You know you're a home brewer when?

[Saunassa]

When you go to a brew pub and order a beer and can only drink 1/3 and tell the hostess to dump it and bring you something else. I looked at my buddies and said I would prefer to be drinking my one year old pale ale that I found in the back of the fridge.

 

[Joggin]

Take the empty six gallon food grade wine bucket of concentrated grapes from a wine making neighbor who then throws it out.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

You're wife and kids come home with baby chicks, because the 14 hens and 2 ducks we already have aren't enough open the bag of chick food which is supposed to be tiny crumbles, and it ends up being bagged wrong and its full sized pellet feed for grown chickens. SOLUTION you have a spare grain mill in the basement so you take the pellets and crush them at about .034 gap and make perfect crumbles for the little ones.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

When you’ve got these

Bottles

1. Moonraker White 8.5% 28/10/21
2. Belgium Triple light blue 9.3% 4/12/21
3. Traquair House silver 8.3% 18/2/22
4. Rye IPA blue 5.4% 21/4/22
5. Niagara Wheat beer red 6.2% 7/6/22
6. AAA black 5.5% 12/7/22
7. Route Citra 6 Wheat silver 5.2% 27/7/22
8. Belgian Kwak red 7.6% x33cl, x50cl 17/8/22
9. Munich Dunkel purple 5.2% 31/8/22
10. Red X IPA silver 7.0% 5/10/22
11. Tropical England silver 6.7% 12/11/22
12. WI Porter black 6.7% 15/11/22
13. Dark Island silver 4.7% 19/11/22
14. Raspberry Wheat Beer dark Green 5.2% 20/11/22
15. Citra/Mosaic IPA gold 7.0% 25/11/22
16. Sierra Nevada light green 6.7% 1/12/22
17. Helicopter APA yellow 6.5% 24/1/23
18. Budvar pink 5.2% 31/1/23
19. Devon Dumpling FT 4.7%
20. American Amber Ale white 5.1%

Kegs & Barrels

1. 🛢19 L Dark Island 4.7% 20/11/22
2. 🛢19 L 5 Points 4.6% 7/2/23
3. 🛢19 L Devon Dumpling 4.7% 21/2/23

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

When you’ve got these

Bottles

1. Moonraker White 8.5% 28/10/21
2. Belgium Triple light blue 9.3% 4/12/21
3. Traquair House silver 8.3% 18/2/22
4. Rye IPA blue 5.4% 21/4/22
5. Niagara Wheat beer red 6.2% 7/6/22
6. AAA black 5.5% 12/7/22
7. Route Citra 6 Wheat silver 5.2% 27/7/22
8. Belgian Kwak red 7.6% x33cl, x50cl 17/8/22
9. Munich Dunkel purple 5.2% 31/8/22
10. Red X IPA silver 7.0% 5/10/22
11. Tropical England silver 6.7% 12/11/22
12. WI Porter black 6.7% 15/11/22
13. Dark Island silver 4.7% 19/11/22
14. Raspberry Wheat Beer dark Green 5.2% 20/11/22
15. Citra/Mosaic IPA gold 7.0% 25/11/22
16. Sierra Nevada light green 6.7% 1/12/22
17. Helicopter APA yellow 6.5% 24/1/23
18. Budvar pink 5.2% 31/1/23
19. Devon Dumpling FT 4.7%
20. American Amber Ale white 5.1%

Kegs & Barrels

1. 🛢19 L Dark Island 4.7% 20/11/22
2. 🛢19 L 5 Points 4.6% 7/2/23
3. 🛢19 L Devon Dumpling 4.7% 21/2/23

Show off - really though, lucky you! No need to brew for awhile.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Show off - really though, lucky you! No need to brew for awhile.

Thanks

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Thanks

No. 14 or 20 would taste really nice now.

Just finished filling the fermenter with 11 gallons of wheat wort, soon to be beer once the yeast gets going.

 

[connell89]

I have been receiving kits every other month for about 3 years now (since COVID started) from Homebrew Happy Hour Chub Club and have about 5 to brew. I brewed an Irish Red and Dunkelweizen for the NHC and a Cream Ale Kit because it was old. The Chub Club is doing a Kolsch comp in May so I had to brew that one and then I realized I have 4 kegs soon to drink and stocked beer fridge. But hey, I have 3 more empty kegs so I can still brew. I need to find some beer drinking friends to share.....

 

[Saunassa]

When your friends run out of captain morgan and look in the pantry and fridge for beer and find a mixed case of mystery bottles of beer. many with different letters on the caps. Found that one with an M on it is wonderful but no idea what it is.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

You start thinking Guinness isn't really that good.

 

[mattd2]

Found that one with an M on it is wonderful but no idea what it is.

Maybe that was actually a W for wonderful!

 

[rushpapers]

You start thinking Guinness isn't really that good.

You take that back! You’re talking nonsense.

Blasphemer!

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Guinnes is a perfectly fine quaffer, but it ain't what it used to be, and has always been the lighter, more watery option compared to Murphy's or O'Haras.

 

[wsmith1625]

When you sit on the couch with a pint from a freshly tapped keg and your teenage daughters are laughing at you for sniffing the glass so much.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

When you sit on the couch with a pint from a freshly tapped keg and your teenage daughters are laughing at you for sniffing the glass so much.

That was me last night.

 

[T Murph]

When you have 7 fermenters and you are trying to explain to your wife why you need to purchase another one. But honey I don't have a Fermzilla.

 

[Christoff]

When you walk by the glass bin at the recycling depot and hesitate while you consider grabbing a few but have to convince yourself free bottles are not worth it….

 

[dnr]

When your wife asks why you have to hoard all the 1liter seltzer bottles and you have to explain you're making a high gravity beer with some fermentable adjuncts and you don't want a bottle bomb. I mean, c'mon.

 

[seatazzz]

YKYAHBW...you just got the taxes done, and the bill is in the five figures (husband took his 401k as a payout from last job, don't do that kids), and you've been told to scale way back on the brewery purchases...but still buy a shiny new SS grain basket that will fit in the 5g kettle so you can brew smaller batches. It will be saving us money dear, I promise! I can brew smaller batches and use less grain, thus spending less money on the brewery....

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

You know you're a homebrewer when you split a bushel of live blue crabs with family and they ask where are we gonna steam them and you immediately say, they'll all fit in my mash tun.

 

[lumpher]

... when your wife starts mentioning getting a chest freezer for food, and you quietly close your office door so she doesn't see those you have in there and start talking about using 1 of the 2 you have for brewing for such a silly thing as food...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

You know you’re a hombrewer when you ask to borrow a large stock pot or turkey fryer for a clam bake because you don’t want to put mollusks and crustaceans in your BK.

 

[PberBob]

Looks like someone’s making Old Bay Gose in the future ;-)

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

they'll all fit in my mash tun

Looking at those pictures, all I can say is yuk, will you every get the smell out?

 

[hout17]

Looking at those pictures, all I can say is yuk, will you every get the smell out?

I bet a hot pbw soak will take care of it. I must say that was a brave move though lol.

 

[soccerdad]

Looking at those pictures, all I can say is yuk, will you every get the smell out?

There's a creation joke in there, but you ain't getting it here from me.

 

[Closet Fermenter]

…when your chickens get excited when they see you carrying a stainless pot their way, ‘cause they know they are fixing to get a mess of spent grain!

 

[Bill Tong]

You know you're a homebrewer when you split a bushel of live blue crabs with family and they ask where are we gonna steam them and you immediately say, they'll all fit in my mash tun.
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What's your mash schedule?

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I'd guess it's a decoction of some sort.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Reverse decoction. Turns beer into wort.