You know you're a home brewer when?

[brewshki]

When you're working 55-65 hour weeks and you use one weekend day to put in a brew day.

 

[jerbrew]

When you can't sleep and your thoughts turn to "wonder what's happening on the hbt forums."

 

[treacheroustexan]

When you can't sleep and your thoughts turn to "wonder what's happening on the hbt forums."

This happens way too often. Hence why I'm always on here, haha.

 

[Derp]

When you find that your pocket knife is crammed with kernels of barley. They must have gotten there while I was opening a sack of Maris Otter last Friday.

 

[pshankstar]

When you ask everyone you know if they have a pressure cooker. They ask "what beer project are you working on now"? Then proceed to tell you they don't have one.

Trying to make starter wort that's ready to pitch when needed.

 

[pshankstar]

Also, your kegerator dies and you are frantically looking for a replacement fridge. Like obsessively looking. Especially since you have 10 gallons fermenting and your cringe at thinking you're going to have to bottle it all.

 

[bleme]

Also, your kegerator dies and you are frantically looking for a replacement fridge. Like obsessively looking. Especially since you have 10 gallons fermenting and your cringe at thinking you're going to have to bottle it all.

You can move this to a keg and add the same priming sugar you would use for bottling. 3 weeks at room temperature and it will be ready to go, just like a giant bottle. So technically, you have 3 weeks to find a fridge!

 

[Murphys_Law]

You pull out an old deep fryer to make some delicious French fries and you wonder if you could repurpose the element to go ebiab.

 

[pshankstar]

You can move this to a keg and add the same priming sugar you would use for bottling. 3 weeks at room temperature and it will be ready to go, just like a giant bottle. So technically, you have 3 weeks to find a fridge!

Good point, I will keep that in mind. Never naturally carbonated in a keg before, but theres always a first for everything. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

[biochemedic]

When you put Keg Lube on the o-rings of your electric toothbrush and razor while changing the batteries!

 

[Jwin]

Good point, I will keep that in mind. Never naturally carbonated in a keg before, but theres always a first for everything. Thanks for the suggestion!

If your cautious of o2, add the priming solution to the fermenter and then transfer in an hour or two after refermentation has started.

 

[Bosh]

When you're bored you make a few mini batches out of leftover starter fluid and anything you have lying around the house (old OJ, some honey? sure whatever...).

 

[Krown]

When your financial advisor spot the "beer" category in your annual budget and comments "wow you can't be spending that much on beer".

 

[BikerMatt]

When you got a few loose bucks extra left after paying the bills and your first thought is... should I get a third primary?

True story, happened yesterday still haven't made up my mind

 

[wapitiscat]

Wen you wake up, glance at your digital clock which reads 5:32 and your first thought is that your mash pH is OK.

Todd

 

[bleme]

When your financial advisor spot the "beer" category in your annual budget and comments "wow you can't be spending that much on beer".

When beer has it's own category in your annual budget

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

When beer has it's own category in your annual budget

When your beer category has a number of sub-categories:
beer:
homebrewing:
hardware
ingredients

... etc.

 

[BikerMatt]

...all of the sudden your favourite commercial beer has started to taste appallingly malty without much hop characteristics to speak of

...you're a little bit disappointed every time when you crack open a commercial brew and it tastes exactly the same as it did a week ago without any maturing.

 

[Dcpcooks]

When your beer category has a number of sub-categories:

beer:

homebrewing:

hardware

ingredients



... etc.

When you tell your financial guy you really want to plan for a brewery.

 

[catdaddy66]

When you get super stoked after realizing you're using a dry pack of Nottingham for your beer and you don't have to make a starter this weekend!!

 

[fnord]

leftover starter fluid

When you've been short on time for the last 18 months, you want to experiment with a 15 minute boil extract batch, and pressure canned starter wort becomes an ingredient to add some more developed malt flavors

 

[biochemedic]

When you get super stoked after realizing you're using a dry pack of Nottingham for your beer and you don't have to make a starter this weekend!!

I so like using dry yeast now...I use neutral yeast (US-05, BRY-97, etc.) for most of my brews anyway, and there's a really nice selection of other dry yeasts now...

For now I'm still really sold on Wyeast's English Cider yeast, but I think I'm going to do some test batches of cider using some of the dry cider yeasts to see if they may be comparable... If I could get completely away from liquid yeasts, I think I would...

 

[Soulshine2]

when you have a 6 gallon carboy ,and 2 LBKs in the kitchen fermenting.

 

[Bigfly]

You run out of kegs or bottles to package your newest beer into.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You know you're a homebrewer when you put on an old fleece jacket you haven't worn in a couple years and find, in the pocket, not money, but an expired packet of yeast...

 

[hio3791]

You know you're a homebrewer when you put on an old fleece jacket you haven't worn in a couple years and find, in the pocket, not money, but an expired packet of yeast...

When you read this and think: I bet I can still use this, better get a batch going!

 

[seatazzz]

When you finally have a pipeline going and all you can think of is 10 gallons kegged and 5 fermenting ain't enough...need to do 10 gallons next brew day!

 

[dkwolf]

I'm two months in to a new relationship. Going better than I could have ever imagined; never had this much in common with a woman before. I mentioned that I'm a beer geek; she said all she had ever drank was BMC, and told me I'd have to teach her the other beers.

Mentioned I homebrew, and she told me the next day that she had stayed up for like 3-4 hours that night watching youtube videos on homebrewing, and wants to come help on my next brew day.

I think I've got something really good going on here.

Had to give an update on this. She's continued to broaden her beer horizons, and we're really getting dialed in - she likes brown ales best, some porters, and the occasional hefeweizen. She went to GABF with me this past year - and was already talking about going again next year before we left our session this year. For my birthday, she got me the "Perfect Drink" system (a scale that plugs into your phone and measures out the perfect ratio of ingredients for any mixed drink you can think of), for Christmas a beer mug with my name etched in it.

Tonight, I asked her to marry me. (And she said yes)

I'm not sure I can ask for anything more. Life is awesome.

 

[Old_Bloke]

Gratz for your engagement. Sounds like true love to me!
Cheers, Chris

 

[dkwolf]

I mentioned last night that once we have the details worked out, we might have to talk to my homebrew club and see about having them brew up a few batches for the reception (or rehearsal dinner). She's on board