You know you're a home-brewer if:

[Big Chooch]

You might be an out-of-control home brewer if:

1. Your ideas of precious metals are stainless steel and copper.
2. You scout garage sales after thanksgiving for “cheap” turkey fryers.
3. You cook food as if you’re brewing.
4. One of your closets smell like stale beer and is being overrun by sugar ants.
5. Hops and grain take up 75% of your freezer space.
6. Your neighbors (the ones that you don’t give beer too) think you run a meth-lab.
7. You don’t correct them because you don’t want to give them beer.
8. You gauge the quality of your brew by how drunk you were when you brewed it.
9. You’ve ever drank 5 gallons of terrible, horrible beer.
10. You’ve ever had a reason to say the phrase, “Fuck Bottling”!
11. You’re the only construction worker you know that’s owns an Erlenmeyer flask.
12. You own a dog named “Fuggles”.
13. You think that a vacation trip to a monastery would be fun.
14. You’ve looked at a large coffee percolator and thought “hmmmm….”
15. That coffee maker is now a “mini mash” tun.
16. You don’t go to church every Sunday, but you’ve never missed a live brewcast.

[George]

You've ever taken a shower with at least one carboy.

[gfoster]

You've ever taken a gravity reading on a commercial beer

-- Gary F.

[speed]

if you sell beer at your store and tell the customer that you make beer that is a hell of alot better than what they are buying.
i own a convenience store and i have actually told some customers that.

[Ozbrewer]

if you wake up at 5 am for the blues show, get so fucked up you forget you rang in the sunday show.......

[Speyedr]

..Many of your light conversations include the phrases "protein rest", "Alpha and Beta Amalyse" and "Decoction Mash"
..and you Wife knows what you mean.

..You try to save as much money on baby furniture as possibe so there is more for your Brew Sculpture fund...

..Fuggles (your dog) turns his/her nose up at commercial beer (Fuggles LOVES bottling day!)...

[Homegrown Hops]

All your rubbermaid containers are full of 50lb grain sacks.

Friends call you at 1am asking about yeast vials.

Your dog (Fuggles) and your cat (Amarillo) think that Irish moss looks great all over the kitchen floor.

You wife asks why the washer/dryer are in the backyard? (making room for chest freezer)

Your first child is named "Dry hop"

You are the coolest Dad on the block.

You spend more on propane than your car payment.

[wezil]

...your kitchen floor is stickyer than a movie theater.


Brad