You know you're a home brewer when?

[ben2904]

When you go drink with your simple-beer friends and starts to talk about beers like a professor

 

[PRE66_6TART]

When you go drink with your simple-beer friends and starts to talk about beers like a professor

Yep. That sounds familiar.

 

[BeastMaster]

When you go drink with your simple-beer friends and starts to talk about beers like a professor

When you have "simple-beer friends" and refer to them as such...

 

[Mickybrew]

When you refer to drinking beers out of a batch as 'having a sample' only to notice later that you have supped 10 500ml samples

 

[Whattawort]

When you muscle through 5gal of not-so-great homebrew in a week so you can have an empty keg ready for the next batch. I need more kegs.

 

[BigDaddyBeard]

When you muscle through 5gal of not-so-great homebrew in a week so you can have an empty keg ready for the next batch. I need more kegs.

+1 but for the bottles

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

When you muscle through 5gal of not-so-great homebrew in a week so you can have an empty keg ready for the next batch. I need more kegs.

Working on this as I type

When a facebook friend says she had coffee beer and you offer Founders Oatmeal Stout as a recommendation...and feel more satisfied about that than anything else you've done all day.

 

[HotRodBrewing]

And then you arrive back home with twice as much stuff as you were supposed to get, with the extra being for use in brewing, or brewing related. My last several trips to hardware stores have been brewing related/driven.

I know this post is from page 3 but it is so true. To make things worse, I work in a hardware store and spend a considerable amount of time checking to see what I coul possibly incorporate or order in as new stock that might be brewing related. I guess my boss is working toward the right direction by now carrying mr. Beer kits. Now if only he would stock grains, hops and yeast...

 

[Mogie]

When you meet a pro brewer at a tap takover event, and you shamelessly work the fact that you're a homebrewer into the conversation any way you can.

 

[GrogNerd]

When you meet anyone, and you shamelessly work the fact that you're a homebrewer into the conversation any way you can.

yep

 

[plumber_bob]

When you meet a pro brewer at a tap takover event, and you shamelessly work the fact that you're a homebrewer into the conversation any way you can.

I would definitely do that too!!!

pb

 

[fuzzy2133]

When you meet a pro brewer at a tap takover event, and you shamelessly work the fact that you're a homebrewer into the conversation any way you can.

yep

I would definitely do that too!!!

pb

Wouldn't asking rather specific questions on their brewing process/steps/recipe do the trick?

 

[Whattawort]

When you get overly excited about the test pump that came in the mail! Can't afford a chugger, but I could afford the $23 high temp mini pump. If it doesn't work, I'm not out much. W00t!

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

When u go to a microbrewery and the beer tastes ****ty and you know its the yeasy strain, not dirty skunky draft lines. Then you look at their $120000 worth of equipment and think of what you cud do with that .....

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

And the you catch youself in the entry way sneaking a whiff of their 70 50 lb bags of grain, and wondering how its possible to make such bad beer from such great barley :/

 

[bleme]

When you get overly excited about the test pump that came in the mail! Can't afford a chugger, but I could afford the $23 high temp mini pump. If it doesn't work, I'm not out much. W00t!

If it is the same pump that my friend bought, it works great for water, but wort clogs it up.

 

[Leadgolem]

No,no fines. Damn hackers stoled needed files/drivers. Cost $300 to use microsoft online repair...& that's just a one time fix. Yearly sub is $400! It's because of microsoft's registered software. you gotta pay to play...
On a better note,I get to check my Traditional stout today to see how the oaked bourbon is doing in secondary.

No offense, but you might want to grab a copy of clonezilla live. You can create a backup copy of your system on disks. That way if it gets smashed again you can reload from the backup...

 

[moys]

When you have 3 dogs and you name them Malt, Hop and Yeast.

 

[unionrdr]

When you finally bottled a good stout 2 days ago & get cleaned up in time to brew a porter with the freebie doubled up grains you got from the first one. :rockin:

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When u go to a microbrewery and the beer tastes ****ty and you know its the yeasy strain, not dirty skunky draft lines. Then you look at their $120000 worth of equipment and think of what you cud do with that .....

Yes!

Had a friend bring me an out of state micro brew 'mix pack'. I try Beer after beer and I'm thinking to my self "man, they get PAID to make this?? Ugh."...

 

[BorealBrewer]

You can describe your significant other's eye colour and hair colour in both EBC and SRM. And have done so. In public. And used your consumption of homebrew as an excuse.

 

[amfukuda]

You can describe your significant other's eye colour and hair colour in both EBC and SRM. And have done so. In public. And used your consumption of homebrew as an excuse.

Isn't that every girls dream

 

[plumber_bob]

You, REALLY, know you're a home brewer,... when you check on HBT just before time to go to work and find a fellow homebrewer in need of parts that you have and you don't need. And less than an hour after he/she posts the need, you have contacted them, got their addy, and packaged the items for shipping, and have them in the mail before you get home after work.

Felt like a million $$$ being able to help out a fellow HBT brewer!!!

pb --- The early Santa

 

[BorealBrewer]

Isn't that every girls dream

Her hair, the hue of Special B,

Her Eyes, like British Chocolate,

When she first looked my way,

My heart skipped cuz she stopped it.

William Shakespear can suck it.

 

[Leadgolem]

You, REALLY, know you're a home brewer,... when you check on HBT just before time to go to work and find a fellow homebrewer in need of parts that you have and you don't need. And less than an hour after he/she posts the need, you have contacted them, got their addy, and packaged the items for shipping, and have them in the mail before you get home after work.

Felt like a million $$$ being able to help out a fellow HBT brewer!!!

pb --- The early Santa

You are one of the beautiful people PB. May the universe return to you in time all that you have given to others.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

You are one of the beautiful people PB. May the universe return to you in time all that you have given to others.

+1

Early santa is right PB!

(To the tune of All I want for christmas is my two front teeth)-

"All I want for christmas is my two packs of yeast, my two packs of yeast, my two packs of yeast...."

(Hey, its Lager season! I need to double pitch!)

 

[brewmcq]

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

When you have at least two refrigerator's/freezers and only one of them contains food.

When you brew at home?

You mark the change of seasons by beer styles instead of a calendar.

When you brew and bottle up four cases and then throw a party to empty your bottles so you can brew another batch.

when you look for just the right lighting in the house to take a picture of your latest beer.

When your calendar is filled with when to brew what, when to dry hop, when to bottle/keg, etc.

When you have a 100+ bottles but don't recall exactly what is there because you have ten kegs sitting there...

your friends forget that beer actually costs money, and some people actually buy it.

When you go to the hardware store for something completely unrelated to brewing and you end up wandering the aisles for half an hour looking over hardware just to see if there's anything that you need to modify your brew setup.

When you've had more than one person ask you if you're running a meth lab out of your garage...

The cleanest thing in the house is a 5 gallon glass carboy

when you drink your beer in order of worst to best.

When trying new beers, you don't say if you like or dislike.

It's,"I'd brew that." or "I don't think I'd want five gallons of that."

When you know your batch is fermenting but you keep looking at the airlock bubbling because it makes you happy!

You take a leak and as the bubbles start to dissipate you wonder why the head retention is so poor.

Having four kegs...two on tap and one on standby yet feeling like a slacker since the fourth is empty.

When you find a way to rob Peter to pay Paul,just so you can get your pipeline going again. And your wife jumps in going to the LHBS with you to brew some more herself!

You use a mop on the ceiling.

when empty and full homebrew bottles are a form of currency

When you are excited about getting glassware for your birthday

When you have more beers on draft than the local bar.

every time you drive by the farm supply you think FERMENTORS!


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When your wife calls you at work to tell you there is an issue at home. The first thing you ask "Is my brew ok?"

Guilty on all counts.

And this was only the first 200 posts.

 

[Phalanx]

…when you have a dream about drinking the IPA you made the day before. (this alone would already qualify, i assuume)
And in that dream it tastes not bitter at all. You then wake up and fear you miscalcualted the hops and the first thing you do after getting up is take a sample to make sure it actully IS bitter enough

 

[brewmcq]

See I told ya!

 

[Natdavis777]

You randomly find hops and yeast in your fridge that you had no idea about...