You know you're a home brewer when?

[BrewerBrad82]

When you have 6 fridges in your house but groceries are only allowed in one of them.

 

[Brauer]

When you have over 100 bottles,can't fill all of them at any given time. But you keep trying. Then hunt for better boxes to put them in. And your freezer,fridge,& pantry have brewing stuff taking up space. Then,the comp room starts turning into a make-shift man cave...Couldn't be me,no not me...

⬆This guy must be spying on me⬆

 

[MI_Dogman]

all you do is window shop every online home brewing equipment web site.

Oh..... and you can't stop ordering things off of AMAZON! love that site!

 

[Zekk]

You buy wines (especially champagnes) partially because you think the labels will be easily removed.

Lol, or you wont buy beers that have painted on labels. Even my wife looks at beer bottles and before we buy them she asks if I can bottle in them

 

[unionrdr]

⬆This guy must be spying on me⬆

Over 3 or 4 hundred bottles now, & I gave smeltz about half of what I did have! Brewery moreso than man cave now. Got mom & dad's old 1921 drop leaf shaker table in here too.
But you also know you're a home brewer when your chili pepper growing son finally asks you to come up with a IIPA for them & help design the label! :rockin::rockin:

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You know you're a homebrewer when you check the hopsdirect.com website EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY waiting for the 2014 hop you want to get pelletized.

Woohoo! Northern Brewer finally available, and before they ran out of Amarillo!

 

[Psylocide]

"Facebook? Is that like Homebrewtalk forums?"

 

[bleme]

"Facebook? Is that like Homebrewtalk forums?"

Sort of, but where this is for people who like to make beer, Facebook is for people who like to make faces. They call them "selfies".

 

[wbarber69]

When you realize the birds are mimicking the sound of your set temp alarm on your e-HERMS brewing panel...

 

[unionrdr]

Then they start making sounds like people talking outside at a distance. Then they fly closer & you here Canadian Geese. I thought at first it was the locals with torches & pitchforks...

 

[1977Brewer]

When you try to weasel ingredients into the grocery budget, entertainment budget, and savings budget.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

When you know you have enough bottles that you only save the ones that have labels that are easy to get off.

I had one that was giving me a hard time the other day so instead of wrestling with it I threw it in the recycle bin.

I felt like a king.

 

[grrickar]

You wander the hardware aisles thinking about how mundane everyday items could improve your brewing process...

 

[Natdavis777]

When its 42F and 1145PM and you are still boiling in your garage!

 

[jbb3]

...you spend your Friday nights drawing the last details of your keezer build, reading HBT, and drinking beer. But not necessarily in that order...

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

Just remembered a random one

Back in middle school we did one of those murder mystery problems. We were given a list of suspects and had to eliminate suspects based on the facts of the story (ie it couldn't have been John because the forensic analyst suggests the killer was right handed, but John signed his statement with his left hand).
One of the suspects was somehow allergic to grapes, and since there appeared to be two half finished wine glasses at the crime scene, we were to eliminate that suspect. I didn't get it right because I knew wine didn't HAVE to be made from grapes.

You know you're destined to be a homebrewer when you know more about brewing at 11 years old than the publisher of a textbook.

 

[edroberts]

You try to figure out a way to move your brewing equipment to the basement and still have room for the family in case you need to take shelter for a tornado warning.
- True story... and I'm a consulting meteorologist. I opted to leave it in the garage. Last rest of my decoction mash ended up going for 3 1/2 hours as I had to help clients through the storms. Brew day done at 1am. -

 

[user 62649]

When most of your garage and basement is brewing gear, bottles, posters and signs of commercial beers, your kids start to taste your unfermented wort and tell you that its not hoppy enough, when your wife asks if there will ever be a night that is not all about beer.....

 

[edroberts]

You are watching the spin cycle happen in your washing machine and wonder if the same thing could be used to pull wort out of a BIAB setup instead of the traditional squeeze. You search Craigslist for old washers to mod as a mash tun.

 

[BadDeacon]

You are watching the spin cycle happen in your washing machine and wonder if the same thing could be used to pull wort out of a BIAB setup instead of the traditional squeeze. You search Craigslist for old washers to mod as a mash tun.

Nice!!!

 

[DrunkleJon]

Your new fridge has a measured pour on the dispenser in the door and you ponder using it for filling your HLT for your brewing water. Then realize that you are going to have to do this by the oz, and that the filters for refrigerators are ridiculously expensive.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Nice!!!

Oh and get one with a stainless drum. Easier to clean.

 

[fastengine]

You know you are a homebrewer if there isn't a bottle of beer on the planet that when you pour it you don't leave a 1/4 inch of brew in the bottom just in case you want to harvest the yeast out of it.

 

[ThreeDogsNE]

How about when your son wakes up in the morning, inhales, and says: Dad's mashed in already!

 

[Psylocide]

When you find three bottles of a batch that you thought you had kicked and it feels better than when you find a $50 bill in an old pair of jeans on laundry day.

 

[unionrdr]

When you're ready to go paleo on a certain microsoft engineer for erasing BS2 when you told him not to right before he signs off!

 

[plumber_bob]

When you're ready to go paleo on a certain microsoft engineer for erasing BS2 when you told him not to right before he signs off!

Been there, recovered from that! The cloud is where it's at!

pb

 

[unionrdr]

Beersmith guy helped me get my stuff back. Definitely gotta use the cloud this time. Got crushed grains sealed up & stuff outta the freezer/fridge to try again this morning.

 

[Eucrid]

When you read "Brian Williams and his camera crew were riding in a Chinook helicopter across the desert." and you picture a big hop cone with blades spinning around above it.

 

[unionrdr]

Hm...might make a cool avatar?...