Home Brewing

I would suggest trying to hook up with one of the home brewing clubs and go to a few of their meetings. They will gladly share their info with you and steer you towards where and what kind of equipment/ingrediants to purchase.

If you are serious get this book

Making beer is very very easy if you just want to use ingredient kits. Its mainly about cleaning everything. It gets more complicated when you create your own recipes and using all grain but its a fun and REWARDING hobby.

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i received one of these as a gift...ive yet to try it out
Mr Beer

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True Brew kits on that site are really good ingredient kits to use as well.

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Does freshly slaughtered kid goat go good with that??? What happened to the guy that inquired about the goat?

I use to home brew eons ago when you still had to use individual bottles and slink around to bars to get enough bottles to clean. I remember driving down the road in the truck and an entire case blew the caps off, that was funny shite.

I am thinking about restarting, I did enjoy it, and now with the keg cookers, larger storage containers, etc it would be a lot easier than cleaning all those damn bottles. A neighbor is a big home brewer and has been making beer 15-20 years (actually he and his wife brew) and is well known in the southeast, that dude can make some great beer, his porters and stouts are better than what I can buy commercially. He has a 12-tap refrigerated set up in his basement.

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BTW you can just buy a couple of cases of bottled for like 11-12 bucks from the local brew supply shop instead of dumpster diving.

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That was 25+ years ago when I was making it in college. Then I started again when my wife and I were living in a condo and she hated it when I started pulling out all the paraphernalia and cleaning the bottles. I made pretty good beer, but nothing like the neighbor, he started a micro brewery with an investor and restaurant owner in NC in the past 12-months. I have plenty of room to brew these days and a spare big fridge, but a kegerator would still be a lot less work.

Another neighbor and I were at Pappasito's a few weeks ago and were talking about paying $6 for a draft Dos Equis amber and I told him it probably cost 20 cents of ingredients to make the beer and the rest was all taxes, overhead, and profit and he didn't believe me. A keg lasts a looonnnggg time unless it gets abused.

Dont forget the benefit of force carbination. You wouldnt have any yeast in your glass and you can drink it in less time.

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.the little adapter is like 90 bucks to use a co2 cartridge to bottle bottles.

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Heresy IMO. Bottle conditioning and bottle carbonation are important steps. I actually go for very low carbonation and so add a low amount of Corn sugar to my bottling bucket. I am next going to try adding yeast at the bottling stage like the Belgian Monks......like the Westvleteren 12 I had last night.

yea i figured.

We do have a kegerator and a spare keg....but i cant see finishing that much beer in the time it would take to drink it before it went bad....how long does beer last in a keg

In a keg with a CO2 bottle it will last a good amount of time. The keg stays carbinated all the time and will last about 4 months. If the keg isnt connected you have about 6 months. The beer will change in flavor over time but thats not a bad thing.

I probably should join something like that.