Thread: Home Brew

I've been homebrewing since 1999, when a buddy and I started in college. I was surprised when I moved to AL to find out that it was still illegal. So, this weekend I decided to dust off my pots and make my first legal batch. I chose a good old ipa with a hefty dose of Centennial hops for that wonderful citrusy aroma. Can't wait!

Glad to hear you're getting back into home brewing. You may want to check out Alabama's first legal home brew competition.

Alabama Brew Off

I don't know if this is enough time to get a good batch in to them.

Tomorrow's will be my first legal brew day here in Alabama. An all-grain American IPA.

Actually decided to go with a Belgian Pale Ale. Hit all the numbers dead on so we'll see howit goes.

The Belgian has aged nicely and is very refreshing. Today's brew is an American Amber. 5 gallon all-grain featuring warrior hops.

Two weeks ago, I brewed a No-Pay Porter "Senate" version in honor of my employer who believes its ok to allow me to work without pay.
Amazingly enough, I believe it will be a disaster. The smack pack I used showed no results 24 hours after pitching. I threw in a backup pack of S-05, and ended up with a very slow, very tame fermentation. Will check it in a few days to see if it fermented out or will be thrown out.

Luckily, I have a Red and a Red Rye on tap.

Awesome, these forums have threads of three subjects that interest me quite alot; Straight Razor shaving, pipe smoking and brewing.

I'm going to buy my self Braumeister 50l when we move to new house and get little more space to work with.

I'm trying to keep the rig small until I retire and quit moving. Currently using a couple of ice chests (HLT and MT), a 15 gal pot, 6.5 gal glass carboy, 4 kegs and a freezer (keezer-to-be).
Once I retire, I'll be adding in a couple of walk-in cold rooms complete with an obscene amount of stainless!

Originally Posted by Ymir

Awesome, these forums have threads of three subjects that interest me quite alot; Straight Razor shaving, pipe smoking and brewing.

I'm going to buy my self Braumeister 50l when we move to new house and get little more space to work with.

What a machine!!!!

Originally Posted by tbert33

What a machine!!!!

It indeed seems to be rather good machine. Sure you could get one cheaper if you knew how to weld stainless and program the pump and boiler unit but I think it´s safe to say, Braumeister is just very easy and efficient approach.

I love beers my self, and I have lately started to widen my perspective in the matter. Don´t get me wrong I am big bad newbie still but the hobby really interests me. I have slight OCD when it comes to things and Braumeister helps with that; It helps in eliminating the random factors of brewing, given proper sanitation. From what I have read you can produce good quality beers with very little random variance in the results. This gives chance to hunt for THE best beer, as every time you brew a beer you can recreate the results, and adjust accordingly to the next brew. If you can not recreate a beer you have made, you have very hard time trying to better your products as Change A, can result in outcomes C, D, E leaving you wonder what did you do wrong and what did you do right this time around.