You know you're a home brewer when?

[rockbasementbeer]

When you try to convince your wife that she needs the $200 reference grade Thermapen for cooking. When she completely ignores you, you try again with the $100 regular Thermapen.

It is a useful tool

 

[GunnyB]

You can either agree with, or get new ideas from every comment so far

 

[Bazaar]

When you can't visit a bakery without asking if they happen to have any plastic frosting buckets you can take off their hands.

 

[HellBound]

When your having a beer at Universal Studios, and you try to convince the wife that this will fit in the garage!!

 

[tylerverry]

when one of your motivations to get a house and get out of apartments is brewing related.

+1

 

[plumber_bob]

When you're sitting in an 8 hour Scaffolding, class, at work, (Mandatory), and you are thinking the whole time, "Man, I'd rather be watching yeast multiply!"

pb

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When your having a beer at Universal Studios, and you try to convince the wife that this will fit in the garage!!

Oh heck yeah! (Plus a bit of room for the doghouse you'd be sleeping in...)

Lol. ;-)

 

[HellBound]

Oh heck yeah! (Plus a bit of room for the doghouse you'd be sleeping in...)

Lol. ;-)

Right!!! We could finance it! Still be less expensive than her closet remodel and the new clothes!!!

 

[Butchv12]

When you post pictures of a freezer that will NEVER contain any food!

 

[seanppp]

When 6 days after bottling you wake in the morning and convince yourself it's worth walking into the garage to pop one open, even though you know it's not carbonated, it's warm, and it's 8am(!!), because you can't wait to see how the yeast works with the grain bill.

 

[russrob81]

When you look forward to this weekend more than others because your beer should be ready now

 

[unionrdr]

When you read what it's really like to be a pro brewer & are glad you still do it as a hobby.

 

[QuercusMax]

When you pay money to give away beer...

Since I entered my first competition! Entries were a variation of Jamil's Amber (using chocolate rye, home roasted amber malt, and dry hopped with Amarillo) and a Best Bitter with Columbus and Cascade hops.

 

[drainbamage]

When you read what it's really like to be a pro brewer & are glad you still do it as a hobby.

This. I've read enough stories about start-up breweries to be perfectly content keeping this a hobby.

 

[TBuuck]

Friend: "hey I pitched today!"
Me: "Oh awesome! What kind of brew did you make?"
Friend: huh? I had a baseball game.
Me: facepalm. -___-

 

[dlaramie08]

Friend: "hey I pitched today!"
Me: "Oh awesome! What kind of brew did you make?"
Friend: huh? I had a baseball game.
Me: facepalm. -___-

Ha!

 

[IrocChris]

when you are taking a shower at a lake house with amazingly soft water and think that it could produce some great dark beers.

 

[baltaperales]

When you go on Craig's list to buy more bottles in order to brew more.

 

[unionrdr]

When you buy the large size kosher dills & Tostitos dips in jars so you have what you need to wash yeast. Then you need chips & such to go with the pickles,dip & salsas to use them up.

 

[splattsmier]

When you buy the large size kosher dills & Tostitos dips in jars so you have what you need to wash yeast. Then you need chips & such to go with the pickles,dip & salsas to use them up.

Ha done this

 

[unionrdr]

Cool! then I'm not alone on the cheapy bus...

 

[Leadgolem]

Cool! then I'm not alone on the cheapy bus...

HA! Check out the ghetto brew setups thread some time. I've fermented more then one batch in a plastic juice bottle with a balloon as an airlock.

 

[unionrdr]

HA! Check out the ghetto brew setups thread some time. I've fermented more then one batch in a plastic juice bottle with a balloon as an airlock.

I started that thread some time ago...

 

[Leadgolem]

I started that thread some time ago...

Exactly.

 

[amfukuda]

When you get home from vacation and the first thing you do is go check on the bock you got brewing and say did you miss me baby

 

[ChugachBrewing]

If your wife has marked off each day on the calendar, indicated she has checked the bung in the barrel (in the basement), while you're gone at the National Homebrew Conference - just in case the active fermentation got a little too active and blown out.

 

[beaksnbeer]

If your wife has marked off each day on the calendar, indicated she has checked the bung in the barrel (in the basement), while you're gone at the National Homebrew Conference - just in case the active fermentation got a little too active and blown out.

Mine bought me a netbook for recipes, beersmith, and tracking fermentation schedule

 

[Dirtyoldguy366]

... You pulled over to pick up a 5 gallon rectangular plastic jug from the ditch after driving by it several times on your way to/from work.

Turns out it once had hydraulic fluid or something foul in it. Any hope of cleaning this thing and using it? It has a lid and is just asking for an airlock poking out of the top of it.

 

[fuzzy2133]

When washing brewing gear with oxyclean you notice the kids sippy cups are getting grungy and toss them in before draining the sink. Then follow up sanitizing them just to be safe before putting them on the drying rack.

 

[Brewmex41]

When you realize you have over 19 gallons of bottle space (including over 30 bombers), 11gal of which are full of homebrew.

Sadly only 3gal are ready to chill and enjoy. Lol