Gonna give home brewing a shot

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Originally Posted by N8YX

Late to this brewhahah...

We're looking at doing a good Imperial stout, a Belgian ale of some sort (dubel or trippel) and a perpetual Oktoberfest. A buddy of mine came up with a killer honey brown ale, and suddenseer has experienced it first-hand. We both think it bears repeating in my kitchen. :yes:

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I'll be right over. ;)

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Originally Posted by N8YX

Late to this brewhahah...

We're looking at doing a good Imperial stout, a Belgian ale of some sort (dubel or trippel) and a perpetual Oktoberfest. A buddy of mine came up with a killer honey brown ale, and suddenseer has experienced it first-hand. We both think it bears repeating in my kitchen. :yes:

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I'm thinking about doing beers as well. With beer, you can get a drinkable product in 3 weeks for a light bodied ale. Of course, longer is better. Wine, seems like 2 months minimum for a drinkable wine.

Figure, if I do both, I'll have enough to keep moving along without having to have 12 6 gallon car boys constantly going with wine :lol:

Car boys shouldn't drink, they'll wreck the cars. Methinks you put a space where it shouldn't be, but that's understandable when the keyboard won't sit still.

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Originally Posted by kb2vxa

Car boys shouldn't drink, they'll wreck the cars. Methinks you put a space where it shouldn't be, but that's understandable when the keyboard won't sit still.

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Yeah, put a space where it shouldn't have been :)

But, I took the plunge on beer, with an extract. Figured can't be harder than wine. Warm the can, dump in the extract, top off with water, and add yeast. Wait 7 days, and then bottle.

Went with a dark extract. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Popped first bottle of cranberry wine. This stuff is nice, sneaks up on ya though. It kind of has a raisin hint, even though I didn't use any raisins in this recipe.

But, I'm going for the gusto now: Grape wine, from frozen concentrate; along with Cherry Grape wine from Welch's bottled juice. Only going for a gallon of each right now. Still waiting on the JAOM to finish. It's starting to clear already, waiting on the fruit to drop.

My first beer was "not so great". Very bitter. I asked about, and it seems I needed some DME, since I only used hopped LME.

http://www.periodicbeer.com/

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Originally Posted by KG4CGC

http://www.periodicbeer.com/

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That's pretty funny :)

Been debating if I should brew again or not since the move. Found a local home brew supply shop and it turns out that the owner is a former Alaskan too. All kinds of fun toys in that shop. Everything from brewing supplies to cheese making to home coffee roasting.

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Originally Posted by KC2UGV

That's pretty funny :)

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It was handed down to me.

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Originally Posted by al2n

Been debating if I should brew again or not since the move. Found a local home brew supply shop and it turns out that the owner is a former Alaskan too. All kinds of fun toys in that shop. Everything from brewing supplies to cheese making to home coffee roasting.

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We had a local brew supply shop that also carried over 125 different kind of craft brewed beers. All was well until the Charlotte brew shop people and the Atlanta brew shop people started ragging on him in the regional brew trade mag.
This is why Greenville can't have nice things. OK, there more to why we can't have nice things but that would involve a 12 page political rant about how we are willing to eat our own for a dollar.