You know you're a home brewer when?

[DayLghtBreaks]

You have a fancier sauce pan for making yeast starters than the ones regularly used in the kitchen.

 

[Jordan Logo]

When you come home from the homebrew shop and tell your significant other you just had to get all this extra stuff because they were having a 50% off sale

 

[RCope]

When you realize the craft beers drank from the fridge don't count...you are saving your homebrew for friends and family (or for yourself)

 

[bleme]

When you come home from the homebrew shop and tell your significant other you just had to get all this extra stuff because they were having a 50% off sale

My wife and daughter came home with several bags of shoes, bragging that they saved more than they spent, so if it works for them...

 

[mongoose33]

My wife and daughter came home with several bags of shoes, bragging that they saved more than they spent, so if it works for them...

They didn't save anything...they came home with less money than they left with.

The only way anyone "saves" money is if they find something they need that is cheaper than what they'd normally pay.

But....I think you have an opening here. Why not buy something like a huge brewing setup on sale, and then brag about how much money you saved!

 

[OpenSights]

When you find out your brew store is closing and you go back a second time on the same day to see what else they marked down and you have plans to go back the next day they open. Hydrometer for $.50, yes please! Free 8 gallon two port kettle with a pin hole leak used once and a free slightly used co2 regulator..... bittersweet feeling!

 

[Murphys_Law]

When you're sitting in the Home Depot parking lot and see a guy loading a mini fridge and you want to ask him if he's a home brewer!

 

[grampamark]

When you're walking out of Home Depot and a guy pulls into the parking space next to your pickup driving a pickup with a license plate that says “KRAUSEN”. You ask him if he’s a home brewer and he says "No, I'm a brewer. I own the brewpub just down the street”.

 

[fourfarthing]

When fruit juice smells like hops instead of hops smelling like fruit juice.

 

[Murphys_Law]

When you're walking out of Home Depot and a guy pulls into the parking space next to your pickup driving a pickup with a license plate that says “KRAUSEN”. You ask him if he’s a home brewer and he says "No, I'm a brewer. I own the brewpub just down the street”.

I was in line at a car wash last week and the car in front of me had a bumper sticker: “My other car is a mash tun”

I wondered if he was a home brewer or a pro!

 

[Mr_B-Rad]

Getting mad because your significant other wants the freezer back that you have been lagering in...

 

[Nubiwan]

When you still have 2 dozen commerical beer sitting in your fridge since New Years Eve, in early June.

 

[Nubiwan]

When you tell your friends you are not sure if that is an IPA, a Red Ale or a lager they are drinking before they open one of your beers, and you were too lazy to label them.

and

Just about any beer you taste in a bar is scrutinized against your own brew, and is never really as good.

 

[Nubiwan]

You go to parties, and hope there are other home brewers there to share your excitment, and compare beers. And there never are.

 

[BikerMatt]

When the summer is turning out to be the hottest ever and you decide to buy a pool, and your significant other is looking at you like you got three heads when you're using your soon to be replaced brewing rig to heat up the water well I gotta use the gas for something, the bbq is coal and the new rig will be electric.

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

When at 2:30pm your phone starts going nuts vibrating in your pocket and you pull it out to see who's calling you only to see HBT is blowing up your email again

 

[bracconiere]

when it brings a tear to your eye that you haven't read this thread for 4 pages! (and your drinking cider to get your kegs full quick)

edit: and @OG-wan Kenobi you can turn off the emails, all except the yesterday's forum activity ones....they'll never let you leave! lol

 

[seatazzz]

You might be a homebrewer if you spend a good amount of time late at night, after working both jobs, trying to figure out how you can fit a brewday in tomorrow while kegging what was brewed last weekend, going to HD for parts to get the new regulator attached to the co2 tank, and still have time to get a nap in before usual Saturday visit to dad at nursing home and dinner with mom. And laundry, and usual weekend cleaning....but brewing is more important. Right????

 

[Pkrd]

When the summer is turning out to be the hottest ever and you decide to buy a pool, and your significant other is looking at you like you got three heads when you're using your soon to be replaced brewing rig to heat up the water well I gotta use the gas for something, the bbq is coal and the new rig will be electric.

Upgrading to a RIMS will stretch swimming season out by another month.

 

[Radicaldata]

When I see the price for a carton of beer and say, "I could brew 4 for the price of that".

 

[Amadeo38]

...you measure your alcohol intake in Kegs Per Month rather than drinks per day.

 

[OpenSights]

When you volunteer for a beer fest, get picked to pour for a local distillery and come home with a case of empty fifth bottles hoping wine corks will fit so you can age certain beer.

Then you get in good with the sales guy and the head distiller and have a good chance of getting a good used 55 gallon oak bourbon barrel! Sours!

 

[pepindavid]

You know you're a home brewer when you sell most of your brewing stuff (GrainFather, kegs, CO2 bottles, Tilts, Beergun, mill, everything) because you fell like you're drinking too much, and that you don't like spending 5-6 hours on the brewing process during the weekend)... And then you find yourself brewing a 2-gallon batch (no-sparge BiAB on the stove top) not even a month after you sold everything...!

 

[Rwadams]

You know you’re a home brewer when finding a contraption for tracking pours remaining in your keg on the internet is a thousand times more exciting than any internet porn could be.

 

[OpenSights]

When you have to install a special bookshelf for books about brewing (and wine, mead, soda, distilling....)

 

[OnePlate]

When your bad dream last night consists of adding fruit to a beer and it getting an infection that requires dumping it.

 

[noiz2]

When you have to install a special bookshelf for books about brewing (and wine, mead, soda, distilling....)

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Those are all of your brewing books? Kind of slacking off there ;~)

 

[OpenSights]

Those are all of your brewing books? Kind of slacking off there ;~)

My recipe book isn’t up there....

 

[Miller4]

They didn't save anything...they came home with less money than they left with.

The only way anyone "saves" money is if they find something they need that is cheaper than what they'd normally pay.

But....I think you have an opening here. Why not buy something like a huge brewing setup on sale, and then brag about how much money you saved!

One of my favorites is “I can’t afford NOT to buy it!”

 

[seatazzz]

When the vast majority of your Facebook posts have to do with brewing, and beer.

 

[ncbrewer]

When the vast majority of your Facebook posts have to do with brewing, and beer.

When ALL your Facebook posts have to do with brewing and beer. (I just use mine to keep up with the homebrew club activities.)

 

[OpenSights]

When ALL your Facebook posts have to do with brewing and beer. (I just use mine to keep up with the homebrew club activities.)

That’s pretty much the same with me... I think I have only 4 friends who don’t have anything to do with brewing....

 

[bracconiere]

the floor next to your kegerator has this on it, and you're worried your not going to figure out how to get the 5/16" tubing onto the 3/8" barb tee's to push your next drink!

 

[OpenSights]

When your LHBS closes and you make it to the last 4 days for the deals and buy $1-$5 bins with something in it worth the money but you have no clue what some of the other ingredients or thingies are.

And since I’ve been such a good customer and go to buy a quarter full 6 gallon bucket of flaked rye for $5 the manager, friend, VP of my club says “There’s and open full bag on that shelf, you might as well fill it up and call it $5.”

Seriously, half this stuff I have no clue what it is! Lots of wine stuff! Guess I’ll have to learn winemaking too....

 

[Northern_Brewer]

You know you're a British homebrewer when you partigyle coffee because your other half makes it so strong that even the second runnings have enough caffeine for normal people.

 

[Soulshine2]

My wife and daughter came home with several bags of shoes, bragging that they saved more than they spent, so if it works for them...

dont they always....tell you what they saved , never what they spent. lol. My ex used to do that all.the.time.
Luckily my wife enjoys my brewing. Heck, she orders most of my stuff for me. Most times I'll be doing some online shopping and put stuff in the basket to think on it awhile whether or not I want it now or save for later and she'll tell me , oh by the way I went and placed that brewing order for you...gotta love that.

 

[Soulshine2]

You know you're a British homebrewer when you partigyle coffee because your other half makes it so strong that even the second runnings have enough caffeine for normal people.

lol, sounds like our coffee. normal people call it espresso.

 

[Soulshine2]

That’s pretty much the same with me... I think I have only 4 friends who don’t have anything to do with brewing....

you dont really need those 4 do you???

 

[OpenSights]

When your LHBS closes and you run out of room in your addition shelf....

 

[bracconiere]

it's been ~3 weeks since you brewed last....and start a batch, realizing, it's been TOO long. Because you have to reference what the temp for a protein rest is....