You know you're a home brewer when?

[Lushife]

You have birthday parties for all of your equipment

 

[BPhad]

When you mute the T.V. to listen to the blow off tube.

I was just sitting by my fermentor for last 30 mins! Nothing like the sound of co2 being emitted!

 

[Lushife]

I was just sitting by my fermentor for last 30 mins! Nothing like the sound of co2 being emitted!

I brought my wad into the living room so it can watch tv with me. F'ing autocorrect wad=mead

 

[cluckk]

I brought my wad into the living room so it can watch tv with me. F'ing autocorrect wad=mead

I was wondering why you were telling us what you did with your "wad." I figured that should be kept private.

 

[unionrdr]

Thanks to my fermenter stand being my old printer stand,I can sit at the comp & airlock sniff & listen to blow off sounds all I want without moving. But you know you're a home brewer when you still can't wait for those bottles to get ready for fridge time!

 

[cluckk]

When your wife walks into the walk-in closet/fermentation chamber, shakes her head, mumbles under her breath and walks back out.

 

[unionrdr]

She wants that space to herself,trust me. Women collect cloths & shoes. We collect important stuff like tuner car parts & beer making stuff. Besides guns for hunting & fishing stuff. I've got my makshift man cave for my beer stuff & the comp. all I need now are some french doors,a table,fridge,....

 

[zmanzorro]

Besides guns for hunting & fishing stuff.

I want to go fishing with you ...

 

[unionrdr]

I just wish I had a boat,living near Lake Erie. Piers are ok when the jet skidooshes aren't being a pain in the ass.

 

[CDGoin]

We collect important stuff like tuner car parts & beer making stuff.

:rockin:

Glad I am not the only one..

You see whats in my walk-in closet. Those be Opel parts for my Manta and GT on the shelf just behind the fermenter (which is itself sitting on tool cart).

Going to get a storage building to move all the parts so I can take over the whole room for Brewing activities.

 

[unionrdr]

I love Opel GT's. Cool little cars. I have a pair of reclining racing buckets in the room I need mounts for.

 

[RedGuitar]

When SWMBO asks, "So were you drinking beer, mead or wine?" when she notices how happy you are. Haha, she forgot about the cider.

 

[cluckk]

When you're awakened by a bump in the night and your first thought is about your fermenters.

 

[Lushife]

When you bring your fermenter in to your daughter's room so your beer can here the bedtime story

 

[jamesdawsey]

When you get a job at your LHBS because if you're going to be there all the time anyways they might as well pay you for your help.

 

[GotPushrods]

Nothing like the sound of co2 being emitted!

My wife begs to differ...

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you put your fermentor in your room and place a blow off tube on and the blurb blurb of the bubbling puts you to sleep.

 

[RachmaelBenApplebaum]

When you spot a crate of malted pancake flour in the kitchen at work and begin devising a way to make a brew with it in one of those "worst case scenarios". Post-Collapse Pancake Brew anyone?

 

[Clemons3ea]

Then,the comp room starts turning into a make-shift man cave...Couldn't be me,no not me...

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When you spot a crate of malted pancake flour in the kitchen at work and begin devising a way to make a brew with it in one of those "worst case scenarios". Post-Collapse Pancake Brew anyone?

Lol, desperate times call for desperate measures!

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When you wake up with a spring in your step because you got all the wine racked over last night AND the lager is bubbling away nicely in the basement area.

 

[cluckk]

My wife begs to differ...

My wife doesn't mind the sound of emitting CO2. She dislikes the emitting of methane--from me.

 

[ArnooBrew]

When you discover the hard way that Pyrex jugs aren't meant to go directly onto the stovetop, and explode into a thousand pieces.

 

[twalte]

When you discover the hard way that Pyrex jugs aren't meant to go directly onto the stovetop, and explode into a thousand pieces.

Is this true? I have been heating my pyrex Flask on the stove for yeast starters. Is that a no-no??

 

[sweetcell]

Is this true? I have been heating my pyrex Flask on the stove for yeast starters. Is that a no-no??

i've heard that electric elements are a no-go with pyrex, but gas stoves are OK. i've boiled my starters directly in my pyrex* flask on my gas stove with no problems.

ArnooBrew, did you use an electric stove?

* correction: borosilicate glass... thanks GotPushrods.

 

[GotPushrods]

Is this true? I have been heating my pyrex Flask on the stove for yeast starters. Is that a no-no??

Pyrex is a brand name, it doesn't necessarily mean the item is made of borosilicate glass. The lab-grade stuff (i.e. your flask) almost always is. If you do a search here for "Pyrex borosilicate" you should find lots of info. It's probably good to know for sure, we don't want any 3rd degree burn pics!

 

[tone_s]

When your Fridge or fridges start looking like a forensics lab, due to all the jars and test tubes of washed yeast you may or may not use, but can't seem to part with any of it.

 

[ArnooBrew]

Is this true? I have been heating my pyrex Flask on the stove for yeast starters. Is that a no-no??

Completely true, mate. Google "Pyrex explode" and read lots of similar stories to mine.

Pyrex can apparently handle going into the oven, but not going directly onto the stovetop. The thermal stress is too much for it.

I was just heating a small volume of water on my gas stovetop, to sterilise and then chill, so I could hydrate finings for my fermenter.

The explosion was unbelievable. I figure that this experience qualifies me as a homebrewer. I'm sure many other homebrewers have made this mistake.

 

[emjay]

I regularly boil my flasks on the stove top (though I start with the flame very low and gradually increase it), and move it right from boiling to an ice bath. Never had an issue. A decent borosilicate flask should be able to handle that, as that's pretty much the kind of use they can expect to get in a lab. Reasons for failure are usually that it's too thin/poor quality, that it's a different kind of glass, (quite commonly) that the flask has been damaged - however slightly - and thus compromised, or even when they're heated without water.

 

[Starderup]

When you see some mystery plastic object and think, 'That might make a good fermenter.'