You know you're a home brewer when?

[Wakadaka]

your friends forget that beer actually costs money, and some people actually buy it.

 

[E-Mursed]

When you sleep with your beer under your pillow? And stick a nipple on one to suck on to fall asleep. What!

Could you post a picture or a crude drawing...??

 

[crbrown25]

...when you suggest to your wife that the breast milk needs to be in the bottle AT LEAST 3 weeks before serving it to the baby.

 

[MyNameIsPaul]

When your spelling mistakes have been corrected by Shecky on HBT for misspelling in a thread title.

 

[LandoLincoln]

When you go to the hardware store for something completely unrelated to brewing and you end up wandering the aisles for half an hour looking over hardware just to see if there's anything that you need to modify your brew setup.

 

[Golddiggie]

When you go to the hardware store for something completely unrelated to brewing and you end up wandering the aisles for half an hour looking over hardware just to see if there's anything that you need to modify your brew setup.

And then you arrive back home with twice as much stuff as you were supposed to get, with the extra being for use in brewing, or brewing related.

My last several trips to hardware stores have been brewing related/driven.

 

[binkman]

Instead of buying batteries and flashlights that SWMBO sent you out for, so you are hurricane-prepared, you buy a co2 tank and some other hardware so's you can have five gallons of homebrew on tap during the impending natural disaster, instead.

 

[crbrown25]

...when you pour a can of campbells tomato soup into a pot and leave about 1/8" in the bottom of the can.

 

[Reidman]

When you've had more than one person ask you if you're running a meth lab out of your garage...

 

[Ravenshead]

...when you pour a can of campbells tomato soup into a pot and leave about 1/8" in the bottom of the can.

Almost lost a mouthfull of beer on that one. I haven't done that with soup, yet. However, I have to keep telling myself when pouring a comercial beer that I don't need to leave the dregs.

 

[tmurph6]

You tilt your water bottle when filling it up at the water cooler at work.

 

[tmurph6]

The cleanest thing in the house is a 5 gallon glass carboy

 

[Dan]

When you could make love to your SWMBO or brew, and you brew!

 

[RedGuitar]

When you start researching your next recipe while chilling the wort.

 

[Golddiggie]

When you start researching your next recipe while chilling the wort.

You wait that long??? I have recipes formulated for the next 6-8 batches now. The order is subject to change, and minor tweaking can happen right up until when I mill the grain, but I at least have a solid idea of what I'm brewing next, and a few after that.

 

[RedGuitar]

I know what I'm going to brew for the rest of the year. But I don't start putting the recipe together until after I brew the recipe I just put together.

 

[Dillinja666]

When you can't have a room mate cause the 2nd bedroom is where your beer equipment sleeps

 

[unionrdr]

When your computer room starts turning into your brewery/man cave...

 

[Sparqui]

When you write a database, make a website on your PC so that you can enter data from your iPhone, and use it on brew day to track the styles, OGs and names of your brothers in law and nephews that are brewing with you. All data entry is done via iPhone in the back yard as measurements are taken.

 

[ozzy1038]

You brew a batch of beer at home! Duh! LOL

 

[RedGuitar]

You have a dream about being surrounded by beautiful women but you're explaining the differences in beer styles to them.

 

[beerloaf]

When you show up to work and your hands smell like beer but you haven't been drinking. Then you tell your boss that your hands smell like beer because you had to purge your keg in the morning before work.....

beerloaf

 

[shuckit]

When you ready this whole thread before work in the morning.

 

[Whippy]

...when you are the only person on the block who celebrates Columbus Day...

 

[unionrdr]

When you're on here answering noobs questions,& the novices come in & try to prove you wrong with someone else's knowledge as if it were there own.

 

[carrolte]

when you drink your beer in order of worst to best.

 

[lou2row]

When trying new beers, you don't say if you like or dislike.

It's,"I'd brew that." or "I don't think I'd want five gallons of that."

 

[HopShot]

When you take a corny keg with you to go refrigerator shopping

 

[peanut1181]

When you take a corny keg with you to go refrigerator shopping

Perfect!

 

[elaeace]

When you know your batch is fermenting but you keep looking at the airlock bubbling because it makes you happy!