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starting my homebrew operation (beer, not gear)

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my buddy and i are going to go pickup a home-brewing kit and make our first batch of beer tonight.

i have done plenty of research on it, watched numerous videos/dvd's, and scoped out my brother-in-law's home setup.

however, i will make a far better beer than him.

he was doing the bare basics...we're going to go a bit further.
 
Sweet..

I've always wanted to try this as well, but my wife and her home decor
always got in the way. And the Garage is too hot to brew..
 
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the setup is costing us $120 (split) and ~$30 for the ingredients.

it averages out to 50-something cents per beer.
 
Y_lifter said:
Sweet..

I've always wanted to try this as well, but my wife and her home decor
always got in the way. And the Garage is too hat to brew..
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if you are making an ale, it has to ferment at room temp...your house should be ok.

i dont know what kind of setup you are thinking of....it's not like you are going to have a large copper still in your living room or anything....

after you brew the wort (the water, grains, hop, etc mixture), you put it (and more water) in a container to ferment. you can use a glass carboy or a plastic carboy (looks like a bucket paint comes in), doesnt really matter.

go place that to ferment in a dark, room temperature (mid 60's to mid 70's) spot, let it sit, then transfer to another container to rack, then bottle.

your wife doesn't own every square inch of the house, does she?

you should definitely do it.
 
A friend of mine does this, man I love going over to his house. He always has a 'new' brew fro me to taste.

He made his entire setup using half kegs for the fermenting compartments, and has four kegorators running a different brew at all times. He's part of some club with a bunch of hmoe-brewer's, I would like to try my hand at it if I had the time.
 
Any money in it?




-BRR
 
p0ink said:
my buddy and i are going to go pickup a home-brewing kit and make our first batch of beer tonight.

i have done plenty of research on it, watched numerous videos/dvd's, and scoped out my brother-in-law's home setup.

however, i will make a far better beer than him.

he was doing the bare basics...we're going to go a bit further.
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your location shoud read "back woods red neck"
 
how is it 'back woods redneck' to brew your own beer?

brewing at home is not the same as brewing hooch in your shed. it is two totally different things...and this isnt done for profit.

retard.
 
pdaddy said:
A friend of mine does this, man I love going over to his house. He always has a 'new' brew fro me to taste.

He made his entire setup using half kegs for the fermenting compartments, and has four kegorators running a different brew at all times. He's part of some club with a bunch of hmoe-brewer's, I would like to try my hand at it if I had the time.
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if you had the time? it will take you about two hours to cook the wort, and the rest of it involves just letting it sit.

it should be ideal for you, especially if you dont have much time. just cook the shit up, let it ferment, bottle, and wait 2 weeks or so, then drink it up.
 
string_bean00 said:
lol, but buying natty ice in 30 packs is cheaper!
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ugh....i dont know how you can drink that.

and that's not trying to come off as beer-snobbish or anything...natural light/ice is the WORST tasting beer on the market.

i would rather drink steel reserve all night than even smell that shit.

and if you are just about beer for getting drunk, you should be drinking steel reserve. it's 8.1%
 
Big Rick Rock said:
Any money in it?-BRR
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the creator of Fat Tire was from boulder, and he started out as a home brewer.

this is just some 'man shit'. me and my buddies getting together to drink some beer while we make it.
 
my first brew is going to be a stout, because it can be a bit more forgiving, and i dont have to worry about things like clarity, and it can hide any potential off-setting flavors a bit easier.

not to say it's going to taste like shit, but it is just easier for a noob, like myself, to play around with.

my buddy is going to keystone tomorrow to snowboard, and he took 2 5 gallon jugs with him to fill up at one of the natural springs out there (no, he is not just dipping them in a creek...they have these little brick huts with plumbing that is tapped directly into an underground spring).
 
p0ink said:
ugh....i dont know how you can drink that.

and that's not trying to come off as beer-snobbish or anything...natural light/ice is the WORST tasting beer on the market.

i would rather drink steel reserve all night than even smell that shit.

and if you are just about beer for getting drunk, you should be drinking steel reserve. it's 8.1%
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natty ice tastes better than natty light imo

steel reserve is the worst tasting of the malt liquors. OE high gravity is 8.0% and actually tastes pretty good. smells like shit, but tastes ok
 
p0ink said:
if you are making an ale, it has to ferment at room temp...your house should be ok.

go place that to ferment in a dark, room temperature (mid 60's to mid 70's) spot, let it sit, then transfer to another container to rack, then bottle.

your wife doesn't own every square inch of the house, does she?
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LOL @ my garage being 60's to 70's other than Winter time at night..
It would need to be inside with the A/C for most of the year down here.

I think I own like 16.25 sq inches out in the garage on a shelf..

j/k

I've seen home brewing done on an episode of Good Eats on the food network with the 5 gal plastic fermenters, so I know what to expect mostly.

Keep us updated as it happens..
 
p0ink said:
the creator of Fat Tire was from boulder, and he started out as a home brewer.

this is just some 'man shit'. me and my buddies getting together to drink some beer while we make it.
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In reality, 99% of home brews turn out NOT tasting as good as your average quality brewery's beer. They have millions in quality control and machinery to make the stuff. And good beer is about using very good ingredients and having consistent processes and conditions. Both are hard to come by for most home brewers.

I would do it just for the fun of making your own stuff, not with an expectation that my brew was going to be better than a good quality micro brew, or even a good mass produced one.
 
Y_lifter said:
In reality, 99% of home brews turn out NOT tasting as good as your average quality brewery's beer. They have millions in quality control and machinery to make the stuff. And good beer is about using very good ingredients and having consistent processes and conditions. Both are hard to come by for most home brewers.

I would do it just for the fun of making your own stuff, not with an expectation that my brew was going to be better than a good quality micro brew, or even a good mass produced one.
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oh, this is 99.9% about having fun doing it. i dont have any expectations of being the next beer mogul or anything. it's just about the process of doing it on your own.
 
Y_lifter said:
What sort of bottling are you going to use ?
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we have a bottle capper and a bunch of bottles we recycled ourselves. you buy beer caps by the pound and use the bottle capper to put them on.

looks simple enough.

frankly, i would rather put my stuff in a cornelius keg than bottle it, but it is better to age/prime in bottles than in kegs, plus you cant exactly lug a cornelius keg around with you wherver you go. even if one of your buddies has a kegerator, the hookups for a corny are different than that of a standard keg. so, no dice.
 
4everhung said:
yeah I know
let's kill what we eat
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i would totally go hunting, but my girlfriend would kill me if she came home and i was butchering a dead animal in her place.

seriously, she would really flip.
 
p0ink said:
if you had the time? it will take you about two hours to cook the wort, and the rest of it involves just letting it sit.

it should be ideal for you, especially if you dont have much time. just cook the shit up, let it ferment, bottle, and wait 2 weeks or so, then drink it up.
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It's the process of learning about it and getting all the equipt ment together that I'm thinking will be time restraining.
 
p0ink said:
i would totally go hunting, but my girlfriend would kill me if she came home and i was butchering a dead animal in her place.

seriously, she would really flip.
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Your girlfriend doesn't own every square inch of the place, does she?

:)
 
I home brewed a stout once, and it turned out really well. I am going to do it again some day, just don't have the space for it atm. I need a friend like pdaddy's though, well not really I would just get drunk and fat lol.
 
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