As I'm sitting here waiting for my second batch of all grain beer to finish boiling I was browsing around and wanted to know if anyone else is into Home brewing and has any good recipes?
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As I'm sitting here waiting for my second batch of all grain beer to finish boiling I was browsing around and wanted to know if anyone else is into Home brewing and has any good recipes?
I do a lil distilling. Never tried to make beer tho.
greg...redheartbeat...is a master brewer...in his garage.
I haven't drank in four yrs but been craving a turbo dog beer in a bad way lately!
I thought you meant this kind of home brew. Never mind
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That looks GOOD Frenchy, I actually did an Apple Pie American Ale last night. Once I throw it into the secondary I will be throwing in about 4lbs of dried apples.
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Not bad for a Canadian!
Lol looks good.
Here's what I was doing last night
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Dam that's pretty serious!
What kind of costs are you guys incurring from doing this?
Once you have all the equipment which mine has been built up over 5+ years so I have quite a bit you can do 5 gal of a good craft beer for 40.00
I don't come on here often anymore since the truck is gone, but I figured I'd chime in. We (myself and two coworkers) are just getting into brewing and we're having a ton of fun with it. First two batches were a summer wheat similar to Blue Moon and an IPA similar to Sierra Nevada. We recently bottled our 3rd and 4th batches one being Belgium Wheat and the other a Chocolate Ale, those should be ready on Friday.
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Like Gus said, we're usually into it for about 60-75 for two 5 gal batches that yields ~100 or so bottles. We also usually manage to screw them up somehow because we are inherently drinking beer while brewing and we usually get pretty drunk before the process finishes.
Definitely a labor of love if you count all the equipment I purchased I could of bought A LOT of store beer. Cool to come up with new combinations and its "your beer". I cant stand bottling, there is to much cleaning and capping involved so I bought a bunch of kegs to make it easier.
Using bottles is definitely very laborious. We were thinking of eventually switching to kegs as well. Our boss has a kegerator at his house so it would be a pretty seamless transfer to kegs.
Do most of you guys buy the used equipment or new? Any links to learn how to would be much appreciated
My very first kit was new as a xmas gift from a friend. I have since expanded by purchasing used items from craigslist. We have a store that is somewhat local and they ship international. If you think you want to get into it start with something like http://www.thegrape.net/browse.cfm/t...et/4,9467.html it will give you all the required items, Buy lots of One Step sanitizer also. Stay away from the Mr. Beer kits since you will outgrow their capabilities really fast and it will just be something you have sitting in the corner. I started with extract kits like the ones at the next link. They give you really good instructions for water temp and actually label each ingredient so you start to under stand what your putting in and why.. http://www.thegrape.net/browse.cfm/g...ts/2,1352.html We all start somewhere and I'm not a professional by any means so learn something new all the time, if you have any more questions then don't hesitate to ask.
I have never done homebrew beer, but I have made some Lemoncello a few times...goes into regular lemonaid and makes the days go by pretty well. :lol:
I have been wanting to try my hand at making some shine. :naughty:
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What all do you distill?Quote:
Originally Posted by jansen
A horse feed mash I make or pretty much anything with alcohol in it.