You know you're a home brewer when?

Or a brewing buddy goes to a bar and reports that your beer was better than what he had.

 

Been there, done that. My old yard service guys loved my beers moreso than commercial ones after doing my grass, etc. Save for the one that asked for the Bud Light Lime he'd had last time. Oh well. 1 out of five ain't bad...

 

In my line of work the client often offers the workers a beer at the end of the day. Whenever it's the typical adjunct lager I accept the offer and use the "I'm driving, save it for later" routine. Little do they know I save it for when I have the rare BMC guests, then they have a selection ready and waiting for them.

 

It kinda worked out similarly for me. I had four different beers of mine ready to go. But had a few BLL's left, so he took that after tasting my light & dark hybrid lagers. Can't win'em all...

 

I bet it was the cans. Some people just like cans.

 

Actually, it was the clear bottles. No accounting for taste, I suppose...

 

When the banner ads on non-brewing pages (like salon.com) are brewing related.

 

This! My sports websites have brewing site ad banners...


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It's comforting I'm not alone with this obsession...

Another sign of being a home brewer...getting disproportionately excited when you learn a friend enjoys a beer that comes in a flip top bottle.

 

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When the only way to thaw frozen meat for dinner is to toss the bag in the swamp cooler that's cooling your brew.

 

When you wonder how your bowl of morning Grape Nuts would perform in a mash

 

When you're waiting for your latest order to arrive so you can brew another batch.

 

When you make sure to keep enough, barely, hops, and yeast on hand to brew on a moments notice.

I never Know when an extra brew chance is gonna pop up and I like being prepared!

pb

 

Good point. I bought that chromed steel shelf with two dunnage containers. One is for grains if I can ever get ahead enough to order various grains as extra for such opportunities.

 

It makes it nice to be able to do extra brews at a moments notice.

pb

 

Yeah, you never know when the muses will be upon you! I was taking my middle son to job #2 yesterday, & the usual sandbagger dragged down a line of traffic with us at the end. I went on my usual rant, but said to him, " Here we go again, tippy tippy tappy on the brake pedal, blah blah yada yada...". I then had the idea to use it as a book title about home brewing! So book #3 was started yesterday afternoon. Tippy Tippy Tappy- A Journey Through Home Brewing. I thought tipping a glass after tapping a keg, ya know? Hope I can get it done in time for Christmas...

 

You know you're a homebrewer when you have more equipment than most amateur chemists.

My latest purchase: A 5 litre borosilicate Duran-Schott Griffin Beaker made in Mainz, Germany. It can go straight from a boil into an ice bath.

Looks very similar to this one (I'm too lazy to take a photo).

 

Definitely a home brewer trait.

 

I'm down to about 75lbs barley, less than 3lbs hops, and only enough yeast for 3 more 10gal batches. Getting nervous.

pb

 

You'll never survive a zombie invasion like that!

 

I'm working on it buddy, I'm working on it.

pb

 

I have always found them to be a bit mineraly and a touch brain-ey. Do you have to do 90 minute boils to drive off that zombie precursor flavor?

 

Three Floyds has the process down

 

I resemble that remark.

 

ftw

 

You know you're a homebrewer when...

You spend a weekend attempting to isolate a yeast strain from the wild grape growing outside your window, just to see what would happen.

 

How can you tell a wine yeast from an ale yeast?

 

When you bottle and mark an Amber Ale you've made and look at the box and just laugh to yourself.


Should I drop them off for the next meeting?

 

Yes!

Oh and the alcoholics anonymous group might be thirsty too. ... ;-)

 

No clue. At the moment I've just got it working as a starter on my stir plate, then I'm going to put it into a mini-batch of wort and see what happens. If it doesn't smell like garbage I guess I'll taste it and go from there...

 

when you're "getting low and need to brew" when you only have 10 24's left.

 

when the bottle you open only have masking tape as a lable...

 

When you continually adjust recipes you already love, because you never know when you will find that one magic ingredient that truly perfects it

 

When you tell yourself that temperature control is your next investment but find yourself buying that cooler at the home improvement store that went on sale anyway...