You know you're a home brewer when?

[hoppedup75]

When you look at these for a year and wonder how you did not turn it I to a brewhouse!

 

[insanim8er]

When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
(4) 6.5 gallon glass corboys
(2) 6 gallon glass carboys
(8) 1/6 kegs
(10) 1/2 kegs
(12) ball lock corny kegs
(2) 5 gallon aluminum CO2 tanks w/ regulators
(2) 20 gallon CO2 tanks
(2) 1/4 kegs
(3) temp controlled fermentation chambers
(1) conditioning/carbing/lager fridge
(1) sanyo converted dual tap kegerator
(1) 20 ton air over hydrolic shop press converted into to a cider press

and countless Sankey couplers, Corny in and out couplers, kegerator taps and handles and faucets and...

I am an addict... err I mean Homebrewer. Anyone live near Portland who wants to buy some stuff off me? lol seriously

That's seriously only 80 of the bottles... damn craigs list. Why do I have to find such awesome deals!

 

[amfukuda]

When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
(4) 6.5 gallon glass corboys
(2) 6 gallon glass carboys
(8) 1/6 kegs
(10) 1/2 kegs
(12) ball lock corny kegs
(2) 5 gallon aluminum CO2 tanks w/ regulators
(2) 20 gallon CO2 tanks
(2) 1/4 kegs
(3) temp controlled fermentation chambers
(1) conditioning/carbing/lager fridge
(1) sanyo converted dual tap kegerator
(1) 20 ton air over hydrolic shop press converted into to a cider press

and countless Sankey couplers, Corny in and out couplers, kegerator taps and handles and faucets and...

I am an addict... err I mean Homebrewer. Anyone live near Portland who wants to buy some stuff off me? lol seriously

That's seriously only 80 of the bottles... damn craigs list. Why do I have to find such awesome deals!

You obviously have a problem and won't get any better till all of that is gone so ill just give you my address and you ship it here and ill "dispose" of it for you

 

[Billy-Klubb]

when the name "Michael Jackson" is no longer synonymous with a pop singer.

 

[mattd2]

When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
...

Hahahaha, when reading that I had the mental image of you pulling all that out of a dusty basement, stacking it in a pile and then standing back and saying "Damn, where did all that come from?"

 

[WesleyS]

when the name "Michael Jackson" is no longer synonymous with a pop singer.

Hehe, yep.

 

[TNGabe]

when the name "Michael Jackson" is no longer synonymous with a pop singer.

I knew who 2 glove MJ was long before I started brewing.

 

[insanim8er]

You obviously have a problem and won't get any better till all of that is gone so ill just give you my address and you ship it here and ill "dispose" of it for you

Thanks man! The good people of Home Brew Talk always seem to always be looking out for me... Appreciate it!

Hahahaha, when reading that I had the mental image of you pulling all that out of a dusty basement, stacking it in a pile and then standing back and saying "Damn, where did all that come from?"

ya, you almost hit the nail on the head. Once I had everything organized, It was one of those, "Oh ****," moments.

I feel like home brewing is one of those tower defense games. You're always upgrading your arsenal.



My goal was to make a bunch of big beers, barley wines, ciders, apple wines, so that's why I got all those kegs. I'm starting to ferment 5 gallon batches in the 1/4 kegs and store them long term (year +) in the 1/6 kegs. Session beers I can secondary in the corny kegs, so I need to sell those carboys and bottles and probably a *ahem* "few" other things.

 

[insanim8er]

when the name "Michael Jackson" is no longer synonymous with a pop singer.

I'm watching beer hunter on youtube right now. :rockin:

 

[fuzzy2133]

(1) 20 ton air over hydrolic shop press converted into to a cider press

Any Pics?

 

[insanim8er]

Any Pics?

Not right now, but this is what I copied... Here

Got a harbor freight press on sale for $150. Got the air over hydronic on sale there too for I think it was $70. Then had a friend weld it up. Pretty simple design and not expensive. But it's HEAVY.

It's pretty BA, but I don't think I'll have time this season for it.

 

[bigskygreg]

When you see this picture in a magazine (money) and you literally drool on the page

 

[russrob81]

When you ride your bike to school and think about what other people would say about your riding on the people I should be able to kill list

 

[emjay]

When you ride your bike to school and think about what other people would say about your riding on the people I should be able to kill list

Ready the lynch mob!!!

 

[GrogNerd]

simple solution: don't ride like a ******, no go in the book

it's that easy

hijacking a thread to be a ******: I go in the book

 

[Texastrooper]

... when you choose the restaurant by the selection of craft beers and not the food served. ;-)

 

[fuzzy2133]

Not right now, but this is what I copied... Here

Got a harbor freight press on sale for $150. Got the air over hydronic on sale there too for I think it was $70. Then had a friend weld it up. Pretty simple design and not expensive. But it's HEAVY.

It's pretty BA, but I don't think I'll have time this season for it.

Cool set up. The need for a grinder to make cider is what has stopped me from trying it the real way. I just by the juice from the store or orchards.

When you ride your bike to school and think about what other people would say about your riding on the people I should be able to kill list

When you dwell too much about what is posted on a Internet message board.

 

[seph]

Anyone live near Portland who wants to buy some stuff off me? lol seriously

I guess it depends which coast your Portland is on...

 

[insanim8er]

I guess it depends which coast your Portland is on...

Ya... shipping would be required for you.

 

[drainbamage]

... when you choose the restaurant by the selection of craft beers and not the food served. ;-)

At least in my area, the places that put the effort into doing the beer list right usually care about the food as well. The reverse isn't always the case.

But yeah, I've had more than a few occasions of asking my wife, "hey, _____ is tapping a keg of Zombie Dust tonight, wanna go? Oh yeah, I guess we can eat too."

 

[Billy-Klubb]

At least in my area, the places that put the effort into doing the beer list right usually care about the food as well. The reverse isn't always the case.

But yeah, I've had more than a few occasions of asking my wife, "hey, _____ is tapping a keg of Zombie Dust tonight, wanna go? Oh yeah, I guess we can eat too."

here, restaurant (notice the non-pluralization) has both kinds of beer on tap: Bud & Bud Heavy.:smack:

 

[unionrdr]

...When you're retired,unusally broke from utility bills going through the roof,out of gas & find a way to brew anyway. Scrounged money for some 11 or 12 gallons of local spring water to brew the like number of pounds of grains,6lbs of DME,& nearly a pound of hops into 10 gallons of IPA's. Everything works if ya let it strikes again! :cross:

 

[jro238]

When you wonder how your washing machine would work as a 20 gallon MLT and if you could stick a sparge in that giant collander of a wash drum.

How have I never thought of this!?

Best. Idea. Ever.

 

[LovesIPA]

When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
(4) 6.5 gallon glass corboys
(2) 6 gallon glass carboys
(8) 1/6 kegs
.....!

Where do you live and do you want to get rid of anything?

 

[unionrdr]

Well...no wash,1 hour soak,hot rinse & spin...it could work.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Well...no wash,1 hour soak,hot rinse & spin...it could work.

brutha, you need the wash cycle to break up the dough balls & get an even heat. :rockin:

 

[amfukuda]

I just know I'm going to see a maytag mash tun thread before to long now

 

[vinylrooster]

When you're over your friend's house using the toilet and you see the braided hose and thing of your homemade Igloo MLT.

Probably been said before, but it happens to me every time.

 

[drainbamage]

...When you're retired,unusally broke from utility bills going through the roof,out of gas & find a way to brew anyway. Scrounged money for some 11 or 12 gallons of local spring water to brew the like number of pounds of grains,6lbs of DME,& nearly a pound of hops into 10 gallons of IPA's. Everything works if ya let it strikes again! :cross:

You've gotta find time to do what you love. Hang in there man!

 

[Rivenin]

When you clean your basement up and find:

(168) amber flip top grolsch style bottles
(160+) 22 oz bomber bottles
(2) 10 gallon gatorade cooler mash tuns
(3) False bottoms
(8) 5 gallon glass carboys
(4) 6.5 gallon glass corboys
(2) 6 gallon glass carboys
(8) 1/6 kegs
(10) 1/2 kegs
(12) ball lock corny kegs
(2) 5 gallon aluminum CO2 tanks w/ regulators
(2) 20 gallon CO2 tanks
(2) 1/4 kegs
(3) temp controlled fermentation chambers
(1) conditioning/carbing/lager fridge
(1) sanyo converted dual tap kegerator
(1) 20 ton air over hydrolic shop press converted into to a cider press

and countless Sankey couplers, Corny in and out couplers, kegerator taps and handles and faucets and...

I am an addict... err I mean Homebrewer. Anyone live near Portland who wants to buy some stuff off me? lol seriously

That's seriously only 80 of the bottles... damn craigs list. Why do I have to find such awesome deals!

How much for the quarter kegs?! Are they the short stumpy ones? Or tall ones?