Gonna give home brewing a shot

[NA4BH]

Found me a Mr. Beer home brewery today at K-Mart. I am making a batch of "West Coast Pale Ale" as the kick off special. I have never tried this before, so it either will be good or two gallons of fermented liquid going down the drain. I was looking at their other recipes that were in the instruction book and modified the recipe a little. I added one cup of honey and mandarin oranges to the mix. Hopefully this will increase the octane and flavor of the final product.

Anybody else brew their own?

[kc7jty]

Good luck, it's a lot of work.

[kd8dey]

I found an intact Mr beer kit at the scrap yard where I worked security.
worked fine but their list of "Supplies" were a little expensive.
Pale Ale was OK....

[NQ6U]

Spend the money for top-notch hops and malt. If you don't, the results will be disappointing.

BTW, unless you drink a lot of beer, you may discover that it's actually more expensive to home brew than it is to just buy a six-pack when you want one. Oh, and your addition of honey and fruit to the mix are an abomination.

[kc7jty]

You'll be getting exploding bottles if you don't know what you're doing.

[W3MIV]

Zymurgy is more science than art; like baking, it is more chemistry than creativity. I would be leery of making any changes or additions to any of the recipes/formulae provided without first having made the stuff according to the particular Hoyle who packaged it.

[N8YX]

This is in my future:

http://hopville.com/recipe/203391/ru...iablo-de-negro

A local beer/winemaking shop - the "Grape and Grainery" - has a kit for a Belgian Abbey Dubel that simply kicks a$$. A coworker who sits immediately next to me brought one of these in and I became immediately hooked. He's providing a bit of coaching.

[NA4BH]

Zymurgy is more science than art; like baking, it is more chemistry than creativity. I would be leery of making any changes or additions to any of the recipes/formulae provided without first having made the stuff according to the particular Hoyle who packaged it.

Normally I wouldn't have changed it up, but they had a recipe in there that called for honey and blueberries in light syrup. I don't particularly care for blueberries so I substituted mandarin oranges in light syrup. We shall see.

[kc7jty]

Zymurgy is more science than art; like baking, it is more chemistry than creativity. I would be leery of making any changes or additions to any of the recipes/formulae provided without first having made the stuff according to the particular Hoyle who packaged it.

I'm split as to this post. Although I agree totally with the latter portion I have considerable qualm with the entrada.

[W3MIV]

I'm split as to this post. Although I agree totally with the latter portion I have considerable qualm with the entrada.

Zymurgy is chemistry; the various interactions of the ingredients are crucial to the success of the final product. Red, White and Blue compares to Blue Moon as a mongoose compares to the Blue Goose; just because they share some elements does not mean you may intermix them willy-nilly.