You know you're a home brewer when?

How's it work?

 

Trying to up load my video I took it's taking for ever tho

 

Wow. What temp did you have t o raise to to get him to release those final Dirt molecules? ;-)

Mine hate the "sparge arm" too....

 

our oldest likes baths that could put most hot tubs to shame.:rockin:

 

"If it burns it's working!"

 

That sounds like a good idea for single brewers looking to pick up brewer so.s: bathe with hops for a good half hour!

 

My wife just dabs hop oil on her neck

 

...When you're booting up the computer in the morning,& decide to look at the newest copy of "Great Lakes Brewing News" you discovered at the lhbs the day before. I'd gone in to get some American oak chips for my Whiskely Stout I'm gunna brew up next Saturday,& an Italian spigot to replace the barrel tap that got stiff on the Ale Pail.
Anyway,I was leafing through the brewing news paper,& found maps with the breweries marked on them somwhere in the middle for the surrounding states!! Roads,highways & all! you guys gotta pick this up,volume 18,number 5.
It'll make a downright handy brewery tour guide. Just had to let y'all know about this one!:rockin:

 

When you discover mold in your basement, and instead of worrying about any effects your health, you worry about your nearby fermenters getting contaminated.

(They were fine, by the way...crisis averted!)

 

When you change your beer purchase expense category in quicken from "alcohol" to "research". 😃

 

When you are pondering a beer purchase in the liquor store, and it's a close tie between one or the other, your choice is based on how suitable the bottles would be for home brew.

And, yes, I've done that.

 

Exactly! I just thought twice about buying a 4 pack of Surly Bender. I can't get it close to home. It's excellent, but comes in cans. 😥. In the end I of course bought it. I compared side to side with my clone kit. My wife actually preferred mine 😃

 

My wife loves it when I bring home Green Flash West Coast IPA for her. I secretly covet the bottles of this fine brew.

 

When the deciding factor of taking a vacation day or two is if you are ready to brew or not.

pb

 

Yes but I tried to bottle in their bottles and I couldn't get the cap on. I think it was the a
Le Freak. Cap just wouldn't fit. You able to bottle in these?

 

I've never had an issue bottling in Green Flash bottles.

 

Haha, I've definitely planned a couple "mental health days" around my brewing schedule...or is it vice versa?

 

Hmmm there's a Christmas gift idea. ...

 

(Blank) brewing news is awesome. We get new England brewing news here in mass. It covers NY (even though it isn't NE) mass, ct, VT, nh, me, ri. I love it. Wonderful news paper.

 

when you're plunging the toilet and it occurs to you...

you are freeing a stuck sparge

 

^^Me thinks the grains & punkin went bad though. Great Lakes Brewing News covers OH,NY,PA WI MI IN IL...other surrounding states as well. Great lil paper I was previously unaware of.

 

I did a beer trade not too long ago and ended up with a surly hell. I just drank it. It too was in a can, but I poured it into a glass anyway. It was pretty damn good. I need to start doing lagers.

 

People know you've been drinking homebrew by the smell of your bathroom and/or farts the next day

 

When you see those awful Bud "do you know who brewed your beer?" ads running on MLB postseason games, and can raise your fists, proudly extend your thumbs, and say "Yup, this guy right here."

(also, go A's!)

 

Yea laughed at those commercials. Trying to make a mega corporation seem as personal as the craft breweries.

 

I dunno, man, they seem legit

 

Ya if it was for this Budweiser company

 

...When you obsess over the brew supplies schedule not keeping up with your brew schedule.

 

when you already have brew days planned out for all of 2014

CHECK!

 

When you are watching The Walking Dead and notice a ton of craft beers in the store they go in

 

they did that last year, stocking a party the Gov was throwing

think it might have been Terrapin

 

I live in an apartment...I brewed a winter warmer Saturday and it is fermenting away right now, it's 55 out and the window is open with a fan blowing in to get the temp into the 60s. My wife is in a sweatshirt and under a blanket but fine with it because of the reason...

 

You pour your Sam Adams "slow homebrew style". You know to leave the yeast behind.

Habits are hard to break 😃

 

I also noticed all that Terrapin and Sweet Water being destroyed by those heathens.

 

No problem with bench capper. Are you using a wing?

 

This isn't the 'you know you're obsessive compulsive when...' thread. I don't even have my second brew day for the week planned yet.

 

A real home brewer wouldn't have left it behind. They would've harvested it. :rockin:

 

SWMBO came home tonight and said I had to start bottling some beers out of the kegs, she traded MY full beers for empties with her boss
1 full beer = 12 empties and he's going to do all the sanitizing and de-labelling as well

 

Hmm, Woot?

 

I figure if I don't have to clean the bottles and a 4 pack is all it costs me to get 48 empties ready to go, I'm definitely on a winner