You know you're a home brewer when?

[EdMerican]

When you read "Brian Williams and his camera crew were riding in a Chinook helicopter across the desert." and you picture a big hop cone with blades spinning around above it.

Thats awesome. When my boy was about 3 he called helicopters hopcopters. Fits perfectly lol

 

[Qhrumphf]

When your list of beers in the fermenters/bottles/casks/etc is long enough that HBT won't let you fit it all in your signature without abbreviating stuff.

 

[zmanzorro]

Thats awesome. When my boy was about 3 he called helicopters hopcopters. Fits perfectly lol

I think I found my next beer name.

It works especially since I work for a helicopter company.

 

[Noxiousbrews]

When you just pitched a batch of beer, and you immediately start thinking of your next one.

 

[Qhrumphf]

When you just pitched a batch of beer, and you immediately start thinking of your next one.

Or when you already have ~150 gallons penciled on the calendar thorough the rest of the year

 

[supermutantbrewmaster]

When you make spent grain pretzels
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Recipe?

 

[jbb3]

You find love at the bottom of a beer glass...



And that is not photo shopped!

 

[1fast636]

When you make spent grain pretzels
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Here ha ha go,

http://food-bully.com/post/29832190061/spent-grain-pretzels

 

[Mike_kever_kombi]

Or when you already have ~150 gallons penciled on the calendar thorough the rest of the year

I am so glad to hear I am not the only one who plans their brews for the year.

 

[grathan]

When you're sitting over a bowl of Sugar Smacks and start going over the feasibility of cloning the flavor in a homebrew.

 

[biochemedic]

When you're sitting over a bowl of Sugar Smacks and start going over the feasibility of cloning the flavor in a homebrew.

Que "Just drink X Brewery's beer which is too sweet and underattenuated" joke in, 3, 2, 1...

 

[Qhrumphf]

Que "Just drink X Brewery's beer which is too sweet and underattenuated" joke in, 3, 2, 1...

Just drink @biochemedic 's beer which is too sweet and underattenuated

 

[biochemedic]

Just drink @biochemedic 's beer which is too sweet and underattenuated

You must have had the cranberry braggot I brewed a few yrs ago! At the time it hadn't dawned on me that adding 2 lbs of crystal malt to my steeping grains was a bad idea...

 

[Kiichi]

When you brew your coffee in the morning and always add a good pinch of roasted barley cause it just does not have the same depth without it. (Seriously, this is amazing)

When you have to lower the temperature of your entire apartment to control fermentation and now feel like 68 is really warm and 71 makes you sweat during light physical exercise (even though you are in shape).

When your fridge is 95% beer and 5% food (everywhere beer does not fit), with the rest of the food residing on the balcony since it is cool enough right now, but not stable enough for beer.

 

[fuzzy2133]

When you start making vanilla extract and vinegar because you realize how little effort it takes and what they charge in the store does not seem right. Thanks home brewing for teaching the skill of patience.

 

[philjohnwilliams]

When every cooler you own has a ball valve and some sort of manifold/false bottom.

 

[PlexVector]

When you show the wife how PBW cleaned the haze from the inside of the
ss cooking pot after you boiled your hop socks in it.

 

[biochemedic]

When you brew your coffee in the morning and always add a good pinch of roasted barley cause it just does not have the same depth without it. (Seriously, this is amazing)

Sounds good, I bet it would remind me of Postum...used to have that when I was a kid... I may have to get a few ounces of roasted barley next time I'm at the LHBS and try this!

 

[AkTom]

I now have 2 sinks in my basement brewery/wood shop. One deep utility sink and a single kitchen sink. I love it.

 

[1977Brewer]

Beer in twist off bottles just makes you sad. I could drink 1000 Shiner beers and I'll never enjoy it. Throwing out perfectly nice glass that just got molded wrong is awful.

 

[Culinarytracker]

When you have to lower the temperature of your entire apartment to control fermentation and now feel like 68 is really warm and 71 makes you sweat during light physical exercise.

^^This^^
Except I live in a 3 bedroom farm house, and never turn the thermostat down when i'm gone for the weekend, because I've got to keep the US-05 happy.

Propane bill??? RDWHAHB.

 

[Kiichi]

Sounds good, I bet it would remind me of Postum...used to have that when I was a kid... I may have to get a few ounces of roasted barley next time I'm at the LHBS and try this!

Might remind you of it, but it depends on how much you use. I literally do just 2-3 pinches on 1L. Just fills out the really dark roasty character imho. Also adds a tad of bitterness which is why you wanne stay low though. You don´t brew coffee with steeping temps after all.

 

[william_shakes_beer]

When you go downstairs to the unfinished basement on a day in the single digits, look at the thermometer and think lagering cellar!!!

 

[unionrdr]

When it's so cold, even your fermenters have two layers of clothing!

 

[HB_in_Subic]

When all you think about is how to maximize your brewing (more fermenters, smaller batches, etc.) and even branch off into wine and mead.

 

[1975brewer]

When your considering digging out the crawl space under the kitchen to make the basement larger so you have more room for brewing.

 

[biochemedic]

When your considering digging out the crawl space under the kitchen to make the basement larger so you have more room for brewing.

+1! I thought about the possibility of digging out a storage cellar off our basement many times...

 

[jtd_419]

When your considering digging out the crawl space under the kitchen to make the basement larger so you have more room for brewing.

Started to do this, after forty buckets of dirt gave up and only cleared about six square feet of floor space

 

[unionrdr]

when you finally make it easier on yourself on bottle cleaning/delabeling day by pitching the ones where the labels won't budge while soaking. Great Lakes & Small Town Brewing, I'm referring to you.

 

[bbohanon]

When you have a bumper sticker that says "My other car is an electric brewery."