You know you're a home brewer when?

[fuzzy2133]

While I liked the fact that it was the easiest and fastest recipe I'd ever made, I wasn't too happy with the results. A little too sweet/malty for me and for the amount of cascade in it, it wasn't as hoppy as I generally like.

However, many people have enjoyed this one, so my experience maybe could be just brewer error(s).

Good to know.... I did see a lot of people say that it was lacking in hoppiness or that the aroma dissapated pretty fast I can't remember which, I will have to go read it again.

Did a 1 gallon batch earlier this year similar idea:
1.25lbs Light DME
0.50oz Powder Dextrin
0.65oz Cascade 5.5% @ 15min for ~34IBU
0.50oz Cascade 5.5% @ 0min
1/3 pack US-05
Fermented 64F-66F for 4 days active fermentation
Warmed up to 70F for 17 days then bottled
Bottle Conditioned 3 weeks
In fridge for ~5 days then it seemed like the flavor peaked

I did not have any problems with hop's fading. It also did not sit around long with only 8 bottles.

 

[william_shakes_beer]

when you have 250 bottles and nothing to put the currently fermenting batch in. Alswo caled the drinking period

 

[william_shakes_beer]

When you rate your friends by how long they take to return the empties.

 

[william_shakes_beer]

When SWMBO says " choose either beer or me...." 3 years ago and you're still brewing.

 

[ubnserved]

When SWMBO says " choose either beer or me...." 3 years ago and you're still brewing.

Brewing a bad beer and spilling it on the floor right when you are finished is still a better day than having the SWMBO go b!+ch mode on your ash.

 

[normonster]

When you're making a bottle of baby formula and you consider the temperature of your strike water vs the temp of your grain bill as it relates to your desired mash temp or in this case milk temp.

I always say to my wife right before, OK, I'm mashing-in.

 

[DanzigsMISFITS]

When ypu have a bar counter instead of a dinner table

 

[Natdavis777]

When your hard drive crashes and the biggest thing you are upset about losing is your recipes/notes...


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[dx6x]

^ thats why i hand right all mine into an Animal house spiral notebook.

 

[feinbera]

When your hard drive crashes and the biggest thing you are upset about losing is your recipes/notes...

This!

I'm putting 'em all in Google Drive ever since – if the NSA wants to steal the spice formula for my winter warmer, more power to 'em. Luckily, my attempt at recreating the one I was saddest to lose is tasting pretty good at least as far as the pre-dryhop hydrometer sample...

 

[flynavy03]

When you clean up after bottling an IPA, empty the hop sock into the garbage disposal, turn it on, and keep cleaning up. Then notice 2 minutes later that the hops have somehow migrated through the disposal intact and clogged both sink drains. I had no idea this was even possible. Time to grab a homebrew while the Drano does its thing . . .

 

[GrogNerd]

When you clean up after bottling an IPA, empty the hop sock into the garbage disposal, turn it on, and keep cleaning up. Then notice 2 minutes later that the hops have somehow migrated through the disposal intact and clogged both sink drains. I had no idea this was even possible. Time to grab a homebrew while the Drano does its thing . . .

did this my very first brew, but also included spent specialty grain

dang near destroyed my dad's garbage disposal

sweating bullets until, luckily, my much smarter, but commie, little brother discovered the RESET switch

 

[BreezyBrew]

When you have a dream that God tells you to first wort hop with Amarillo. Gotta do what the big man upstairs says!

 

[Ilan34]

When you have a dream that God tells you to first wort hop with Amarillo. Gotta do what the big man upstairs says!

That is awesome.

 

[GrogNerd]

not sure if it was this thread and don't remember the exact details, but someone posted about a dream they had where God gave him a recipe that won him Best of Show at NHC, ended world hunger (or brought about world peace, or cured all cancers, or solved the unified field theory, or discovered time travel, or invented a longer-lasting deodorant. or whatever. again, short on the details)

and when he woke up he couldn't remember the recipe

 

[Andy_P]

When your backyard garden is taken over by hop plants.

 

[unionrdr]

When you're in the middle of writing a book about home brewing & the wife needs to go to the doctor...about a mile from the lhbs! So I split the difference & got her two different size bottle brushes to scrub glasses with & the S-04 yeast for my next brew. Balance, y'all, balance.

 

[feinbera]

not sure if it was this thread and don't remember the exact details, but someone posted about a dream they had where God gave him a recipe that won him Best of Show at NHC, ended world hunger (or brought about world peace, or cured all cancers, or solved the unified field theory, or discovered time travel, or invented a longer-lasting deodorant. or whatever. again, short on the details)

and when he woke up he couldn't remember the recipe

...this is the tribute beer, to the greatest beer in the world! :rockin:

 

[biochemedic]

...this is the tribute beer, to the greatest beer in the world!

But this beer...it tasted nothing like that beer! It is just a tribute...to the greatest beer in the world! :rockin:

 

[biochemedic]

IDK why the mobile app keeps duplicating posts....

 

[catdaddy66]

IDK why the mobile app keeps duplicating posts....

Mine is doing that, too!

Nice Tenacious D references...


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[fj605]

When you start planning vacations around dry hop schedules.

 

[unionrdr]

When you start your day on here, then go write some more of your book on home brewing, then back her to finish the day. With some homebrews of course!...

 

[biochemedic]

Officially added to the appropriate thread (back date to last night, please...):

When you sit and stare, perplexed and amazed, for at least 20 minutes at your yeast starter on the stir plate!

 

[biochemedic]

When you start planning vacations around dry hop schedules.

Or your work/brewing schedule around Staggered Nutrient Additions....

 

[ubnserved]

It is more important to clean the kegs and other stuff than it is time stop and eat lunch and dinner.

 

[NMZippo]

When your 1 year old can identify all the parts of your brewery by name including the refractometer.

 

[biochemedic]

Or when your 5 year old (who has previously gotten you in trouble with SWMBO by describing how he is brewing beer on his toy grill...) tells you, while we are spending a quiet Sunday morning together: " Daddy, the bubbles are singing a song, and I like it!" (Referring to the off gassing from the blow off of my cyser...)

 

[m1k3]

When you read a post on HBT only to discover that you posted it a few months ago!

 

[BreezyBrew]

When you read a post on HBT only to discover that you posted it a few months ago!

Haha, definitely done that, or... A question I have asked comes up.