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"Cambrinus":36b1si8o wrote: . . . you don't think that 10 gallons of beer is a lot.
. . . you've ever used a mop on a ceiling.
. . . you see the acronym R.D.W.H.A.H.B. and know what it means.
. . . it started out as a hobby then ended up as a habit.
. . . you have more varieties of beer on tap than your local bar does.
. . . you hate to wash the family dishes, but think nothing about standing over a sink for hours cleaning empty bottles.
. . . you buy beer according to ease of label removal or the type of bottle it comes in.
. . . you can name at least 10 different varieties of hops, but can't name 10 congressmen.
. . . you refuse to pay $8.00 for a beer in a restaurant because you can make 5 gallons for that much.
. . . the only time you clean your kitchen is just before brewing a new batch.[/quote:36b1si8o]


There is a few more another:

When your kitchen presses start to resemble the lab at work

You "need" a graduated cylinder to accurately measure water for the babys steam sterilizer.

The baby's infer red thermometer "happens" to be very good for measuring cooling wort temps too!

"TheBeerNut":2c2ptkmy wrote:

"Biertourist":2c2ptkmy wrote: Your friends all know what Pilsner Urquell means, in Czech...[/quote:2c2ptkmy]I had to look that up. "Plzeňský Prazdroj" is Pilsner Urquell in Czech.[/quote:2c2ptkmy]

Lol!
Forgot Pilsner Urquell was the Germanicized version of it already; I meant in English.

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I think the first one will hit home for far too many people on this board:

-When Spring rolls around you plan your garden around things that you can later put into your beer or ferment.

-You go into a home improvement store and ask where the "brew shed" section is.

-You go to the Bull and Castle for a pint and bring along a bag of spare John Guest fittings "just in case someone needs one".

-You have a homemade device for removing beer keg spears.

-You open your closet and realize that you don't need to think too hard about what to wear today: brewery tshirt, brewery tshirt, brewery tshirt, WAIT, yea, another brewery tshirt...

-Your beer gets infected by some unknown microbiological life form and you post pictures and tasting notes on Beoir.

-You actively sign up for and are excited to receive "spam" from home brew stores.

-Lidl sales on electric tea kettles and camping coolers mean you have to drop what you're doing and rush to the store immediately!

-You know the exact number of kettle elements that can be plugged into each electrical circuit in your house without popping the breaker.

-When someone starts a story about a "friend they knew" who "brewed a lager in their bathtub once" you grit your teeth because all your hear is the sound of finger nails scratching across a chalkboard.


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Adam

You know you're a homebrewer if . . .

You shed has 1.5 time the amps compared to your house

You know you're a homebrewer if you can't make tea without sparging it

Your missus wonders how the stainless in the sink is gleaming, but you daren't tell her you just spent 30 min scrubbing and sanitising