You know you're a home brewer when?

[JohnSand]

I'll keep an eye open for it. Most bombers I see around here are $8+.

 

[Hello]

I'll keep an eye open for it. Most bombers I see around here are $8+.

Consider location. They're not going to sell for the same price cross country. With Lagunitas opening up shop in Chicago it is possible we'll see a slight decrease since distribution distance is cut in half, but $8 +/- is more what you and I would pay on the East coast. Notwithstanding, it's a delicious beer.

 

[plath]

I got a bomber of lagunitas cappuccino stout for $5.99 in Ohio a few weeks ago!


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[plath]

When you see an ad that says, "single, double, triple" and you instantly think ipa, not burgers or baseball.


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[Ilan34]

Consider location. They're not going to sell for the same price cross country. With Lagunitas opening up shop in Chicago it is possible we'll see a slight decrease since distribution distance is cut in half, but $8 +/- is more what you and I would pay on the East coast. Notwithstanding, it's a delicious beer.

Lagunitas bombers are typically $4-$6 here in NY.

 

[shelly_belly]

Villa Spirits in Birmingham has all Lagunitas 22oz bottles for $4.59 and all 6-packs are $8.99, even the seasonal ones.

 

[Drizzt]

When you hear of a start up Whiskey distiller and call him immediately for his barrels.

He had a waiting list 100 people long already the jerk bags beat me to him.

Maybe I need to distill my own whiskey so 15 years from now I can have my own darn barrel.


I'm not sure if my the flavors in my beer are off or complex 😳

 

[EpicCuriousity]

When you walk through the bulk ingredients section of your grocery store and think 'yeah, I can brew with that'

 

[insanim8er]

When you spend the week of your vacation between spring and summer term replumbing your basement to install a new washer and dryer against a different wall in order to make more room in your basement to build your electric brewery.

Of course we did need a new washer and dryer, but the GF doesn't need to know the real reason for doing this. I even plumbed in a large wash basin. No more brew crap in the house. No more assembling and disasembling each brew...

I ordered the boil coils and rims rocket for my blichmann kettles. Now I'm ordering the parts for my BCS control panel. I already got the nema enclosure ordered. I'm 90% done with my brewery! Two years in the making... I won't know what to do with myself after this is finished. But then again I did read about diy glycol builds for cooling a conical. And I already have most the stuff...

 

[frozennorth]

It is all expensive up here in AK!

 

[dmarc85]

You and a buddy recklessly go to town on your keggerator packed with high gravity homebrew and you both end up passed out face down on the garage floor...wait maybe that's under the thread 'You Know You're an Alcoholic When?"

Cheers!


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[dkwolf]

You know you're a homebrewer when you pretend your only costs are for ingredients.

I've had that argument on an outdoors forum I frequent; the topic of reloading your own ammunition came up and several of us commented about how we can reload for under half the cost of factory-loaded ammunition. OF COURSE, Mr. Economics has to jump in and point out that that's not true, because we each had a couple hundred dollars wrapped up in equipment, and to be absolutely honest, we would have to figure the spread of that cost out - as you loaded more rounds, your overall average cost would eventually come down, but that first couple hundred rounds, you'd effectively have a $1/round cost instead of the $0.12/round we were quoting.

Our argument was (and is the same for homebrewing); the equipment cost is what it costs to get into the hobby - anything you do is going to have a 'startup cost'. It cost me $250 to get into reloading. Yes, it takes me an hour to load 100 rounds, and in theory that hour has a cost in terms of my time -- but I don't say fishing or woodworking costs me $50/hour, so why should I have to figure a time cost for reloading (or brewing)?

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

When you reluctantly go antique shopping with your wife for furnishings for your new house and you purchase:
1) An old beat up cast iron pan for use in the smoker
2) A cigar box as a housing for your stir plate project, and
3) A 5 gallon glass carboy in need of some love for $35

Wife's purchases:
1) A $3 bag of boiled peanuts.

Antique shopping ain't half bad

 

[BeerBDrew]

The Google Maps street view of your house shows you mid-brew session:

:rockin:

 

[JonM]

When you've been kegging exclusively for a year, but refuse to get rid of 120 of your de-labelled bottles "just in case" you need to bottle a couple batches.

It's like you're inside my head.

 

[unionrdr]

When you do a sink full of dishes after cleaning your hydrometer & tube. And SWMBO sees you doing it. GOOOOAAAALLL!

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

The Google Maps street view of your house shows you mid-brew session:

:rockin:

Thats impressive!


"Sometimes Im right half of the time ...."

 

[insanim8er]

The Google Maps street view of your house shows you mid-brew session

That's awesome

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When you're buzzing pretty good from simply pulling. Samples of the full kegs in the basement. I never labled them, and it's time to get things cleaned and organized...

I have 40 gallons of stuff just sitting there. Most of the kegs have been in there for a while, so they got some age on them.

- Apple wine about two and a half years old
- Nut brown
- Graf that's probably a year old and smooth as all hell
- Centennial blonde. I was worried this wouldn't be good aged, but it's very citrus and delicious
- pear cider this is 2+ years old. I crushed the pears myself.

Then the less old stuff
- Malted hard lemonade I gotta rack this out of the conical soon to get ready for the 4th
- lime wheat
- Saison

Anyone Live near by? Up for a party? Bring a growler over...

 

[skitter]

Used to live in salem amd would have gladly made the treck lol, live in Houston TX now

 

[reeberom]

When you buy Bud Lite from the store for an out of town guest and feel the need to explain to the cashier that it's really not for you.

Seriously. I know it.

 

[insanim8er]

Used to live in salem amd would have gladly made the treck lol, live in Houston TX now

I was just out there (well Keizer) two days ago picking up some corny kegs for $10/ea, so it was totally worth the drive!

I just need to get some of this transferred to 3 gal kegs and get the portable kegerator ready. We got the 4th coming and a camping trip with several big drinkers in 2 weeks. I just tapped my grapefruit wheat, so I'll put the centennial on tap. Even though you can't make the party, it shall not go to waste!

 

[BlueHouseBrewhaus]

When you go to the beach and you're checking out coolers to see how they would work for mashing instead of checking out bikinis. OK - maybe there are a few bikinis you notice.

 

[fuzzy2133]

When the vinator is out and you start see what other brewing items it can sanitize.
The large tube for the auto siphon and various sizes of vinal tubing are no issues as long as the auto siphon valve shuts properly. Glad my hand was there...

 

[blake_park]

I was drinking with a buddy tonight, and we were having a black IPA that had some very strong coffee notes. We knew that it didn't have actual coffee in it.

He asked me "What kind of malt can they use that gives it such a strong coffee flavor?"

I surprised myself when I said "Chocolate malt!" Hanging around these forums really does help!


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[WilliamSlayer]

When you are embarrassed to give your so so brews to neighbors who drink nothing but Bud Light.

 

[biochemedic]

When you're at the beach, and your 5 year old is playing in the sand...he was mixing up sand, water, and seaweed... I then overheard him saying: "...and now I'll add my special yeast..."

 

[203PH]

When your 13 yo daughter tells her Mom to tell me that North Dakota has the highest beer drinking state and Mom's response is "not since Daddy started brewing beer".


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[Cheesy_Goodness]

When you think the episode of Futurama where Bender brews beer inside of him and delivers 5 gallons of ale is just about the greatest thing you've ever seen.

 

[PRE66_6TART]

When you think the episode of Futurama where Bender brews beer inside of him and delivers 5 gallons of ale is just about the greatest thing you've ever seen.

"What are you going to name it?"

"Benderbrau if it's an ale. Botwiser if it's a lager."

"I hope it's a lager so I can take it to a baseball game."

 

[Riot]

"Hush little baby don't you leak,
Daddy wants to drink for at least a week"