You know you're a home brewer when?

[hagar]

When you KNOW that the herbs and berries growing by the roadside would be good in your ales, but don't dare harvest for the crap the county sprays on them.
The juniper trees and such in the woods around my house are not so lucky, however.

 

[m1k3]

In a staff meeting I used the phrase "we opened the kimono wide"

The trademark Jamil line from can you brew it.

I turned 6 shades of red when people just stared at me.

 

[SteveH aka shetc]

When your wifie buys you a T-shirt like this:

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[SteveH aka shetc]

When your wifie buys you a T-shirt like this:

That's better :sly:

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[pshankstar]

When you walk down to the basement and always go over to your home brew equipment, supplies, ingredients, fermenters (full or empty), when you are there for something else. i.e. laundry, looking for something non-beer related, etc...

I just kegged my beer last night and since then I keep going over there every time I head down to the basement. So I have nothing to check on currently. My stuff is even on the other side from where the stairs are!!!! LOL

 

[DevilNuts]

When you get nervous after your wife tells you she cleaned out the fridge, because last time she threw away all of the "old bottles full of some nasty brown stuff"

 

[beaksnbeer]

When the wife doesn't throw out the "old" hops because she knows there for an up coming lambic

 

[zmanzorro]

You notice an ingredient in your shampoo is saccharomyces.

 

[bleme]

When the wife doesn't throw out the "old" hops because she knows there for an up coming lambic

When your wife can tell old hops from fresh. And knows that lambic doesn't have anything to do with sheep.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

When vacuuming your car, the bulk of the debris is malted barley.

 

[Yeastieboy]

You just keep designing recipes and buying more ingredients even though you don't necessarily have time in your life to brew it all. Gonna make for some late nights.

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

You just keep designing recipes and buying more ingredients even though you don't necessarily have time in your life to brew it all. Gonna make for some late nights.

Hello me???? Have ingredients for 3-4 batches with no time to brew them. Have to make a hole in the schedule to at least get the 12 beers if Christmas beer brewed since the original attempt fell a bit short of desired mark otherwise I'd have stellar aging on it by now lolol.

 

[jmill]

When your wife complains about how impossible it is to remove the residue on the milk froth wand of the new espresso machine and you know the perfect remedy: star san.

 

[Tribe Fan]

You type "pumpkin" into google and the first suggestion is "ale recipe".

 

[unionrdr]

When even your stainless steel ashtray cannot escape the brewery cleaner...

 

[fourfarthing]

When Amazon delivers something and your wife just says 'I assumed it was beer stuff'

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

When you have 31 varieties of hops on hand in the freezer.

 

[atcsat]

When you're able to finish your other chores WHILE brewing!

 

[fuzzy2133]

When you're able to finish your other chores WHILE brewing!

Your doing it wrong...

 

[BeerAddikt]

You start panicking because you are almost out of oxyclean free.

 

[Yeastieboy]

You start panicking because you are almost out of oxyclean free.

I've heard that stuff is not so bueno for stainless. Obviously you don't have issues? My new SS Brewtek equipment specifically says not to use Oxiclean on it.

 

[Yeastieboy]

You put yourself to sleep at night thinking through how to reconfigure hoses and valves.

 

[unionrdr]

Or when you go to sleep at night thinking about hunting & home brews...

 

[jerbrew]

You feel like it's Christmas cuz an MAW grant came for you and you got to open it.

 

[rlmiller10]

When the people on call with you finally ask what is that sound in the background and you have to explain it is the airlock bubbling on the mead and wine carboys you have under you desk.

 

[rhys333]

You start panicking because you are almost out of oxyclean free.

This. Yesterday when I wanted to bottle.

 

[rhys333]

When the neighbours shout over the fence "Hey, it smells like a brewery around here". Then realizing there actually IS one, coming over and drinking your damn beer.

 

[Captain_Eo]

When you look down into the unirnal after a pee and think, "Good head retention."

 

[Bosh]

When you delay inviting a friend over because you only have some mediocre brown ale lying around and need more time for far far better pale ale to carb up.

Must defend the honor of my beer.

 

[m00ps]

Didn't know where else to put this:

I was at the GABF the other week for all 4 sessions. The best time to get beers you had on your short list was to get there in the ~15min before they let the public in. This way, the breweries were already pouring to check their carb level.

Anyway I was in the at wicked weed at this time when some ass hat with a bunch of other people just walked up and everyone kinda parts to let them through. One dude was clearly the tour leader and when he turned around he bumped into me and spilled my beer.

I was kinda pissed and asked the wicked weed dude "hey who hell was that guy?"

" Uhh that's Charlie Papazian"

"Ohhhh....well I still want to punch him. That way I can forever tell the tale of how I got my ass kicked by papazian and his entourage "