Warning signs of homebrew addiction

[Jon73]

When you notice that your neighbor has a dishwasher for sale and you start thinking of ways to hook it up in the garage to make cleaning bottles easier.

 

[Phantastik]

When you start to wonder if sending a group text message to your extended family three minutes ago, that simply said, "87% efficiency!" was such a good idea.

 

[unionrdr]

When you're giving your beers there fridge time for the holiday,& you keep stopping to admire how clear & beautiful they are.

 

[jonmohno]

When you're giving your beers there fridge time for the holiday,& you keep stopping to admire how clear & beautiful they are.

Your definatly sneaking into them before Christmas. Arn't you!

 

[unionrdr]

Things that make ya go hmmmm...Maybe. Her summer ale clone might be the better of the two to try tonight. The Burton ale may well need the week to get decent head & carbonation. The Whiskely ale did,& it was just shy of 10 weeks in the bottles.
But You know you're addicted when a member posts a link for a really cool freeby,& your all over it like shizz on velcro...!

 

[jonmohno]

Just don't start comparing the quality of head you get from both, unless your couch is really comfortable.

I definatly could say i get it more often from my beer, and its not even generally that often.

 

[unionrdr]

Hey,even a beer can go off prematurely,turning you into gooboy!

 

[praetoriv]

You tell your wife, "Well we don't have the nativity set up but we do have a fermentor working."

 

[coypoo]

When you think of using the babies bottle drying thing to dry beer bottles and the like

 

[btbonser]

When your wife pours a glass of Mott's apple juice and you run and grab your hydrometer so you can measure the gravity for your upcoming batch of Apfelwein.

 

[reddirttj]

SWMBO: What did you do with all of my stuff in the pantry

Me: moved it to make more room for brewing pots etc.

She also asked why I had wood chips in a jar of bourbon and asked if was going to chew on them... We are both learning as we go.

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah,boy! A lil bourbon soaked oak between the cheak & gum is mighty good!

 

[H-ost]

That actually sounds kinda pleasurable... coupled with a cigar would be even better.

 

[unionrdr]

Didn't think of that one. Hmmm...

 

[imabrewaholic]

That's nothing until you've installed BeerSmith(2) to your dropbox folder so it will sync with your home desktop, brewing laptop and work computer. Then you spend your breaks and lunch hours and any moment you can get away with at work formulating your recipes.

so would that work on my phone also? Sure would be nice when having to make substitutions at the lhbs.

warning signs
-when everyone at your yard sale think you are selling refrigerators.
-when you have crates of brew conditioning in your dining room.
-you have carboys fermenting by your front door so they stay warmer than in the garage which is where the lagers are.
-Your spare room has yeast covered ceiling and is full of bottles aging.

 

[milldoggy]

When your laundry room looks like this.

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[milldoggy]

And you hvac room looks like

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[milldoggy]

And your garage looks like this

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[milldoggy]

And lastly, when your fridge looks like this

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[Stevo2569]

And lastly, when your fridge looks like this

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A real brew fridge would not have that much food in it. Looks like you have some work to do.

 

[milldoggy]

A real brew fridge would not have that much food in it. Looks like you have some work to do.

Sorry, we had a family dinner last night and our office potluck today, otherwise it would be empty.

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[Chuginator]

A real brew fridge would not have that much food in it. Looks like you have some work to do.

LOL!

 

[Golddiggie]

And lastly, when your fridge looks like this

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That's not a BREW fridge, but a fridge with a few brews in it...

Now THIS is a BREW fridge...

Fridge section is for beer ONLY. Freezer section is for hops (plus freezer packs for brew/brewing related use).

 

[H-ost]

What size/type of keg are those, Golddiggie?

 

[Golddiggie]

Top left is a 2.5 gallon, the rest are 3 gallon. Fridge is a 10 cubic foot Whirlpool unit (from Sears). I had to pull the light bulb, and plastic shield, out in order to get the top right keg in. I have two gas lines going in through bulkheads (dual body regulator feeds them) that connect to two manifolds, so that I can do two different pressure sets to the kegs. I have the 2.5 gallon, with my mocha porter, at a lower psi than the rest.

I can put four 3 gallon kegs into the fridge... I'm just waiting to empty the 2.5 gallon before I put a 3 gallon in it's place.

 

[milldoggy]

Sorry I keg everything. There was 16 yeast jars in my main fridge. I could have also showed my bar. False front cabinets. Matching granite to the rest of kitchen. Also have a two tap kegerator in the garage just for sour/funking ale.

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[copyright1997]

No pictures, but I am getting crazy like some of you.
- Kitchen refrigerator (25 cu ft) half full of jars with yeast and a variety of beers that I am "thinking" of brewing.
- A kegerator in the basement with 3 corny kegs
- A new chest freezer (7 cu ft) with another 3 corny kegs (holds 4) that I am intending to build a collar or irish coffin (I rushed it into "service" with picnic taps as I needed someplace to put the ready to drink corny kegs).
- A upright freezer in the basement, with a FULL shelf of hops (close to 20 #)
- Another refrigerator in the basement (23 cu ft) that I use as fermentation chamber
- A motorized barley crusher in the garage mounted on top of a bathroom vanity
- About 250-300# of grains from group buys in the basement in various food-grade containers
- Another 8 5-gallon containers I used for water which I get from a local spring so that I have a supply ready to brew (I like the taste of it better than my well water).
- and so on...

 

[oakbarn]

You are planning on selling your big house, move the wife into a condo and build a purpose built brewery with the extra money on a vacant lot. I am planning a small bed room just in case!

 

[bcrderrick]

When your wife gets a new mixer for christmas and you want the case it came in to make yet another stir plate

 

[nrock74]

You get some packs of Starbucks iced coffee flavoring & the 1st thing you think of is how it will taste in your Stout.