You know you're a home brewer when?

[HellBound]

When you fill out the agriculture form when visiting Hawaii and wonder what catagory brew yeast would be under.

Cultures and bacteria.

 

[HellBound]

Cultures and bacteria.

When you know the answer to that question!

 

[Komocabo]

Getting this for an early Father's Day present:

 

[whitehause]

Getting this for an early Father's Day present:

Nice:rockin:

 

[Jbird]

Getting this for an early Father's Day present:

Love it. Beer a d fathers what more do you need?

 

[Leadgolem]

Love it. Beer a d fathers what more do you need?

Barbecue of course, hence the apron.

 

[Komocabo]

Yes, bbq is a requirement. However, this is a brewing apron... not sure how much use it will get cuz it's kinda silly, but.it was a really cool thought.

 

[NedStackey]

When Midwest supply has a father's day promo where if you buy a $125 gift card you get a free beginners brew set up even though you already have all that equipment and you're not a father.

 

[bobeck]

your wife gets mad because you've emptied one of the kitchen canisters of brown rice and filled it with unused bottle caps because the caps get used more and it makes sense to have them handy

 

[TNGabe]

When you have 100plus bottles and dont plan on bottling again

Or 6 kegs and you only bottle...

 

[jerryteague]

When you only drink 2/3 of a beer, so you can harvest the yeast from the bottles. Then you have a lot of yeast, so you look into doing slants so you can harvest more strains that you can't buy commercially. It's a vicious, but tasty cycle...
Oh, also when you take a keg of IPA on vacation to your non-beer drinking in-laws place so you'll have something to drink besides overly sweet tea for 2 weeks (getting ready to do just that).

 

[skullface1818]

you know your a homebrewer when you try to trade beer for soda kegs...........

that happened to me when I ended up donating 3 cases of beer to a ice cream store (it was for a beer festive and no-one drank it so I figured Id cash out and trade for ice cream), and I saw that they had some ball locks.....

yea not even I thought it was going to happen, but still, I had to ask ^_^

 

[skullface1818]

When you only drink 2/3 of a beer, so you can harvest the yeast from the bottles. Then you have a lot of yeast, so you look into doing slants so you can harvest more strains that you can't buy commercially. It's a vicious, but tasty cycle...
Oh, also when you take a keg of IPA on vacation to your non-beer drinking in-laws place so you'll have something to drink besides overly sweet tea for 2 weeks (getting ready to do just that).

I'm rather skeptical on harvesting yeast from the bottom of bottles (I've had very bad results with such yeast), but kudos for prepping in advance for being deprived of beer

 

[jerryteague]

I'm rather skeptical on harvesting yeast from the bottom of bottles (I've had very bad results with such yeast), but kudos for prepping in advance for being deprived of beer

I've had good results, but I go for fresh bottles, which makes a huge difference. I also do step starters with anything I harvest, and I always have a backup, in case the harvested yeast stalls (which hasn't happened yet).

 

[kombat]

Cultures and bacteria.

It's "Cultures of bacteria, fungi, viruses, or [unreadable]." Technically, yeast is a fungus.

 

[RIC0]

when you go into panic mode if your down to only 1 primary with brew. I"m now at my comfort level back up to four 5 gallon primaries fermenting/aging. Wipes brow followed by Sigh of relief.

 

[unionrdr]

When you buy beer for bottles to delabel in anticipation of beers you're sending to others. Even though you have plenty & don't really need them.

 

[moski]

Or when you start a batch and already have the next few planned.

One in the queue, Hope and Prayer Scotch Ale (Hope and King clone). And the next four planned. Chocolate Oatmeal Stout, Bourbon Barrel porter, a buddy's IPA recipe I really liked, and a Moose Drool clone.

 

[unionrdr]

When you've been at it for a couple of years,& you still hardly ever repeat brew anything. too busy trying new beer & brewing styles.

 

[JonGrafto]

When you've been at it for a couple of years,& you still hardly ever repeat brew anything. too busy trying new beer & brewing styles.

I'm in the same spot as you. I am working my way through all of the BJCP categories.

 

[Crito]

When you actually clean the garage just to get ready to brew a new batch.

 

[Komocabo]

When you actually clean the garage just to get ready to brew a new batch.

Do this all the time... the garage is nice and tidy, thanks to brewing

 

[newbee17]

When you spend the whole day fathers day cleaning and taking labels of bottles and cleaning your shed to try make room to put more beer cause your shed is only 6foot square and you've no room left.

O yeh I also squeezed in an I.p.a from a milestone kit I got an SG-1052 added an extra 500g of spray malt and only made 20ltres instead of 22.5 hope it turns out ok

 

[Komocabo]

When your wife asks what you want to do on Father's Day, and of course, you reply" Brew!".... And you get to. Yay

 

[unionrdr]

I got in a bottling day yesterday,cleaned all that up today,soaking the fermenter in PBW,got the other fermenter cleaned up,straightened up the brewery. Crushed the grains for another Berlin Wheat kit after brushing & picking the rollers clean. Got a lump on my back from a bad L2 disc & my hips are killin me. will seal up grain bucket & brew in the morning. 6 hour brew day from now would be too late for today. At least the homer cheapo bucket has a good seal on the lid. Not bad for the 5-8 bucks I paid for it & the lid.

 

[russrob81]

when your wife asks what you want to do on father's day, and of course, you reply" brew!".... And you get to. Yay

+1

 

[Beernik]

Your wife says, "Why can't you make the stout the way you used to when you started brewing?"

So you consult the archives to figure out what has changed, besides going all-grain.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Your wife says, "Why can't you make the stout the way you used to when you started brewing?"

So you consult the archives to figure out what has changed, besides going all-grain.

Lol, you can't make it that way because you Know Too Much now!

 

[Crito]

When you call Schaefer kegs and you are excited because they sell to home brewers!

 

[TNGabe]

When you show your wife that you cleaned the basement and she checks the bank account assuming you're up to something.