You know you're a home brewer when?

[keatz85]

When your calendar is filled with when to brew what, when to dry hop, when to bottle/keg, etc.

This, plus making an excel spreadsheet planning out the beers you're going to make month by month

 

[GrogNerd]

When your calendar is filled with when to brew what, when to dry hop, when to bottle/keg, etc.

This, plus making an excel spreadsheet planning out the beers you're going to make month by month

beersmith 2 calender function. brew days planned out for all of '13 to fit monthly HBC competition schedule

 

[iambeer]

When you wake up from a dream where you taste tested your latest batch. It tasted -- nightmarishly -- bland, like soda.

 

[WesleyBrewViking]

When you consider drinking store bought beer as "research"

That's me. I can't just sit and enjoy a beer anymore without thinking about how I would go about brewing something similar, so I've started looking at it as research.

 

[WesleyBrewViking]

When you wake up from a dream where you taste tested your latest batch. It tasted -- nightmarishly -- bland, like soda.

I bottled a batch a while back and didn't have any star san so I soaked the bottles in bleach water. One of the guys helping me bottle didn't rinse all the bottles properly so some of them ended up with a nasty chlorphenol taste. Since then, I've had "nightmares" where I pop open a bottle and smell band-aids - and then proceed to pour and drink it and taste band-aids - and then I can't get rid of the awful taste but I can't wake up... AAAAH!!

 

[wilsojos]

You switch from coffee to tea just so you can steep on a daily basis.

 

[timcadieux]

you have only been brewing for less than a month and your spare bathroom looks like this.

+1

 

[fergyrock]

When an empty Fermentor drives you crazy....Gotta....Brew.....Now!!

 

[Billy-Klubb]

You switch from coffee to tea just so you can steep on a daily basis.

when you no longer make coffee, you "sparge the grounds".

 

[Sspeedygee]

When you talk about how good the head you've been getting lately has been and your friends don't even blink.

Very funny!

 

[Sspeedygee]

When you consider drinking store bought beer as "research"

Research and development!

 

[wilsojos]

when you no longer make coffee, you "sparge the grounds".

Guess I'll switch back when I make the move to all grain

 

[ricksam]

When one of the (main?) deciding factors on which beer to purchase from the liqour store is how easily the labels are to remove from the bottles....

 

[GrogNerd]

this has been mentioned before, but it happened to me this morning

cooking oatmeal. water got to a boil, I turned it down to med-hi. added the oats and when it threatened to boil over, thought, "hot break!"

 

[nachotime]

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

Happened to me this morning... 2 carboys soaking in oxyclean...

 

[Jayhem]

You know you are a homebrewer when you plan out a brew day, get all your ingredients ready and right as you finish "mashing-in" your grain your wife/gf comes in and exclaims...

"What the *#&$ are you doing! It's our Anniversary tonight!"

But, you come up with a quick, witty excuse for forgetting...

"I just thought I'd surprise you and brew an Anniversary Ale for you, Honey!"

 

[cheesehed007]

When you bring flowers home for your SWMBO and you put them in a beer pitcher.

 

[wilsojos]

When you bring flowers home for your SWMBO and you put them in a beer pitcher.

Now that's romance, well played!!!

 

[GrogNerd]

When you bring flowers home for your SWMBO and you put them in a beer pitcher.



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Now that's romance, well played!!!

at least tell me that's not plastic

 

[cheesehed007]

at least tell me that's not plastic

Yes, and an Old Style pitcher ta boot. But no longer used for beer. Mainly used for watering plants and such...

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When you run out of coffee filters and your thought process leads you to:

Hmmm, not going to be able to filter this. What finings should I use instead?

(I chalk it up to not having had any caffine yet...)

 

[crkessen]

...You like Sam Adams bottles more than Sam Adams beer....

 

[unionrdr]

When wife compalains of house being cold. You're trying to keep the ferment temp down on your ale with kolsh yeast till initial fermentation is done.

 

[BreezyBrew]

During sex you have a thought about measuring grain.

 

[WesleyS]

During sex you have a thought about measuring grain.

Or you hurry things along because its getting close to time for you to start lautering.

 

[unionrdr]

And I thought I was bad shifting to the flyin' scott while watching grand prix & she was on top...

 

[SPR-GRN]

You drink every night, but haven't put a bottle in the recycling bin/trash in years.

 

[unionrdr]

You drink every night, but haven't put a bottle in the recycling bin/trash in years.

Guilty as charged...

 

[zmanzorro]

You move food out of the cabinet and clothes out of your closet for empty bottles that you aren't even sure that you need.

 

[zmad2000]

You rationalize paying $10+ for a bottle of commercial beer cause of the beer you can drink, bottle you can reuse and yeast you can harvest. Its really a bargain.