Thread: Home brewing beer

As an offshoot from the other thread, tell us about your home brews. I've been interested for quite some time in having my own, but it seems like hones. There are so many options and ways to do it that you just can't keep them straight!

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I'm still goofing around with different styles. Due to space I'm still only on partial grains.

My wife still will not let me get a cooled 17 gal conicle fermenter

It'll be a while before I can do anything like that too. It'll be a stretch to just order some hones. "How much?! For some rocks? Belgian? They better be Moon rocks for that price."

Well I for one have given up on beer for now (since the "incident").

I have no idea what I was even really brewing, just told the guy at the brew store " Hey, I drink Icehouse, sell me something."

OPPS !

I have learned more about beer since then but I got diverted towards wines after the "incident".

I've made some REALLY bad wine.

What does a fella do with a couple of gallons of "funky" wine?

Well, I know a certain liquid which boils at a lower temp than water and can therefore be extracted through a very controlled rise in temp.

And that my friends is your answer.

The kind you won't taste.

My preferred homebrew is a smoked porter...all grain. However, you can make a passable extract version by adding a wee bit of black patent malt and a fair amount of chocolate malt and munich malt to the boil. Pitch with Whitbread Ale Yeast and wait...wait...wait (oh the humanity! Why does good beer take so long?). Just make sure you brew again well before the cupboard is bare.

Cheers,
Ed

Last couple of years I have been trying to make myself a good light lager all grain. My first batch went OK but was a little darker than I wanted. My second batch well stunk I am not sure what happened. I'm still waiting on my third batch. If this one doesn't come out well I am going back to brewing only brown ale, I know I can get a passable one every time.

I too have tossed the idea around of brewing beer. Even read a couple of books on the subject. Since there is not a store that sells brewing supplies within 120 miles from me. Where are good stores online or mail order that you use or trust?
thanks Noel

i've been doing mead the past few years. its like 40 proof. it rocks my socks off!!

Wow, mead? As in the honey concoction?

I read about it once and immediately wanted to try it

I haven't brewed beer for many years now. I was younger (duh), and became tired of being invited to parties and asked to bring a case of my beer. I just got tired of it. I did, however, win a second place ribbon at the Iowa State Fair, so it was a good beer.