You know you're a home brewer when?

[GrogNerd]

...your vacation plans revolve around whether or not there is a craft brewery nearby.

just booked ours*, didn't even have to look for local craft breweries. with there now being more breweries in the US than at any time in our history, the chances of any vacation spot having a craft brewery nearby is pretty darn good.

you do make a good point tho, I'd say the plans have to revolve around whether the local breweries are any good and how many you can visit in the time you have in the area

*Ft Lauderdale, FL. I figure there's gotta be one or two around.

 

[biochemedic]

I'll bet there's more now, but last time I was there (Ft. Lauterdale -- pushing 8 years now) the only thing going was a Hops restaurant....

 

[GrogNerd]

Funky Buddha, LauderAle and Hollywood Brewery

I'm sure we can find one or two more between the ocean and the swamp

and 8 years ago all we had here in Loudoun County, VA was Sweetwater Tavern (not to be confused with Sweetwater Brewing).

Think we have 15 or more now, with another 2 coming online soon. plus another distillery

 

[BrooklynTom]

When your son moves out on his own, and you make his room into a tap room cause it has a door to the back yard.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

You contemplate the challenges of making your regular basement into a walk-out basement in order to facilitate moving equipment in and out easier...and decide it might be totally worth it!

 

[frozennorth]

When your wife agrees to spend your, four year late, honeymoon touring the breweries of Denver and says, "I better start drinking more so that I can hang." (Keeping this one!!)

 

[MN_Jay]

The highlight of your day is pouring a beer that was chill hazed yesterday, and finding it completely cleared today.

 

[Jaybird]

When buy a new house because it has a dedicated brewing room!

Cheers
Jay

 

[NCSU_Brewer]

When you are dishwasher shopping and base your decision on how many beer bottles each model can accommodate.

 

[Baja_Brewer]

When you are dishwasher shopping and base your decision on how many beer bottles each model can accommodate.

Mine will be whether is can accommodate my PicoBrew step filter... And other misc gear... Oh and I guess the giant dinner plates.

 

[JohnSand]

When you find a way to brew one handed. Because you cut a tendon and can't use your left for six weeks. And there's no way you're waiting that long to brew.

 

[Kirkwooder]

When you find a way to brew one handed. Because you cut a tendon and can't use your left for six weeks. And there's no way you're waiting that long to brew.

I lost most of the use of my left hand about 2 years before I started brewing, I wouldn't know any other way.:rockin:

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

When you find a way to brew one handed. Because you cut a tendon and can't use your left for six weeks. And there's no way you're waiting that long to brew.

I always try to keep 6 months of homebrew in inventory... Just in case of injury. Yeah, I was a Boy Scout!! Be prepared!

 

[TrustyOlJohnson]

I lost most of the use of my left hand about 2 years before I started brewing, I wouldn't know any other way.:rockin:

Kirkwooder know the "right" way to brew! way to go man!! Livin life to the fullest. I admire your spirit..

 

[Black Island Brewer]

When you find a way to brew one handed. Because you cut a tendon and can't use your left for six weeks. And there's no way you're waiting that long to brew.

Only if you cut it breaking a glass carboy and are badass enough to keep using them.

 

[JohnSand]

No, I haven't broken a carboy. I stuck a knife through my little finger into my ring finger. Then I had to bandage it and row back to shore, so, slightly badass.
Kirk is still king though. I managed by doing a half batch of extract and grains. Nothing to heavy to lift one hand. I'm guessing he uses a pump, or gravity, instead of lifting full pots. Either way, I'm impressed.

 

[Kirkwooder]

No, I haven't broken a carboy. I stuck a knife through my little finger into my ring finger. Then I had to bandage it and row back to shore, so, slightly badass.
Kirk is still king though. I managed by doing a half batch of extract and grains. Nothing to heavy to lift one hand. I'm guessing he uses a pump, or gravity, instead of lifting full pots. Either way, I'm impressed.

I actually brew a lot of 2 1/2 or 3 gallon batches, or more truthfully I split 5 and 6 gallon batches between 2 pots so that I can handle them. I have a rope and pulley set up I use to lift some stuff, and learned quickly that gravity is your friend.

I really don't see brewing with one hand as that big a deal, like I said I've never done it any other way, now zipping up my pants on the other hand............ and wall mounted bottle openers are almost a must.

 

[Davemci]

Your camelback water tastes like hops because they share the same freezer when not in use. Not the worst thing in the world.

 

[1977Brewer]

You drive past a wheat field every day on the way to work, and wonder how much you could harvest before you got caught.

 

[Davemci]

You drive past a wheat field every day on the way to work, and wonder how much you could harvest before you got caught.

Probably enough for a 5 gal batch

 

[m00ps]

Your friends see a big container of stewed brussel sprouts you made last night and think that your hops have gone bad

 

[1977Brewer]

Probably enough for a 5 gal batch

Easily. Also helps that the beat cop around here knows me well enough to not even stop.

I will not be stealing wheat any time soon, btw, just in case anyone thinks I can't just buy grain.

 

[jtd_419]

You drive past a wheat field every day on the way to work, and wonder how much you could harvest before you got caught.

Wait till harvest and ask if you can buy a bucket full. I've never ran out and they never charge if you have your own buckets

 

[unionrdr]

When your fermenters are full, & you're working on another recipe for when the first fermenter opens up.

 

[WilliamSlayer]

When you get home from work and find empty bottles neatly stacked next to the front door. But they aren't yours (returns from shared home brew) nor does any one else in fhe neighborhood drink Heavy Seas IPA....

 

[1fast636]

When your transferring tomorrow and brewing Sunday to fill the empty back up then bottling a sour and filling the sour bucket back up and by that time should be kegging the one from secondary and transferring for dryhops the one I'm brewing Sunday and filling thy fermenter back up again

I love the cycle of no empty fermenters and now that I have two ferm chambers (just need to get lizard heating wire from pet store for the second one) makes it that much better and easier on my mind knowing the yeast will be happier then ever

 

[Duguevara]

When you go to a social event, and ask the guy drinking a 500ml+ bottle for the empty bottle when he is done.

 

[brisboy]

When you're filling up 25 L water bottles for a youth night and think, "These look like demijohns, I wonder if the handle would be an issue as a fermentation vessel." Only one way to find out...

 

[203PH]

When you go to a buddy's house for a Memorial Day BBQ, you wander into the basement to check the Ranger game score. You notice his "workshop" area and you start to spec it out on how you would convert it to a brew room.

 

[jbb3]

When you walk through the wooded area next to your shop and smell a faith yeast smell from washing fermenters...