You're no longer a n00b when...

[LaurieGator]

#489: Your child's friends call you "Mead Mom".

#490: Your child's friends have already told you the date of their 21st birthday and have asked you to make them beer!

 

[diodeart]

#491: You take apart a dishwasher because there might be a chance you could use the pump, heating element, servos and control panel somehow in your brewery.

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[doornumber3]

492. When your wife lets you get the dual tap kegerator so she can have something besides an iPa on tap

493. When your 5 year old daughter is mad you got a kegerator because now she can't help wash and take the labels off the bottles. Then suddenly asks if the beer is ready to come out


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[adiochiro3]

494: in response to number 77, you quit having to clean Kreusen off of everything because you've learned to use a blow off tube for every primary regardless of the original gravity.

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[abeasst]

495: People ask you to brew another batch of a beer you previously made because its so good.

 

[andy6026]

496. You no longer have rancid yeast farts.

 

[JohnSand]

497: When you're at the LHBS, and a guy asks you a question about yeast, and you have a good answer.

 

[mmb]

497: When you're at the LHBS, and a guy asks you a question about yeast, and you have a good answer.

498: When you're at the LHBS and the owner asks you a question about yeast because they know you'll have the answer.

 

[ElJefeBrews]

I'm still a noob and I'm sure this has been said already, but this brought me an odd sort of satisfaction...

499) when your girlfriend keeps yelling at you because because your brew stuff is taking up the whole kitchen table.

And just something I found funny...

- when your girlfriend tells you you have to move your carboys because the bubbling airlocks freak out the cat and he keeps attacking them

 

[zardozap]

498: When you're at the LHBS and the owner asks you a question about yeast because they know you'll have the answer.

That kinda makes the your LHBS sound kinda bad, as far as their beer knowledge goes.

 

[Tutsbrew]

500! ...When you realize a proper water profile is the 4th leg for the beer stool of brewing and can manipulate it as such.