You know you're a home brewer when?

[BasementBrewmistress]

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

This

 

[Monstar]

You would rather drink your worst batch instead of buying a sixer because, god damn it, you created it.

 

[unionrdr]

When you make a beeline for the cable store when your modem goes south just so you can back on HBT! Then check out your airlock...

 

[Plumeja]

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

guilty

 

[CGVT]

You take a leak and as the bubbles start to dissipate you wonder why the head retention is so poor.

 

[unionrdr]

When you're watching a guy showing how to make black bean soup,see the foam starting to rise on top. Then instantly think "hot break! Cool"!

 

[corkybstewart]

Your wife takes old White Labs vials full of salad dressing for her lunch at work.
When you check new kitchen faucets to make sure you can attach your bottle washer adapter before you buy it.
When you stay up until 3 AM bottling 10 gallons of beer the morning of your double hernia surgery because you know it'll be weeks before the wife lets you do anything and you'll be out of real beer long before then.

 

[Beezy]

Your wife takes old White Labs vials full of salad dressing for her lunch at work.
When you check new kitchen faucets to make sure you can attach your bottle washer adapter before you buy it.
When you stay up until 3 AM bottling 10 gallons of beer the morning of your double hernia surgery because you know it'll be weeks before the wife lets you do anything and you'll be out of real beer long before then.

Lol I was wondering what to do with those vials.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you lay down next to your carboy watching the yeast swirl around and then you smell the airlock hoping to get a whift of the sweet nector.

 

[solbes]

When you start haggling with the wife to get ANOTHER fridge. But first you have to move 10 cases of empty beer bottles up to the garage truss storage.

 

[jmlabeck]

I was enjoying this thread, thinking, "I'm not like that." Then, I remembered this one time, I stood next to the bottle return at my local supermarket. Some guy came up with a cart full of empties. I bought them from him (5-cents each) so I would have more bottles to fill.

So, never mind. I guess I am.

 

[Monstar]

I was enjoying this thread, thinking, "I'm not like that." Then, I remembered this one time, I stood next to the bottle return at my local supermarket. Some guy came up with a cart full of empties. I bought them from him (5-cents each) so I would have more bottles to fill.

So, never mind. I guess I am.

Ha, nice!

When you are at Starbucks waiting for your car to get out of the shop, and you wish you would have brought a pen and paper to practice your beer math.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you get upset when your keg is empty

 

[Hoodweisen]

When you get upset when your keg is empty

I never thought of that before. thats amazing!

 

[aberry]

When you make home made pizza crust and proceed by adding hot water, bread yeast and sugar in a glass and you have to run to your phone to txt your brew buddies to tell them you just made a starter.

 

[TVM71]

Having four kegs...two on tap and one on standby yet feeling like a slacker since the fourth is empty.

 

[truckndad]

When someone says the word "sediment" and the first thing that comes to your mind is trub.

 

[Beezy]

Ha, nice!

When you are at Starbucks waiting for your car to get out of the shop, and you wish you would have brought a pen and paper to practice your beer math.

What are you talking about? Smartphone + brewing apps or STFU.

 

[firsttraxx]

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

That's the one.

 

[RedGuitar]

I was enjoying this thread, thinking, "I'm not like that." Then, I remembered this one time, I stood next to the bottle return at my local supermarket. Some guy came up with a cart full of empties. I bought them from him (5-cents each) so I would have more bottles to fill.

So, never mind. I guess I am.

I'd love to have my bottles for 5 cents apiece.

When you start making deals with SWMBO so you can have a brew day.

When you have 200 bottles of beer and you think, "I'm starting to run low."

 

[Beerfarts79]

You try to use your beer equipment names as euphemisms to get your wife "in the mood!"..."let me mash in your lauter tun until it's time to sparge" "no, that's not my hydrometer in my pocket, I'm just happy to see you"... Can I transfer to secondary yet?!...

 

[Monstar]

What are you talking about? Smartphone + brewing apps or STFU.

Lazy

 

[Rockape66]

When you can't walk by a fermenter without sniffing the airlock for a shot of bliss.

When you're not upset when the keg is empty: Now I can brew again!

 

[othellomcbane]

When you glance over at the insulated coffee cup on your desk at work and consider that it could be used to mash a very, very small batch of beer.

 

[unionrdr]

When you get whiffs from the two ales fermenting on the stand next to the computer.

 

[tonyolympia]

When you set your baby up in her highchair in front of the carboy, to watch the yeast dance while she eats her lunch.

 

[CHefJohnboyardee]

When your house gets an energy audit and the auditor is more interested in your homebrew setup...

 

[dezman]

When you're not upset when the keg is empty: Now I can brew again!

this is true (i need more kegs damnit!)

 

[m1k3]

When making instant oatmeal for my son: I think of strike water and yell mash.

 

[BrewingRugger]

When you have brewed two batches in three days and have already planned two more for the following weekend!!!