[jimrog310]

I just finished my third beer kit, anybody else do it?
#1 Brooklyn IPA bottled for 2 weeks now not tasted
#2 Coopers Canadian bottled for 2 weeks now tasted light and smooth
#3 California common fermenting now:thThumbsU

 

[Canawler]

I keep tellin' myself I'm going to get into brewing but it just hasn't happened. To much on the plate already I guess. That or I know I'd want to drink too much..

I've got a neighbor who is serious about brewing. He's just about to make the jump into production. There's finally enough people around here that appreciate good beer that he just might be able to make a go of it. We went from no breweries in the immediate area (tons in the greater area, though) 2 years ago to 3 at the moment.

 

[Ingersoll444]

I brewed a few batches up...oh alomost ten years ago now.... One was good... the first two.... well not so much. I was just saying to the wife that I need to get back to it.We were cleaning the celler and I ran across all my brewing stuff..

 

[SCCC]

I'd like to get back into it too. My son just made his first batch, a Wiezenbier kit I got him from William's. I always use their stuff- good quality.

 

[jimrog310]

7 days now fermenting the California Common, still bubbling, not ready to bottle yet. have shared a few of the Coopers Canadian with people and it is well accepted, lite,clean but a touch sweet + watery, probably do to adding to much water to cool. learning as I go and having fun, only draw back is having to buy and clean bottles.

 

[larrybl]

Ummmmmm Beer, I'm afraid I wouldn't have the Patience.

 

[gray wolf]

I only make wine.and really running low.next year twice as much to make it though this long winters.my grand father always made a fifty gallon barrel.should of took the hint.

 

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I brewed a few batches up...oh alomost ten years ago now.... One was good... the first two.... well not so much. I was just saying to the wife that I need to get back to it.We were cleaning the celler and I ran across all my brewing stuff..

If you can make spaghetti, you can make BEER :drunkie::fing32:

7 days now fermenting the California Common, still bubbling, not ready to bottle yet. have shared a few of the Coopers Canadian with people and it is well accepted, lite,clean but a touch sweet + watery, probably do to adding to much water to cool. learning as I go and having fun, only draw back is having to buy and clean bottles.

I buy Sam Adams Boston Lager to "hold me over" and keep the bottles for home brewing :fing32:

I only make wine.and really running low.next year twice as much to make it though this long winters.my grand father always made a fifty gallon barrel.should of took the hint.

Elders know best :biglaugh:

 

[Grand Sierra]

:trink39:Never made beer looks like a interesting hobby something to do and talk about and share if It's good. Isn't it the more you drink the better it gets?:drunkie:

 

[jimrog310]

Results are in !! #1 IPA only 7 bottles made it out of a 1 gal. kit but they were great!
#2 coopers canadian beer.. very nice almost a champagne sparkle to them, sweet untill about3 months in bottle, then JUST plain great! sadly only 6 left
#3 California common ( aka steamer beer) Thought I messed this one up, first tastes were vinigarerer and well, rather plain. not so much to my liking. couple months of aging has removed the plain taste ( a little more beerish finish instead of a soda sugar finish but not the vinegar initial infusion. BUT to my surprise I just cracked a beer from Blue Point Brewing Co. that tastes just like it .,WINTER ALE its called, came in a mix pack..... Too hot to boil brew now but I have in aging another Canadian Brew in bottle along with a Pale Ale and an Irish Red. CHEERS!!!

 

[BOSMECH]

Now I have to try home brewing it sounds fun.

 

[SandDawg]

Brewed my own years ago when I was home every night. Been traveling for years now and not able to home brew. I miss it, I made a killer Red! My wife and I still laugh about laying in bed in our old single wide trailer and listening to the fermentor burp and rumble all night in the kitchen.

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