You know you're a home brewer when?

[elaeace]

When your wife comes home with a soap/soap dispenser...you wash your hands with it and think..."ahh that smells hoppy"

 

[Beezy]

When your wife comes home with a soap/soap dispenser...you wash your hands with it and think..."ahh that smells hoppy"

My wife bought a basil hand soap. Everytime I wash I think the basil might be nice in a brew... Wait naw I wash my hands in PBW, I am a brewer!

 

[McHaven]

When "you smell like a brewery" is a compliment.

 

[unionrdr]

When you get off on bottling because you smell all that brew aroma rising out of the bottles while filling.

 

[jonmohno]

When i pour my girlfriend a good commercial craft brew and she drinks it and asks if it is my homebrew. And says "this tastes like one of your beers"

 

[2brew1cup]

When SWMBO says on a Saturday night "I don't feel well. Can we just stay in tonight?" and you have your strike water heating about 9 seconds later.

You are an amazing man..

underground and under the influence

 

[jonmohno]

You are an amazing man..

underground and under the influence

She's defeniatley passed out too.

 

[carrolte]

every time you drive by the farm supply you think FERMENTORS!

 

[2brew1cup]

When you know its common knowledge that no bubbles are not indicative of poor fermentation.. But you still lie awake at night wondering if its your fault.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When the bubbling sound of an airlock puts you to sleep.

 

[unionrdr]

When you hear that sound from the blow off jug,& it reminds you of that beer fueled chili fart you ripped in the pool last summer...

 

[kklowell]

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.

This one made me laugh....out loud!

 

[mh-brews]

Lose your part time job at the liqour store because of an agrument with the liqour store manager about the beer prices. The final straw was when he has you on camera showing pcustomers they can make the same stuff for half the cost. Mean while the hombrew club has doubled in size.

 

[fifthcircle]

Lose your part time job at the liqour store because of an agrument with the liqour store manager about the beer prices. The final straw was when he has you on camera showing pcustomers they can make the same stuff for half the cost. Mean while the hombrew club has doubled in size.

That's awesome!

 

[Nierika]

You use a mop on the ceiling.

Now that's funny, although with my RIS it was more like a spackle knife, sand paper, and a can of killz...

 

[Depression]

You know youre a homebrewer when your friends and family are worried.

 

[Nierika]

When your at SWIMBOS parent's house on Thanksgiving and her mom is watching the dog show, you're on hbt on your smartphone and hear them talking about "best in show" and "Westy" and have to agree even though your not watching.

 

[maxpower76]

When your at SWIMBOS parent's house on Thanksgiving and her mom is watching the dog show, you're on hbt on your smartphone and hear them talking about "best in show" and "Westy" and have to agree even though your not watching.

Doing the same thing!!

 

[m1k3]

You know youre a homebrewer when your friends and family are worried.

I got two Alcoholics Anonymous books for my birthday.

 

[Jklinden]

Your parents tell your grandfather that you brew beer over turkey at thanksgiving

 

[Token]

You watch a football game and admire all the mash tuns on the sidline.

 

[cadarnell]

You watch a football game and admire all the mash tuns on the sidline.

haha ... i do that too ... even when i am driving behind a construction truck with a nice 10 gallon rubbermaid strapped on the back.

 

[Mermaid]

Thought of another one...

You will willingly drink warm, flat beer ....

(just to see how it's coming along)

 

[mcginnis842]

...When you have 3 stir plates and they always have starters going on them.
...When you have a small freezer dedicated to yeast tubes.
...When "home brewing" books no longer cut it and you start getting professional brewing textbooks.
...When you have a 23 cubic foot freezer with temp control AND have a 6 keg kegarator fridge AND have a mini fridge all dedicated to just brewing stuff.
...You buy a pressure canner just so you can always have sterile wort for starters and can autoclave your yeast tubing equipment.
...You have more plastic buckets then dinner plates and bowls put together.
...You have custom excel sheets for tracking your current batches, what's in each fermentor, what's in each keg, what's on each tap, what's carbonating, what yeast you have in test tubes sorted by custom serial number, and a custom sheet with all of the different yeast strains with optimal temp ranges, attuenation, and alcohol tolerance.
...When you've gotten yourself a caliper to make sure the gap on your grain mill is "just right".
...When you've converted your basement shower into a custom "brew stuff washing station."
...You're mother is happy to let you randomly use her kitchen "to just make a few liters of starter" because you always end up doing the dishes and sanitizing the counter just have a clean sink and work space.
...When you notice the police sure do roll by your residence a lot.
...When you have at least three full propane tanks and still worry you might run out of fuel.
...When your car says in the drive way just so your brew equipment can be fully setup and at the ready for your next batch.
...You own more then five iPhone brewing apps and Beer Smith and Beer Tools and Beer Alchemy and still have your own spread sheet with custom formulas.
...You call in sick to work just so you can clean brewing stuff, prepare for the next batch, and bottle/keg a batch, and knock out a quick batch.
...You always volunteer to collect returnables for charity just so you get more bottles and contribute .20 a bottle to the local animal shelter.
...If you think the guy who invented StarStan deserves a Nobel prize.
...When you know who TakeSomeAdvice is and can't stop watching his train wreak videos because they're just too funny.
...When you start buying 50 lb bags of grain...just for your own brewing.
...When you never more relaxed then when you're stirring a boiling pot of wort and smelling the heavenly aromas and just grooving to the sound of the boil.

That's all I can think of at the moment from my personal brewing experiences. Looking at that list I don't know if I should be ashamed or proud.

 

[Depression]

You know you need help..

...When you have 3 stir plates and they always have starters going on them.
...When you have a small freezer dedicated to yeast tubes.
...When "home brewing" books no longer cut it and you start getting professional brewing textbooks.
...When you have a 23 cubic foot freezer with temp control AND have a 6 keg kegarator fridge AND have a mini fridge all dedicated to just brewing stuff.
...You buy a pressure canner just so you can always have sterile wort for starters and can autoclave your yeast tubing equipment.
...You have more plastic buckets then dinner plates and bowls put together.
...You have custom excel sheets for tracking your current batches, what's in each fermentor, what's in each keg, what's on each tap, what's carbonating, what yeast you have in test tubes sorted by custom serial number, and a custom sheet with all of the different yeast strains with optimal temp ranges, attuenation, and alcohol tolerance.
...When you've gotten yourself a caliper to make sure the gap on your grain mill is "just right".
...When you've converted your basement shower into a custom "brew stuff washing station."
...You're mother is happy to let you randomly use her kitchen "to just make a few liters of starter" because you always end up doing the dishes and sanitizing the counter just have a clean sink and work space.
...When you notice the police sure do roll by your residence a lot.
...When you have at least three full propane tanks and still worry you might run out of fuel.
...When your car says in the drive way just so your brew equipment can be fully setup and at the ready for your next batch.
...You own more then five iPhone brewing apps and Beer Smith and Beer Tools and Beer Alchemy and still have your own spread sheet with custom formulas.
...You call in sick to work just so you can clean brewing stuff, prepare for the next batch, and bottle/keg a batch, and knock out a quick batch.
...You always volunteer to collect returnables for charity just so you get more bottles and contribute .20 a bottle to the local animal shelter.
...If you think the guy who invented StarStan deserves a Nobel prize.
...When you know who TakeSomeAdvice is and can't stop watching his train wreak videos because they're just too funny.
...When you start buying 50 lb bags of grain...just for your own brewing.
...When you never more relaxed then when you're stirring a boiling pot of wort and smelling the heavenly aromas and just grooving to the sound of the boil.

That's all I can think of at the moment from my personal brewing experiences. Looking at that list I don't know if I should be ashamed or proud.

 

[m1k3]

You ponder if you were to die, who/if your beer in the fermenter would get bottled/kegged.

 

[2brew1cup]

^ dreamt about that

 

[Goblism]

...You're mother is happy to let you randomly use her kitchen "to just make a few liters of starter" because you always end up doing the dishes and sanitizing the counter just have a clean sink and work space.

I agree to all of the above except this one.

When you buy an extract kit so you can brew a beer while you are mashing another.

 

[jonmohno]

...When you have 3 stir plates and they always have starters going on them.
...When you have a small freezer dedicated to yeast tubes.
...When "home brewing" books no longer cut it and you start getting professional brewing textbooks.
...When you have a 23 cubic foot freezer with temp control AND have a 6 keg kegarator fridge AND have a mini fridge all dedicated to just brewing stuff.
...You buy a pressure canner just so you can always have sterile wort for starters and can autoclave your yeast tubing equipment.
...You have more plastic buckets then dinner plates and bowls put together.
...You have custom excel sheets for tracking your current batches, what's in each fermentor, what's in each keg, what's on each tap, what's carbonating, what yeast you have in test tubes sorted by custom serial number, and a custom sheet with all of the different yeast strains with optimal temp ranges, attuenation, and alcohol tolerance.
...When you've gotten yourself a caliper to make sure the gap on your grain mill is "just right".
...When you've converted your basement shower into a custom "brew stuff washing station."
...You're mother is happy to let you randomly use her kitchen "to just make a few liters of starter" because you always end up doing the dishes and sanitizing the counter just have a clean sink and work space.
...When you notice the police sure do roll by your residence a lot.
...When you have at least three full propane tanks and still worry you might run out of fuel.
...When your car says in the drive way just so your brew equipment can be fully setup and at the ready for your next batch.
...You own more then five iPhone brewing apps and Beer Smith and Beer Tools and Beer Alchemy and still have your own spread sheet with custom formulas.
...You call in sick to work just so you can clean brewing stuff, prepare for the next batch, and bottle/keg a batch, and knock out a quick batch.
...You always volunteer to collect returnables for charity just so you get more bottles and contribute .20 a bottle to the local animal shelter.
...If you think the guy who invented StarStan deserves a Nobel prize.
...When you know who TakeSomeAdvice is and can't stop watching his train wreak videos because they're just too funny.
...When you start buying 50 lb bags of grain...just for your own brewing.
...When you never more relaxed then when you're stirring a boiling pot of wort and smelling the heavenly aromas and just grooving to the sound of the boil.

That's all I can think of at the moment from my personal brewing experiences. Looking at that list I don't know if I should be ashamed or proud.

You need some serious 12 step program dude.I mean brew on dude!You may want to venture into the " You know your addicted to hombrewing when" post.

 

[jusware]

You go to a beer import store and determine which beer you are going to buy by the amount of yeast at the bottom of the bottle that you can harvest.

You travel for work and you keep a 50mL flask, some DME, and an airlock with you in your bag just in case you find a rare bottle with yeast in the bottom.