Warning signs of homebrew addiction

[jhorgan1]

when you decide to spend your food budget on buying brewing ingredients cause you figure hell, I can always use the spent grains to bake bread to eat

 

[Bradinator]

My wife is 5 days overdue and I am planning to sneak one more brew in before the baby comes.

 

[Croat]

When you spend time on a forum talking about beer to people who live some 8 000 miles away

 

[Reno_eNVy]

It takes me 15-30 minutes to build a 6-pack at Total Wine.... so much selection.

Warning sign that SWMBO is into this nonsense as much as I am: she's okay with me taking that long.

 

[Bradzukie]

When you are out checking tow on your towboat and the foam between barges reminds you of hotbreak. Then you think damn another 25 days left till I can brew again.

 

[JoeyChopps]

When u use a portal-john and u see the #2 recycle mark and the first thing that pops in ur head is "if I could get a new john and seal it up I can ferment in this bad boy"

 

[kickrjason]

My wife is 5 days overdue and I am planning to sneak one more brew in before the baby comes.

I did this in December. My "stubborn baby IPA" turned out great!!

 

[Robms88]

Your excel spreadsheet of your beer log is more complex than your university coursework.

 

[BeerAlchemist]

When, while at work, hoarding anything that is going to be thrown away and implementing it into your brew equipment.

 

[smurfwar]

Your excel spreadsheet of your beer log is more complex than your university coursework.

+1. I have spent hours writing macros and building hyperlinks into each brews dedicated worksheet.

Another is creating calendar events in you phone calendar so you can reference at any time the stages the brews will be in.

 

[Jayhem]

Figured I'd add to the list based on my recent dreaming..

If you have ever debated between 2 hop varieties for your IPA recipe in your dreams and woke up still confused as to which hop to use, you may have a problem.

 

[SkippyWilliams]

When your kids are watching you clean bottles and they say "Daddy there are still bubbles in there!" and you respond with "Don't fear the foam!"

 

[anonymouslyyours]

When you can hear tornado sirens, and the power is flickering in the house, but you continue to boil your hops to their target time.....

Seriously though..... there was a tornado about 10 miles north, and one 10 miles south.... :rockin:

 

[H-ost]

When you can hear tornado sirens, and the power is flickering in the house, but you continue to boil your hops to their target time.....

Seriously though..... there was a tornado about 10 miles north, and one 10 miles south.... :rockin:

Yeah I was told it is starting early over there this year.

 

[Lucky_Chicken]

you get home from work on a friday after sitting behind a computer all week and first thing you do is get on HBT

 

[ex_mo]

I know I drink too much when I constantly dream of horses. And raisins.

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[Xcorpia]

When you wake up at 5 am to brew even though you have to work that same night from 6 to 6. I'm beat! *yawn*

 

[robh245]

When u use a portal-john and u see the #2 recycle mark and the first thing that pops in ur head is "if I could get a new john and seal it up I can ferment in this bad boy"

Would you call that a Porter John or Dopplestinkah?

I have often thought of other random fermentation vessels only to realize the issue would be in temp control. Maybe you could run glycerol through it somehow. The frau would be pleased. lol

 

[SwampassJ]

I set my phones homepage to my control panel. Every time I get back in my truck for a water break or to move it I pull it up and read a post or two. It was really bad when I got my first smart phone I would look for reasons to take a water break.

 

[kickrjason]

When your routine for cleaning and sanitizing your home-brew bottles is more thorough then the cleaning and sanitizing of your 3 month olds bottles.

 

[SwampassJ]

When your routine for cleaning and sanitizing your home-brew bottles is more thorough then the cleaning and sanitizing of your 3 month olds bottles.

You're building up his immunity.

 

[kickrjason]

When you dry beer equipment on your newborns bottle drying rack

 

[Ply318ci]

When you reach high school chemistry and you wonder if you could get away with doing a homebrew session as a lab.

 

[jonmohno]

When you dry beer equipment on your newborns bottle drying rack

Youll be stealing your baby jars for harvesting yeast before you know it.Hilarious pic.

 

[nattron]

My wifeis talking to me right now but I am still typing. Oh yeah I have 3 carboys in my closet.... that too

 

[BillyBock]

When you cram every last thing you can into the attic space above the garage in order to turn a closet into your brew closet/ferm chamber.

SWMBO asks: "Where is our (insert name of irrelevant object)". Me: "I don't know, check the attic".

 

[BillyBock]

My wifeis talking to me right now but I am still typing. Oh yeah I have 3 carboys in my closet.... that too

I have 3 carboys full, but a better bottle and bucket empty still. Need to brew tomorrow!

 

[nattron]

I have 3 carboys full, but a better bottle and bucket empty still. Need to brew tomorrow!

Almost did today but resisted

 

[unionrdr]

When you have plenty of bottles already,but can't resist recycling the German bottles. And save many more for whoever might need them,including good craft 12'r boxes as well. I started thinking maybe I should change my video series to,bottles,boxes,& blow offs!! lolz...:rockin:

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

When you have a moment of wisdom and realize that, with 17 Corny kegs full, you might need to slow down the brewing. A bit.

MC