You know you're a home brewer when?

Reminds me of my wife when she made her 1st batch. The next day,visible fermentation began. I pointed this out to her,She comes up & looks at the airlock bubbling away. She clenches her little fists,& says "yes! yes! Go baby! Go baby!". I was so proud at that moment because she did it all. I just told/showed her what to do.

 

Did this recently with my wit 1.0 and 2.0. As the keggle was draining off I was putting in my new order through AHS. Still didn't hit my numbers on 2.0 (1.043 vs 1.048) but an improvement nonetheless!

Segue - you realize getting your own grain mill will DRASTICALLY help your efficiency ... if you can only convince SWMBO ...

 

Do people keg wine?!
Whoops, wrong forum and lots of hefe. Please disregard

 

And to answer the question... No

 

When you dont brew and you miss it. Absence makes the brewers heart grow fonder. Then you come back with a brewing vengance!


Or.. When you pour a very good commercial beer and later you wife trys and asks "Did you make that?", then you just grin and say no. I also have a step-dad that had first tried a NewGlarus spotted cow offered from my brother in law. And after drinking it he says "This tastes like one of your homebrews" I was pretty flattered, think he was refering to some of my wheat beers I gave him maybe. Or else he was (really) like... I dont like this ****, give me a Bud Select55.

 

when a pipe line is what beer you have fermenting/brewing and not what you've been welding.

 

Search more.

 

I will have to...

When I get really excited about a research project because it's all about how to write my business plan for my brewery. Just completed part of it and it was very informational and exciting. And since I spent all day working on it, I get to brew today!

Talking to the wife about getting a chest freezer for a ferm chamber, and she replies, yeah it will be more consistent during the summer for my hefe.. I love her (and I'm getting my chest freezer next week!)

 

When you set alarms to go off every 3 hours in the night just to check on new brews to make sure they don't need anything

 

Your dedication is commendable sir.

 

When you wake up early in the morning,& the first thing you look at before firing up the computer is your fermenters.

 

... You install the AC in the bedroom and the fermenters come to stay the season.

 

Lol, 'winter home, summer home'!

New name for a brew?

 

When you have dreams about Jesus giving you the most sacred beer recipe to ever be brewed. The kind that could unite the world and save humanity

 

and you won't share it until after you've won NHC

 

...You have an iPhone group that looks like this, or worse.

 

When you use the clock on your cell phone for mash & boil timing,since it matches the time on your computer.

 

I am with you there.

 

You're about to toss that empty salsa jar into the recycle bin and then it hits you: "this is the perfect size for storing washed yeast!"

 

Oh yeah! Salsa jars,con queso jars,dog snack jars that size. I delabel them & soak'em in PBW,rinse,& sanitize before storing them for future use.

 

ha ha, yep it happened to me just yesterday and I immediately thought of this thread!

 

Had some con queso left yesterday,& let the boys finish it when the younger one came home from school. Made sure I told them to rinse it out & give it to me when they finished it. That makes 3 more for saving some of the WY3056 I'm using now.

 

can't get the smell out of marinara jars, even after repeated washings.

I did start collecting soup containers from Chinese restaurant deliveries. not really for storage, but for separating hop additions during brew days. keep lid on until scheduled times.

not sure if hops are really bad for dogs, but it's easy to be safe

 

That all depends on if you consider "deadly" to be bad or not (I do).

There's an entire thread about it.

 

Hops are def bad for dogs. They can get sick or even die from ingesting them. @ grognerd-I have a doggy snack jar that I hope I can soak the fake steak smell out of. It's just the right size too.

 

I've read through that thread before and there is some dissent.

as far as MY health, "may not be safe" is no cause for alarm and reason for endless mockery. the whole plastic fermenter endocrine disruptor debate is an example

as far as the Howdy's health, "may not be safe" = "definitely not safe" and I will do whatever is necessary to avoid the possibility of the slightest chance of coming close to finding out the effects of hops on my dog.

I've let my veterinarian know that it's a possibility Howdy could get ahold of some hops and, though they've never heard of the dangers, they are making sure they know what might need to be done just in case.

 

+1

 

When you drive 30 miles 1 way to buy a dollars worth of airlock?

 

If you have netflix, check out "How Beer Saved the World"

 

When you have just voluntarily sprayed yourself 23 times with your own homebrew. The bottles where over-carbed and I needed to empty them before they exploded. Emptying them down into a food grade bucket worked, but I got sprayed in the face a little every time I opened a bottle.

On the up side, I now smell fantastic.

 

You could have stuck them in the fridge to stop the yeast. Less risk of infection, but the beer might not be to style.

 

That doesn't completely stop the yeast. It just slows them down. When I back sweeten and bottle still, there is noticeable carbonation after a month in the fridge. Those yeast are persistent buggers.

 

You know you're a homebrewer when you cut your finger and without thinking pick up your spray bottle of starsan and sanitise yourself...:smack:

 

When you go into a hardware store just looking for some screws and spend another hour looking around thinking, "Do i need anything for my brew setup?"

 

Haha i did the same recently

 

When over 3/4 of the pictures in your phone's gallery were taken for the "what are you drinking now" thread.

 

It's scary how correct you are...."let me guess, you need a photo of your precious beer???" - Wifey nightly

 

Don't forget about post a picture of your pint.

 

When the hospital is less sanitary then your home brewing.

 

When you replace every soap bar/dispenser with a spray bottle of sanitizer.