You know you're a home brewer when?

[Onkel_Udo]

You start renting rooms out to transient (OK, short-term contract) workers to afford the bits for an electric BIAB build and a few more pounds of hops.

In my defense, I have rented many room in a private home when I was working on the road and all but once found it preferable to a motel/hotel/furnished apartment. Besides, the entire second floor of my house sits idle 95% of the year.

 

[beerkench]

You take the first sip of your 'best brew yet', only to find your moment of bliss crushed by an overwhelming feeling of despair because you just realized you only have 5 gallons of it.

How about:
You take the first sip of what you thought was going to be your 'best brew yet', only to find your moment of bliss crushed by an overwhelming feeling of despair because you just realized you have 5 gallons of crap left!





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[Onkel_Udo]

How about:
You take the first sip of what you thought was going to be your 'best brew yet', only to find your moment of bliss crushed by an overwhelming feeling of despair because you just realized you have 5 gallons of crap left!





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When faced with this situation you make lemon's out of lemonade and realize you have 5 gallons of marinade base!

 

[Psylocide]

 

[DrunkleJon]

When faced with this situation you make lemon's out of lemonade and realize you have 5 gallons of marinade base!

or it may be a candidate for a splash of bourbon to make it a cheaty bourbon barrel version. Have a keg of a stout that has a hint of a metallic flavor to it, a splash of borboun made it amazing.

Or any other dry hopping/randalling type of modification. Sometimes the flaws can be covered up or hidden or even turned into something good with a little tinkering.

 

[Helly]

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You might be a home brewer if you don't know what these memes mean but you love them anyway. Keep 'em coming.

 

[GHBWNY]

YKYAHB... when my wife's laundry room mysteriously begins to smell less like clean clothes and more like a frat house.

 

[saeroner]

Anyone else love hearing the sound of a stirplate at 3:00am... when you get up to piss and hear that sound... everything else is quiet... it's calming

 

[unionrdr]

When you busy yourself in the brewery because you don't have any help to work on the car for testing.

 

[Kirkwooder]

When you realize that you have used up the vast majority of a $12 roll of Gorilla tape trying to get one more round out of your old bottle case boxes.

Time to build some wooden ones.

 

[dmarc85]

Anyone else love hearing the sound of a stirplate at 3:00am... when you get up to piss and hear that sound... everything else is quiet... it's calming

I hear it even when it's not going haha.

 

[1fast636]

When wall marts RO machine is down and you get excited because they comp you two 5 gal carboys of RO for the price of the refills so 2 5 gal fermenters for $3.25 and you think your walking out with victory of the world lol I was high on life for a little while, then your brew day said water was for goes smooth as hell . Brew gods where watching over me today

 

[Kirkwooder]

When your half way through siphoning your DIPA from your brew pot into a carboy and your brew pot falls off the top of your lauter tun and spills half your $50 beer all over the snow bank, leaving a crime scene looking mess of copper colored snow and boiled hops behind, and all you can think about is how lucky you are to have the other half left to enjoy.

 

[Ski12568]

When the thought of having your own brewery haunts your mind after your first good batch.

 

[chisena]

When you have beer on draft in your damn garage...

 

[1fast636]

When you use old white labs vials for salad dressing carriers to work

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[nwbeer]

When your friend finishes a beer and you're like, "Can I have that?" "It's empty...." "I know, can I have it?

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

when you use old white labs vials for salad dressing carriers to work

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[TrustyOlJohnson]

When your friend finishes a beer and you're like, "Can I have that?" "It's empty...." "I know, can I have it?

And he slowly hands it to you with a questioning/I dont understand you look

 

[Helly]

Or when you've trained your friends and family so well to keep empty bottles for you that you have to start turning them down and letting them know you don't need any more.

 

[Renegades_Brew]

Or when you've trained your friends and family so well to keep empty bottles for you that you have to start turning them down and letting them know you don't need any more.

Or when you realize you need to up your production schedule to fill the flow of bottles coming your way!

 

[gundarak]

When your friends stop hanging out at your place because that ultimately means they will be pulled into some sort of beer production

"hey cap these bottles for me" or "hey can you help me pour the strike water?"

 

[Dan]

Anyone else love hearing the sound of a stirplate at 3:00am... when you get up to piss and hear that sound... everything else is quiet... it's calming

I'm with you there because the sound is of new life, the yeasties reproducing, growing, getting strong, all the while you hear the hum and whir of a small motor, rythmic beats of stir-bar steadily clinking on the flask...and the happy thought; I do so love taking care of my yeast because they make my beer. In the end of it all is a new beginning. Beer! Beautiful - Goodness! 😄😄

 

[william_shakes_beer]

I woke up once a 4AM with no idea why. Assuming an intruder, I crept downstairs with suitable defensive accessories. My stir plate had thrown the bar.

 

[MN_Jay]

When you refuse to dump out a batch of infected beer, even after a year, on a tiny glimmer of hope that time will eventually fix it.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

When you refuse to dump out a batch of infected beer, even after a year, on a tiny glimmer of hope that time will eventually fix it...

...and then you turn it into marinade base when all hope is finally lost.

 

[catdaddy66]

When you refuse to dump out a batch of infected beer, even after a year, on a tiny glimmer of hope that time will eventually fix it.

Kept one batch 1.5 years... It got dumped.

 

[quik_sk8]

When you go to watch the 7th Fast & Furious in theatres and the most exciting part for you is seeing a Sabco Brew Magic in one of the scenes.

 

[adamdillabo]

When you watch the Goldbergs and the talk about drinking a home brew stout and its out of a bottle. And you start yelling at the tv.

 

[Oberon67]

When you watch the Goldbergs and the talk about drinking a home brew stout and its out of a bottle. And you start yelling at the tv.

I drink my homebrew out of a glass, but I pour it out of a bottle.