Warning signs of homebrew addiction

[AGadvocate]

When you do side work to support your hobby.

 

[JonGrafto]

When you donate plasma to support your homebrewing habit. *This guy*

 

[rifraf]

When you donate plasma to support your homebrewing habit. *This guy*

Brilliant!

 

[kevinb]

You take a vacation day just to brew. (I wasn't going to have time during the weekend, and my pipeline was in jeopardy.)

You have a pipeline.

You rationalize your brewing decision to others.

Guilty, I have done this.

 

[rifraf]

After 1 month the LHBS owner knows you by name and you have each others personal cell phone numbers

 

[UpstairsBrewer]

When you move to a smaller apartment and convince your girlfriend that in order to save space and be financially economical you need a new kegging/kegerator system. Then you spend money renting a storage unit for all the bottles you refuse to get rid of.

When you spend 3 hours at work reading 94 pages of posts because you want to create a Top 50 list and frame it above the kegerator.

 

[Majafoo]

You constantly have to lie to people and tell them that you have more beer than you know what to do with.
You make more DIPA than is humanly possible to consume before it loses it's hoppiness because you need an excuse to order more hops.
You give people free beer so that you can empty your bottles for the 3 full carboys that need to be bottled.
You are constantly reminded that jokes about beer styles and intricacy are only funny at the LHBS, and on the internet.

 

[unionrdr]

When you find a bit more time consuming way to make absolutely sure your bottles are squeeky clean. Not to mention the big stack of 12'r boxes with some cleaned bottles you can't give away & refuse to toss.
Also,when you find a 12 pack of another batch you were sure you'd finished tucked away in a corner.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

When you find a bit more time consuming way to make absolutely sure your bottles are squeeky clean. Not to mention the big stack of 12'r boxes with some cleaned bottles you can't give away & refuse to toss.
Also,when you find a 12 pack of another batch you were sure you'd finished tucked away in a corner.

Or when you average 626.29 posts per month on Homebrew Talk

 

[theDeutscher]

You drink homebrew and have sex... AT THE SAME TIME.

 

[Darkness]

When the LHBS has a reward points program that started this Jan and it works out to about $10 a 100 spent and you are saving up for Perliks. I have $75 so far.

 

[GotPushrods]

When the garage is the first place SWMBO looks for kitchen utensils.

Along those lines, when your wedding registry is full of "brewing supplies" from Bed Bath and Beyond.

 

[Slyko]

You walk by the beer freezer at the grocery store......................................... and just scoff!

 

[Dawnhulio]

Also,when you find a 12 pack of another batch you were sure you'd finished tucked away in a corner.

It's better than Christmas when this occurs ...

 

[GioGomez2010]

If you start doing the math and calculating how much more beer ingredients or equipment you could've bought with the money you just spent on something else. (I bought new tires for the car the other day and all I could think of was in terms of how many batches I could've made with the money I just spent!)

 

[btgold29]

You have to explain to your cleaning lady why there are two carboys with t-shirts clothing them in the bath tub she is about to clean....

 

[oceanselv]

Your brewing gear is newer and worth more than your car.

 

[nickelmcgee]

When your son tells everyone at the kitchen table that he knows "daddy's favorite book of the bible; Hebrews!" Get it He brews.

or

When you take a PTO day to finish working on your fermentation chest.

or

First thing in the morning you dump the ice from the ice maker so you will have enough for the chiller on brew day.

 

[jed1975]

you watch your kid pour a glass of coke and you say, tilt the glass then straighten it up at the end... good head on that one son!

 

[kickrjason]

When you're looking at potential places to move and the first thing you look at in google maps after where it's located is if there is a LHBS.

 

[bscott1011]

You are reading through this thread instead of studying for the promotional exam that is in 2 1/2 hours

 

[asidrane]

When your wife goes into labor and you delay leaving for the hospital by an hour or two because that starter has only been on the stir plate for 12 hours and you can't cold crash it just yet.

 

[urbanmyth]

When you wonder why Cascade laundry liquid doesn't smell particularly citrusy or grapefruity

 

[Qhrumphf]

When you have a nightmare about fermenting too hot in a an uncovered carboy in the sunlight and drinking a skunky fusel bomb.

 

[theDeutscher]

When you take the day off work to brew. AKA Myself today.

 

[bchurch]

When you take the day off work to brew. AKA Myself today.

That's not an addiction that's just smart thinking.

 

[user 103238]

I just shows my daughter the sam technique when she helped me pour a can of Mama's Lil Pils!

you watch your kid pour a glass of coke and you say, tilt the glass then straighten it up at the end... good head on that one son!

 

[Slyko]

Your son is so proud of himself.................. he poured a better beer than you.................... or any of his friends & tells everyone about it!

 

[Curtis2010]

When you are building your own in-house brew pub...like me!

 

[btgold29]

When your addicted enough to think you can watch a 2 year old AND pull off and all grain brew day simultaneously... I made it happen... but never again.