You know you're a home brewer when?

[catdaddy66]

When you look in your old smart phone and find a list of 9 recipes you wanted to brew next... In order.

 

[Jayjay1976]

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.

Its like you somehow have obtained the viewmaster disk of my innermost soul.

 

[Still Brewn]

You know you are a home brewer when the wife brings home a bag of 2 row and says "have fun, make something good!"

 

[thehaze]

When you're working from home, just so you can brew a batch of beer.

 

[seanjwalker1]

You have a knee replacement and you chalk it up to being able to better lift those mash tuns with 20+ pounds of grist! And the pain is just the excuse I need to churn out a few 8-10% percenters!!

 

[Edward's Beer Cellar]

Looking over building plans for a new house and planning where to put the brewery. (And maybe the bar).

 

[milldoggy]

When you're working from home, just so you can brew a batch of beer.

Guilty

 

[pshankstar]

When you’re flying for work and pack light enough for what you need but with enough wiggle room to bring back a lot of beer safely and stay under 50lbs.
Normally I drive and just bring a big cooler.

 

[bwible]

If you measure beer in gallons. And you don’t think 40 gallons is alot of beer.

You might be a homebrewer.

 

[seatazzz]

When your evening's entertainment is sitting in your garage listening to your fermenter fart. And giggling like a silly girl with every eruption. Yes drinking beer is involved.

 

[seatazzz]

When you, after 2+ years of kegging, finally have to bottle a batch because half of it is going somewhere else...and you find 22oz bottles ALL OVER THE HOUSE. Garage, kitchen, brew room, even a random grocery bag in the back bedroom that someone gave me way back when. And I am NOT looking forward to cleaning, delabelling, rinsing, sanitizing, filling all of them. Also when you're drinking on some 12s the husband brought home at 7am in the morning so I have some to use for competition bottles. Hic.

 

[Gonefishing]

You know you're a homebrewer when a friend gives you a small freezer and you immediately order parts to make a keezer.

 

[rhys333]

When you ask a pharmacist if they sell syringes in singles and they shove one in you hand and whisper "don't worry, it's free".

And then you're like "OH! No, I'm a homebrewer."

And they're like "Shhhh. It's okay."

So you shrug, pocket it and leave.

 

[olephart]

When your phone autocorrects, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” to, “Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder”...

 

[jrgtr42]

When your phone autocorrects, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” to, “Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder”...

Isn't that, "Absinthe makes the fart go 'honda'?"

 

[Murphys_Law]

You buy a new fridge and while cleaning out the old one you find a few bottles of “mystery beer”.

Well, it’s jet black so there’s a clue as to style!

 

[brewcat]

The doctor asks how much you have been drinking and your like... Oh they mean fluids...

 

[seatazzz]

You might be a homebrewer if you're looking for something to eat in the pantry, and find a random 22oz bottle (not labelled) and stick it in the fridge...and 24 hours later discover it's the last bottle of your 2018 holiday ale. And it tasted fantastic. And then remember you wanted to age it another 6 months but don't regret it.

 

[Still Brewn]

You know you're a home brewer when the weather changes your plans from doing something outside to "getting stuck" at home brewing and it is no big deal because you have enough 2 row and other ingredients to throw together a summer ale.

 

[Jayjay1976]

When you ask a pharmacist if they sell syringes in singles and they shove one in you hand and whisper "don't worry, it's free".

And then you're like "OH! No, I'm a homebrewer."

And they're like "Shhhh. It's okay."

So you shrug, pocket it and leave.

I learned the hard way that asking to buy a box of syringes "for my diabetic cat" was the standard line every strung-out IV drug abuser gives when asking for needles. The fact that I insisted on the .5ml U-40 insulin syringes my cat actually needs over whatever rando-sized turkey basters they were handing me made no nevermind; in their eyes I was just another druggy

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

You know you’re a Homebrewers when you’ve been recovering from a knee sprain, the house is a little messy, but you just think about when you feel good enough to packaging some beer that’s ready to free up the fermenters for another brew day.

 

[rhys333]

I learned the hard way that asking to buy a box of syringes "for my diabetic cat" was the standard line every strung-out IV drug abuser gives when asking for needles. The fact that I insisted on the .5ml U-40 insulin syringes my cat actually needs over whatever rando-sized turkey basters they were handing me made no nevermind; in their eyes I was just another druggy

After my experience, I ended up buying a bag of syringes online. Now I have a lifetime supply and avoid the shame!

 

[OpenSights]

 

[Tyler Hurst]

You might be a Homebrewers if you have two chest freezers but none of them hold any food.

You might be a homebrewer if you get home from work, walk right passed SWMBO, your dog, and your children to check the gravity of a fermenting wort.

You might be a homebrewer if you get upset when you spend 6+ dollars on a beer because you know you could have made it better.

 

[OpenSights]

When you start venturing into mead and wine, and don’t have the room for more 5 gallon fermenters so you start brewing 1-3 gallon batches.

 

[Beeru]

When you're working from home, just so you can brew a batch of beer.

Just did this for the first time. At first I felt guilty but it’s nothing a few beers couldn’t handle.

 

[awoitte]

You might be a homebrewer if you're looking for something to eat in the pantry, and find a random 22oz bottle (not labelled) and stick it in the fridge...and 24 hours later discover it's the last bottle of your 2018 holiday ale. And it tasted fantastic. And then remember you wanted to age it another 6 months but don't regret it.

You age/condition your beers for months at a time outside the fridge?

 

[bleme]

You age/condition your beers for months at a time outside the fridge?

I do too. Dark and/or high ABV beers usually age well that way and I often have way more than I can fit in the fridge. Hoppy beers get fridge priority.

 

[Beerwildered]

You sell your old hobby stuff on eBay so that you can finance new brewing equipment.

 

[Murphys_Law]

You leave a job you didn’t like and the first thing you do is go to the LHBS because you have some time on your hands!

Man I can’t wait to make some beer!