Home Brewing

[AVGWarhawk]

Anyone home brew? My daughter gave me a home brewing kit for Christmas. I have made my first batch of IPA. The picture below is 9 days after brew day. Fermentation was very active for 4-5 days. It has slowed. Airlock bubbling has slowed. Appears my yeast has eaten the sugars, peed alcohol and expelled CO2! Time to wait it out for another week and bottle for 2 more weeks.

[Aktungbby]

MY DAUGHTER'S YOUNG MAN BREWS FOR RUSSIAN RIVER , PLINY THE ELDER BEER, TRY THIS ONE: https://www.homebrewfinds.com/2013/07/brewing-more-beers-pliny-elder-kit.html EVENTUALLY, THEY WANT OPEN THEIR OWN CRAFT BREWERY AND ARE LOOKING AT LOCATIONS ....GUESS WHO'LL BE PAYING FOR THAT??!!
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[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

MY DAUGHTER'S YOUNG MAN BREWS FOR RUSSIAN RIVER , PLINY THE ELDER BEER, TRY THIS ONE: https://www.homebrewfinds.com/2013/07/brewing-more-beers-pliny-elder-kit.html EVENTUALLY, THEY WANT OPEN THEIR OWN CRAFT BREWERY AND ARE LOOKING AT LOCATIONS ....GUESS WHO'LL BE PAYING FOR THAT??!!
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Nice! I will give it a try. Need to get over my first batch. If my first batch does not taste like bilge water! I will try one of theirs.

[Jimbuna]

Thirty plus years ago I tried it a couple of times Chris and admittedly with little success.

Had much more success with wine though.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Thirty plus years ago I tried it a couple of times Chris and admittedly with little success.

Had much more success with wine though.

Hello sir! If you have the time, try again. The kits have made things very simplified. May try a wine once I get a handle on the beer brewing.

This was my brew a week ago. Very active yeast.

[mapuc]

In my youth I tried to home brew beer

I tried to brew beer which had between 3 and 3.5 % alcohol.

Instead I ended up with root beer or more likely the Danish version "Hvidt øl"

After a couple of attempt I gave up.

Markus

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Nice! I will give it a try. Need to get over my first batch. If my first batch does not taste like bilge water! I will try one of theirs.

One never gets over their first batch! I made Champagne for Almaden Wine in '74, in their short-lived management program for college grads, till I discovered the 'darkside of the vine' a Trader Joes and an entire aisle of Two-buck Chuck vino! Good for
making sangria!I do miss my daughters job though, in the Napa tasting room at Mumm; fabulous 'sparkling wine'; she'd leave the half-empties with me after the tasting room closed, practically every day-for two years! the price was dead-right and ya gotta let it breathe anyway!

[Catfish]

An elder friend in Coventry once brewed beer, and a lot of it. I guess he did not expect a bunch of germans visiting .. one evening was enough to drain the resources

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Catfish

An elder friend in Coventry once brewed beer, and a lot of it. I guess he did not expect a bunch of germans visiting .. one evening was enough to drain the resources

I bet!!!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

One never gets over their first batch! I made Champagne for Almaden Wine in '74, in their short-lived management program for college grads, till I discovered the 'darkside of the vine' a Trader Joes and an entire aisle of Two-buck Chuck vino! Good for
making sangria!I do miss my daughters job though, in the Napa tasting room at Mumm; fabulous 'sparkling wine'; she'd leave the half-empties with me after the tasting room closed, practically every day-for two years! the price was dead-right and ya gotta let it breathe anyway!

Well, as long as you were not smoking the left over butts as well it's all good.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by mapuc

In my youth I tried to home brew beer

I tried to brew beer which had between 3 and 3.5 % alcohol.

Instead I ended up with root beer or more likely the Danish version "Hvidt øl"

After a couple of attempt I gave up.

Markus

Hmmmm...rootbeer beer... If you have any kits local to you give it a try again. The kit I used was well put together. Had everything needed to make a batch.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Catfish
An elder friend in Coventry once brewed beer, and a lot of it. I guess he did not expect a bunch of germans visiting .. one evening was enough to drain the resources

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I bet!!!

Hey, it was not that 1940 raid!

[AVGWarhawk]

A Hefeweizen recipe and ingredients was just delivered which is great because a 3 gallon fermenter arrived as well. Let's make that fine German wheat beer.

[ET2SN]

OK, this will make the purists cringe, but a long time ago I was bottling a batch when I ran out of glass bottles.

All I had were some plastic two liter soda bottles and figured why not? I was going to pour the left-over proto-beer down the drain, anyway..

So, I cleaned and rinsed the plastic bottles then filled them and chucked them in the fridge after I made sure the caps were tight.



It worked.
The biggest benefit to "going plastic" was the bottoms of the plastic bottles, they were a natural yeast trap.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

All I had were some plastic two liter soda bottles and figured why not? I was going to pour the left-over proto-beer down the drain, anyway..

So, I cleaned and rinsed the plastic bottles then filled them and chucked them in the fridge after I made sure the caps were tight.
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YIPES! I trust you drank the plastic liter beer ASAP. Soda bottle plastic, when in contact with
fermentation beer releases polyethelene terephthalate, also known as PET which creates/leaches a carcingenic metalloid: antimony which increases as the temperature rises. There is beer in modern plastic containers, such as Heinekin at the Olympics venue where breakable glass bottles would be deemed a hazard. JUST SAYIN'!