You know you're a home brewer when?

[philjohnwilliams]

Not only do you sniff your airlocks, but you can actually convince other people to get down on the floor and sniff them too.

 

[Krovitz]

Not only do you sniff your airlocks, but you can actually convince other people to get down on the floor and sniff them too.

Hahaha. I've gotten a couple of friends to do this.

 

[unionrdr]

When you get into philosophical discussions about beer.

 

[bonnybunch]

You have no milk in the fridge but 1kg of lactose powder in the cupboard

 

[Boo-urns]

You have nightmares you ran out of beer!

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

When you look at krausen and pellicles and think, dang that is going to be delicious.

 

[Effingbeer]

You use your old long plastic spoon to mix up oxyclean and soap in the clothes washer as it fills.

 

[kombat]

You can spend hours reading a forum about "messy blowoffs," "gushers," and "reproductive stages," and never once think a dirty thought.

 

[sweetcell]

When you look at krausen and pellicles and think, dang that is going to be delicious.

lol, good one! yeah, showing a non-brewer a fermenter at high krausen invariably results in an "ewww gross!" comment. loving the stuff is a sure sign you've turned the corner :rockin:

 

[unionrdr]

When you can't wait for your home brew to be ready because it's better than store bought.

 

[rhcp313]

When you look forward to Fall because the ambient temperature in your apartment drops to "fermentation" temperature. (65F)

 

[TNGabe]

When you're sitting around on a Friday night hitting refresh every two minutes waiting for Hopsdirect Citra.

 

[innocent75]

When you can pour a homebrew without getting a "yeast bomb" at the end of the pour. Even after drinking a few.

Or you pour commercial beers so as to not disturb the yeast layer that is not even there

 

[dadshomebrewing]

When you are sitting around on Friday night hitting refresh on this thread

 

[naiek]

When you leave a party with more bottles than you brought

 

[Pitbull-brewer]

This might be more of a new brewer one.

When you create three new threads asking questions for your first all grain, not realizing most veteran brewers have answered this question on about a dozen other threads. It took me about 2 months to discover there is a search button here, so I know I am guilty of this.

 

[RandomBeerGuy]

When you clean your garage only to get ready for a brew day

 

[Krovitz]

This might be more of a new brewer one.

When you create three new threads asking questions for your first all grain, not realizing most veteran brewers have answered this question on about a dozen other threads. It took me about 2 months to discover there is a search button here, so I know I am guilty of this.

Ha. Everyone was guilty of this at some point. It was mind blowing when I realized 99% of my questions have been asked and answered years ago.

 

[bwirthlin]

You're at a party and take it upon yourself to wash out everyone's empty bottles.

 

[Krovitz]

You wake up to your girlfriend yelling "get your buckets out of the tub, I need to take a shower!"

 

[KeyWestBrewing]

You wake up to your girlfriend yelling "get your buckets out of the tub, I need to take a shower!"

We just shower with the carboy lol

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Your five year old knows to run and find you if the 18 month old is 'messing with daddys carboys again' (and the five year old uses the word 'carboy' with no pronunciation problems)

 

[unionrdr]

When you got no sleep last night & you wind up here.

 

[_max_POWER]

When a "quick trip" to Home Depot ends up being a few hours of wandering around looking for homebrew gadgets and do dads

 

[benco]

When you spend all your free time reading this forum on your iPhone!!

 

[tugbucket]

When you walk outside for a break and overhear two people talking about good and bad bacteria and things getting sour and you think yum. Never mind he was talking about his two year old being sick.

 

[wilsojos]

This might be more of a new brewer one.

When you create three new threads asking questions for your first all grain, not realizing most veteran brewers have answered this question on about a dozen other threads. It took me about 2 months to discover there is a search button here, so I know I am guilty of this.

In my experience, doing a Google search works better than using the search button, by the way.

 

[TNGabe]

When a "quick trip" to Home Depot ends up being a few hours of wandering around looking for homebrew gadgets and do dads

When I was putting my cooler mash tun together, I'd drop my wife off at work, then hit Lowe's at 6:01 am for a propane tank exchange and to spend, what undoubtedley seemed to anyone who happened to notice, a disconcerting amount talking to myself in the plumbing section.

 

[sweetcell]

In my experience, doing a Google search works better than using the search button, by the way.

this forum has built-in google, by the way. click the down arrow by the search box, at the top of the page above the HBT logo.

i only use the google search box. the default "always visible" search box is useless.

 

[Lushife]

When your daughter knows how to brew beer before she can read.