MWC Home brew thread

[REWSTER]

winter fermentation, i keep the house kinda cool so gotta wrap up the brew.

 

[REWSTER]

Transferred the Irish stout to secondary today. Smelled and tasted great!

 

[REWSTER]

one step closer to getting the kegs going!



realizing that the above post was from Jan. this means that Irish stout has been in secondary for over 2 months. its either gonna be really good or something wrong.

 

[lesslimited]

Should be really good. What else do you need now?

Got my dead ringer kegged yesterday, very tasty.

I have 5 NB kits that need brewing, so of course in the last couple weeks I've gone from having almost no work to more than I can handle. Might have to get my brewing stuff back from Matt's, so I can brew while working in the shop.

 

[REWSTER]

The wife went to pick up the co2 a little bit ago. she got a 15lb tank because they were out of 10's and 5's looked tinny. it was only like a 10-15 dollar difference in price from the 5lb tank, 3 times the amount for that price ain't to bad!

 

[REWSTER]

Finally!

 

[89eliminator]

nice! especially like the new glarus on it

 

[lesslimited]

Woohoo!!!
No more bottling!

 

[REWSTER]

nice! especially like the new glarus on it

they have some pretty good stuff.

Woohoo!!!
No more bottling!

i didn't think i had enough bottles for this batch till i started pulling them out to pitch them. probably had around 70.


pulling the first pint tonight!

 

[99SJ_Ex]

May crack one of my hard cider bottles this week if the 250 runs/moves after I'm done with it... They been on the shelf since Oct/Nov....

Raspberry Mead has been sitting in the carboy since Sept/Oct, moved it to a third carboy last month, will be using a fruit bag from now on...

 

[XJ&CHZ4ME]

huh, huh,......you said fruit bag.

Cheese "I got your fruit bag right here baby doll" Man

 

[REWSTER]

first couple days the carbonation didn't seem right. i looked at a bunch of videos and didn't look like i did anything wrong as far as a quick carbonation go's. so Tuesday or Wednesday i just said screw it and bumped the pressure up to 12ish psi and told myself not to touch it till today and see what happens...

perfection!

 

[lesslimited]

I'll usually go a couple/few days at 20-25psi if I'm in a hurry, otherwise 12 gets it done, and won't over carbonate if I forget about it.

Brewed a Czech pilsner last night, was already fermenting this morning.

 

[REWSTER]

Triple brew day.

 

[REWSTER]

IPA is bubbling away. but i think the keg fridge is gonna be dead soon, its making some funky noise and doesn't seem cool enough. i think i will throw a chunk of dry ice in it and keep an eye on CL for another.

 

[cdrake261]

Triple brew day.

I may have to pay a visit!

 

[bwfdrums]

I really need to be following this tread more. Any recommended sites for ingredients and brewing gear? Just starting out.

 

[REWSTER]

I really need to be following this tread more. Any recommended sites for ingredients and brewing gear? Just starting out.

Northern brewer is a good one. Sigh up for thier e mail list they often have some good deals on equipment. I know around fathers day they usualy have beginer kits on sale because people are buying them as gifts. We are doing full boils I. That pic but you can do a smaller boil and add water at the end if you didn't want to use a turkey fryer. I started out on a small scale mr beer kit and just upgraded over time. Kinda like the jeep lol. Keeping stuff clean and patience is the key to good beer.

 

[bwfdrums]

Awesome, thanks.

 

[99SJ_Ex]

I'm about 40min from Northern Brewer. Great Products even better customer assistance. I only do hard cider and mead and so only a few of the workers can really help me, but the others try their best or call someone who knows if I have a question.

Reminds me I've had a Raspberry mead in the basement I need to check on...