You know you're a home brewer when?

[Stauffbier]

When you ask a local microbrewery if you could spend your vacation helping them brew for free.

Nice first post! I picture you working at a brewery with a bunch of people, and they don't even realize nobody hired you. Then somebody tells the boss and he says "we've fired him twice, but he keeps showing up everyday".... haha

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When people find it amazing that when you taste beer and we (as in homebrewers) can pick out all different types of flavor. While the non brewers just taste beer.

 

[DryHoppinMad]

Confused. What does this have to do with brewing?

I wrote this to mean that fluorescent light skunks the beer, but a heated fermentation is not a bad idea either:rockin:

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you always read threads and everyone argues about how to this or that. You sit there and laugh while sipping on a brew.

 

[Copperpots_Brewing]

You get in bed at 11:00, and stay up until 11:50 looking through HBT at everyone's brew sculptures... Just smiling. Thinking of what you can add to yours to make everything more efficient.

 

[wSelwyn]

The only thing you talk about at the bar is about beer, breweries, and your next batch(s).

 

[urbanmyth]

When in your sleepy morning tiredness you hit the snooze button and imagine you are a decocted grain bed heading back into the main mash for a sacc rest.

 

[Dawnhulio]

The only thing you talk about at the bar is about beer, breweries, and your next batch(s).

Yes! The other night we went out with friends and the first questions out of everyone's mouth was 'What's fermenting?' (Cherry Stout) 'Are your labels done yet?' (Nope, been sick and haven't been able take the artwork I want to use someplace with a big enough scanner to do the job)... 'Are you sharing any homebrew at your party next weekend?' (Yes, but hubby pointed out to me later we'd be hiding half of it for our own enjoyment this summer)...'What are you brewing next?' (A Dubbel)... 'Have you kegged yet?' (Also nope, still don't have a tank or pressure gauge) etc. etc. etc.

 

[tennesseean_87]

When you're beating eggs with a fork in a plastic bowl, and avoids scratching the sides so your omelet doesn't get infected.

 

[turvis]

Nice first post! I picture you working at a brewery with a bunch of people, and they don't even realize nobody hired you. Then somebody tells the boss and he says "we've fired him twice, but he keeps showing up everyday".... haha

Its hard to fire some one who isn't on the pay roll lol. Was waiting for a wity reply for my first post.

 

[hodge]

When you refer to the grounds left in the bottom of your coffee cup as "dregs".

 

[downtown3641]

When you refer to the grounds left in the bottom of your coffee cup as "dregs".

I've always done that.

 

[CGVT]

Yeah, used that term before I ever brewed.

BTW, I know it's been a while, but I would like to thank the moderator that changed the Your to You're in the thread title.

It bothered me every time I saw it (it is a petty, I know)

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you go to your family or friends house and check there fridge. You shortly realize they only have Miller Light. You tell them you'll be right back. After 30 mins you return with 4 cases of your favorite mirco. You stuff the fridge beyond full and say "That's better"

 

[Erroneous]

That has to be the cheapest way to get a fridge full of good beer. Fill it with miller lite and invite you over

 

[emjay]

when you have a permanent saltwater cooling bath in your freezer

Heh, I did this about a month ago, for both beer and soda. Don't use it for homebrew though as it needs sufficient time for proper carbonation.

That could be it. But I just didn't think of it. In the south it's hard to have a reason to warm the fermentation chamber.

I thought all light skunks beer. Maybe fluorescent more then others?

UV light skunks beer. Fluorescent puts out FAR more UV than incandescent bulbs, but many LEDs put out none.

 

[Zuljin]

... you realize that you can clean everything in the house, and make it look like new, with the same chemical agents used for your brewing grear.

I mixed some BEST brand iodine with some Meyers cleaner and am loving the results.

 

[hogwash]

you visit friends up north (pittsburgh in this case) and upon drinking the very cold tap water you think "man, i could cool my wort really quickly if our tap water was this cold."

 

[Golddiggie]

When you have over ten pounds of hops in your freezer (which is the freezer in the brew fridge, not the one for food) and you're thinking about buying even more.

When you have over 200# of base malt and you're worried about running out before the next club buy (3x a year).

 

[Channel66]

When you are out to eat with swmbo and all you can think about is how well your whiskey stout would pair with this coffee rubbed steak.

 

[BigfootCounty]

you know you are a homebrewer when your hot water heater has two settings: mash and sparge

 

[PhelanKA7]

When you work at a soda bottling plant and write up a proposal to your boss for a Star-San misting system to clean bottle caps going to the capper.

 

[Big_Belgian]

When you refer to the grounds left in the bottom of your coffee cup as "dregs".

Sometimes I steal a cup of coffee from my wife's coffee-maker before its done percolating through the filter - the extra strong stuff. I refer to it as the "first-runnings".

 

[Dale4beer]

when you talk to your swmbo about what you should brew next and your 4 year old asks what hops you are going to use.

I must talk about brewing way to much.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When your friend is going to a LHBS and asks if you need anything

 

[Lucky_Chicken]

When you find carboys at a yard sale for $10 and you buy all of them not because you need them, but because they are cheep, and you can always use more!!

 

[DrDan]

Your kitchen is always spotless and the rest of the house is filthy.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you no longer see empty bottles as trash.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you can scrape together a recipe from all the left over hops, grains, and rack a brew to secondary just to reuse the yeast for your newly finished brew.

 

[davekippen]

...when the only thing that makes that strange anxious feeling go away is when all your fermenters are full.