You know you're a home brewer when?

[AQUILAS]

When you almost consider not using a fermentation fridge just so you can hear the sweet sounds of an airlock at all hours of the day.

I'm not so much into hearing it as I am seeing it. My swmbo has caught me in the garage starring at an open fridge (my ferm chamber), to which she said, "Ever since you started homebrewing, you got a bit weirder" What can I say? I like seeing the airlock activity. It's like the first round prize you get to let you know you did something right.

To stay in line with the thread...

When everyone asks you, "so when are you going to start selling your beer?"

 

[Zepth]

Probably been said before, but...

When you see a party scene in movie/TV and see their pump keg setup. Then realize that your day to day home dispensing system is better than that "awesome keg party."

 

[unionrdr]

When you keep changing your stout recipe, trying to come up with that perfect pint...

 

[Trail]

When you keep changing your stout recipe, trying to come up with that perfect pint...

Same here. Worst part is, I brewed the perfect stout... on a bad brew day when I undershot SG by .020 and made up the rest with DME. Came out fantastic, can't replicate it, don't know how I screwed up that bad.

 

[unionrdr]

I'm hip. Like the time I was brewing version 3 of my Hopped & Confused hybrid lager & passed out after the bittering addition. Came out a hair clearer & a bit better flavor. Idk if I could duplicate that one. but a dry stout with 1.5ozs NB hops for bittering with American white oak is a touch much, even though I used less oak & bourbon. Gotta use less oak & more bourbon. Changed to a sweet stout for attempt #4. Briess chocolate out, Simpson's in.

 

[Kiichi]

When your freezer is so full with hops that there is no more room for food, but you have enough to make half a year worth of Heady Topper and Pliny clones. I mean the two pound bag of spanish nugget was on sale for example and I only already had half a pound of that...

Multiple of the new students arriving right now talked to me about where to get beer and which ones within two days of arriving cause they were told that I´d know...I need to know how they really knew...

 

[1fast636]

When you make a fermentation vessel out of a medical grade carboy

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Put to use today with 10.5 gal batch of pumpkin ale
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[PBbrew2]

Despite the 100's of great brews you've made in the last 20 years u still remember comments like "tastes like vegetable soup" or "hmmmm, kind of nutty" from your first few batches. No more vegetable soup!!!!!

 

[alphaomega]

You know you're a home brewer when you start looking funny at the washing machine, thinking "hmmm, lots of stainles in there... And the perforations in the drum... What are those, like 1-2mm?"

Really old story, I know, but I still think it is funny

 

[william_shakes_beer]

when you go to the christmans secret santa game with a 6er of home brew, and come back home with it.

 

[MattyIce]

Despite the 100's of great brews you've made in the last 20 years u still remember comments like "tastes like vegetable soup" or "hmmmm, kind of nutty" from your first few batches. No more vegetable soup!!!!!

Yeah, my first batch was dubbed "Earwax IPA"

 

[Kiichi]

In light of this: You know you´re a homebrewer when your beer no longer tastes like soap.

Twas bad...

 

[brewcat]

Probably been said before, but...

When you see a party scene in movie/TV and see their pump keg setup. Then realize that your day to day home dispensing system is better than that "awesome keg party."

I'll go at this another way:
Every time you see someone drinking beer in a movie you examine everything about the beer. From color, to the glass being used.

 

[coolharry]

I just saw a rerun of how I met your mother that featured a homebrewer wanting to go pro. He hands one of the main characters his beer in what looked like a 10oz clear bottle, and I immediately screamed at the tv: "no brewer worth a damn would put his beer in a clear glass bottle!"

 

[oujens]

Instead of using breaks in your schedule to get ahead on projects at work, you use it to plan your pipeline and design recipes. My planning for brew days should be good through 2016.

 

[TwistedHops]

Instead of using breaks in your schedule to get ahead on projects at work, you use it to plan your pipeline and design recipes. My planning for brew days should be good through 2016.

Or taking "breaks" and asking coworkers for ideas for the next brew

 

[Crucial-BBQ]

your own beer taste better than store bought so you buy store bought for bottles and to save you own better tasting beers for later.

Uh, would it not still be cheaper to just pick up a case of bottles from LHBS and a pint of cheap vodka?

 

[tennesseean_87]

when you go to the christmans secret santa game with a 6er of home brew, and come back home with it.

I did this with some glassware I snagged at a thrift shop.

 

[unionrdr]

you get your pension in the bank, & the first thing you finally do in months is to but a crap ton of brewing stuff! And a new leather chair for the comp!:rockin:

 

[Gonefishing]

I'm not so much into hearing it as I am seeing it. My swmbo has caught me in the garage starring at an open fridge (my ferm chamber), to which she said, "Ever since you started homebrewing, you got a bit weirder" What can I say? I like seeing the airlock activity. It's like the first round prize you get to let you know you did something right.

To stay in line with the thread...

When everyone asks you, "so when are you going to start selling your beer?"

I've wished I could set up a webcam to watch those babies bubble.... I think that might be a bit over the top though so I haven't done it.

 

[TwistedHops]

Lol go look at the last post on the "what came in the mail today?" Thread. Someone bought a Webcam to do just that!

 

[saeroner]

....you know the feeling of accidentally stepping on an airlock barefoot... ouch!

 

[fuzzy2133]

....you know the feeling of accidentally stepping on an airlock barefoot... ouch!

Is that also accompanied with something dripping on your head?

 

[unionrdr]

When you get screwed on your Friday delivery, but the Saturday people get theirs a day early...

 

[dad23ds]

Driving through the neighborhood, you look in open garages for evidence of other homebrewers/setups.

 

[DrunkleJon]

Driving through the neighborhood, you look in open garages for evidence of other homebrewers/setups.

Guilty. I have been told that there is another homebrewer somewhere on one of the roads near my house. I still havent found them yet though. And unfortunately my garage opens on the back of my house and I live on a dead end so they wont find me.

 

[unionrdr]

Idk, but it seems better than a culled sac right now?...

 

[dkwolf]

Idk, but it seems better than a culled sac right now?...

I don't want to hear about your culled sac.


Now, my cul de sac? Friends, let me tell you something. There is nowhere better to live within an incorporated city. Almost zero drive-by traffic, can sit out in the front yard with the grill and not be bothered (my back yard borders a county road. No privacy there) The neighbor's kids have a large (100' diameter) concrete pad to play on and ride bikes without worrying about a car coming by at 30 mph. You cannot beat it.

 

[unionrdr]

Mine are nose in the air, trouble making trash trying to be yuppies. Then the skilled tradesman & store chain managers/owners. & in this one, you have to drive down the street to see the house numbers on the mailboxes. Only UPS driver ever to drive up the street where you can't see'em. So Saturday people got theirs a day early, while me on Friday get nothing.

 

[ScrewyBrewer]

When you have more pictures of your brewing gear than your family.