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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Back Room => : michael90t March 10, 2010, 03:47:02 AM
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Any Homebrewers here???
I have been an All grain brewer for about the past 5 years... wonderfull hobby!!!
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Not a 'Homebrewer', but anybody that is... is my kinda guy. Making your own brew just appeals to us Southerners. You know what I mean?
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You mean hooch?
I've seen it done, but never done it myself.
Down here, its more corn whiskey than home brew.
Ray
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nope was refering to hombrewing beer lol
IPA's
Stouts
Porters
ETC ETC ETC....
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No home brew beer here but we have lots of home made southern spirits here..:) Care for a pull?
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LOL hard to find good corn spirits around these parts... every once in a great while some comes around but not often :)
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I tried to make my own beer years ago, when it became popular, and all the equipment was readily available,
Try as I did, I couldn't make anything worth drinking :p
I could have bought several cases of good beer for what I lost in that endeavor :0
Bill
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Did once. A number of years ago. Would like to again someday. Never forget the time the judge and I left work early one Friday afternoon to sample my wares....
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I would LOVE a pull Gene... Knew a man that made some that would burn the most beautiful blue flame, but that was a long time ago. snookman
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Wade the first time I tried clear i abused it..:) Went bind for a day...:) Second time I gave it some respected and only took a few pulls off of da jar..:) Sometimes a friend of mine from NC will give me a mason jar and I put it in the freezer.. Some cold nights a couple of pulls off that jar sure makes you warm up...:)
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Homebrewing has come along way bout the last 10 years or so...
here is some pictures of my equipment... mostly home made... thin k thats part of the charm of the hobby as well... kinda a man's man hobby make the equipment make the beer drink the beer LOL
http://s148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/michael90t/HomeBrewing/Equipment/
and here are some pics from back in april I took of a brew I was doing.... it was an IPA
http://s148.photobucket.com/albums/s8/michael90t/HomeBrewing/april1809brew/
lotsa fun!! anyone close to me in ohio is welcome to join me for a day of brewing anytime...
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Michael, I have wanted to try home brewing but never found the time, but I have had the privilege to try some very good home brew. It was some of the best beer that I ever tasted, just don't drink the stuff that's at the bottom of the bottle! snookman
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I hear you Gene, a little goes a long way. The man I knew even put it up in oak for a few years. The best brown liquor I ever had a taste of. aaahhhhh... the good old days. snookman
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lol yea the stuff at the bottom of the bottle is a yeast cake where the yeast settles down.... super high in B complex vitamins..... but allittle to much with give ya the runs LOL
Unless your drinking a hefeweizen that is.... Hefe's are supposed to be drank with the yeast
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I homebrew. In fact I have 10 gallons in a couple carboys waiting to be bottled. A cranberry stout and a baltic porter. I've won some awards in a national contest for homebrewing...
These may be my last all-grain brews, as I feel like I can do as well with extract and good use of adjuncts, and I can do it in a lot less time. Time is a major issue...
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OMG, Michael, you should see how I do it! Nice setup!
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I cut down on the yeastcake a LOT by going with a long, cool secondary. I've had some homebrews that have way more sediment than necessary. I keep my gravity high so I get big ABVs (8-12%), and it limits my categories (um, here's an imperial .... fill in the blank). But I believe it helps ward off infection and other issues.
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Hey Mike. Looked at your set-up photos. Have to admit I have no idea what I'm looking at. But it looks complicated. It could just as well be something to keep minnows alive as far as I would know. Is this set-up for wine or something other than wine? Anyway, enjoy!!!!
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Thebookdoc
Yea I love to brew and your right a brew day is litteraly a brewday with All Grain. Its usualy about an 6-8 hour day for me when I brew.....I am wanting to move up to 10 gallon batches same amount of time twice the beer.... sounds good to me... just waiting to come qcross a good deal on a stainless keg I can cut the top off to make a nice new brew kettle out of...
I dont even secondary anymore... honestly a good long fermentation and keeping it in primary will give the yeast a good chance to clean up after themselves... 6 weeks in primary for my darker beers or ones I am not to worried about clarity... and 8-10 weeks foranything I want to drop really clear...
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I've been making 10 gallons with slightly different recipes so I can do everything the same right up to the boil. Then I split 5 & 5 and make different brews via adjuncts, hopping, yeasts and temps. It is all-day for sure... not counting bottling!
I'm looking forward to getting this batch into bottles soon! Probably 3 months still till it'll be conditioned...
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I can't believe you guys are talking about home brew......My grandmother passed away almost ten years ago, she stopped making illegal liquor in '87 or '88. I went to Mississippi a few years ago, and this gentleman in his eighties or maybe even nineties walked up to me and this was the conversation. "Hey young man, you look familiar. You any relation to Jerome?" I replied, "Yes sir that is my father." "So Geneva was your grandma'." I replied, "Yes sir, she was." He then took a quick glance around and moved real close to me and said, "Son, I knowed your granma for many a year, and there aint nobody can out brew her. If you know of any of her homebrew laying around, please help an old man out and get it to me. I would really appreciate it." He then looked at me and told me that I adn my father look exactly like my grandfather, repeated his request and walked away. Every time i hear someone mention homebrew i think about how she would have us in the kitchen on the assembly line, one pressing caps, one filling bottles, and one filling the cases. Man i miss growing up..