your addicted to homebrewing when......

[MBasile]

Commercial beers you used to like taste like crap!

I know I'm about to run out of the IPA I have kegged, and it's at least a week before the next batch can be tapped (and it will be green at that), so I went to the local store and bought a 12 pack of SN pale ale, and a sixer of torpedo...

Used to like 'em.. now I hate 'em... All bitter and no flavor... not smooth at all..

What hops do they use in those anyways?

Once my pipeline is firmly established, I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure it never is interrupted again!

I think that is more an indication of the route Sierra is going in, rather than your addiction to the hobby. But thats a conversation for a different thread

 

[Walker]

... you're cleaning out the lint trap after a load of laundry and find about 2 oz of barley in it.

 

[Walker]

Little does she know that the equipment costs alone will take 20years to break even!

Nonsense. The commercial beers I drink costs about $10 for a 6-pack. If I drank one beer day, I will have spent over $600 on commercial beer in that year.

9 batches of homebrew will provide the same amount of beer in that year, and will cost me about $175 in ingredients.

$600- $175 = $425.

So, if you I have $425 worth of equipment, I break even in just one year.

edit: now, between me and my wife, we actually go through closer to 24 batches of homebrew a year. That would be $1600 spent each year on commercial beer. Homebrew wise, that costs me a little less than $500 to make that beer. That's $1100 saved, so I can have a NICE brewing system and STILL break even in a year.

 

[COLObrewer]

. . . You realize that the house, sheds and garage/shop/mancave really aren't enough and that a dedicated brewhouse is in order, complete with it's own lab, pub, game room, cellar and seperate hot and cold fermentation chambers. Time to buy that lottery ticket!!

 

[samc]

Nonsense. The commercial beers I drink costs about $10 for a 6-pack. If I drank one beer day, I will have spent over $600 on commercial beer in that year.

9 batches of homebrew will provide the same amount of beer in that year, and will cost me about $175 in ingredients.

$600- $175 = $425.

So, if you I have $425 worth of equipment, I break even in just one year.

edit: now, between me and my wife, we actually go through closer to 24 batches of homebrew a year. That would be $1600 spent each year on commercial beer. Homebrew wise, that costs me a little less than $500 to make that beer. That's $1100 saved, so I can have a NICE brewing system and STILL break even in a year.

Of course if you got a part time job and worked the hours you put into brewing, you'd probably turn a profit. And if you worked at the Liquor store you could get a discount or steal your beer. The calculations are endless and I prefer to just say *#$# it and spend like a demon brewer.

 

[Walker]

Of course if you got a part time job and worked the hours you put into brewing, you'd probably turn a profit. And if you worked at the Liquor store you could get a discount or steal your beer. The calculations are endless and I prefer to just say *#$# it and spend like a demon brewer.

I only spend 9 hours every month in my brewery.

 

[Wyrmwood]

Your deployed half way arround the world working 12~14 hours a day 6 days a week and still manage to keep up with this site

Your upset you didn't get to brew one last batch to age while you were deployed for 4 months

Thanks for your service!

 

[Jakeedaman21]

Your roommate threatens to move out because you used the fridge as a lagering chamber.

P.S. He changed his mind after he tasted said Oktoberfest. Win.

 

[kellynm]

You call your wife from work to ask if your primary started bubbling and when she replies she doesnt know you ask her very kindly to sit and watch for a few minutes too check.
I did that today

LOL... did that one!

 

[ChrisS68]

You check the label on the Brute trash can you spy at the local banquet hall to see if it's the 20 gallon size you're considering for a fermenter.

 

[ezzieyguywuf]

Nonsense. The commercial beers I drink costs about $10 for a 6-pack. If I drank one beer day, I will have spent over $600 on commercial beer in that year.

9 batches of homebrew will provide the same amount of beer in that year, and will cost me about $175 in ingredients.

$600- $175 = $425.

So, if you I have $425 worth of equipment, I break even in just one year.

I like your style man, that's how I convinced my SWMBO that the kegerator was a good idea. Next stop, mashtun etc.

uh.....

 

[Craig311]

I think I've said this in a thread a while back but...

You watch a football game and all you see on the sidelines are mash tuns.

 

[BrewSpook]

I think I've said this in a thread a while back but...

You watch a football game and all you see on the sidelines are mash tuns.

Those new gatorade water coolers with the flared tops are cool. They would make a sweet looking MLT.

 

[r8rphan]

Nonsense. The commercial beers I drink costs about $10 for a 6-pack. If I drank one beer day, I will have spent over $600 on commercial beer in that year.

9 batches of homebrew will provide the same amount of beer in that year, and will cost me about $175 in ingredients.

$600- $175 = $425.

So, if you I have $425 worth of equipment, I break even in just one year.

edit: now, between me and my wife, we actually go through closer to 24 batches of homebrew a year. That would be $1600 spent each year on commercial beer. Homebrew wise, that costs me a little less than $500 to make that beer. That's $1100 saved, so I can have a NICE brewing system and STILL break even in a year.

I figure I save $100 every time I brew... That pays for the equipment pretty dang fast...... and I'm being conservative with the $100 estimate...... and just knowing that I'm not paying extortion fees to the govt via their unethical sin taxes (modern day indulgences) makes it worth it all by itself...

 

[XXXXX]

You have a dedicated climate-controlled "beer room" that is totally isolated from the rest of the house.

 

[Jakeedaman21]

You have a dedicated climate-controlled "beer room" that is totally isolated from the rest of the house.

but... I am jealous. Damn being a poor college student!

 

[r8rphan]

I think that is more an indication of the route Sierra is going in, rather than your addiction to the hobby. But thats a conversation for a different thread

I'd like to know more about that.... So does a thread on this already exist, or do I need to start one?

 

[rustbucket]

I think I've said this in a thread a while back but...

You watch a football game and all you see on the sidelines are mash tuns.

yah.. i have been thinking the same thing over and over again on that one... every sunday

 

[XXXXX]

but... I am jealous. Damn being a poor college student!

No worries big fella, so was I a couple years back. Now I'm a government drone...sort of

 

[Hartski]

When looking at a house, the biggest deciding factor is a second kitchen in the basement that would be perfect for brewing......

 

[AngerManagement]

Every waking hour you're either thinking or fantasizing about making beer.

 

[CoolHandLuke]

Since the weather is so nice, you call in to work sick - to brew

 

[Hartski]

Since the weather is so nice, you call in to work sick - to brew

Since it's almost impossible to brew without tossing back a few, isn't that calling in sick to drink??

 

[MaxSpang]

When you obsessively head out to the store to get supplies for a batch of beer that you won't be brewing til a month from now.

(Me, today after work!)

 

[MarcMTL]

When you're too drunk to properly spell the title of this post.

 

[DakotaPrerunner]

when you do buy a commercial beer you check to make sure that they are not twist offs. and if they are you put them back on the shelf.

 

[MarcMTL]

when you do buy a commercial beer you check to make sure that they are not twist offs. and if they are you put them back on the shelf.

How exactly do you check that?

 

[Walker]

How exactly do you check that?

I use my eyes and look at the bottle cap. Twist-offs are easy to spot.

 

[Gridlocked]

When you hide parts that you just bought inside of your keggle because you know SWMBO will not happen to notice them there.

 

[DakotaPrerunner]

look at the cap on the bottle. Twist offs usually have little arrows pointing to the right. You can also see if the crimp mark is parallel around the circumference or if it slopes up to the right. My fiancée thinks I'm nuts when I check the bottles of a beer I haven't purchased before.