You know you're a home brewer when?

[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!

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

When you’re at a social gathering and you stare at people’s cappable bottles wondering how to get them all home.

 

[pshankstar]

When your wife is in the basement trying to organize some stuff and finds 9 empty kegs and asks “Do you really need that many kegs?” Of course I do! Although I haven’t brewed since December. [emoji853]

 

[OpenSights]

You know you’re a home brewer when not only do you have your LHBS on speed dial, but the manager’s number as well....

 

[SEndorf]

When you walk into your LHBS and all the staff yells your name like Norm! on Cheers...……...

 

[Saunassa]

When the day after bottling you start getting things together to brew another batch.

 

[Saunassa]

When you get giggly and could sit for hours watching the yeast rise, fall and swirl around during fermentation. Oh, and placing the fermenter in the corner of the office so I can listen to it bubbling.

 

[Murphys_Law]

When you’re preparing food for about 40 people for daughter’s baby shower and your wife uses your kettles, funnels, spoons etc in the kitchen!

 

[brewcat]

When you’re preparing food for about 40 people for daughter’s baby shower and your wife uses your kettles, funnels, spoons etc in the kitchen!

When you read this and think; glad no one is using my stuff for non-brewing.

 

[seatazzz]

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

If they're in the bottle, and I know the carbonation is fine, yes. This one mellowed out quite a bit, letting the malt come forward some more, and tasted much better than the kegged version. Gave me some ideas for next winter's batch.

 

[seatazzz]

You know you might be a homebrewer (and kegger) when the co2 tank is running low, and have to figure out the logistics of exchanging the tank at the shop near main job, having time to pay that bill that has to be paid in person, and still make it to second job in time, so the kegged beers can still be poured this weekend.

 

[SCfb75]

You know you might be a homebrewer (and kegger) when the co2 tank is running low, and have to figure out the logistics of exchanging the tank at the shop near main job, having time to pay that bill that has to be paid in person, and still make it to second job in time, so the kegged beers can still be poured this weekend.

That's easy buy another co2 tank so you don't have to worry about running out. I learned this lesson the hard way before a christmas party.

 

[grampamark]

When you're watching Jeopardy! and there's a category with the word "points" in it and you immediately think of specific gravity.

 

[undertaken]

When your oldest child moves out and you are trying to figure if you can turn the room into a brewing room only to be told it is becoming a play room for the younger children.

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

When your like I am so taking that when she dies

 

[govner1]

Already got mine!,

 

[seatazzz]

When your like I am so taking that when she dies View attachment 622546

Oh that is bad...but I would do it too.

 

[brewcat]

When your like I am so taking that when she dies View attachment 622546

Good way to wheel a keg around.

 

[seanjwalker1]

When friends and family start avoiding conversations with you because all you talk about any more is brewing! So you have brewing conversations with yourself!

 

[OpenSights]

When you walk into a customer’s and notice an airlock on the kitchen counter and a 15 minute job lasts 2 hours.

 

[OpenSights]

When you walk into a customer’s kitchen and notice an airlock on the kitchen counter and a 15 minute job lasts 2 hours because of chitchat.

Funny thing is, I get calls all the time: “this is joe, my friend recommended you. He said to mention John The Brewer gave me your number.

I kid you not! I know 5 brewers who have hooked me up with hundreds of jobs!

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

When you find out on Tuesday that you are OFF on Friday and have already told your wife you wouldn't brew on Easter Weekend/Her Birthday and immediately get online to order ingredients to get here by Thursday night so you can brew FRIDAY because that's technically NOT the weekend.

 

[OpenSights]

Sounds like home brew...

 

[stosh]

I have a friend who roasts his own coffee. He always gives me some and when I feel like some joe in the morning I grind what I need fresh.

I got up extra early to finish something in the garage yesterday but instead of finishing the garage stuff, I ended up brewing 3 different batches of coffee just to figure out the absorption rate for each one.

 

[pigroaster]

When you walk into your LHBS and all the staff yells your name like Norm! on Cheers...……...

My water supplier calls me Norm when I get RO water to mix with city water!

 

[brewcat]

You are drinking your homebrew at the local brewery and kind of forget it is yours.

 

[HB2 HughBHomeBrew]

You see this at a hospital and think “temp control..niiice.”

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You know when you're a home brewer when, as you pull a pint off the tap, you know you're getting near the end of the keg, and fear that it will blow before your fill your pint... in spite of having two other kegs in the pipeline ready to go.

 

[seatazzz]

You might be a homebrewer if, on a certain weekend, you're not planning on brewing; but 90% of the projects you have planned are geared towards the brewery (i.e., moving hop plants, cleaning kegs, kegging, figuring out how to clean the kegerator lines with the equipment I have). And then have to figure out how to get laundry done in the meantime. Who needs clean clothes anyway.

 

[Mutant]

Your drinking problem is that: You can brew more than you can drink.

 

[Tobor_8thMan]

Get get more excited about homebrew gadgets than porn.