You know you're a home brewer when?

[drainbamage]

When you're a middle-aged home brewer on here, & you can find an off-color joke in just about anything!...

You'll always grow older, but you never have to grow up!

 

[unionrdr]

I don't? Dammit, why doesn't anyone ever tell ME these things???

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

When you continually refresh the UPS tracking site for your order to see if it's been delivered yet.

(IT'S ON THE TRUCK RIGHT NOW!!!! ^_^)

 

[Renegades_Brew]

When you continually refresh the UPS tracking site for your order to see if it's been delivered yet.

(IT'S ON THE TRUCK RIGHT NOW!!!! ^_^)

Doing this about 2 times daily for my new phone right now! today it went from china to korea... Still way too far away...

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

I'm getting set up to bottle a batch of BM's Centennial Blonde. I always look through the neck of the bottles to make sure there's no funk on the bottom before I do anything. Usually I'll use the light from the window to illuminate the bottom, but it's 6 in the morning, so I maxed out the backlight on my laptop instead.

You know you're a homebrewer when you can turn damned near anything into a homebrew aid

 

[unionrdr]

When it's cool enough in the brewery/man cave to try some of the beers from the box you just got some from for the fridge & they're good!

 

[ShockedHop]

When you make a homemade stir plate for your starters and your wife says "what the hell are you doing now???" I make a lot of little things but a stir plate along with a starter in a two liter flask just sitting around mixing kinda looks dubious!


Keg #1 - IPA
Keg #2 - Dos Borrachos ( Mexican Cerveza)
Keg #3 - Frostbite (Winter Ale)
Keg #4 - empty
Primary #1- Lights out Stout (Irish Stout)
Primary #2- Kölsch
Primary #3- Hefeweizen
Primary #4- Letting off Steam ( Steam Ale)

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

That reminds me...
We had some company over a few weeks ago. I had my stirplate going with a starter for a beer I had brewed that morning but didn't get around to chilling to pitching temps. The stirplate was on the counter so my wife's aunt asked what the hell that was and how it was spinning itself, so I happily showed her how it worked. She seemed pretty interested but I thought she was just being polite.
Fast forward to this past weekend, she and more family came up and one of her first questions was something along the lines of "Where's that automatic stirring thingy? You need to show everyone that thing, it's awesome"
You know you're a homebrewer when guests in your house ask to see homebrew equipment

 

[unionrdr]

Or your neighbors call the cops & they come over to check out your meth lab...

 

[zmanzorro]

You get giddy when Homebrewing in mentioned on prime time TV (Brooklyn 99, 11/16 episode).

 

[Peyope]

How about this one I found myself doing recently. You know you're a homebrewer when you avoid commercial beer with impossible to removable lablels (Im talking to you stone, my label doesn't look as good stuck over yours).

 

[COEBRA]

Or your neighbors call the cops & they come over to check out your meth lab...

I always wondered if this ever happened to anyone lol! Everyone that finds out I homebrew are always like "Don't get caught. That's illegal you know." I always roll my eyes and show them my baggies of priming sugar and hops so they think I sell drugs too lol!

 

[poptarts]

I got an email the other day about some holiday chocolate chip cookie recipe. Took me awhile to realize that it wasn't a beer.

 

[DrunkleJon]

I got an email the other day about some holiday chocolate chip cookie recipe. Took me awhile to realize that it wasn't a beer.

But it could be. How about if you take other recipes and put thought into how you would turn them into beer recipes instead

 

[kombat]

You get giddy when Homebrewing in mentioned on prime time TV (Brooklyn 99, 11/16 episode).

LOL! I noticed that reference. Santiago on why she was late: "My husband brewed a Pilsner lager and it's bottling day." Peralta: "Bottling Day!?! Why did you even come in at all!" My wife and I laughed.

 

[wbarber69]

i got an email the other day about some holiday chocolate chip cookie recipe. Took me awhile to realize that it wasn't a beer.

 

[BBQB]

How about this one I found myself doing recently. You know you're a homebrewer when you avoid commercial beer with impossible to removable lablels (Im talking to you stone, my label doesn't look as good stuck over yours).

Soaking in Starsan takes it right off


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[Black Island Brewer]

Soaking in Starsan takes it right off


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I'll try that with the plastic Elysian labels, but I don't think it will work...

 

[Peyope]

Soaking in Starsan takes it right off


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Really? I've soaked in pbw overnight with no luck. Same issue with southern tier and a local brewery that use stickers. Such a pain compared to normal labels.

 

[unionrdr]

For sure! I think some breweries are using printed computer labels. Dang things must have super glue on'em! Starsan might help get them loose? I'll have to try that on some plain bottles I need to delabel.

 

[SupervisingChildren]

Soak in hot Oxyclean overnight. Most labels come off pretty easily that way.

 

[COEBRA]

Soak in hot Oxyclean overnight. Most labels come off pretty easily that way.

Yes but not the new plastic ones. Companies are switching and the new ones are super hard to take off.

 

[finsfan]

Yes but not the new plastic ones. Companies are switching and the new ones are super hard to take off.

Crookes stave has those and some of the most ridiculous adhesive i have seen. A couple hour soak in oxyclean to get the label off and a week soak in oxyclean to get the adhesive off. Works like a charm.

 

[zmanzorro]

Stone and Southern Tier don't have labels. They're literally painted on. The only way to probably get them off is to start scraping.

 

[jtd_419]

Stone and Southern Tier don't have labels. They're literally painted on. The only way to probably get them off is to start scraping.

Soak a few days in diluted star san and wipe with a green scrubby, paint wipes right off

 

[beernbourbon]

Or just leave them and put the sublimely self righteous clone in that bottle cuz you've drank enough of the real thing to be able to do that.

Jus sayin'.....someone might have that exact situation.... Maybe....


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[W0GWT]

When your kids take creative license with your carboys:

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I was there when they did it, so I'm not worried about any contamination.

 

[soccerdad]

Um --- who cares if the labels come off ???

 

[Black Island Brewer]

Um --- who cares if the labels come off ???

Every judge every in competition.

Plus, not taking the labels off looks white-trashy. But to each his own...

 

[soccerdad]

Fair enough BIB. I guess I know I'm a white trash brewer. Competitions have zero interest for me, but I have plenty of clean bottles if they ever did. Most of my beer gets consumed with the fam and they KNOW what white trash I is.