You know you're a home brewer when?

[mattd2]

When you order an orange juice at a diner for your 4-year old son and when it comes he looks at it quizzically and asks, "Is this beer?"

When everytime you drop your 4 year old off at Kindy one of the teachers talks to you for at least 15 minutes about beer - then get's your wife to pass on a message to go to a specific bar to try his brother in laws first comercial beer! I got to frop some homebrew in for him and his BIL to try

 

[bigskygreg]

You turn around to your pasta pot boiling over and you think a) where's my spray bottle b) eh, that's nothing. I've cleaned up much worse 😃
Cheers!

 

[DU99]

your beer tastes better than commercial big brewery beer,and it's cheaper

 

[Schol-R-LEA]

I know I'm really late in mentioning this, but:

Zen and the Art of Zymurgy (Zen and the Art of Archery)

The Fermentation-driven Life (Purpose Driven Life)

The Wealthy Brewer (The Wealthy Barber)

I can't believe no on suggested a book on IPAs: The Audacity of Hops.

 

[autonomist3k]

Your answer to everything becomes "it'll settle out"

 

[PoorInRain]

I know I'm really late in mentioning this, but:

I can't believe no on suggested a book on IPAs: The Audacity of Hops.

"The Audacity Of Hops" is a Belgian style tripel put out by Cambridge Brewing Company. The beer is every bit as delicious as it's title is clever.

 

[MaxStout]

You turn around to your pasta pot boiling over and you think a) where's my spray bottle b) eh, that's nothing. I've cleaned up much worse 😃
Cheers!

On Thanksgiving, SWMBO and mother in law were in the kitchen, boiling a big pot of potatoes to later turn into mashed. I heard them complaining that the water kept trying to boil over from all the foaming. I ran and grabbed my bottle of Fermcap-S and squirted 2 drops into the pot--no more foam.

My mother in law said, "I want some of that stuff!"
SWMBO: "I sure hope that stuff is safe for food!"

 

[WilliamSlayer]

On Thanksgiving, SWMBO and mother in law were in the kitchen, boiling a big pot of potatoes to later turn into mashed. I heard them complaining that the water kept trying to boil over from all the foaming. I ran and grabbed my bottle of Fermcap-S and squirted 2 drops into the pot--no more foam.

My mother in law said, "I want some of that stuff!"
SWMBO: "I sure hope that stuff is safe for food!"

Lol, that's funny right there.

 

[DrunkleJon]

On Thanksgiving, SWMBO and mother in law were in the kitchen, boiling a big pot of potatoes to later turn into mashed. I heard them complaining that the water kept trying to boil over from all the foaming. I ran and grabbed my bottle of Fermcap-S and squirted 2 drops into the pot--no more foam.

My mother in law said, "I want some of that stuff!"
SWMBO: "I sure hope that stuff is safe for food!"

Who says that skills learned whilst homebrewing can't impress the in laws?Well played.

 

[Sixmilecross]

When in an effort to regulate fermentation temps, you and swmbo walk around in sweats and blankets to keep warm, because your windows are all open in an effort to keep down the ridiculous heat from the steam pipes in the apartment

 

[jrfehon]

When you look at 40 gallons of beer aging in your basement and you think, "I need to brew another batch!'.

 

[Renegades_Brew]

When you've got a 5 gallon "test" batch of a clone that will take 2 years to complete and you are looking at larger fermentation vessels in preparation of making enough to last you two years for the next batch!

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

When (essentially) the only reason you buy beer is because you ran out of homebrew.

...I broke the first rule of homebrew club

 

[plumber_bob]

When (essentially) the only reason you buy beer is because you ran out of homebrew.

...I broke the first rule of homebrew club

I'm guilty of this too! ;-)

pb

 

[erichsmith]

When you have more freezers / refrigerators for beer than for food.

I have 3 for beer and 1 for food. I also get upset at my SWMBO for taking up beer space in my beer fridges. But I let her on occasion since she gave me the entire basement to brew in now.

 

[fuzzy2133]

When (essentially) the only reason you buy beer is because you ran out of homebrew.

...I broke the first rule of homebrew club

I'm guilty of this too! ;-)

pb

I have done this a few times. One batch was undrinkable and the other got oxygenated at bottling (bad spout). :cross:

 

[skitter]

When you mark paychecks, and receipt of your allowance by the fact it's been 2 weeks and time to start another batch.

 

[howlingdog1]

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

dude, your just not right! I like it!

 

[GrogNerd]

when you have all your brew days scheduled for 2014

 

[PoorInRain]

when you have all your brew days scheduled for 2014

Well played, Sir.

 

[insanim8er]

when you have all your brew days scheduled for 2014

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I'm curious how well do you follow that schedule? Do you ever fudge the dates, or are you on top of it? I feel like doing a schedule like that would get me brewing more, but I can't imagine I would be able to do it on those days like clock works.

At this point, I'd be happy if I could schedule brew days for the few seasonal beers I do each year.

My schedule would be more like, "Sometime around Sept: try to make a pumpkin beer."

My hat is off to you...

 

[dkwolf]

I'm curious how well do you follow that schedule? Do you ever fudge the dates, or are you on top of it? I feel like doing a schedule like that would get me brewing more, but I can't imagine I would be able to do it on those days like clock works.

At this point, I'd be happy if I could schedule brew days for the few seasonal beers I do each year.

My schedule would be more like, "Sometime around Sept: try to make a pumpkin beer."

My hat is off to you...

Not me man. For me, when something has to follow that rigid of a schedule, it starts to feel like work and loses almost all of its appeal.

I used to play in a Thursday night volleyball pick-up league. Show up, split into teams, and play. When it got to where if you didn't show, you got a phone call asking where you were... or you got nagging phone calls begging you to come play so they had enough people... despite it being a good time and really enjoyable group, the "fun" factor was completely destroyed for me, and I haven't been back in almost two years now. If I had to set up a calendar of when I was going to brew what beer... I'd probably sell all of my equipment.

 

[rlmiller10]

Not me man. For me, when something has to follow that rigid of a schedule, it starts to feel like work and loses almost all of its appeal. I used to play in a Thursday night volleyball pick-up league. Show up, split into teams, and play. When it got to where if you didn't show, you got a phone call asking where you were... or you got nagging phone calls begging you to come play so they had enough people... despite it being a good time and really enjoyable group, the "fun" factor was completely destroyed for me, and I haven't been back in almost two years now. If I had to set up a calendar of when I was going to brew what beer... I'd probably sell all of my equipment.

With a wife and daughter if I don't out it on the calendar a month ahead some other activity/practice/game/trip gets scheduled and dad runs out of beer.

(Actually dad goes to store and buys some expensive bombers with flip tops to make him feel better).

 

[AknotOtoads]

How about when you are watching football on TV with the sound muted so you can listen to a podcast on the brewing network about yeast!?!

 

[splattsmier]

How about when you are watching football on TV with the sound muted so you can listen to a podcast on the brewing network about yeast!?!

Done this numerous times

 

[GrogNerd]

I'm curious how well do you follow that schedule? Do you ever fudge the dates, or are you on top of it? I feel like doing a schedule like that would get me brewing more, but I can't imagine I would be able to do it on those days like clock works.

At this point, I'd be happy if I could schedule brew days for the few seasonal beers I do each year.

My schedule would be more like, "Sometime around Sept: try to make a pumpkin beer."

My hat is off to you...

time, money and the BigHair keep brew days limited to once a month

will follow the schedule as close as possible. most of the styles are for monthly brew club competitions (10 months out of 12) and are timed as best I can to catch the beer coming into its peak flavor around the time of the comp.

also timed around picking up ingredients the week before brew day, coinciding with mid-month paycheck

@dkwolf: I can see where it might start to seem like work, but I'm looking forward to every one of those days. wish I could brew more, but keeping up with the mortgage and maintaining marital bliss prevents brewing every week

 

[DrunkleJon]

My coworker was eating a banana and walked near me. I smelled it, looked up slightly paniced thinking a brew was fermenting too warm. I still could not rationalize it to the fruit itself.

 

[pmzjr69]

When u ran out of Homebrew and u get ur friend to buy brews to all of us.

 

[insanim8er]

When you see two 15.5 gallon corny kegs on Craig's list for $65 each, and you can't help from checking email every 5 minutes to see if the guy replies back to let you know if they sold. Man I hope I get those...

 

[unionrdr]

When you've been brewing long enough to write a story about a guy's home brewing abilities saving him from a worse fate when the new world order takes over.