You know you're a home brewer when?

[splattsmier]

When you refer to certain bodily functions as #1 sparging, #2 racking to secondary, and gas as aggressive fermentation.

This might be overboard, but wouldn't doughing in be more appropriate for #2?

 

[roastquake]

This might be overboard, but wouldn't doughing in be more appropriate for #2?

Or even "pitching"

 

[GrogNerd]

I had to clear a stuck sparge earlier today

 

[unionrdr]

When,against all odds,you find inventive ways to fight a lacto infection that threatens to destroy everything you've worked so hard to get right. Even in the middle of the rust belt,the fight continues. My Maori IPA has won such a fight. Even the carbonation exudes a joy that only it & the brewer,truly understand. Gotta love Anthony Bordain's Influence. Only a New Yorker like him would truly apprecieate such an endevor.

 

[MaxStout]

When you refer to certain bodily functions as #1 sparging, #2 racking to secondary, and gas as aggressive fermentation.

#1: Draining the kettle.
#2: Dumping some trub.
Gas: Excessive airlock activity.

 

[unionrdr]

Or very active blow off!

 

[WilliamSlayer]

Haha ... I did in fact write it. I love that movie.

Totally stealing that one just fyi!

 

[beerkench]

When you Google everything you think you might have done wrong only to find that all the top search results are from other worried home brewers posting the exact same problem in HBT threads, with the answer usually being: RDWAHAHB.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When you Google everything you think you might have done wrong only to find that all the top search results are from other worried home brewers posting the exact same problem in HBT threads, with the answer usually being: RDWAHAHB.

Funny, that's a good answer to MOST of lifes problems!

;-)

 

[Whattawort]

When your brewday is FIRM on the calendar and you have no idea when the next one will be but you're sick so you use the respirator sitting on the work bench.

 

[guldalian]

When you get out the big pot to make a batch of chili and your 4 year old immediately asks " dad are you making beer?"

 

[bearfootbrewer]

When it's 8:30 pm at the end of your brew day and you realize you haven't eaten since breakfast.

Happened to me last Monday , Just it was 5pm and I forgot to eat at all.

 

[NunoAraujo]

When you work at a bioprocess engineering lab, and are appalled at all the would-be-great-for-brewing stuff in there, and constantly repeat to yourself, "MUST...NOT...TAKE HOME".

 

[aStoutObserver]

When you're at the store and see the apple juice in 1 gallon glass jugs and you try to decide if 7.99 is a good price for a 1 gallon fermenter.

Also you try to think of how you can brew with the apple juice.

 

[insanim8er]

When you're at the store and see the apple juice in 1 gallon glass jugs and you try to decide if 7.99 is a good price for a 1 gallon fermenter.

Also you try to think of how you can brew with the apple juice.

$7.99 for the juice and jug not worth it (IMO)

How to brew I apple juice? You make graff with it.

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

When you're at the store and see the apple juice in 1 gallon glass jugs and you try to decide if 7.99 is a good price for a 1 gallon fermenter.

Also you try to think of how you can brew with the apple juice.

I did it. Its a good price. See the thread Caramel Apple Hard Cider! Its amazing!!! When apple juice at walmart goes down to $4 a gallon, that makes the cost of these jugs $3, and thats a great deal!

 

[insanim8er]

I did it. Its a good price. See the thread Caramel Apple Hard Cider! Its amazing!!! When apple juice at walmart goes down to $4 a gallon, that makes the cost of these jugs $3, and thats a great deal!

Idk about where you Guys live, but here you can buy 1 gallon glass jugs on Craig's list all day long for $.50-$1

Then you can get Kirkland 100% pure apple juice for $3.99/gallon at Costco.

 

[aStoutObserver]

My point was not really that I was looking to get it, but more that I knew I was a homebrewer when that was the first thought that came to mind.

 

[unionrdr]

When you always seem to have a post that looks at the lighter side of brewing. And you get 9 likes at once! :rockin:

 

[Newsman]

Also you try to think of how you can brew with the apple juice.

That's easy...add some apple juice concentrate, yeast and an airlock.

 

[unionrdr]

When it's starting to get dark & you're still on here smurfin' off...

 

[MaxStout]

That's easy...add some apple juice concentrate, yeast and an airlock.

Add some corn sugar and you have Ed Wort's Apfelwein. Very tasty.

 

[BorealBrewer]

When you work at a bioprocess engineering lab, and are appalled at all the would-be-great-for-brewing stuff in there, and constantly repeat to yourself, "MUST...NOT...TAKE HOME".

I got to tour a wastewater treatment lab at U of Manitoba last winter. Basically, a bunch of engineers trying to figure out cleaner ways to break down sewer, capture methane, etc.

The lab smelled terrible, no one wanted to touch anything, etc.

But the equipment! The whole place was fermenters, pumps, cooling and warming cabinets, culture cabinets...you could malt, test water, the possibilities were endless

It was like visiting my dream brewery. Or maybe my nightmare brewery, what with all the s***.

No one else on the tour could understand why I couldn't stop smiling

I knew I was officially a homebrewer that night.

 

[dkwolf]

I got to tour a wastewater treatment lab at U of Manitoba last winter. Basically, a bunch of engineers trying to figure out cleaner ways to break down sewer, capture methane, etc.

The lab smelled terrible, no one wanted to touch anything, etc.

But the equipment! The whole place was fermenters, pumps, cooling and warming cabinets, culture cabinets...you could malt, test water, the possibilities were endless

It was like visiting my dream brewery. Or maybe my nightmare brewery, what with all the s***.

No one else on the tour could understand why I couldn't stop smiling

I knew I was officially a homebrewer that night.

We've got two guys in the office that are the official water/wastewater operators for a dozen or so small towns around here (towns that can't afford to pay a guy full time to do the job, but have to have someone, so they contract us). More than once I've thought about sending some of my tapwater in to their lab to have a full report done on it. If I make the step up to all-grain, I'll definitely do it.

 

[3PegBrew]

When you sit at work and look around in certain areas and wonder "can I ferment a saison here better than at home?"

 

[splattsmier]

Or even "pitching"

I like it!

 

[wingedcoyote]

If you've ever placed a space heater inside a chest freezer... yep, you might just be a homebrewer.

 

[Leadgolem]

When your to drunk to post anything coherent, but still read and remember new things about homebrewing.

 

[Schol-R-LEA]

When you always keep several times the amount of beer you personally drink in a year on hand, yet can't wait to have even more in stock.

When you give away more beer than you drink, even though most people refuse the offer to give it to them.

When most people look at you funny when you offer them a beer.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When you see the housing complex maintenance staff loading a dozen old refrigerators onto a truck for the dump... and tear comes to your eye.