You may get along before they are around all the time, but as soon as it becomes a daily thing, you consider punchisizing yourself in the face.

Ykyahbw you get back from vacation and before you even unpack the car, you are looking in the fermentation chamber to see how it's going and check the temps.

 

[rockbasementbeer]

When your watching pawn stars and the first thing you notice is a customer in the backround is wearing a hopunion shirt :cross: