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Brewing This Weekend

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edgeofblade

edgeofblade

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Who're my beer drinkers here?

I'm brewing up a plain old batch of brown ale this weekend... nothing special about that, but I am going to keg it and put it on tap, making this my first kegged batch of beer.
 
Nice! A lot cheaper and often just as good to do it that way!
 
Pishawh. It's going to be better. It's going to be MY beer on MY tap in MY garage. And the best part... I don't have to go through the trouble of bottling anymore.

And the worst part... neighborhood punk kids trying to break into my garage to drink my beer. I think I might have to resort to chopping their hands off...
 
Dude that's awesome! Are you using one of those do it all brewing kits which come with the stuff in a packet/tin or are you sourcing all your own raw materials?
 
:-) <<< Smile means I'm not a condecending kind of guy. I just like to inform people so they know more than they knew yesterday.

That said... PREPARE TO BE BEER SCHOOLED!

There's about a light year of space between getting a Mr. Beer and as you say "sourcing" all my materials from scratch. I suppose I could grow my own barley and malt and roast it, collect and propogate airbore yeast from my own backyard, and grow hops up a trelis on the side of my house. Even the most hardcore only go as far as growing hops, and a few more might have experimented with roasting some malt in their oven.

My comparision, Mr. Beer is "take pre-hopped malt extract syrup, mix with water, throw dry yeast packet and viola". It's not complex or customizable, but it's easy. And it still has more creativity than just buying a 6 pack.

I'm about a step and a half ahead of that. I'm using unhopped malt extract, adding store-bought hops, and pitching a liquid yeast starter. My major advancement this time is the kegging.

By this summer, I expect to go "all-grain", which means the only steps in the process done for me are lab yeast, initial malting of barley grain, and packing of pellet hops. I still have to mash it to produce the uncondensed malt extract, or roughly defined as "wort", or "pre-beer".

On a scale between 0 and 10, where 0 is buying a six pack and 10 is good old organic grow-it-all-myself, I'm doing a 3.5, and I hope to get to a 7-8 this summer.
 
Whoa I had no idea you could actually go that "far" as it were into home brewing, I've had a couple of goes with those really simple all in one kits but never realised that people could actually produce their own malt extract though so tyvm for the info on that (home brewing was something I always wanted to try and get in to but mine never ended up tasting as good as retail beer). Its also pretty damn impressive, and I imagine very satisfying once the process is complete :), that come this summer you'll actually be brewing your own beer basically from start to finish, and when the time comes to drink it you'll know exactly what went into it. I just hope those kids you mentioned don't beat you to it!
 
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