You know you're a home brewer when?

[Golddiggie]

Before you even interview for a new job, where you really want to move to, you're researching homebrew clubs, supply stores, and the water in the area. You also start looking for places that will be better suited to brewing. Such as with a decent porch, or garage where you can setup to brew.

If said job doesn't come through, you're already prepared to move to a new place close to where you are now, that you'll be able to brew at without issue. Again, with an area that's easily adapted for brewing, and places to ferment year round without issue.

 

[BrewerBear]

Though birthday brews are something to be excited about.

I thought birthdays were a reason to brew.

 

[Bradzukie]

......... your a towboater and you have 2 barges of wheat, 6 of corn and 2 of rice and you think "damn, I could make a crapload ofbeer with this stuff!". So 10 barges is roughly 25,000 tons of product. That's a lot of grain!

 

[Darkness]

After date night you and your wife sit in the beer storage area and talk about how to organize the shelves better, so you have more room for beer. While you drink a Bourbon Barrel aged IIPA that you made.

 

[unionrdr]

When your retiree budget gets tighter,& you realize you're going to have to brew your own to save money. Oh darn. Your mind then goes into hyperdrive going through brew notes for a good,but cheap to brew ale.

 

[MaddBaggins]

When the open garage door becomes an invite to the neighbors. "Hey, Baggins is brewing, lets go hang out in his garage." Never mind that its 100˚ and humid. "hey, what do you have on tap right now?"

 

[sendkyleanemail]

You have a hydrometer in the "special" drawer that also contains a length of rope, handcuffs, zip ties, a paddle (not for mashing) and other non brewing toys.

 

[MaddBaggins]

When you show up at the gas station to have 4 propane cylinders filled.

 

[RedGuitar]

Does anybody else try to figure out what beer characters are drinking in TV shows and movies?

 

[boxofjibboo]

Does anybody else try to figure out what beer characters are drinking in TV shows and movies?

Definitely

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When your watching breaking bad and the dea agent is bottling his homebrew. He wakes up to bottle bombs thinking someone is shooting his house up and you say damn what a waste of brew.

 

[Gregwarro]

You start selling off everything in your garage to make more room for home brew projects.

When looking at houses the only thing on your mind is where the brewery will be set up, and the best place for the bar will be.

Thank you craigslist, now I have all the room I need... for now.

 

[emjay]

You have a hydrometer in the "special" drawer that also contains a length of rope, handcuffs, zip ties, a paddle (not for mashing) and other non brewing toys.

Talk about unsanitary! I hope you have some Star San in that drawer too

Does anybody else try to figure out what beer characters are drinking in TV shows and movies?

k
Always. I'll pause it and even go through the shot(s) frame by frame trying to determine whether or not the character has good taste in beer.

Unfortunately, it's often purposely rotated to make it really difficult, if not impossible. And an even bigger bummer is when you look up the beer online, really interested because you've never even heard of it before... and it's a freaking PROP BEER. Gah!

 

[philjohnwilliams]

[/QUOTE]6. You set up a baby monitor so you can hear the airlock bubbling from your bedroom:[/QUOTE]

+1

 

[duckredbeard]

Talk about unsanitary! I hope you have some Star San in that drawer too

k
Always. I'll pause it and even go through the shot(s) frame by frame trying to determine whether or not the character has good taste in beer.

Unfortunately, it's often purposely rotated to make it really difficult, if not impossible. And an even bigger bummer is when you look up the beer online, really interested because you've never even heard of it before... and it's a freaking PROP BEER. Gah!

There was a Jeff Foxworthy show that regularly featured an Atlanta micro called Sweetwater. They showed the labels, had signs, t shirts on the actors. Surely they paid for that. Foxworthy is an Atlanta native, by the way.

 

[duckredbeard]

Homebrew is used as currency when negotiating the use of a neighbor's truck.

 

[iambeer]

You want to post to "So who's brewing this weekend?" on a weekday.

 

[biochemedic]

Your wife buys this bag to give a gift to friends who just had a baby:

.....And all you can think of is: "Does that come with a subscription too?"

 

[RedBeard1]

When you have to change your passcode at work and you change it to the FG of the batch you just bottled

 

[jknapp12105]

When you fart and wave the smell in your face and think about storing the fart in a sanitary bottle and use it in a brew.

 

[duckredbeard]

Your daughter's 7th grade science experiment involves ferulic acid and 4-vinyl guaiacol, and is the second tap from the right.

 

[duckredbeard]

When you have to change your passcode at work and you change it to the FG of the batch you just bottled

Genius! I have to change passwords all the time!

 

[emjay]

Genius! I have to change passwords all the time!

Nice. Should be able to guess it within about 20 attempts now. Use the OG... at least it will have a wider range :fro:

 

[RedGuitar]

Because of moving and changing jobs, I haven't been able to brew since May. I finally got my first paycheck in 2 1/2 months this week, so the first place I went? My new LHBS! Brewing tomorrow! My pipeline is dangerously low... I might have to actually *gasp* buy beer in the next 6 weeks.

 

[BrewerBear]

You walk into a room when the TV is finishing an IHOP commercial ending and you wonder what hops they used before you think of breakfast food.

 

[unionrdr]

When you haven't brewed in a few months due to stove burner fubars. Then you find a place to get new ones & what do you do? By the NZ hops that are on sale,15oz of them. And a PM cascade pale ale kit for good measure.

 

[RedGuitar]

When SWMBO walks into the kitchen, sees this and automatically knows to leave you alone the rest of the day.

 

[allthingsgiant]

when swmbo walks into the kitchen, sees this and automatically knows to leave you alone the rest of the day.

+1

 

[asidrane]

When you look for glass bottles for your newborn because you know the plastic ones scratch too easily.

 

[lewishowardm3]

When you open a vacuum pack of whole hops , take a sniff, shout YES and fist pump the air!!!