MWC Home brew thread

[REWSTER]

Thanks for your help Rew. It was good to have an obsessive newb there to counter-balance my somewhat lackadaisical approach to brewing.

Both brews are fermenting nicely this morning, time to move the lager to the fridge.

I like your approach, its more my style than all the science

i think i may have sniffed up some hop dust, i swear i have been smelling it all day.

 

[REWSTER]

just finished up my last MR BEER kit!

this: http://www.mrbeer.com/product-exec/product_id/94/nm/High_Country_Canadian_Draft_w_Booster_trade_1

i replaced the "booster" with amber DME and will be dry hopping with glacier hops.


should turn out to be a nice brownish red ale... i think!

 

[REWSTER]

me and the wife were strutting around Menards tonight so i grabbed a couple things...

coil of 3/8ths copper 20' $14.00

and a couple utility hoses $3.00 each

gonna put a couple clamps on it and call it good. under 20 bucks for a immersion cooler

 

[lesslimited]

That should work. Did you steal your parents turkey fryer yet?

This morning before work, I transferred my Czech Pilsner to secondary. I didn't sample it, but it sure smelled good.

After work, I secondaried my Bavarian Helles, and kegged my Dunkelweiss. Both of them tasted great.

 

[Timmy83]

Rew next time u need cooper tube let me know. I can get it for you

 

[REWSTER]

That should work. Did you steal your parents turkey fryer yet?

not yet

Rew next time u need cooper tube let me know. I can get it for you

grab me like 100lbs so i can scrap it

i will let you know

 

[floyd]

And I learned that good beer can be brewed with the Mr Beer kits.

Do yourself a favor and ditch the Mr. Beer kits asap. Then you will learn that you can consistently make GREAT beer!

 

[XJosh95]

John has been consistently making great beer for as long as I have known him. Without Mr. Beer kits...... He and another member got together and traded ideas. And if John thinks it's a good beer from a Mr. Beer kit, it's a good beer.

 

[floyd]

***edit*** . . . nevermind . . .

 

[ChiXJeff]

I don't think that anybody is advocating that you *SHOULD* get a Mr. Beer kit. A Mr. Beer kit is better than not brewing at all. From what little I know about MB, I would expect some difficulties in sanitation, but they should be very repeatable batches due to the fact that it's almost a boil, dump & ferment.

Personally, I wouldn't recommend that anybody buy one, I'd certainly try and get them into a better extract brewing system.

 

[REWSTER]

I was the one using the MR beer kits, john (lesslimited) was just saying that a good beer can be made from one. the best thing you can do with a MR beer kit is not follow the directions.


or it could be that i am awesome at everything i do...

 

[Beezil]

Mr beer has probably turned more brewers away from the hobby than graduated them....

Fuk mr beer

 

[REWSTER]

Mr beer has probably turned more brewers away from the hobby than graduated them....

Fuk mr beer

I will save you one for brewfest. :cheers:

 

[kmanxj5050]

me and the wife were strutting around Menards tonight so i grabbed a couple things...

coil of 3/8ths copper 20' $14.00

and a couple utility hoses $3.00 each

gonna put a couple clamps on it and call it good. under 20 bucks for a immersion cooler

Let me know how this works. Not having one is what has kept me from brewing in the summer.

 

[ChiXJeff]

Flare then ends of the copper tubing just a bit, so there's a ridge at the end.

 

[ChiXJeff]

And today, I've remembered why I like kegging. Bottled 5 gallons of a sorghum beer (gluten free,) for one of the local bar tenders who's very gluten intolerant. The stuff smelled pretty good actually when I opened the fermenter, and it did ferment almost dry. 6.25 lbs. of white sorghum extract w/ Safale US05 dry yeast.

And hoping to brew a Kolsch, a breakfast stout and an American wheet tomorrow.

 

[REWSTER]

speaking of bottling being a PITA... i cleaned up a load of them today here is my makeshift drying system

 

[lesslimited]

Creative!

Some look like they may not drain completely, though.

I could make you a deal on a couple/few kegs, I don't think I really need a dozen.


I kegged the Bavarian Helles yesterday morning, very tasty even un-carbonated.

Ordered a few more kits from NB to brew for Brewfest, which I'm thinking may be August 18th.

 

[ChiXJeff]

Bottle trees. A bottle tree would be yer friend.

Rained just enough here today to keep me from brewing.

 

[REWSTER]

the ones off to the sides are ranger IPA's, fricken skinny bottles the first slid right threw the gate.


i still have to brew the Irish red, i was thinking of doing it tonight but i am pretty beat from the weekend.