You know you're a home brewer when?

[kh54s10]

I don't need no stinkin' calendar. I enjoy any style any time of the year. I might brew more stronger, darker beers in the winter and more lighter beers in the summer, but that never stopped me from brewing a stout in the spring and drinking it in the summer or brewing an ultra light pale ale in January.

 

[Lefou]

My calendar usually coincides with fall, back to college, and not sharing a small kitchen with four other people and a naughty old cat who loves to plop his fat, fuzzy butt in your path or at your feet. The kitchen is small and barely accommodates two at a time, so timing is of the essence for keeping the peace.

 

[Soulshine2]

I don't need no stinkin' calendar. I enjoy any style any time of the year. I might brew more stronger, darker beers in the winter and more lighter beers in the summer, but that never stopped me from brewing a stout in the spring and drinking it in the summer or brewing an ultra light pale ale in January.

ok, well how about a calendar that shows "beer porn" like stainless steel fermenters , chugger pumps and mash tuns ....makes me krausen just thinking about it.

 

[Jayjay1976]

....makes me krausen just thinking about it.

That's the best quote I've read in ages. Made me laugh so hard I think I need a sacc rest.

 

[connell89]

You choose to have water at a restaurant instead of the fuzzy yellow stuff they offer as draft or bottle.

 

[BikeguyBob]

When you have at least two refrigerator's/freezers and only one of them contains food.

What if you have two fridges in the garage and they are both for beer?
Or when you do go out and actually purchase more beer, you look for a particular bottle style that the labels come off easy.
*You know what to do with the two gallons of used PBW from the carboy washer - to soak those labels off.....
Guilty as charged....

 

[jack13]

What if you have two fridges in the garage and they are both for beer?

Two chest freezers in the basement. Both fermentation chambers.
Another one in the den. That's my keezer.
And, oh, yeah, there's one in the kitchen that's actually got food in it. And yeast. And hops.

 

[bracconiere]

When you start a thread on a homebrewing forum about making crappy beer...and everybody still reassures you your a homebrewer...lol

 

[Jayjay1976]

^^This guy knows what it means and has what it takes to be a great homebrewer^^
-Self-awareness
-Pragmatic palate
-Optimistic to a fault

 

[bracconiere]

ain't that what making your own 'drugs' is all about...PRIDE!

 

[mongoose33]

Golddiggie said: ↑
When you have at least two refrigerator's/freezers and only one of them contains food.

I'm guilty !!

Then I must be really, really guilty!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

When spouse opens the fridge toget smething for lunch and asks, "Why are you saving spent grains?" Give the spouse credit for knowing what's in the container, then lie and say I'm going to test a spent grain porridge recipe.

 

[Jayjay1976]

Srsly tho, what are you going to do with those? Mine are like 80%+ husks, quite unpleasant to chew and result in an immediate urge to go flossing.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I make spent grain bread, this batch was from a pale ale, so no extra hulls. I'm giving most away to someone who makes dog biscuits with them as well. I really did see a porridge recipe, but I'm not hungry enough to want to try it because those hulls just don't soften up that much.

 

[bracconiere]

if your willing to keep them then you should do second running's, and that's what you take to work! lol, just like the old'en days....

 

[Kee]

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This happened in a nearby country and I can't help but think, gosh I could use some of those empty crates...

I couldn't believe my luck when I found out that a crate of 30 emptys here cost about $3.50 U.S. Still, I prefer the short, stubby Belgian type, like Duvel. Preferable full. But in a tight . . .

 

[Soulshine2]

if your willing to keep them then you should do second running's, and that's what you take to work! lol, just like the old'en days....

sparge it til there aint nuthin left but water...
sounds piratey

 

[bracconiere]

second runnings is what they call 'small beer'....probably 1% maybe 1.5%....safer than water, unless you use flint, michigan tap....

 

[Soulshine2]

second runnings is what they call 'small beer'....probably 1% maybe 1.5%....safer than water, unless you use flint, michigan tap....

on my very first AG venture I dont think my efficiency was all that , so the next morning I resparged and got another 2 1/2 gallons out of what was a hef grain bill .What resulted with use of some citrus zest and Apollo hops added to the boil ,pitched Safale-05 and got something I'd like to make a full batch of when I get the chance.

 

[bracconiere]

on my very first AG venture I dont think my efficiency was all that , so the next morning I resparged and got another 2 1/2 gallons out of what was a hef grain bill .What resulted with use of some citrus zest and Apollo hops added to the boil ,pitched Safale-05 and got something I'd like to make a full batch of when I get the chance.

Sounds like your a homebrewer!

 

[bracconiere]

your listening to Nine Inch Nails - Head like a hole, thinking about this thread, trying to come up with a way to make a joke about masturbation and drinking homemade beer...just to post something like this in a thread like this...

 

[bracconiere]

you start thinking about old co-workers at the grocery store who had parents that were hop farmers in idaho, and always brought you garbage bags full of whole leaf hops...and start weeping over missed love....

 

[bracconiere]

When you have a vanity bath, and all you can think to do with it, is sprout barley!

 

[WFox93]

When you have a vanity bath, and all you can think to do with it, is sprout barley!
PICTURE

I think think I speak for a lot of the forum here.
SWMBO would actually kill me

 

[bracconiere]

I think think I speak for a lot of the forum here.
SWMBO would actually kill me

lol, see post #7,041

 

[bracconiere]

you have 10 left over store bought IPA's in your beer fridge, just kegged up a batch, barley even cold yet... and still choose the flat homebrew...


then decide to post pic about it on a public forum, look at it and realize, 'damn boy, you need to clean your fridge'....lol

and i've had bottles like that sit in my fridge for years before actually drinking them...

 

[bracconiere]

you get pissed off having an argument about what makes a IPA a 'lite' beer....

 

[Murphys_Law]

You're out in a residential neighborhood doing some prospecting for your business, see a new chest freezer sitting in a garage and wonder if the owner is a home brewer. For some reason it really didn't occur to me at the time that people actually put FOOD in those things sometimes.

 

[bracconiere]

and your probably right! i was getting a propane tank filled once at the gas station, and someone asked if i was brewing...i was like 'yeah, how did you know?' i could have been grilling meat!

 

[WFox93]

When the worst kind of gas leak in your house is CO2