Warning signs of homebrew addiction

You pass a hardware store and dream of building a mash tun because you are bored.

 

Like my SHMBO said is it ever enough 14 kegs 200 bottles 2 fridges 2 chest freezers (converted of course) 9 total taps. Now just got a 20cu chest freezer to make a 12 tap coffin. Love her more then my beer. Only buy beers to harvest yeast.

 

you can tell with a fart if someone drinks filtered or unfiltered beer.

 

When my daughter at 2 1/2, sits down at her little table with a sippy cup in hand. I ask "watcha doin?" and she replies "having a beah".

Now at 5, she knows more about beer than I knew when I was in college.

Finally, when you brew and your 5 yr old daughter asks "how did your beer come out dad?"

 

When you catch yourself estimating SRM at the urinal.

 

lol...

the biggest sign of my addiction was i went to a party and someone asked me to bring a "couple of beers" so they could try them - so i brought 9 different kinds of beer. i thought it was totally normal, but apparently it isn't.

 

HAHA, now this is funny.

When you get laid off and your initial reaction is, great, more time to brew.

 

Hahaha that is great

 

When your coworkers bring in 22oz bottles and expect timely refills.

 

Screw that. Everybody tells me they want to drink my beer. First off, they are brave and secondly, they think its free for us or something?

 

When you walk through the pots at the store and think "I could boil in that!"

 

Your eldest daughter goes on a tour of A-B with a group of college friends while in saint Louis and corrects the tour guide's errors and explains to the group the things he can't.

 

You go to a party with the hopes of convincing everyone drinking out of a dark pop top bottle to leave their empties next to the sink for you to collect at the end of the night

 

This antique shop by me has like a 10 gallon copper kettle in the window. Its probably an over priced heirloom but I just want to make some brew in it.

 

you no longer have to ask people to give you reusable bottles.

 

I'll admit I lifted this from a beer mag...

You know you have a brewing problem if you have contemplated converting your in-door water dispenser on your fridge into a beer dispenser.

Oh, I just found a new way to play everyones favorite game, "Come up with some that hasn't been discussed on hbt yet".

 

Done this lol

 

You see a tube or a pipe and wonder "what the hell can I use that for!"

 

You build a 50 gallon setup "just because"

 

When making coffee you account for grain absorbtion.

 

Guilty for alot of these.. especially wasting most of a day at work doing brewing research. Also, I took last Friday off to brew.. it was a great day!

If you own more refrigerators or freezers for beer than you do for food.
If your entire fenceline is dedicated to growing hops.

 

I love this one.

 

Coffee comment is awesome.

 

When the only reason you do spring cleaning is to expand your little brewing corner. Not to mention,make room for all those boxes of bottles...

 

Laughing my ass off!

 

When you post pictures of you're full carboys on facebook like they're you're children!

 

+1

 

Maybe I have.

 

When you go down into your basement looking for a little room to store your beer equipment and throw out half of your SWMBO's Christmas decorations, two coffee tables, a china hutch, three empty cardboard boxes, a stationary bike, a plastic water fountain, and old stand up light light fixture. Then look at the half empty basement and say to yourself "I think that might be enough room".

 

You continuously have this spreadsheet opened:

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[I'll be happy to share it if someone needs it]

M_C

 

That's not a sign of addiction, that's just plain OCD.

 

You use DME in your coffee because the sugar dispenser is empty and the DME is within reach. After all, who doesn't keep some in their kitchen to make starters?

 

Nah. I'm a database guy. Comes with the territory.

I was using Beersmith but it faw*ed me over when I was short on inventory and it only deducted a partial grain bill. I said, scr*w it, and decided to use a spreadsheet. I can see what I have on hand very easily.

M_C

 

My friends always tell me I should sell the beer. I tell them "A) That is highly illegal. B) I Brew it so I can drink it!"

 

I can see where that'd be a problem. It seems to me they look at you as a source of free beer. Not like you had to buy it or anything. Don't they realize you had to buy the stuff to make it???

 

Oh man...I'm sick!!!

 

I'm planning a kitchen remodel and leaning towards a gas stove mostly for the ease of making starters. I'm doing a double boiler deal with my erlenmeyer flask now, but it'll be nice to just set the flask right on the burner.

 

When you adjust your water heater so that your tap water allows you to mash in consistently at 151.

 

You never seem to have enough fermentation vessels. Each time you buy one you say to yourself "OK, I can have 4 batches going at once and THAT is plenty." But once a batch is done fermenting you itch so bad to brew again that you go and spend another 17 bucks on a new fermentation bucket.

 

- When you wish, at least 10 times a day, you could open a bag of fresh leaf hops and inhale the aroma.

- When you seriously consider developing a hop-aroma car freshener.

- When your kids not only get a beer for you and pour it, but fill the bottle with water and leave it in the sink.