When you never get tired of reading this thread because it always reminds you of different episodes. When you need to get the scratch to fix the stove,& those ale ingredients are calling you night & day...also when you're at the top of page "69"!
AxDxMx said:You know you're a homebrewer when you bore your friends with the process of making beer, instead of just drinking it with them.
alpha224 said:No lie, my gf won't even let me talk about brewing...even when I refer to a night at the bar as "research "
GingerBeer515 said:When one of your propane tanks runs out in the middle of your mash and you must instantly send HWMBO out to get you more as you nervously wrap the baby in towels and watch your temp gauge.
Piratwolf said:Apparently, when you're so hardcore that you put your infant in the mash tun to keep him warm. I thought I loved brewing, but WOW!
Oooh brother, i feel ya there. don't know what i would do if all i had was watered down Budcrapper.When you are deployed to afghanistan and trying to find places that will ship hop candy to APO to help with the withdrawls.
When you watch season 6 episode 7 of How I Met Your Mother on Netflix and you sympathize with Marshall's creepy assistant, only because he home brews.
a6ladd said:+1 Haha. A great episode. Ill take a warmpuss(sp?)!
When your watching breaking bad and the dea agent is bottling his homebrew. He wakes up to bottle bombs thinking someone is shooting his house up and you say damn what a waste of brew.
I'll pause it and even go through the shot(s) frame by frame trying to determine whether or not the character has good taste in beer. Unfortunately, it's often purposely rotated to make it really difficult, if not impossible.
When your working in a foreign country for a year that outlaws alcohol, yet you still spend all your free time on brewing sites, and designing beer recipes that your going to try when your year is up and your back home.
I'm deployed right now. I got home for a week last month and brewed one batch and bottled another so I can have something ready for when I get home. I'll do a third batch once I get home, after I remind SWMBO why she puts up with me.
i don't smuggle them home, the staff knows full well that the bottles are coming with me - i'm known as "the guy who likes to keep his belgian beer bottles". thanks to 8 months of traveling and a corporate charge card, i accumulated over 50 duvel bottles. my tripel is currently aging in them, safely carbed at 3.6 vols.In restaurants you order beer in bottles so you can smuggle them home.
sweetcell said:i don't smuggle them home, the staff knows full well that the bottles are coming with me - i'm known as "the guy who likes to keep his belgian beer bottles". thanks to 8 months of traveling and a corporate charge card, i accumulated over 50 duvel bottles. my tripel is currently aging in them, safely carbed at 3.6 vols.
those weren't 50 different belgians - at least 40 were duvels, with a few being orval, chimay, etc.Wow 50? Would love to try them.
sweetcell said:those weren't 50 different belgians - at least 40 were duvels, with a few being orval, chimay, etc.
or did you mean my tripel? belgian thick-glass bottles are 33 cl, which is a little smaller than 12 oz. so whereas i might have gotten 48 regular bottles out of that batch, instead i got like 54 of the belgian bottles.
duckredbeard said:You drive around expecting (at least hoping) to see Corny kegs in alleys, behind restaurants, at garage sales, at flea markets, at abandoned houses, at salvage yards...everywhere.
With a propane grill, turkey fryer/brew burner, and 55,000 BTU forced-air torpedo heater for the garage in the winter, I have two propane tanks for that very reason. One flames out, I can grab the other, swap tanks, and be back on heat (whatever appliance I'm using at the time) in under 2 minutes.When one of your propane tanks runs out in the middle of your mash and you must instantly send HWMBO out to get you more as you nervously wrap the baby in towels and watch your temp gauge.
When your watching breaking bad and the dea agent is bottling his homebrew. He wakes up to bottle bombs thinking someone is shooting his house up and you say damn what a waste of brew.
mcginnis842 said:...When the words "digital refractometer w/ATC" excite you.
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