Thread: Home Brew

Just wanted to say, welcome to another addicting hobby. I've been brewing for about 5 years now and just put my second all grain batch into the fermenter last week. Also, the conical fermenter someone mentioned a few posts ago..... check out

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www.minibrew.com

....I've just recently received their 6.5 gal plastic conical and this will be the first time I've used anything besides the bucket/carboy combo.

As always... RDWHAHB!

Originally Posted by jfleming9232

Just wanted to say, welcome to another addicting hobby. I've been brewing for about 5 years now and just put my second all grain batch into the fermenter last week. Also, the conical fermenter someone mentioned a few posts ago..... check out

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www.minibrew.com

....I've just recently received their 6.5 gal plastic conical and this will be the first time I've used anything besides the bucket/carboy combo.

As always... RDWHAHB!

Those conicals are neat indeed. I've been looking at these from a local supplier:

https://www.polywest.ca/index.php?li...wh=EC&pn=60214, but they aren't immediately setup for beer brewing like the one you posted.

I'll be doing my 3rd all grain batch hopefully on Friday. What recipe did you brew up last week?

Ben

A ten gallon batch of my usual american Pale Ale.....but this time, I split the batch for fermenting and after four days in primary I added strawberries to one of the batches. We'll see what happens. I'm hoping for a good APA with a hint of strawberry for this summer!

Wiskey smoke was good(a bit heavy on the smoked part)
If you like single malt It can be recomended
And yes its all gone now

brew after that... note to self be carefull with the roasted malt(tastes old boiled coffe after 300g on a 13 litre batch)

Is there anyone interested in homebrewing here?
I see this thread is not receiving posts for more than one year now, so I guess it lost attention.

Come one, come all! :-)

I feel sure that a lot of people on SRP must homebrew! I certainly do; I've been at it for about 6 years now. I was doing all grain beers, including roasting my own malt, before my kids were born. I've got less free time with three little ones around, so these last few years I've just been doing my once yearly batch of 5 carboys (100 liters) of hard cider.

A friend of mine and I built bicycle powered cidering equipment and have a weekend get together with lots of guests to run the cider. Last year we did over 1500lbs of apples. Guests take away sweet cider in recycled jugs, the rest gets fermented to hard cider. If you have the equipment, its overall far less work than beer since you don't have to mash, boil, hop, cool, etc. Just get the cider in the carboys, sulfite it, then pitch yeast the next day. The tricky thing is finding apples with the appropriate degree of bitterness, which is good for cider but not good for fresh eating of cooking as a general rule.

Here is a link to last year's cidering on my friend's blog:
Pics from cidering « Five Islands Orchard

Also, here is a pic of me last year riding the bike to power the hydraulic cider press while holding my youngest kid.

Congratulations! I too make cider, but you guys seems to take it very seriously!
I also make mead and perry, but the one I make the most is beer, of any type of any style. In a while, probably one month or so, I will brew a new beer, waiting for the temperature to chill a little. Now it is too hot and the temperature would be too high for a profitable fermentation (in this very moment, in my city, we are having 36°C, that is 98°F).

Keep on doing the good job!

Not a brewer yet... but I do make mead.

Great and you are on your way to make beer. The process is not so different from mead. And it also take less time!

Originally Posted by razorguy

Is there anyone interested in homebrewing here?
I see this thread is not receiving posts for more than one year now, so I guess it lost attention.

Come one, come all! :-)

You and I seem to have a bit of overlapping interrests I've been homebrewing for about 5 years. Mostly ales, usually all grain. I have a tasty imperial stout recipe that's my favorite.