You know you're a home brewer when?
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When your one car garage has no room for a car but you have two chest freezers and two fridges, and only one of them is for food. Two are temp controlled fermenting chambers and one has a shelf of washed yeast, and hops for recipes in the lineup!!
When you notice that certain diaper boxes (Pull-ups) have the exact same size as a case of beer. Great to store all those 6-packs in!
funnycreature said:
They are probably designed by beer drinkers... Having tots will do that to you...
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Erroneous
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NO! "never clear for beer" For mead or cider ok
It's good for one if you want to see when it is finished clearing.
Mozart
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When your mini kegerator breaks and won't hold pressure, you find yourself drinking as much of the chilled mini keg that you tapped as quickly as possible before it goes flat.
And then, the next day, finish it off even though it *has* gone completely flat, because you'd rather drink your own flat homebrew than something you have to go out and buy.
And then, while you're waiting for your replacement regulator and hoses to come in, you realize that all of your mini-kegs are empty because you put your last batch entirely in bottles because the kegerator wasn't working, and realize...
Darn! I'm going to have to buy a mini-keg of commercial beer to at least test the unit once the replacement parts come in.
And then, the next day, finish it off even though it *has* gone completely flat, because you'd rather drink your own flat homebrew than something you have to go out and buy.
And then, while you're waiting for your replacement regulator and hoses to come in, you realize that all of your mini-kegs are empty because you put your last batch entirely in bottles because the kegerator wasn't working, and realize...
Darn! I'm going to have to buy a mini-keg of commercial beer to at least test the unit once the replacement parts come in.
NO! "never clear for beer" For mead or cider ok
For non beer related brewing.
Mozart
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Oh! Forgot one.
When you own about 10 empty mini-kegs, all DAB Dortmunder Export, not because you particularly like the beer (though don't dislike it at all), but because those are the only mini-kegs the local BevMo sells that have the reusable rubber, as opposed to plastic, bungs, that can be refilled and tapped on your mini kegerator.
When you own about 10 empty mini-kegs, all DAB Dortmunder Export, not because you particularly like the beer (though don't dislike it at all), but because those are the only mini-kegs the local BevMo sells that have the reusable rubber, as opposed to plastic, bungs, that can be refilled and tapped on your mini kegerator.
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You have given yourself whiplash turning on the sink.
I've done this too many times
I've done this too many times
BrerRabbitBrew
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When your wife says, "That's really good head!" and it's not at all sexual.
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You realize that the enemy of a popular game series for the XBox screams "Wort, Wort, Wort" and suddenly you die (in game of course) because you fell out of your chair laughing as your brain makes the connection. Proof that even game designers/script writers are homebrewers. ( I don't care if it actually was the words "Go,GO,GO" played backwards.)
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When you wish you could buy your PBW in 55# bulk...
Will 50 pounds work?
http://www.williamsbrewing.com/50-LBS-FIVE-STAR-PBW-CLEANER-Actual-Cost-Shipping-Item-P1487.aspx
GrogNerd
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when you see something like this and, unlike a normal person who thinks, "forecast must be for snow; the sand trucks are out," you think, "how many gallons you think that holds, because that would make an AWESOME fermenter"
(answer: 194 gallons. and pic was taken back in March, so there's no snow coming. we were on our way back from my birthday lunch at Dogfish Head Alehouse)
(answer: 194 gallons. and pic was taken back in March, so there's no snow coming. we were on our way back from my birthday lunch at Dogfish Head Alehouse)
When the weather finally cools down for a week & you wish you'd have brewed something to take advantage of it.
Not really looking to purchase/store 50+ pounds, let alone pay for shipping for that amount... I was just saying...
When your "beer" fridge looks like this! Washe yeast, hops, vodka for making infusions and commercial beers for "research"
TangoHotel
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This looks about right. Top shelf is yeast and beer Brewing ingredients. Shelf 2 is field research. Shelf 3 is my brew. Bottom shelves are for swill beer for parties and soda. In fridge 2 hides all my fermenting or lagering brews B-)
Really?!? Wow! My top shelf is my hard cider, yeast, vodka and hops for kits in the lineup with jus one type of commercial beer. Shelf two, "field research" and homebrew, sodas on the door, with bud light in one bottom drawer and high gravity "field research" in the other. Is this pretty much "industry standard"??!? I have a deep chest for lagering carboys and storing bottled homebrews (its sitting at 38 with 11 gallons of Oktoberfest right now) and an upright freezer for primary fermentation.
TangoHotel
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Seriously I was finished around midnight but I was all jacked up I didn't fall asleep until 3:30. Happens every time.
When you get up earlier to brew than you do for work.
When you've put in a solid 18 hour day of work in the name of beer.
When you walk into your LHBS on a day they're really busy, and the owner who addresses you by first name stops what he's doing to open up to unused register so he can bullsh!t with you a few minutes and get you to the front of the line in front of all the more occasional brewers.
When you've put in a solid 18 hour day of work in the name of beer.
When you walk into your LHBS on a day they're really busy, and the owner who addresses you by first name stops what he's doing to open up to unused register so he can bullsh!t with you a few minutes and get you to the front of the line in front of all the more occasional brewers.
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Wow, you might have a yeast hoarding problem...
TNGabe said:
Yeast collection, I like to think
GrogNerd
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Yeast collection, I like to think
it's yeast herding
a result of yeast wrangling
