You know you're a home brewer when?

[Brewenstein]

View attachment 315815 When your wedding reception was at a brewery. Lucky to have married a fellow beer lover!

@Charleston - you sir have won the Internet for the day!! She's a keeper!

 

[specharka]

...when you admire all of the lovely fall harvest vegetables at your local farmer's market and the only thing going on upstairs is

"I wonder if I can make alcohol out of these..."

 

[Kirkwooder]

And you parents have not disowned you for home brewing?

I had 2 Mormon missionaries stop by mid brew once. The guy born and raised wanted to leave like I was the plague, the other guy wanted to stay and learn. I am probably a jerk but it was the most interesting 30min I had in a very long time.

OK way but still funny!

Many years ago, a lifetime it seems, when I was in my early 20's and living a less than moral existence, out in the country, by myself, a Jehovah woman took it upon herself, to try her damndest to save and convert me. She would stop in about once a week and leave her little flyers and try to talk me into her line of thinking. Having been raised by good Christian parents, I was very polite at first, but always made it known that I was not interested in anything she was selling.

Finally, one afternoon I had had enough and told her to please leave me alone and not come back to my house ever again.

The very next day, fairly late in the morning, I was in the shower when a knock came from my front door. I jumped out of the shower, soaking wet and buck a$$ naked, and looked out the window to see the very same woman walking from her car to my front door. Well, my Irish temper got the best of me and I flew to the door and flung it wide open, only to find her 19 year old daughter standing there.......

I never saw either of them again and I might have converted for the daughter.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

I jumped out of the shower, soaking wet and buck a$$ naked, and looked out the window to see the very same woman walking from her car to my front door. Well, my Irish temper got the best of me and I flew to the door and flung it wide open

Not Irish... used to do this intentionally to the Baptist, Jehovas, whatever.

I worked bars at the time and got home between 3-4 AM. Anyone darkened my door before 10 AM and woke my dogs got the same treatment...except delivery folks.

Discouraged the Baptists...not the others.

 

[Zepth]

When you discover that a slight programming error with your stc chilled your batch to 13c (55f), but are cool enough with it to not panic.

 

[Cheesy_Goodness]

When the HVAC guy is doing regular maintenance on your unit (giggity) and turns on the emergency heat to test it, and your first thought is "sunovabitch it's hot in here, I thought for sure I could get away with fermenting without a fermentation chamber"

 

[brewshki]

When you stalk craigslist regularly for chest freezers and find a nice 7.whatever cubic foot one that just fits the 4 kegs. And you rejoice, show your lady, and she is just as excited.

 

[unionrdr]

When the computer looses a good bit of your latest book files, & you start again, nearly from scratch. Then the word processor starts randomly tossing in blank pages. But you re-write it yet another time. I'm getting pretty good at this...

 

[dkwolf]

When the computer looses a good bit of your latest book files, & you start again, nearly from scratch. Then the word processor starts randomly tossing in blank pages. But you re-write it yet another time. I'm getting pretty good at this...

*checks thread title*

Dang, there's a writing requirement to be a homebrewer?

 

[unionrdr]

*Checks HBT rules again* You at least have to be literate & not cuss all the time or troll. Other than that...well, it is another book about home brewing, history, recipes, etc. So I supposed it counted?

 

[Baja_Brewer]

When the computer looses a good bit of your latest book files, & you start again, nearly from scratch. Then the word processor starts randomly tossing in blank pages. But you re-write it yet another time. I'm getting pretty good at this...

I'd hate to be your editor.

Tip: if you have a normally active internet connection, put your working file (and this work directory) in Dropbox. Revise your filename each time you work on your book (I.e. bestHomeBrauin-book-evar-11_18_15-1816)

Lost productivity? None.

 

[unionrdr]

I might still have dropbox. Have to take a look...or start using the external hard drive more often. Open office can be frustrating sometimes...

 

[Baja_Brewer]

I might still have dropbox. Have to take a look...or start using the external hard drive more often. Open office can be frustrating sometimes...

I understand the "books aren't written, they're rewritten" struggle... From my 9-5 (8-6?) Spending 4 days on 10 slides... But if you get your house in order, you'll save yourself some trouble.

 

[skitter]

Harddrive or Nas in my case with shortcuts on my desktop

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah, I have a shortcut on my desktop, with the actual files for recipes, settings & the like in my documents. I just hot a glitch last time. The darn thing was still saving to my documents in " windows.old.xxx". So when I dumped some 246MB of old stuff, it got rid of most of two books. I've since fixed the problem with file re-associations. I guess it's a good thing though, As I'd painted myself into a corner with the second Time Lords 2034 installment. So me & Pete Kroeger have some more time to figure things out! My second home brewing book has better structure now as well. Just gonna come out later...

 

[skitter]

As long as it works out in the end

 

[unionrdr]

It's looking better now...just frustrating...

 

[m00ps]

When the computer looses a good bit of your latest book files, & you start again, nearly from scratch. Then the word processor starts randomly tossing in blank pages. But you re-write it yet another time. I'm getting pretty good at this...

are you writing another homebrewing book? or what's the connection to homebrewing?

another of mine would be: when you invite your new neighbor up for a pint from your kegerator, find out hes a cop, and panic since there is more than enough beer in plain site to incriminate you

 

[dkwolf]

are you writing another homebrewing book? or what's the connection to homebrewing?

another of mine would be: when you invite your new neighbor up for a pint from your kegerator, find out hes a cop, and panic since there is more than enough beer in plain site to incriminate you

Eh, he'd have to be familiar enough with homebrew laws to know about the 200 gallon limit. Not something they deal with on a regular basis, so not going to be at the front of his mind.

 

[BigMack]

are you writing another homebrewing book? or what's the connection to homebrewing?

another of mine would be: when you invite your new neighbor up for a pint from your kegerator, find out hes a cop, and panic since there is more than enough beer in plain site to incriminate you

You have over 100 gallons sitting in plain sight???? I want to go to there.

 

[Psylocide]

Eh, he'd have to be familiar enough with homebrew laws to know about the 200 gallon limit. Not something they deal with on a regular basis, so not going to be at the front of his mind.

Best blackmail setup ever though.

 

[m00ps]

You have over 100 gallons sitting in plain sight???? I want to go to there.

I used to live right outside of Greensboro

Yeah, this is my hallway right now where I put the stuff thats still carbing up before moving it onto my shelf. Thanksgiving vacation snuck up on me so Ive been scrambling to package things and get everything set to be on autopilot for 11 days

 

[DrunkleJon]

Must have a forgiving WMBO to be able to leave all that out.

 

[Qhrumphf]

When you spend your entire vacation brewing.

 

[xandersaml]

@m00ps - That is an AWESOME pic

 

[BigMack]

I used to live right outside of Greensboro

Yeah, this is my hallway right now where I put the stuff thats still carbing up before moving it onto my shelf. Thanksgiving vacation snuck up on me so Ive been scrambling to package things and get everything set to be on autopilot for 11 days

That is a sight to behold. I wish my pipeline was that full.

Where near gboro did you live? I'm always surprised at how many people I talk to out of state that used to live in this area. I'm also always surprised at how big the home brew scene is here.

 

[m00ps]

Must have a forgiving WMBO to be able to leave all that out.

You should see my kitchen...

She knew what she was getting into from the start. I met her giving out beer at an arts festival. She works for a local radio station and wanted to do a story on me. I still remember her running around while I was bottling to record noises from fermentors and stuff for the background

 

[BreezyBrew]

When you take your dad to the brew store, and have to drive 40 minutes each way in traffic, and you say "It's all about the beer" and he looks at you like your nuts.

 

[WI_Wino]

I used to live right outside of Greensboro

Yeah, this is my hallway right now where I put the stuff thats still carbing up before moving it onto my shelf. Thanksgiving vacation snuck up on me so Ive been scrambling to package things and get everything set to be on autopilot for 11 days

Looks like what, about 28 six packs? So 7 cases of beer or 3 five gallon batches. Amateur ☺

 

[m00ps]

LOL, challenge accepted...

Im having a very hard time not childishly posting pics of proof. But last time this happened they were taken down. Im guessing for self-incriminating reasons