You know you're a home brewer when?

[Zekk]

When you visit family and they have been saving empty craft beer bottles to repay you for the home brew they drink and know you can never have enough clean bottles!

 

[unionrdr]

Then you save up so many you give'em away to fellow members...like this guy;

 

[watermelon83]

When 150 miles away from home you still rinse bombers for the trip home.

 

[DatBrew]

Quit wondering.

There is such a thing as oyster stouts.

Anything is possible.

 

[wbarber69]

It's actually not that bad

 

[BreezyBrew]

You can barely taste the oysters in there.

 

[wbarber69]

Abita makes one. It doesn't taste like oysters, exactly. They just boil oysters in the wort.

 

[JonM]

There was an oyster stout recipe in Zymurgy not too long ago too.

 

[unionrdr]

...When you talk about making malt vinegar on purpose! :rockin:

 

[wbarber69]

I've been contemplating for years a way to use a similar take on this and do a boiled crawfish-esk lager.

 

[zmanzorro]

Flying Dog made a beer this summer using Old Bay. I don't think it ever left Maryland though.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

...When you talk about making malt vinegar on purpose! :rockin:

I was just thinking about doing this the other day. Is it as simple as taking a malty beer, adding a mother, and letting it work?

 

[Black Island Brewer]

I was just thinking about doing this the other day. Is it as simple as taking a malty beer, adding a mother, and letting it work?

I've also just diluted to 5% and left it open to the air, with a piece of panty host over the mouth of the jar to keep the fruit flies out. Took about the months.

 

[GrogNerd]

Flying Dog made a beer this summer using Old Bay. I don't think it ever left Maryland though.

find it all around here in Northern VA.

then again, we're only 40 miles from the brewery

Dead Rise wasn't that bad, but OB is for crabs, not beer, thankyouverymuch.

 

[unionrdr]

I was just thinking about doing this the other day. Is it as simple as taking a malty beer, adding a mother, and letting it work?

We're discussing it in another thread here. Check it out for some answers. I'm just trying to put it all together myself. I miss Arthur Treacher's fish & chips with their malt vinegar!:rockin:

 

[catdaddy66]

...When you talk about making malt vinegar on purpose! :rockin:

At a recent tasting put on by my LHBS a friend brought some homemade balsamic vinegar. Actually it was quite tasty.


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[biochemedic]

When your kids make a little bit of a mess trying to get themselves some birch beer....

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[biochemedic]

When you think to yourself, "Mmmmmmm...hop soup..." <insert Homer Simpson style drool>

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[unionrdr]

That's basically how my wife describes it.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You might be a homebrewer then you use this to make your coffee, and wonder if the 175F strike water temp takes into account the thermal mass of the device and the grounds.

 

[Zepth]

... When you walk into your fermentation room and the smell coming from your DIPA damn near chokes you. And you love it.

 

[cjgenever]

When you're at the symphony and start starring at the timpanis with thoughts of breaking it down into a copper kettle...

 

[unionrdr]

When you watch orchestral music videos & it times up with airlock bubbles. Also when you start home brewing, then go on to writing about it.

 

[1fast636]

When your at an inlaws anniversary party and they ask how long till the keg kicks and you pick up the half leg and say there is about 2 gals left from lifting your keggle around

 

[YanknOnion]

when your owmbo complains about the trub in your shorts

 

[bleme]

when your owmbo complains about the trub in your shorts

Hopefully she isn't speaking metaphorically.

 

[Qhrumphf]

When a "your beer exploded" call from your wife references a fermenter blowing its lid and making a mess, not a bottle. Or could reference a bottle too. But not in this case.

When you have cask ale at home.

 

[jbb3]

...you spend days & weeks building projects that can be used for nothing else.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

when you're looking though a gardening catalog wondering what you should grow for beer flavoring.

 

[Monkey-BB]

When your back yard lawn looks like it has a disease from all the burnt grass spots from the IC OUT.