You know you're a homebrewer when you ... Homebrewing

You know you're a homebrewer when you:

• When you can recognize what variety of hops were used for the nose and taste of most any beer.

• You go to a new brewpub and try their beer and immediately think you could make that...better.

• When someone offers you a major brewery's popular brew at a party and you only take it to be polite.

• When your garage or shed is used mostly for your all-grain brewing equipment.

• When kitchen your pantry has 75 pounds of un-ground malted barley in it and your wife knows better than to even think about asking you to move it.

• When your freezer has five different varieties of hops in it.

• When your refrigerator has yeast cultures stored in it for your next few batches.

• When you see someone selling something like a five gallon carboy at a yard sale for a buck and think you've gotten the best deal ever.

• Have a digital temperature controller that cost twice as much as the keezer you bought second-hand.

• When the last chemistry class you took was your freshman year in college but you have a finely calibrated refractometer and a magnetic stirrer plate and a couple of Erlenmeyer flasks for yeast starters.

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Submitted May 10, 2015 at 03:33AM by Wolpfack http://ift.tt/1P9faiC Homebrewing