Anyone here make there own BEER

[fireplaceguru]

I am going to start making my own beer once again, I was wondering if anyone wanted to share there favorite recipes. The last batch I made was using malted barley and malt from the local brew shop and it was the best I ever made ( Richards Red style ) but I cannot remember what the he*& type of barley or malt I used. I love all types of BREW.:D:D

[contactor]

The last batch I made years ago, I picked up the wort bucket with a washrag and accidentally squeezed some washrag water in before bottling. It had that washrag taste afterwards and I dubbed it "washrag ale".

[fireplaceguru]

Washrag Ale AWESOME:eek:, Thats my next Batch. LOL. I bet that gives me the runs.

[Whale4]

Yes I do Beer and wine just finished putting my birthday present together, Next week I will start a pumpkin ale for the fall time, than after that prolly some type of lager. The fridge is True T-12 that a customer said they didnt want it anymore because the front was scratched and there was money in the budget fr a new one, so for 25$ I picked up a new gasket and made this, Its a little dirty rigt now since we had a party last night to break her in. eventually it will hold 2 on tap and 1 in conditioning.

[fireplaceguru]

Thats one sweet looking setup Whale4, One day i hope to have a great beer fridge like that. Pumpkin Ale, love to give her a try. I have tried adding the baby shoots from spruce trees in the spring time and it gives it a nice flavour.

[Green Mountain]

Years ago, a young lad came to me for refrigeration advice for this automatic beer maker he was inventing. He did make one working model and he sold it to someone in China. I don't know if he ever made another one. His girl friend moved out of town to go to law school. He moved out with her. :D. My life is never boring.

[dave and julie]

I have a second kitchen set up in the basement for brewing. I have a fridge down there that I converted to a kegerator and it currently has the capacity for 3 beers to be on tap. It is possible to have up to 6.

My personal favorite is a wheat beer made with tettnang hops and trappist ale yeast. I use a buttload of malt to get it up to about 12% alcohol and serve it icy cold on hot summer days.

[fireplaceguru]

Truly sounds like an awesome brew, I have a local brew store here that sells hops and all different types of malted barleys and malt extracts, this is going to be my next big thing this winter is to setup a good brew center in my basement.

[dave and julie]

If you can get some Unibroue Maudite from Quebec, this beer tastes similar to the one I make. The Trappist ale yeast can tolerate higher alcohol concentrations without sterilizing itself. I usually ad 20% corn sugar to each beer to up the alcohol content and keep the price lower. Anything less then 20% is hard to taste the difference from using malt.

[Whale4]

If you can get some Unibroue Maudite from Quebec, this beer tastes similar to the one I make. The Trappist ale yeast can tolerate higher alcohol concentrations without sterilizing itself. I usually ad 20% corn sugar to each beer to up the alcohol content and keep the price lower. Anything less then 20% is hard to taste the difference from using malt.

What do you mean you add 20% CS after secondary? What price? are you sselling your brew or price to make?

[Green Mountain]

I have a second kitchen set up in the basement for brewing. I have a fridge down there that I converted to a kegerator and it currently has the capacity for 3 beers to be on tap. It is possible to have up to 6.

My personal favorite is a wheat beer made with tettnang hops and trappist ale yeast. I use a buttload of malt to get it up to about 12% alcohol and serve it icy cold on hot summer days.

Geez, Dave, I keep asking when you are going to have the HVAC-Talk convention out were you live. (I don't even know were you live.:confused:). But for some reason you seem to be avoiding the question.:rolleyes::D

[dave and julie]

What do you mean you add 20% CS after secondary? What price? are you sselling your brew or price to make?

Price for me to make, it's illegal to sell home brew but I could probably trade it for something... Anyway, I put the corn sugar in the boil with the rest of the wort. Malt costs about 3 times what corn sugar does so if you replace 20% of your recipie with it you can save a couple bucks per batch. It can also lighten up the flavor a little bit. You can also use rice sugars and other fillers just like the big brewers do since cost is one of their biggest concerns.


Geez, Dave, I keep asking when you are going to have the HVAC-Talk convention out were you live. (I don't even know were you live.:confused:). But for some reason you seem to be avoiding the question.:rolleyes::D

I'm not in the HVAC trade, though if I am reincarnated I'll give it a try next. I do offer homebrew to anybody working in or on my house, after they finish the job though. I live near Detroit.

[aircooled53]

I work on one of these guy's homes and he gave me tickets to Baseball game last week, great idea's. I have been invited to sample Saturday , but had gone to Car show instead.

They have weekend sample party's .

http://www.rahrbrewing.com/beer.html

[pgrasso]

The Editor claims he brews his own beer ... but he's never brought any in for me to try. :rolleyes:

-Pete

[Chuckg222]

Ya'll may have already heard of it but go to Williamsbrewing.com they have a free catalog and many items for brewing your own, never tried any of their products but fixing to!

[dave and julie]

I get a lot of my stuff from www.morebeer.com

[Green Mountain]

The Editor claims he brews his own beer ... but he's never brought any in for me to try. :rolleyes:

-Pete

He is a little tight, you know.:rolleyes: