You know you're a home brewer when?

[Jako]

when you get a giggle, and want to say i just spent $80 on base malt to make 30-40 gallons, to a newbie! (Welcome Aboard! )

buying Barke is not cheap. but i paid a few extra bucks and had my LHBS order for me.

 

[hout17]

When you hold a 4' by 6' piece of cardboard up to block 20 mile an hour winds so you can finish your boil in your back yard and neighbors are slowing down to observe the situation as they walk by.

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

When you make the dumb, easily avoidable mistake of not measuring a brand new mini fridge before purchasing, get it home and discover that the door won't close with the 2.5 gallon keg you wanted to use sitting inside the fridge. Then, when you check to see if you can return the fridge, it turns out that it's considered a major appliance purchase and not eligable for return or refund. So, you spend the next several days scouring the DIY section here on HBT for ideas, because you're too stubborn to let your dumb luck keep you down for long but too broke at the moment to just go buy a bigger fridge.

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

When you ask some one you know, that has been known to sell certain things (we'll call them herbs) what pocket scale they would recommend for weighing grams to .01 so you can weigh out your brewing salts more accurately.

Seems legit...

 

[Dozer71]

When you make the dumb, easily avoidable mistake of not measuring a brand new mini fridge before purchasing, get it home and discover that the door won't close with the 2.5 gallon keg you wanted to use sitting inside the fridge. Then, when you check to see if you can return the fridge, it turns out that it's considered a major appliance purchase and not eligable for return or refund. So, you spend the next several days scouring the DIY section here on HBT for ideas, because you're too stubborn to let your dumb luck keep you down for long but too broke at the moment to just go buy a bigger fridge.

Put a collar on the door like the collar on the keezers so the kegs fit (search keezer builds).

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

Put a collar on the door like the collar on the keezers so the kegs fit (search keezer builds).

I was already thinking along that line.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

I was already thinking along that line.

Here's a great thread for that. I followed this when I built my fermentation chamber, and it turned out great!

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

Here's a great thread for that. I followed this when I built my fermentation chamber, and it turned out great!

SWEET!!! Just what I was looking for!

 

[seatazzz]

When you're up in the wee sma's after having fell asleep on the couch too early the night before, sitting in the garage/brewery sipping on something tasty, trying to think of what you need to order for the brewery and cannot think of a darn thing other than grain, that the husband has graciously given permission to buy that day because he's going to the bowling alley to look at and try out new bowling balls. Which means there will be a new one in his "arsenal" (yes that's really what bowlers say) by the end of the day.

 

[Bluekat]

When all you can think about is retiring and brewing full time!

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

When you haven't even ordered the ingredients yet from your LHBS to make your next batch (planning on making 5 gallons of German Leichtbier from the HomeBrew Challenge YouTube Channel's recipe), and you're already looking up recipes for the next batch or two....or three after that one.

 

[hamachi]

When your fever dreams the night after getting dose #2 of a COVID vaccine all concern homebrewing.

 

[JJinMD]

A friend of my husband returned the bottles, but never bothered to rinse them out! Like the soup nazi, I said. “No more beer for you!”

How about when a co-worker returns a dirty growler? Nope, not even a rinse or so it seems...

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

How about when a co-worker returns a dirty growler? Nope, not even a rinse or so it seems...

No more beer for him....

 

[PersonalBrewer]

When you have seven Kegs on hand (3 in the Keezer) that have beer in them and buy two more kegs so that you can have more beer on hand and won't have to brew outside when it's more than 90 degrees!

 

[fourfarthing]

You promise your kids next year we can harvest the dandelions for a saison and your wife doesn’t blink.

 

[GrogNerd]

... your entire existence can be summed up in a single meme

 

[wepeeler]

When you're making oatmeal for breakfast, and you stir it like you're mashing in...

 

[ClaudiusB]

When you make fun of the big brewing boys like BMC

 

[Barbarossa]

You are at the grocery store and can't decide on the beer you'll get as you would much prefer drink your own.

 

[bracconiere]

This is off-topic, but close enough. i brewed sunday, and it's done fermenting tuesday?

i honestly expected it to take a few more days, and now i don't have any empty kegs to put it in!

guess i was a little too gungho to get it brewed.

 

[seatazzz]

This is off-topic, but close enough. i brewed sunday, and it's done fermenting tuesday?

i honestly expected it to take a few more days, and now i don't have any empty kegs to put it in!

guess i was a little too gungho to get it brewed.

Geez dude I thought I pushed my beers too fast...the one I did on Sunday has already dropped its krausen but I'm restraining myself from dropping the dry hop for at least 3 more days, cause it's going to be a big one. Plenty of healthy yeast and constant temperature did it. And I also don't have an empty keg for it....yet. Working on that as I type.

Maybe not this weekend, but I propose a race between the two of us...we pick the recipe, hops, yeast (fresh, not slurry or washed), and date, and see who gets good beer (not just drinkable, both of us can drink too-young beer and like it) first. A 'la brulosophy, but more fun. Whaddya think? I'd be willing to ship a couple of bottles down to AZ as long as it's not too pricey. No kveik, has to be something like Notty or one of the Safeales (hey I'm proposing this, I get to make a couple rules, and I don't like using liquid yeast). You can use your own self-kilned malt. Hops have to be something we already have in stock. Interested?

 

[bracconiere]

yeast (fresh, not slurry or washed)

well my premiere blanc wine yeast did the trick for this batch, still working on my $30 500g brick. i'm affraid i'll have to back down from a fight though.

 

[3 Dawg Night]

Geez dude I thought I pushed my beers too fast...the one I did on Sunday has already dropped its krausen but I'm restraining myself from dropping the dry hop for at least 3 more days, cause it's going to be a big one. Plenty of healthy yeast and constant temperature did it. And I also don't have an empty keg for it....yet. Working on that as I type.

Maybe not this weekend, but I propose a race between the two of us...we pick the recipe, hops, yeast (fresh, not slurry or washed), and date, and see who gets good beer (not just drinkable, both of us can drink too-young beer and like it) first. A 'la brulosophy, but more fun. Whaddya think? I'd be willing to ship a couple of bottles down to AZ as long as it's not too pricey. No kveik, has to be something like Notty or one of the Safeales (hey I'm proposing this, I get to make a couple rules, and I don't like using liquid yeast). You can use your own self-kilned malt. Hops have to be something we already have in stock. Interested?

 

[bracconiere]

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LOL, i mean if she wants to send me a bottle, i'll be more then happy to drink it and confirm. i'm the worst brewer here....

 

[tkdgeek]

When you're making oatmeal for breakfast, and you stir it like you're mashing in...

Or have to stop for a second to wonder if it's time for hop addition. Oh yeah, just oats.

 

[soccerdad]

Do you guys add any calcium chloride to your oatmeal? Pinch of Epsom salt?

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Do you guys add any calcium chloride to your oatmeal? Pinch of Epsom salt?

I’ve put various kinds of hops in coffee...

 

[3 Dawg Night]

LOL, i mean if she wants to send me a bottle, i'll be more then happy to drink it and confirm. i'm the worst brewer here....

Well, if both of you want to send me bottles, I'll be the judge of that.

 

[JAReeves]

When you're cutting back your hops and thinking you need more friends who want to grow hops so that you can give your extra rhizomes away.