Airlock huffers anonymous

Hi, my name is Tyler and I'm an airlock huffer.

Same here. There is no shame.

First step is admitting haha. So I admit I'm a airlock huffer too

Does it count if you just sit and stare mesmerized at the thing?

Nostrils flared full capacity inhale FTW!

I'm even worse than that. Always have a satelite fermenter (two litre water bottle) going with the initial SG/OG sample of each batch, yeast added, so I just unscrew the cap after the pressure has bloated the bottle and take a nice lungfull of sweet, yeasty, hoppy, aromatic, CO2. Also always drink that sample after about a week, or the krauzen has dropped and it's clearing

I don't have a problem. I can quit anytime I want.

guilty

I'm a functioning airlock huffer. It feels good to finally admit it

I stopped using airlocks in favor of blow off tubes, thinking that would break the cycle of decadence and degradation. Now my wife wonders why I adopt the "bobbing for apples" posture over the blow off bucket.

I refuse to see it as a problem

my last batch, the aroma of Centennial from the airlock was like smelling the farts of an angel

GrogNerd said:

I refuse to see it as a problem

my last batch, the aroma of Centennial from the airlock was like smelling the farts of an angel

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love me some centennials. I even huff the baggies they come in before using them. does thay count fir anything?

jhoneycutt said:

love me some centennials. I even huff the baggies they come in before using them. does thay count fir anything?

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I huff AND lick the baggies, just to get all the hoppy goodness from them

Be very careful, air-lock huffing is merely a gateway to even bigger things. If you start huffing too much, soon you will find yourself huffing the hops and licking bags like GrogNerd mentions, and before you know it you're sneaking out to munch on fresh grains.

My fermenter stand is to the right of the computer hutch,so I can huff while talkin with y'all. Don't even have to move. but I have noticed an interesting developement. The house spiders like to build webs in the edge of the ceiling above the fermenters around the time they're fermenting. I guess they dig huffing too?...

Is this where I come to confess? Okay, then. I've been on the wagon and breathing clean air for over 6 hours now.

I'm an airlock huffer.

Pressing my nose to the top of my soda can while I open it at work doesn't count! I don't care what anyone says...it's...not...the...same! No hops. No glory. Just soda smelling CO2. It sucks. Wait...yep...still sucks.

I gotta go. I suddenly need to take a half day off of work!

I started huffing airlocks. Now I take a big whiff when I open my fermenter for packaging. The rush of CO2 gives a nice head rush along with the hop aroma. My life is falling apart.

Im guilty of this as well. My wife caught me one day sitting in the closet with my fermentors sniffing all three of them. She rolled her eyes and left me to my huffing

Ok, where's Bob and his ***** tits. If we're gonna have a support group we need one of those.

My only hope is that the Belgian Blonde I have fermenting tastes as good as the airlock smells.

BeastMaster said:

My only hope is that the Belgian Blonde I have fermenting tastes as good as the airlock smells.

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Insert tasteless joke about Belgian Blondes always tasting as good as they smell.

choosybeggar said:

Insert tasteless joke about Belgian Blondes always tasting as good as they smell.

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You mean,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,they're smell-less, too?!?

I admit I am a lockspotter. Bourbon as a sanitizer. Mmmmmmmmmm.....bourbon. Nnnngggnnngngng..........

Airlock huffers. Pfft. Amateurs, the lot of you.

I'm a fermentation chamber huffer.

Edit: You should smell the rhino farts that pour out of my office closet...

You sir are my hero.

thadius856 said:

Airlock huffers. Pfft. Amateurs, the lot of you.

I'm a fermentation chamber huffer.

Edit: You should smell the rhino farts that pour out of my office closet...

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Game over. He wins.