You know you're a home brewer when?

[Cultkid]

When you get a free beer fridge off Kijiji or Craigslist and after cleaning it you automatically spray it down with Starsan it "just in case"...

 

[jerryteague]

When you dump and wash out the bin you keep dog food in, because you need a swamp cooler. True story. Had to do it tonight because the batch I was gonna keg wasn't quite ready, so no room in the ferm chamber. On a side note, contractor bags work great for storing dog food...

 

[buzbey]

When your main motivation for buying a house is so you can grow hops and have a beer cellar

 

[OrdinaryAvgGuy]

You have only been brewing for less than a month and your spare bathroom looks like this.

 

[oceans11_gt]

When you have 6 cases of beer under your bed, a full wine fridge, a fermenter filled, and still think that you are running low on beer supply.

 

[kombat]

I just got back from a Caribbean cruise. Several of our excursions involved smaller boats, or included beverages. I caught myself admiring some of their Coleman coolers (they used them for holding boat stuff, or the drinks for us vacationers). I kept thinking, "man, that'd make a sweet mash tun." I didn't realize Coleman made a 120-quart cooler. I immediately made a mental note to keep an eye open for one on Kijiji, as my 50-quart can only handle 5-gallon batches and I'd like to try a 10-gallon batch.

 

[adamdillabo]

When you don't mind getting stuck at draw bridge or train tracks cause you get to read though HBT.

Norfolk va. Represent. Way too many tracks and bridges. And now I don't avoid them.

 

[maclaren]

You find a great deal on brew supplies while browsing craigslist, email the seller and then spend 60 minutes hitting REFRESH on your inbox.

Agreed!

 

[unionrdr]

When you still have brain fades while doing something in your brewing process.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When you have 6 cases of beer under your bed, a full wine fridge, a fermenter filled, and still think that you are running low on beer supply.

Lol, AMEN brother!

SWMBO: "Honey, what's that blinking light over the basement door?"

WilliamSlayer: "Hmmm, the automatic low volume light you say? Best get ta brewin..." (rolls up sleeves)

 

[LTownLiquorPig]

When you still have brain fades while doing something in your brewing process.

You get your weekend batch down Union?

 

[unionrdr]

Nah,I was waitin on the starter to drop from friday. Stuck it in the fridge this morning. Got the spring water & ice a lil while ago to hopefully brew tomorrow. The Cooper's heritage lager can should be comming in tomorrow too for the dark lager recipe.

 

[gibiore]

You keep typing IPA instead of PDF (I'm debating my next brew)

 

[davekippen]

when you pour water in the coffee pot and think that you should make some adjustments to the water chemistry to make the coffee taste just a little better....

 

[BorealBrewer]

You're making spaghetti sauce, and you add basil and oregano at 60 minutes, 30 mnutes, 10 minutes, and flameout.

"Will it ferment?" becomes a family road-trip game.

 

[Leadgolem]

You keep typing IPA instead of PDF (I'm debating my next brew)

Is it taking a class or something? Just what went threw my head when I read that.

You: Hey brew, you're going to be an IPA.
Brew: Nope, hefeweizen.
You: How do you justify the use of wheat in beer with all the starving people in the world?
Brew: How do you justify all that breathing with all the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?

 

[LeBreton]

When your sister texts to say she's taking a tour of Stone Brewery for 'work' (Can't fathom why since she works HR for a large computer company) and needs a couple of smart sounding question to ask to look smart in front of her bosses.

 

[918SoonerBrew]

When your main motivation for buying a house is so you can grow hops and have a beer cellar

Amen brother finding myself in the same predicament!

 

[TNGabe]

When your wife is glad you have bottles that need to carb and that means you'll keep the woodstove going.

 

[Krovitz]

When the power company says you won't have electricity until Thursday night by 11 and you're more concerned over your fermenting brew than your freezing pipes.

 

[keatz85]

When your calendar is filled with when to brew what, when to dry hop, when to bottle/keg, etc.

This, plus making an excel spreadsheet planning out the beers you're going to make month by month

 

[GrogNerd]

When your calendar is filled with when to brew what, when to dry hop, when to bottle/keg, etc.

This, plus making an excel spreadsheet planning out the beers you're going to make month by month

beersmith 2 calender function. brew days planned out for all of '13 to fit monthly HBC competition schedule

 

[iambeer]

When you wake up from a dream where you taste tested your latest batch. It tasted -- nightmarishly -- bland, like soda.

 

[WesleyBrewViking]

When you consider drinking store bought beer as "research"

That's me. I can't just sit and enjoy a beer anymore without thinking about how I would go about brewing something similar, so I've started looking at it as research.

 

[WesleyBrewViking]

When you wake up from a dream where you taste tested your latest batch. It tasted -- nightmarishly -- bland, like soda.

I bottled a batch a while back and didn't have any star san so I soaked the bottles in bleach water. One of the guys helping me bottle didn't rinse all the bottles properly so some of them ended up with a nasty chlorphenol taste. Since then, I've had "nightmares" where I pop open a bottle and smell band-aids - and then proceed to pour and drink it and taste band-aids - and then I can't get rid of the awful taste but I can't wake up... AAAAH!!

 

[wilsojos]

You switch from coffee to tea just so you can steep on a daily basis.

 

[timcadieux]

you have only been brewing for less than a month and your spare bathroom looks like this.

+1

 

[fergyrock]

When an empty Fermentor drives you crazy....Gotta....Brew.....Now!!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

You switch from coffee to tea just so you can steep on a daily basis.

when you no longer make coffee, you "sparge the grounds".

 

[Sspeedygee]

When you talk about how good the head you've been getting lately has been and your friends don't even blink.

Very funny!

 

[Sspeedygee]

When you consider drinking store bought beer as "research"

Research and development!

 

[wilsojos]

when you no longer make coffee, you "sparge the grounds".

Guess I'll switch back when I make the move to all grain

 

[ricksam]

When one of the (main?) deciding factors on which beer to purchase from the liqour store is how easily the labels are to remove from the bottles....

 

[GrogNerd]

this has been mentioned before, but it happened to me this morning

cooking oatmeal. water got to a boil, I turned it down to med-hi. added the oats and when it threatened to boil over, thought, "hot break!"

 

[nachotime]

You wake up to your girlfriend yelling "get your buckets out of the tub, I need to take a shower!"

Happened to me this morning... 2 carboys soaking in oxyclean...

 

[Jayhem]

You know you are a homebrewer when you plan out a brew day, get all your ingredients ready and right as you finish "mashing-in" your grain your wife/gf comes in and exclaims...

"What the *#&$ are you doing! It's our Anniversary tonight!"

But, you come up with a quick, witty excuse for forgetting...

"I just thought I'd surprise you and brew an Anniversary Ale for you, Honey!"

 

[cheesehed007]

When you bring flowers home for your SWMBO and you put them in a beer pitcher.

 

[wilsojos]

When you bring flowers home for your SWMBO and you put them in a beer pitcher.

Now that's romance, well played!!!

 

[GrogNerd]

When you bring flowers home for your SWMBO and you put them in a beer pitcher.



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Now that's romance, well played!!!

at least tell me that's not plastic

 

[cheesehed007]

at least tell me that's not plastic

Yes, and an Old Style pitcher ta boot. But no longer used for beer. Mainly used for watering plants and such...