Home brewing anyone?
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Does anybody here dabble in home brewing beer?
My buddy and I have been in serious discussion about giving it a try...probably starting with one of those kits but it seems like a fun hobby, maybe a little pricey though.
Anyone have advice on getting started, recipes, successes or horrible failures to share?
My buddy and I have been in serious discussion about giving it a try...probably starting with one of those kits but it seems like a fun hobby, maybe a little pricey though.
Anyone have advice on getting started, recipes, successes or horrible failures to share?
All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
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a buddy of mine has used chillis to create interesting tastes. Once you get your method down the sky/ or you bladder capacity, is the limit!
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My first batch didn't come out too great, and I just bottled my 2nd batch last week. Should be ready by PJ20.
Warning though, it is addicting. 2 batches in and I've already started buying more equipment.
Relax, don't worry, have a homebrew!
My advice: start simple. Plastic buckets work just fine. I've got glass carboys for my primary/secondary fermentation vessels, but other than that, my setup is pretty minimal. I use a tamale pot (that I bought at Kmart for like $5) to boil my wort -- no $200 stainless steel stockpot or anything like that for me.
The only other "extravagance" is that I have an Erlenmeyer flask to make yeast starters any time the yeast is questionable (I always do any time I'm using dry yeast). I've had a couple batches that got ruined due to bad yeast.
I went with liquid yeast this time so I didn't bother with the starter.
And yes I have tons of questions but I figure it's not quite as complicated as it seems to my feeble mind right now. Hope not anyway.
As for it being addictive, I can totally see me getting really out of hand if I ever really get into it.
Buddy is going to get his wife to buy him a kit for his birthday in a couple of weeks and we are going to see what comes from that.
I don't know....we love beer and it just seems ilke it would be a really cool feeling to open one and know that you made it...like someone said, it seems like it would be rewarding
They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all