you know you're a homebrewer when...

[johnnyc]

If you buy beer just for the bottles, like the 1 liter flip top Sweetwater Festive Ale.

 

[MOSFET]

You brew your coffee each morning at EXACTLY 152 degrees.

 

[bbrim]

...You look forward to the bitter cold because it means the basement will be perfect for lagers.

...The only clean dishes in the whole house are beer glasses because it would be criminal to drink a beer straight from the bottle.

 

[llazy_llama]

From the Basic Brewing Podcast: "When you walk down every isle of the grocery store saying to yourself 'I could ferment that, I could ferment that, I could definitely ferment that...'"

When people overhear your conversations and think you're a pimp or a drug dealer, and that "bottles," is slang for cash.

"You got my bottles? WTF man, I told you you better gimme back my bottles. Where are they, man? Don't hold out on me, you want the good stuff, you better gimme back my bottles!"

When you enjoy the taste of wort, spent grains, almost-beer out of a hydrometer, even yeast... but you still wouldn't drink a Bud Light if your life depended on it.

 

[p4ck37p1mp]

When you have larger pots than a commercial kitchen on your brew rig..

 

[Brewmasters Warehouse]

When you go to the LHBS just because it smells like grain, and if your lucky they will be packing hops.

 

[Glubki]

When the local party store calls and asks where you've been...

 

[Papinquack]

When you try to convert every one you know.

 

[InfernoBrews]

When you try to convert every one you know.

WOW!!! Soooooo much truth to that one!:rockin:

 

[SkewedBrewing]

...When a first date goes bad after she orders a Coors Light...

 

[blackwaterbrewer]

when you dont have face book or my space, instead you check the HBT twice a day

 

[Brew-Happy]

when you dont have face book or my space, instead you check the HBT twice a day

just twice??? OOOOH! You must mean all morning and all afternoon. I get you now

 

[carnevoodoo]

I think twice in this case means "while at work" and "while not at work."

 

[slomo]

Or since you just started brewing you have a limited supply of beer on hand, so you start avoiding your friends because they seem to care more about your beer than you.

 

[InfernoBrews]

When you go to your buddies to watch the Super bowl he says i have 2 cases of Coors dont bring beer and you walk in with a case of your Homebrew! and They say WTF?

 

[Bigbens6]

or the reverse, when your buddy who always brings 2 casses of miller light stops bringing ANY beer and instead walks in, past you, without saying hi, donw the stairs, into your frige, cracks, pours, and drinks half a bottle of home brew then looks up in surprise and says : Oh I didn't see you, what do you have to eat?

 

[p4ck37p1mp]

When you take a keg and portable co2 with you on vacation.

 

[Southwood]

When you have 5 refrigerators and only one has any room for food.

 

[bsay]

These all happened to me, recently:

When someone is talking about buying food in bulk and the conversation goes something like this:
Other guy: "I got a great deal on chicken, and have over 50lbs in my chest freezer"
Homebrewer: "I got a chest freezer"
Other guy: "Oh yea, what you got in it?"
Homebrewer: "Beer"
Other guy: "........."
Homebrewer: "I turned it into a fridge"

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When SWMBO goes to the store and asks if you want something, you respond:
"A gallon of apple juice, make sure it has no preservatives and comes in a glass bottle"

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You get a gift card to a spice store and the first thing you check is if they have coriander (or other brewing spices).

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When someone brings some Sam Adams (or other re-cappable beer) to a party you're at, you put a note up saying to rinse and save the bottles.

 

[jonp9576]

the only time you get excited for BMC is when its in empty aluminum bottles

 

[silvervan83]

when someone new comes to your house, gets a worried look on their face, and says "are you sure this is legal?"

 

[enderwig]

When you snap awake at 3am and exclaim, "1/4# of chocolate malt, thats what it needs." after spending a week trying to figure out what your latest recipe is missing!

 

[PavlovsCat]

You have dirty dishes, but sparkling clean bottles.

 

[chefmike]

They know you by first name at Home Despot, but also know better than to ask you any questions about the project you are currently working on and you walk around mumbling things like "low density not high density water elements" and "I wonder if this would work like that thing Yuri did..."

 

[Dadums]

When your 6 year old daughter asks when she can go to the build a beer workshop and not the build a bear.

 

[HillbillyDeluxe]

When you try to convert every one you know.

On that note! Got my first convert today. I gave him allmy mr beer stuff, i moved on to Brewers best kits and nowon to all grain! Woooooooha! Hillbilly deluxe!

 

[Papinquack]

On that note! Got my first convert today. I gave him allmy mr beer stuff, i moved on to Brewers best kits and nowon to all grain! Woooooooha! Hillbilly deluxe!

It is a good thing when you can save someone from drinking swill. I feel like celebrating...


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[mr jones]

you know you're a home brewer when...

..."i think taking a new job in texas is a great idea, its only an hour away from austin homebrew supply."

and

..."i think its a great idea to go visit your mom in austin, i need to make a grain and hops run."

 

[SkewedBrewing]

...when you, subconsciously, turn every conversation into one about beer, hops, malt or yeast... even when working in Media Production...

 

[homebrewer_99]

When "homebrewer" is the main part of your email address...