Damn! Time to start bottling again and I don't have enough.
You know you're a home brewer when?
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You know you're a homebrewer when your husband plans a lovely (mildly expensive) camping trip for the weekend, in a cabin instead of tent, where we can take the dogs, at a private resort that a dear friend runs (and gave us a heck of a good deal), and all you can think about is will we get home early enough on Monday to get a beer kegged, another moved to crashing, and still have time to enjoy some homebrew after three days away from it. And yes we did. Sanitized keg chilling right now, if I play my cards right and do the fast-carb method I'll be enjoying a glass of my american strong when I get home from work tonight at 10:30pm.
You're cleaning some stuff in the basement and say to yourself "Wow, I guess I don't need to buy that extra hydrometer to replace the one that broke so I have a spare(but you've been putting it off for months)" because you find a spare that you didn't know you had. Two is one and one is none..
Had our A/C serviced today. Had to lead the guy through to the breaker panel in the garage past my 4 tap keezer, my large-ish stainless brew rig not to mention the wall of bottles, and he didn't say a thing. Never glanced at all the paraphernalia nor did he acknowledge any of it. Weirdo, but I was prepared to send him off with a growler or two. Guess you know you're a home brewer when you are over prepared to share, just in case.
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Funny, I had a sewer line guy in the other day.. Wrapping up, I handed him a sixer, and he said "Yeah, I saw you brewed.. I was going to ask, but it seemed impolite" Yesterday I got a message thanking me for the best beer he had..
When you tell friends you can't go out cause you have kegs and fermenters to clean.
for a brew day of course
for a brew day of course
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Yes and if you can watch the yeast as it flows around like a snow globe? Mesmerizing.
I can watch that for several minutes at a time. My ferment fridge has an alarm that goes off if the door is open too long, and I've been known to tell it to shut the eff up, I'm busy watching my beer here.
You know you're a homebrewer when your refrigerator door has an 'open too long' alarm LOL.
jonny24
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That was me for a year and a half. Upright fridge/freezer in the corner for kegerator/storage, storage table with shelves above and bucket storage below, and then a chest freezer ferm chamber. Top shelf of the coat closet was for bottle storage. Lots of people complain about not being able to do full batches in apartments but I never had any trouble.
Luckily I have a deal with SWMBO, she didn't care about the brewery and I didn't care how many pets we have. Both interests have only grown since buying a house last year! I now have a dedicated room in the basement complete with beer lines to the upstairs bar, and she's up to 2 cats, 3 geckos, 1 parakeet, and 4 hamsters.
Your 14yo daughter comes to visit you at work and says, "It smells like you are making beer! Where is that smell coming from?", and you point at the pretzel factory down the block.
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I love my stainless conical, but I do miss watching the yeast go to town in the fermenter. Almost looks like it's boiling.
I'd miss that too. I love watching it swirl, sniffing the airlock and counting the bubbles per minute.
It would be cool to use a tilt or other fermentation logger to drive a video display, which would play a yeast swirling animation in the background that reacts in real time to the fermentation stats being presented in the foreground. Could even show the yeast storm on the right beer color via SRM.
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Some of you dont know what a warm, uncarbonated thick hop particulate and yeast slurry liquid blend tastes like and it shows 
You know you’re a homebrewer when, you visit your local butcher shop a half hour before closing and notice a couple open bottles of Corona and think to yourself what beer should I bring them on my next visit. I did say to them you need a better beer, being a German butcher.
Cellar_Dweller
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When you announce to your wife that you're going to brew and walk up from the basement after mashing in to find a walkway made of mats and towels across the kitchen floor.
Snark_Wolf_Brewing
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When you look at a box of Frosted Mini Wheats and ask yourself "What would happen if I added this to a mash? Will it beer?"
I bet it totally would
GrogNerd
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when you hear the phrase "will it beer?" & you don't need it explained & it immediately becomes part of your vocabulary
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We've got both Brew your Own Brew on Campbell and Brewer's Connection on Broadway, and the Mr Beer. I used to work in the building with the Mr Beer folks. Occasionally on Friday afternoons, they'd brink drink, we'd bring food. Good times!
Dave Sarber
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Never heard of Brewers connection. Will have to look that up if I ever get back to Tucson!
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It used to be convenient for me to hit on my drive home, now it's a long trip all by itself. Brew Your Own is a bit of a pain being just north of Grant, but less than Brewers Connection. I haven't been over since they moved locations.
porterguy
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When someone asks about the wall of quart yogurt containers on shelves. For a lb. or two of every brewing grain but base malt, of course.
When you go diving into your in-laws' garbage can because they threw a couple of your bottles away.
bracconiere
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You realize you may not weigh much, but are really out of shape shaking kegs to burst carb. and start thinking of cold crashing not for any other reason but the hope that the kegs will take co2 quicker!
porterguy
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Out of all the physical activity you may partake in, you are 99% certain when the doctor asks what could have contributed to your newfound hernia...you explain picking up and shaking a 5-gallon container of wort and newly pitched yeast.
Snark_Wolf_Brewing
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porterguy
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When you have all the (free) empty bottles you could ever need, and you stop at an antique store where you buy an old embossed beer bottle from a long-gone brewery. And ever since have been shelling out up to $10 apiece for such antique bottles. And realize after a few years that you not only NEVER run out of those cool bottles, but that you have to be very careful about you share your homebrew with, because you WILL get them back. Oh, and you aren't willing to pay "antique store" $20 and up prices because, as you explain to the guy when asking him to lower the price, you aren't COLLECTING bottles, you're just buying empties to use for your beer.
