You know you're a home brewer when?

[unionrdr]

^^Me thinks the grains & punkin went bad though. Great Lakes Brewing News covers OH,NY,PA WI MI IN IL...other surrounding states as well. Great lil paper I was previously unaware of.

 

[insanim8er]

Exactly! I just thought twice about buying a 4 pack of Surly Bender. I can't get it close to home. It's excellent, but comes in cans. 😥. In the end I of course bought it. I compared side to side with my clone kit. My wife actually preferred mine 😃

I did a beer trade not too long ago and ended up with a surly hell. I just drank it. It too was in a can, but I poured it into a glass anyway. It was pretty damn good. I need to start doing lagers.

 

[russrob81]

People know you've been drinking homebrew by the smell of your bathroom and/or farts the next day

 

[feinbera]

When you see those awful Bud "do you know who brewed your beer?" ads running on MLB postseason games, and can raise your fists, proudly extend your thumbs, and say "Yup, this guy right here."

(also, go A's!)

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

When you see those awful Bud "do you know who brewed your beer?" ads running on MLB postseason games, and can raise your fists, proudly extend your thumbs, and say "Yup, this guy right here." (also, go A's!)

Yea laughed at those commercials. Trying to make a mega corporation seem as personal as the craft breweries.

 

[splattsmier]

When you see those awful Bud "do you know who brewed your beer?" ads running on MLB postseason games, and can raise your fists, proudly extend your thumbs, and say "Yup, this guy right here."

(also, go A's!)

I dunno, man, they seem legit

 

[insanim8er]

I dunno, man, they seem legit

Ya if it was for this Budweiser company

 

[unionrdr]

...When you obsess over the brew supplies schedule not keeping up with your brew schedule.

 

[GrogNerd]

when you already have brew days planned out for all of 2014

CHECK!

 

[rockbasementbeer]

When you are watching The Walking Dead and notice a ton of craft beers in the store they go in

 

[GrogNerd]

When you are watching The Walking Dead and notice a ton of craft beers in the store they go in

they did that last year, stocking a party the Gov was throwing

think it might have been Terrapin

 

[tjmac5071]

I live in an apartment...I brewed a winter warmer Saturday and it is fermenting away right now, it's 55 out and the window is open with a fan blowing in to get the temp into the 60s. My wife is in a sweatshirt and under a blanket but fine with it because of the reason...

 

[bigskygreg]

You pour your Sam Adams "slow homebrew style". You know to leave the yeast behind.

Habits are hard to break 😃

 

[splattsmier]

When you are watching The Walking Dead and notice a ton of craft beers in the store they go in

I also noticed all that Terrapin and Sweet Water being destroyed by those heathens.

 

[TNGabe]

Yes but I tried to bottle in their bottles and I couldn't get the cap on. I think it was the a Le Freak. Cap just wouldn't fit. You able to bottle in these?

No problem with bench capper. Are you using a wing?

 

[TNGabe]

when you already have brew days planned out for all of 2014 CHECK!

This isn't the 'you know you're obsessive compulsive when...' thread. I don't even have my second brew day for the week planned yet.

 

[insanim8er]

You pour your Sam Adams "slow homebrew style". You know to leave the yeast behind.

Habits are hard to break ��

A real home brewer wouldn't have left it behind. They would've harvested it. :rockin:

 

[BigFloppy]

SWMBO came home tonight and said I had to start bottling some beers out of the kegs, she traded MY full beers for empties with her boss
1 full beer = 12 empties and he's going to do all the sanitizing and de-labelling as well

 

[Leadgolem]

SWMBO came home tonight and said I had to start bottling some beers out of the kegs, she traded MY full beers for empties with her boss
1 full beer = 12 empties and he's going to do all the sanitizing and de-labelling as well

Hmm, Woot?

 

[BigFloppy]

Hmm, Woot?

I figure if I don't have to clean the bottles and a 4 pack is all it costs me to get 48 empties ready to go, I'm definitely on a winner

 

[pluchar]

I figure if I don't have to clean the bottles and a 4 pack is all it costs me to get 48 empties ready to go, I'm definitely on a winner

Good deal!

 

[linerndunch110]

When your friends know to bring you their empties. AND they know only brown and non screw tops.

 

[Leadgolem]

I figure if I don't have to clean the bottles and a 4 pack is all it costs me to get 48 empties ready to go, I'm definitely on a winner

I guess that would depend on how good the beer was.

I usually trade full wine bottles 1:2 for empties. That's from people I know buy really good wine though, so the bottles are nicer then what I'm giving them the wine in.

 

[edmanster]

AND they know only brown and non screw tops.

Twist tops work fine with a bench capper especially for that 6 pack to take to a party so you don't care and have fun!!



When you bottle a 6 pack from each batch to see how they are tasting before competition time!

 

[insanim8er]

Twist tops work fine with a bench capper especially for that 6 pack to take to a party so you don't care and have fun!!



When you bottle a 6 pack from each batch to see how they are tasting before competition time!

Forget the six pack...

Portable kegerator on wheels is where it's at... That's 64 bottles for a REAL party.

I'm in the process of building one now. I got the cooler and two 3 gallon kegs. I just need to get hoses, faucets, shanks, and a paintball CO2...

 

[edmanster]

Forget the six pack...

Portable kegerator on wheels is where it's at... That's 64 bottles for a REAL party.

I'm in the process of building one now. I got the cooler and two 3 gallon kegs. I just need to get hoses, faucets, shanks, and a paintball CO2...

did the jocky box method but this is my go to now!

i dont bother with the small co2 set-ups.. i just use a 2.5 lb cylinder with a micro regulator! works great!

 

[insanim8er]

did the jocky box method but this is my go to now!

http://cdn.homebrewtalk.com/images/7/1/9/7/4/kkklklklkl-61205.jpg

i dont bother with the small co2 set-ups.. i just use a 2.5 lb cylinder with a micro regulator! works great!

That's not a jokey box... It holds 2 three gallon kegs all nice and neat.

I wonder if a 2.5lb would fit between the kegs? A 5 lb ALMOST does, but it's pretty tightl I don't want to ruin the kegs cramming it in there plus there's less room for ice. That's why it as thinking a 24oz paintball co2 tank.

 

[insanim8er]

I guess that would depend on how good the beer was.

I usually trade full wine bottles 1:2 for empties. That's from people I know buy really good wine though, so the bottles are nicer then what I'm giving them the wine in.

Too bad you're not closer to me. My girlfriend's dad collects wine (over 350 bottles in the basement) and her mom drinks it (over 350 bottles in the recycling bin weekly) If I ever needed wine bottles, I got a source...

 

[DrunkleJon]

I live in an apartment...I brewed a winter warmer Saturday and it is fermenting away right now, it's 55 out and the window is open with a fan blowing in to get the temp into the 60s. My wife is in a sweatshirt and under a blanket but fine with it because of the reason...

The irony of a winter warmer causing you two to be cold was enough that I had to comment. She is a keeper since she puts up with it.

 

[amfukuda]

When you can con not one but two women to cap the bottles on your gingerbread ale