You know you're a brewer if...

[Pickngrin]

..... when you have left one of those 'good/fancy' restaurants just because you didn't like their beer selection.

And fabricated a bogus reason to your companions, or admitted the real reason?

 

[Jim Karr]

when your basement is so full of bottles, carboys, conicals, jugs, and brewing items that there are just pathways between them from one end of the house to the other.........

 

[whalenutz]

The term "blow off tube" doesn't bring anything even vaguely sexual to mind.

no matter what that term will always have sexual ramifacations

 

[ThreeSheets]

You watch football on Sundays and see nothing but mash tuns on the sidelines.

I laughed at this one... so true.

 

[JimE]

you realize beer can taste better as it warms up.

Yep! I just found myself saying that last night...

 

[HalfPint]

Yep! I just found myself saying that last night...

Yep.

I love to see the look on my BMC friends when I give them a growler of my beer and tell them to take it out of the fridge an hour before they want to drink it. What they don't realize is that BMC has to be served at extremely low temps so you don't taste any of the nastiness it has to offer.

 

[friarjohn]

when you drive 4o plus miles to got o your local supply shop.

 

[masonsjax]

If setting up the tree on black Friday involves bottles, not tinsel...

If you're a man and your first instinct is to head toward the kichen section of the store, rather than hardware, or automotive...

If Portland, OR appeals to you more than Hawaii as a winter family vacation spot...

 

[JimE]

when you drive 4o plus miles to got o your local supply shop.

Ha! I drove 138 miles roundtrip today to a shop. Spent 1.5 hours kicking around the store. Walked out with ideas for my next four beers and 1 ounce of irish moss.

It's just crazy...

 

[HalfPint]

If setting up the tree on black Friday involves bottles, not tinsel...

If you're a man and your first instinct is to head toward the kichen section of the store, rather than hardware, or automotive...

If Portland, OR appeals to you more than Hawaii as a winter family vacation spot...

Haha vacationing in Oregon does appeal to me!

 

[CoalCracker]

Spending 5 hours making a keggle, cutting and polishing all in one day.. I now giggle everytime I see it.

 

[jpardoe]

Ha! I drove 138 miles roundtrip today to a shop. Spent 1.5 hours kicking around the store. Walked out with ideas for my next four beers and 1 ounce of irish moss.

It's just crazy...

HA! 2.5 hour round trip for me...left with a pound of hops and two packages of yeast. Well worth the trip!!!!

 

[jpardoe]

The cop posts made this one come to mind...

If you've ever left the brewshop and hoped that if you get pulled over the cop wouldn't find your stash of stout smelling, green leafy substance and not buy your story of what it really is.

"Son, don't lie to me. I know weed when I see it."

 

[lady_brewer]

- When you Father in Law replaces the electric heat with a hot air furnace and you won't let him hook up the spare rooms so that you can lager in winter...

- When you are freaking out about having enough bottles to take care of the beer coming off today, knowing that you don't have any for the beer coming off in two weeks, and are seriously thinking of giving up and starting kegging...

- When you read to the end of this post before bothering to check if the bottles on the tree are dry...

- When you can't find anything commercial worth drinking, but your hubby emptied the pipeline and you consider not drinking until you have a new pipeline...

 

[Doog_Si_Reeb]

If you've ever left the brewshop and hoped that if you get pulled over the cop wouldn't find your stash of stout smelling, green leafy substance and not buy your story of what it really is.

"Son, don't lie to me. I know weed when I see it."

This is a good one! I worried about the same thing after getting my leaf hops from a hombrew club bulk buy. I handed the coordinator a wad of cash and he handed me a bag of dank smelling American leaf hops... in the parking lot of a book/music store. I didn't think about it until I started driving and realized how that may have looked. The mix of American hops gave my truck an unusual illicit smell too.

 

[Wade E]

When you drive through town on garbage day and see an old weight lifting bench and grab it knowing you can incorporate it into your brew sculpture or start a whole new one.

 

[khiddy]

If Portland, OR appeals to you more than Hawaii as a winter family vacation spot...

Haha vacationing in Oregon does appeal to me!

Or... If you move to Portland for the beer, and still take up the Homebrewing hobby!

- When you are freaking out about having enough bottles to take care of the beer coming off today, knowing that you don't have any for the beer coming off in two weeks, and are seriously thinking of giving up and starting kegging...

Or... If you keg, and realize that you're gonna have to head out to the store to get some cases of bottled beer to accommodate the brews you have coming ready next weekend, 'cause you're out of kegs!

 

[Imp_atient]

- When your wife asks you if you've rinsed all the potassium metabisulfite out of the baby bathtub so the baby can actually bath in it...

- When your children argue over who gets to put the priming sugar in the next bottle

- When you are lecturing your family on why beer is light sensitive while interrogating them as to who took the cover off of the carboy.

- When the sun angles in just that special way that you can see the dust in the air and you wonder if there's any yeast floating around in there

- When you go on vacation you are more concerned about people breaking in and taking your beer then your electronics

 

[AubreyR6]

When you have a hidden stash of bottles and growlers in the basement because your husband doesn't understand that you need those!

 

[buffalobrewer]

when the licence plate in front of you at a red light starts with DFH and you think maybe your next batch should be a dogfish head clone.

 

[k2brew]

When you see this and your first thought is sweet I could totally use those bottles!!!

Second thought, sweet that is a lot of drinking, maybe I'll do it next year. Then you realize that of course you won't because you will get to a point where you need the bottles.

 

[mordantly]

you buy someone a year membership for christmas.

 

[philrose]

you buy someone a year membership for christmas.

lol, nice profile pic!

 

[krops13]

You say ok I'm going to bed every 15 minutes while reading all 21 pages of posts.

 

[Netflyer]

You wonder if the Calcium Chloride flakes you are throwing on 23" of snow are 'food grade' and would be suitable to use for adjusting brew water...

 

[jjones17]

When you gain 5 pounds in a month but your diet and exercise regime have not changed, due to 'quality control testing'.

 

[user 22118]

You go to sample that new stout from the fermenter and realize that last night you ended up sampling it all with friends and go get your brewing equipment for another brew session...

 

[Cheeto]

When you plan on brewing Christmas day to test out new equipment.

 

[HickoryMike]

when you have to google 'SWMBO' after weeks of unsuccessfully guessing it's meaning

 

[Netflyer]

you feign about brewing a few days before Christmas to test the SWMBO's reaction to help you figure out whether or not there are brewing Christmas presents under the tree... 'No honey, why don't you wait until after Christmas'.. Bingo! (hoping for a refractometer)... Of course she could be playing me and just not want the mess to clean up before the Christmas Eve party... hmmm