You know you're a home brewer when?

[stbnj]

When your "recycling" bucket is a 5 gallon Home Depot Bucket with oxyclean and water in it for delabeling. When the bucket fills up we rinse them and delabel.

 

[divrguy]

Why do I laugh when I see this? Lol

 

[divrguy]

why do i laugh when i see this? Lol

Double vision! 🍻🍺🍻

 

[BamaPhil]

...When you walk around the neighborhood on recycling pick-up day, scouting for bottles. Then, upon finding a 6 pack of local craft brew bottles, you leave a note on the door begging for more!

He responded, even offering to save caps too! I told him I didn't need the caps, but I now have a bottle source that claims to put away 2-3 Sweetwaters a night.

 

[pickpocket909]

Girls panties fly off.


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[unionrdr]

When financial aspects of life finally go your way again & you can once more order brewing supplies! It was late November since I got anything to brew.:cross:

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

When financial aspects of life finally go your way again & you can once more order brewing supplies! It was late November since I got anything to brew.:cross:

So.... Whatcha brewin?!?


"Sometimes Im right half of the time ...."

 

[unionrdr]

I decided to check out More Beer!'s AE kits to get the pipeline going again. Less time involved without mashing,etc. My middle son works 6 days a week,so maybe if I can start early I can squeeze off a batch before taking him to work. Then do the other one. I ordered their Irish red ale & an ESB. They come with a couple pounds of grains as well.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

Nice! Im a big fan of double brew days!


"Sometimes Im right half of the time ...."

 

[insanim8er]

Nice! Im a big fan of double brew days!


"Sometimes Im right half of the time ...."

I'm a big fan of doing double batches in a single brew

Got 5 gal of grapefruit and 5 of lemon lime American wheat I'm about to get into kegs tonight.

 

[plath]

You decide to head to bed early to read the new complete joy of home brewing instead of watching tv.


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[the4gottenman]

When you tell the lady at Big City Burrito that you're envious of her huge pots.

 

[unionrdr]

When seeing empty fermenters gives you an ache in your gut...

 

[roastquake]

You decide to head to bed early to read the new complete joy of home brewing instead of watching tv.


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... and you've already read the complete joy of homebrewing twice

 

[Beernik]

You're digging through the freezer for some sausages and you find two ounces of hops you lost last summer.

 

[DrunkleJon]

You're digging through the freezer for some sausages and you find two ounces of hops you lost last summer.

Open em up, no cheese? brew em up!

 

[Beernik]

I'm making two beers next weekend. But I can't work either of these in. I need some recipes for an oz topaz, an oz Willamette, and two oz Hallertau.

 

[DrunkleJon]

What am I going to do. Cant fit a brew in this weekend. or next weekend as vacation starts that friday. Might be able to squeak one in sunday the 4th. I am going to go into withdrawl at this rate.

 

[JohnSand]

When you are cooking with your wife, pasta with shrimp. And you refer to adding the cooked shrimp as a "flame-out addition".

 

[Beernik]

Dug through my other freezer looking for sausages (that only exist in my mind) and found 3lbs of DME for making starters that I lost years ago.

 

[govner1]

You're seriously bummed ups rescheduled the delivery for your northern brewer order until tomorrow even though you have no plans to brew until the weekend.


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All the more reason I'm very happyy well stocked LHBS is only 6 miles away!


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[Cheesy_Goodness]

Wife and I are moving next month, so I told myself I'll bottle the beer/wine/mead I've got fermenting and not do anything new until we get settled...

Fortunately the devil on my shoulder convinced me that there's still plenty of time for a quick pale ale

 

[insanim8er]

So As I've mentioned before, I buy big packages of brew gear to re-sell. This is how I supplement my hobby.

I just scored a bunch of amazing gear off CL last night... A 14.5 gal Blichmann conical fermenter. A 15 gallon Blichmann boilermaker with the false bottom. Another SS 15 gallon pot with welded fittings, SS ball valve and thermometer and a JayBird false bottom. Another unmodified 15+ gal SS pot, 13 ball lock corny kegs. 12 glass carboys (most are 6 and 6.5 gal some are new in the box) three 5 lb co2 tanks and two 20 lb tanks regulators... Propane burners, an un opened bag of 2 row. Plus a ton of other stuff.

I already have 3 Blichmann boiler makers and 6 SS fermenters, but I want to keep the boilermaker and conical... I'll make more than my money back plus profit and have those for free, but I don't need them.

So now I'm starting to wonder if I'm a homebrewer or a brew gear pack rat. Ugh! Now I know how hoarders get started!

Oh, and to make things worse... There's this really rare corny keg. It's 5 gal ball lock with a racetrack lid. It's like my 10 gal corny just short. The thing fits into my max cold cooler like a glove. Now I want to keep it and have TWO portable kegerators. One that does two beers (two 3 gal kegs) and this one for a single tap. I DONT NEED TWO! But I want them... Lmao



If gear hoarding is a sin, I'm going to home brew hell.

 

[JohnSand]

Homebrew Hell hath no beer!

 

[insanim8er]

Homebrew Hell hath no beer!

Probably because it's too hot to ferment properly...

 

[JohnSand]

 

[tjmac5071]

When you are at the beer store and try to find something in cans you haven't tried before because you don't need any more bottles for homebrew but can't help cleaning and storing anyway.

 

[ted464]

When your old man, who you introduced to home-brew and craft beer, says that both have ruined him drinking any commercial beer.


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[SupervisingChildren]

When you see a carboy as a terrarium at your parent's house and want to yell at them for wasting it.

 

[JohnSand]

That's a terrarium?! I thought it was just a wild ferment!