You know you're a home brewer when?

[MacDub7]

When you drive the car to work Instead of the truck to save money for more fermenters and brew kits.(The truck is so much more fun to drive though). )

+1 except riding the bike instead of driving the truck. LOVE the truck, but pushing the pedals not only helps save money for brewing, but also makes me feel less guilty about all the home brew consumption.

 

[MaddBaggins]

when you store more pots in the garage then you do in the kitchen

I do that. Lolz

 

[MacDub7]

rdwhahb

Haha. This is my all time favorite!

 

[MacDub7]

When you use brown lunch bags to disguise the beer you share with your coworkers. And, you park somewhere that you can hand off empty bottles and brewing equipment to fellow brewing coworkers where the surveillance cameras won't see you.

HA! Definitely have been on both sides of this transaction.

 

[splattsmier]

when you store more pots in the garage then you do in the kitchen

+1, along with 5 sankes I haven't found a use for...yet.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When your coworkers are throwing a party and the room goes instantly quite as they wait in suspense to see if your going to supply the beer.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

You get legitimately upset with yourself when you realize you don't have any homebrew in the fridge, only stupid ol Guinness (grumblegrumble)

...and then promptly console yourself by having a Guinness

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

When u rationalize that me buying a 12 pack of Sam Adams is way cheaper than most people, cause I get $5 worth of bottles

 

[Malty_Dog]

...when you briefly consider dumping a few bottles of that Sam Adams Summer Ale in order to make room for a few bottles of your latest batch. Of course you don't but you were this close to breaking a beer commandment.

 

[jerryteague]

When you save all your .750's so you have an excuse to buy a floor corker for your Saisons.

 

[SPR-GRN]

When you walk into the local package store and see that microbrews are going for $10 a four pack and nearly poo yourself.
You don't remember them being more than $8 for a six pack
and you don't recall seeing microbrews in cans at your package store

Then you realize you haven't been to the package store for beer in quite some time...

 

[mcangeli]

You spend your lunch break wandering the aisles of Lowes or HD looking for the parts you need for your <insert project build here> build and then go home and spend the rest of the time making things work.

 

[zzARzz]

When you kill time in the plumbing section of Home Depot even though your plumbing works fine.

 

[zzARzz]

You spend your lunch break wandering the aisles of Lowes or HD looking for the parts you need for your <insert project build here> build and then go home and spend the rest of the time making things work.

Lol, didn't read that until after I posted. Great minds think alike, huh?

 

[bigskygreg]

When you're drinking a beer at a restaurant and think about how to smuggle the bottle out to use for your homebrew. Then the wife says "don't even think about it" before you even say anything.

 

[thatjonguy]

When you're drinking a beer at a restaurant and think about how to smuggle the bottle out to use for your homebrew. Then the wife says "don't even think about it" before you even say anything.

Just ask them? Doubt they would care, seeing as you are reducing their waste disposal cost. Unless you live in a deposit state.

 

[Qhrumphf]

When you're drinking a beer at a restaurant and think about how to smuggle the bottle out to use for your homebrew. Then the wife says "don't even think about it" before you even say anything.

Or when you're think about how to smuggle the dregs of the bottle to pitch into homebrew.

 

[beaksnbeer]

When you're drinking a beer at a restaurant and think about how to smuggle the bottle out to use for your homebrew. Then the wife says "don't even think about it" before you even say anything.

I had my wife fit 11 Bell's bottles in her purse after her company party, she's much happier that I can literally keg everything now

 

[Mozart]

When you've gone from, "What can I brew that tastes like what I buy?" to "What can I buy that tastes like what I brew?"

 

[jerryteague]

Or when you're think about how to smuggle the dregs of the bottle to pitch into homebrew.

I actually have my wife carry a sanitized mason jar (8oz) in her purse for just that reason. I have tons of 1056 and 1028 because of it. Now I just need to get some really good Irish ale yeast for a red that I want to do...

 

[Schmoogdaddy]

When you've gone from, "What can I brew that tastes like what I buy?" to "What can I buy that tastes like what I brew?"

Awesome.

Oktoberfest is the only one I buy anymore.

 

[Beernik]

You wear out a churchkey.

 

[cody6173]

When forced to choose between a job with a 45 minute commute and one with a 10 minute commute you choose the 45 minute one because it means you can hit up the bottle shop on the way home

 

[beaksnbeer]

When forced to choose between a job with a 45 minute commute and one with a 10 minute commute you choose the 45 minute one because it means you can hit up the bottle shop on the way home

You pick the one 10 minutes (or 9.6 miles) so you can get a batch started before the wife gets home

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

...when you briefly consider dumping a few bottles of that Sam Adams Summer Ale in order to make room for a few bottles of your latest batch. Of course you don't but you were this close to breaking a beer commandment.

The commandment is not broken if you pour six of em in a plastic pitcher so you can have the bottles, knowing you have to drink the pitcher before going to bed lol

 

[libeerty]

You agree to live with your SWMBO and her mother for a few months and one of the primary reasons is the capacity to brew on the deck because of the NG hookup, and the ability to have brewing equipment all over the basement.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

The commandment is not broken if you pour six of em in a plastic pitcher so you can have the bottles, knowing you have to drink the pitcher before going to bed lol

Did the same thing with a gallon jug of wine a while back. Yeast was pitched that night for a batch of JAOM and the wine was gone in a week or two :rockin:

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

When you pay slightly more for five 1 gallon bottles of apple juice to make hard cider jus so you can get five 1 gallon "carboys" to make 5 different experimental batches of the same beer (varying yeast and spices)

 

[Hulud]

When you're watching Breaking Bad and think two things:

Man that RV looks like my closet

Hank should keg so he doesn't think there are gun shots in his garage

 

[plumber_bob]

When you're watching Breaking Bad and think two things:

Man that RV looks like my closet

Hank should keg so he doesn't think there are gun shots in his garage

I thought about the keg thing too! Lol

pb