You know you're a home brewer when?

[Snuffy]

Worst part about it is that it fell on the ball valve and the weight of the water and grain cracked the mashtun and it wouldnt hold a seal any longer. Lol a headache and $80 loss in total. But On the bright side, my son was with me in the garage when it happened and didn’t get hurt or burnt so tht was a blessing

Yikes... yeah, that could have been ugly. Glad it was just a mess. Time for one of those water heater support tables that can take the weight.

 

[Nubiwan]

You smuggle grains for 2 batches into your own home....... without being seen.......

 

[Snuffy]

...when you buy craft and imported beer mostly for the bottles.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Worst part about it is that it fell on the ball valve and the weight of the water and grain cracked the mashtun and it wouldnt hold a seal any longer. Lol a headache and $80 loss in total. But On the bright side, my son was with me in the garage when it happened and didn’t get hurt or burnt so tht was a blessing

Terrible accident and I'm glad no one was hurt . . . other than the mashtun. I hope your son didn't learn any new words.

 

[Lubrication]

When you've had a few beers in the pub and the barman offers you a crate of 24 empty swing top half litre bottles..... and you lug them home on the late night bus much to the amusement of fellow passengers!

 

[Nubiwan]

When you've had a few beers in the pub and the barman offers you a crate of 24 empty swing top half litre bottles..... and you lug them home on the late night bus much to the amusement of fellow passengers!

Love my swing tops. All 300 of them.

 

[rushpapers]

When your working in a foreign country for a year that outlaws alcohol, yet you still spend all your free time on brewing sites, and designing beer recipes that your going to try when your year is up and your back home.

Isn't that exactly why we all learned the craft? ...the apocalypse, you're stranded on a deserted island... or you're stuck in a Muslim country?

 

[bwible]

...when you buy craft and imported beer mostly for the bottles.

Guilty. I like Fuller’s beer and their bottles.

 

[bwible]

When you’re “working from home” and designing recipes and cleaning and sanitizing bottles in between phone calls.

 

[thehaze]

When you’re “working from home” and designing recipes and cleaning and sanitizing bottles in between phone calls.

Yeah... I also do that. Great fun and make use of time.

 

[GrogNerd]

when you're not brewing you're thinking about brewing.

or reading about brewing. or posting about brewing. or listening to podcasts or watching videos about brewing. or thinking about reading or posting or listening to podcasts or watching videos about brewing,

& refuse to call it an obsession

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

When you have a batch fermenting in th FC and the kreuzen has recently dropped, you raised up the temp a bit. And now you have to constantly remind yourself that no, you can't " take a FG reading" as an excuse to taste it, you have to wait a couple of days.
Or that what you look forward to the most when it is done and bottled, is not that you will have hopefully yummy beer to drink, it's that you can brew another batch.
Considering, even though you have a 1.5 year old and a pregnant wife, that since you usually brew on weekends, and bottle the weekend 2 weeks after, you could bottle on friday and brew on saturday so as to not waste precious weekends on not brewing.
Considering getting another fridge FC and fermenting batches with one week between them, so that every weekend is brew weekend!

 

[Bill Tong]

You cycle through the list of your LHBS when making purchases so no one might think you have a brewing problem

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

You cycle through the list of your LHBS when making purchases so no one might think you have a brewing problem

You have multiple? I am recognized in mine by now, "oh yeah, you bought this and that yeast a couple weeks ago, how did the brew turn out?"

 

[Bill Tong]

You have multiple? I am recognized in mine by now, "oh yeah, you bought this and that yeast a couple weeks ago, how did the brew turn out?"

Yes I am fortunate enough to have 3 relatively close. The closest one sees me at least once a week!

 

[soccerdad]

My nearest is 65 miles away and only open part time :-(

 

[Kee]

My nearest is 65 miles away and only open part time :-(

I miss not having one close by. It's kind of complicated exchanging samples of homebrew online.

 

[GrogNerd]

when you not only know the local pro brewers' names, they know yours

 

[Taket_al_Tauro]

When you have developed your own technique for brewing black tea, namely:
- toss the tea loose in a glass pitcher (please do NOT bag those tea leaves, ever!! They MUST go in commando)
- pour boiling water on top of them
- wait a couple of minutes while occasionally stirring (= tea-stand)
- whirlpool the hell out of it, wait another couple of minutes for a nice, beautiful tea cone to form.
- carefully pour the now crystal clear tea in a cup, leaving the gunk behind.

 

[Barbarossa]

When you realize that your living room is now full of noises from the kegerator, the keezer and the water pump for the cooling of your lager.

 

[bracconiere]

when you realize you'll never have any friends, because they all drink BMC...and the only people you can get along with are emojied as eople: lol



9and still lost in traslation, aparently)

 

[mattman91]

You have a hydrometer in your sink every other day.

 

[Sunfire96]

You go to a friend's house and they saved their empty bottles for you

 

[3 Dawg Night]

You go to a friend house and they saved their empty bottles for you

On a related note: when you already have PLENTY of bottles, but friends and family are still saving them for you, and you can't turn them down.

 

[Bill Tong]

You have fond memories of the days you used to be able to think about things other than the next brew.

 

[Hwk-I-St8]

When the credit card statement comes and it's littered with brewing related purchases: grain, hops, quick disconnects, silicon hose, etc.

When your city gets hit by a derecho, you're without power for a week, and one of the things you power with your small generator is the kegerator.

 

[jonny24]

On a related note: when you already have PLENTY of bottles, but friends and family are still saving them for you, and you can't turn them down.

I have so much bottle regret. 3 or 4 years ago I had a fleet of a couple hundred, all matching, in 6pack boxes from a work open house that served a local craft brewery all night. And, 2 years ago when I switch to kegging, thought, nah, I'll never need that many again. Told my dad he could get rid of them (they were taking up space in his garage).

Now, I've been brewing up a huge amount, and giving it away to family, but I've been forced to BUY bottles from the homebrew shop! Went looking to pick up a few 6 packs of craft to help the cause, and EVERYTHING was in cans, or 650ml bottles.

You don't know what you got till it's gone....

 

[NewJersey]

I have so much bottle regret. 3 or 4 years ago I had a fleet of a couple hundred, all matching, in 6pack boxes from a work open house that served a local craft brewery all night. And, 2 years ago when I switch to kegging, thought, nah, I'll never need that many again. Told my dad he could get rid of them (they were taking up space in his garage).

Now, I've been brewing up a huge amount, and giving it away to family, but I've been forced to BUY bottles from the homebrew shop! Went looking to pick up a few 6 packs of craft to help the cause, and EVERYTHING was in cans, or 650ml bottles.

You don't know what you got till it's gone....

I exclusively keg beer and when I give some away I like to use 22oz bottles. It just seems more substantial than 12oz bottles

 

[jonny24]

I totally agree when it's single or a couple bottles. But I've been giving cases to my uncles lately.

 

[seatazzz]

Another bottle-related one; when you gauge how much you like your friends by how quickly they return bottles to you. Still waiting on a couple of pretty green grolsch bottles that haven't come home yet...someone's off the Xmas card list.

 

[Jako]

When you’re “working from home” and designing recipes and cleaning and sanitizing bottles in between phone calls.

too relatable, recipe #1 when i worked from home. called working from home sober.

i had 10% cider and 10% mead on tap. something had to give.

 

[Jako]

Another bottle-related one; when you gauge how much you like your friends by how quickly they return bottles to you. Still waiting on a couple of pretty green grolsch bottles that haven't come home yet...someone's off the Xmas card list.

i tell everyone, if i don't get the bottle back no more beer i like to say if it comes back clean bonus points.

 

[bracconiere]

i washed my dishes, and i put my fermentor in the fridge to chill down for carbing.....

and since this is just a token nod post to the thread, i'm going to get my pot out. fill it with strike water. and mill my grain for tomorrow morning just so i can't shrug it off, and end up drinking warm flat beer out of the fermenter again....

should be an interesting morning, like someone knew what i wanted to do!

 

[rushpapers]

You scour classified ads each day, looking for bargain kegs, brewpots, CO2 cylinders, crown cappers, and the like... not because you need them now, but for your eventual brewery expansion, some day in the foreseeable future.

 

[bracconiere]

You scour classified ads each day, looking for bargain kegs, brewpots, CO2 cylinders, crown cappers, and the like... not because you need them now, but for your eventual brewery expansion, some day in the foreseeable future.

f you for making me think how i need a new co2 cylinder and regulator so i can have a second kegerator next to my bed!

 

[rushpapers]

f you for making me think how i need a new co2 cylinder and regulator so i can have a second kegerator next to my bed!

Craigslist bruh... somebody out there is getting rid of something good... really cheap.

 

[Imhoppy]

You have to check your fermenter again to see how it's doing. Even though you just checked it 5 minutes ago.

 

[bracconiere]

Craigslist bruh... somebody out there is getting rid of something good... really cheap.

maybe, picked up the short throw projector for full bed sized screen for $80, the welding shop wants $110 for a 5lb tank, and more beer wants ~$140 for a dual reg, reg.....i'll know i'm a homebrewer when i'm laying in bed, with a 110" screen that fills the bed, with a SECOND kegerator, and just have to lean over to fill a glass, while watching TV.....right now i just feel like a pretender, i just make barley tea, and have to walk to the kitchen to get another glass...what a chore...

 

[bracconiere]

You have to check your fermenter again to see how it's doing. Even though you just checked it 5 minutes ago.

damn, i just had a batch take 11 days to finish! and i was out of beer, scooping pitchers out! drinking them flat!

 

[rushpapers]

...the welding shop wants $110 for a 5lb tank, ...

Not the greatest deal, but saves you $35...