You know you're a home brewer when?

[Hoppy2bmerry]

You know you're a home brewer when you've been shopping the Black Friday deals continuing into December, and when spouse asks what gifts you might want for the coming holidays, you reply I've gotten a bunch of brewing stuff already....

 

[ncbrewer]

I'm only alive when I'm brewing....true story.

I live brewing, whether I'm actively brewing or not....true story. It's really a mental health issue.

 

[bracconiere]

I live brewing, whether I'm actively brewing or not....true story. It's really a mental health issue.

+1, their after me. and if don't drink enough homebrew everyday, they may catch me!

 

[6Tap]

I live brewing, whether I'm actively brewing or not....true story. It's really a mental health issue.

+1 time to decompress and excape into the Homebrew world! Taste, smell, and enjoy music.

 

[seatazzz]

I know it's the subject of another thread, but music is a HUGE part of my brewday. And I always note what I was listening to in the extensive (sometimes rambling, a few times druk typing) notes I keep for every brewday. Husband doesn't like the fact that our one laptop lives in the brewery but I need it there.

 

[6Tap]

FYI
I have found that Yeast are most productive while listening to Country music!
Maybe it’s all of those drinking songs?

 

[FunkedOut]

When the crock pot is just not boiling the creamed corn.
So you ladel out some to boil it in a small pot on the stove to add heat quicker.
After stirring it back in, it’s still not close enough to boiling so you do it again.
And again.

Then tell everyone it’s a triple decoction creamed corn.

 

[connell89]

When you attempt to get away with bringing beer as your “side item” to every potluck holiday party

If the group allows you to have alcohol at the potluck...

 

[friarsmith]

When the crock pot is just not boiling the creamed corn.
So you ladel out some to boil it in a small pot on the stove to add heat quicker.
After stirring it back in, it’s still not close enough to boiling so you do it again.
And again.

Then tell everyone it’s a triple decoction creamed corn.

With all the requisite LODO precautions, I presume? Everybody knows today's cream corn is fully modified and doesn't require a decoction, but I find that decocted cream corn tastes more 'yellow' and is worth the extra work.

* leaves to start a LODO Cream Corn thread

 

[TAK]

You know you’re a home brewer when at the grocery store, your five year old says “look dad, they have hops”. You turn around and find artichokes.

 

[Jayjay1976]

You know you’re a home brewer when at the grocery store, your five year old says “look dad, they have hops”. You turn around and find artichokes.

^^This, eh?

 

[bracconiere]

When your all by yourself on valentine's brewing a batch of beer, stirring it on the stove to bump the temp up from a protein rest, to a saccrification rest....Start thinking about what the LODO brewers would say...and start laughing out loud....

 

[Northern_Brewer]

You know you’re a home brewer when at the grocery store, your five year old says “look dad, they have hops”. You turn around and find artichokes.

I once had to go to the post office to pick up a delivery from a retailer who had recycled a Farams box to hold my order. The postmistress couldn't work out why I was getting cabbages sent through the post, as she thought that was what was depicted in the picture on the box!

 

[bracconiere]

I once had to go to the post office to pick up a delivery from a retailer who had recycled a Farams box to hold my order. The postmistress couldn't work out why I was getting cabbages sent through the post, as she thought that was what was depicted in the picture on the box!

I once had a hops package sent from idaho to N. California from a hop farmer friend....got searched on the way, probably thinking marijuana!

 

[jcaggiano]

when 30 min after finishing a brew session and pitching your yeast...Your filling your beer glass next to the fermenter, and hear the first bubble out the airlock...and almost **** your pants!

Guilty of checking the airlock every 30 minutes after pitch. And one of my most relaxing sounds to hear is the thump thump thump of the blow off into the stainless growler I use for a sanitizer jar!

 

[Murphys_Law]

You see a new section at the grocery and the sign says, “Brew Perfect” and get excited thinking they opened a home brew section.

Read small print underneath large print that says, “...coffee every time” and feel like an idiot.

 

[ESBrewer]

When you find yourself sleeping in the same room with three active fermentations and you get so accustomed to that constant bubbling sound of an airlock that you are actually able to fall asleep listening to that.

 

[bracconiere]

When you find yourself sleeping in the same room with three active fermentations and you get so accustomed to that constant bubbling sound of an airlock that you are actually able to fall asleep listening to that.

you read a post like this...and wonder how people can sleep without it! (i feel sorry for people that don't homebrew, because when they get up in the morning...that's the best their going to feel all day)

 

[Amadeo38]

When you have a dedicated sponge and special soap for beer glasses so that they can become “beer clean.” @CascadesBrewing

 

[Staticsouls]

When you go to a new restaurant and order and ipa, and are served a lager, then proceed to help the owner troubleshoot his keg lines to find the couplers were switched.

 

[ListerH]

You have an hour or so left at work for the day so you get on the homebrewtalk forums to have a look around to wet your appetite for this weekends brew day!

 

[Dland]

When you make all your beer.

 

[ncbrewer]

When I fry loose hamburger, I drain the grease by tilting the pan. I spoon out the grease, with some meat, and pour it back to the top until it runs clear - then pour the clear grease into a waste can. Brewers will recognize this as vorlaufing.

 

[Saunassa]

When you get worried something is wrong with the fermenter because your wife is not complaining that her nurses scrubs in the laundry room might smell dank like pot. (fermenter is there because it is warmer 64f in winter)

 

[OpenSights]

 

[beermanpete]

When you tell yourself that all the household chores and yard work are prep work for brew day.

 

[TheFlangerBeer]

When you get the reading of the hydrometer in front of you after turning it in the test tube.
Only achieved by 0.0091% of brewers

 

[Andrew Hodgson]

When the only thing that makes you reconsider your weekend binges are when you get too shattered on Saturday to have your Sunday brew day.

 

[rjdutch]

You get up at 1:30 in the morning to put another empty water jug on the ro filter so you'll have enough to brew tonight! (me this morning)

 

[Still Brewn]

You know you are a home brewer when you design an addition to your kitchen around the new brewery you ordered, including 240 electrical. Now in the process of redesigning for a different brewery since the Pico Brew Z2 is still not in existence. Including changing the 240 electrical to 110 20 amp.