It's a homebrew thing... you wouldn't understand.

[TheHappyHopper]

#1067: Road trip routes are altered to make sure you hit any breweries along the way to pick up new growlers.

#1068: You have various styles of glassware and will happily explain why you need them for each beer style - even if you typically just go with the shaker pint glass anyways...

#1069: In a bookstore, you always head straight to the beer/wine section to see if there are any good homebrewing books that you don't have - even though you know deep down that between your old, dog-eared copy of "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" and HBT, you have all of the information you need.

 

[vwmasstransit]

You're not trying hard enough.

Or you need more friends that mooch beer off you.

 

[MaxStout]

#1067: Road trip routes are altered to make sure you hit any breweries along the way to pick up new growlers.

Corollary to this: When traveling with your spouse or significant other, you sell the idea by stating "the food there is great!...and, um, I hear they have decent beer, too."

 

[dpatrickv]

You never taste a craft brew without wondering: "Can I clone this? Should I?"

I actually never think this.

If I can buy it, I don't want to make it.

 

[jrgtr42]

You have to explain weird assortments of parts at the hardware store.

You have to ask if a fitting is really stainless or just chrome plated.

You have to explain why you don't have any more space in your laundry room because you have over 200 beer bottles.

A thousand times this!!!! Just ask my wife - just last night she was complaining about my collection of bottles. In the pantry (these are full, though...) the mudroom, the back hall closet... they seem to multiply. Of course, the bombers are the ones that normally get put aside for brewing - there are plenty of other bottles that I do need to bring back for deposit (and probably putting that deposit right back into more commercial beer) and plenty more than that which aren't from around here, so I can't return them. Those either need to go in the recycle bin or join the bombers for 12-oz bottling.

 

[Hamaki]

I actually never think this.

If I can buy it, I don't want to make it.

I've tried close approximations a number of times because where I live there's generally not a wide variety routinely available and sometimes cost is a factor. I've also brewed a couple of styles never having tried them before. My son, who gets around more than I, still says the saisson I did ranks high among those he's tried. I enjoyed it but have yet to try a commercial example.

 

[bbohanon]

You keep checking Amazon Prime to see if they have started selling 50 lb bags of malt.

I have done this.

 

[1977Brewer]

You try to schedule your weekend outings around brewing activities.

"I can mash in before teeball if I get up at 6:30. I can Boil and chill and pitch before the birthday party if we're half an hour (okay an hour) late."

 

[m00ps]

You try to schedule your weekend outings around brewing activities.

"I can mash in before teeball if I get up at 6:30. I can Boil and chill and pitch before the birthday party if we're half an hour (okay an hour) late."

Yeah, that's every Friday and Saturday night for me. My friends will come over to drink while I brew, and I always tell them I can;t leave until I at least get the wort chiller going and lid on the kettle. Always counting backwards from then to figure out when I gotta put down the video game controller and mash in already

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Yeah, that's every Friday and Saturday night for me. My friends will come over to drink while I brew, and I always tell them I can;t leave until I at least get the wort chiller going and lid on the kettle. Always counting backwards from then to figure out when I gotta put down the video game controller and mash in already

Friends? Video games? Day drinking?

I think you missed the point of his post, because you obviously don't have kids!

 

[m00ps]

Yeah, no kids yet or in the near future. With all the homebrew equipment I have lying around, I'd be worried about that situation in the pictogram on every 6.5 gallon bucket (baby falling into bucket full of beer)