You know you're a home brewer when?
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Been waiting for this one...you know you're a homebrewer when it's finally spring, and outdoor barbecuing starts to look good...but you don't want to sacrifice your only almost full propane tank to the gas barbecue, because then where will you be on the next brewday????
When you have 3 propane cylinders, and you still think it would be nice to have a "spare". (Guilty)
Sparkncode
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You know you're a home brewer and an engineer when you look at the computer controlled milling machine you are building and realise that adding a suitable end effector in the place of the spindle and it could become a beer bottle filling palletising robot...
Sparkncode
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Brought a large sodastream cylinder with no intention of ever buying a sodastream machine.
Just got it as a reserve tank in case the big cylinder runs out at an inoppertune time and for portable keg operations
Just got it as a reserve tank in case the big cylinder runs out at an inoppertune time and for portable keg operations
geezerpk
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When you start evaluating 1/2 the items in your supermarket or big box store regarding their possible use in a homebrew recipe or procedure.
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Grainpaw
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When you have been homebrewing (764 batches) since 1978 and running a LHBS store (through 3 floods) since 1991.
timcadieux
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You have 4 taps but 12 kegs and are considering more, just because they look nice and are a good price.
When you clean and find 40 bottles that have been refermenting in some corner for over 2 months and forgot about.
When cleaning becomes more like moving because there’s brew stuff everywhere!
When you invite friends according to how much beer needs to be drunk to make space for the kegs that have almost finished fermentation.
When you have a standard answer that immediately blurts out when somebody asks whether you sell your beer or whether you can brew for some random occasion.
When you’re always late because that beer-thing you were going to handle quickly ended up taking three times longer than expected.
When you can’t have a beer with regular people without absentmindedly making a comment about it and finding them looking at you as though you just spoke an alien language.
When people no longer introduce you according to who you are, where they know you from or any personal reference but just 'the guy who can answer all your questions about homebrewing'.
Etc. etc. etc.
When cleaning becomes more like moving because there’s brew stuff everywhere!
When you invite friends according to how much beer needs to be drunk to make space for the kegs that have almost finished fermentation.
When you have a standard answer that immediately blurts out when somebody asks whether you sell your beer or whether you can brew for some random occasion.
When you’re always late because that beer-thing you were going to handle quickly ended up taking three times longer than expected.
When you can’t have a beer with regular people without absentmindedly making a comment about it and finding them looking at you as though you just spoke an alien language.
When people no longer introduce you according to who you are, where they know you from or any personal reference but just 'the guy who can answer all your questions about homebrewing'.
Etc. etc. etc.
You know you're a home brewer when you use your sous vide cooker for partial mash brews.
Careful! That sort of talk might just get you in trouble!
spddmn6
I love the smell of mash in the morning.
When summer camping trips revolve around the next stage in your process.
You know you're a homebrewer when you tell your sad lonely clean equipment, "next weekend baby...pinky swear." Because there's nowhere to put more at the moment. I've got six kegs...three full in the kegerator, one half full in the garage because needed room, one empty with a bad lid, and a full one in the brew room hopefully getting rid of diacetyl. And no room in the budget for more (or more bottles either). sigh. Just have to live vicariously through you guys for another week or two. And drink a LOT of beer.
sonic7173
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When your a homebody but go looking for parties just to clear space so you can brew this weekend. I hate running out of kegs
bracconiere
Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
when the people at feed store just start calling you "the guy that makes good beer"...( i don't think they know my name)
bracconiere
Jolly Alcoholic - In Remembrance 2023
when the thought of drug 'dependence', gives you the chills....
beerbomb
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When you say...im gonna only do extract brewing because more equipment isn't really a good idea, then you drop $200 on more equipment, and start all grain brewing.
timcadieux
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Haha, I remember these days well.
baldm79
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When you start buying more commercial beer than you did before you started brewing?
Please tell me I’m not alone.
Please tell me I’m not alone.
WFox93
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lol I go through spurts of this, usually for research purposes or if I go out of town to a region where there is beer I haven't seen before though.
To not veer too far off topic.
When your girlfriend cries almost as much as you do when the ball valve in your fermenter breaks and dumps half a batch on the floor.
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When you use your free time to learn more about brewing and recipes.
When you daydream about recipes and brewing.
When you daydream about recipes and brewing.
Sparkncode
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When you're scanning a local neighberhood social media site and see a post mentioning HBT and immediatly think homebrewtalk but it was refering to Hawkes bay today a local newspaper.
stella_tigre
Queen of the Upper Mississippi
This is where an old fashioned charcoal grill (or smoker!) has its advantage.
Cheesy_Goodness
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When the majority of your outside/utility buckets for yardwork are retired bucket fermenters
...when it starts warming up at Springtime and you start wondering 'how the heck can I keep all my beer cold?'
Desert_Sky
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Scotty B
Let's try it this way.
You know you're a homebrewer when you create contraptions as work arounds for expensive equipment that end up costing more than it would have been to just buy the expensive equipment.
But hey, I finally found another use for those spare coolers.
But hey, I finally found another use for those spare coolers.
