I know this forum is for audio nerds, but what about beer nerds? I'm thinking of diving into a second time-sucking hobby, and homebrewing seems pretty cool, with obviously tremendous benefits. Anybody into homebrewing?
Homebrewing
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KeithTidd
Robot Penis.
slashvanyoung
Dopefish lives!
We did that at school once for a project when we were about 15 or 16 years old. We set up at a chem lab and were brewing away.
Turned out rather Hefeweizen-ish, what we really didn't shoot for haha. We were supposed to sell that stuff at visitor's day at school, but we drank almost all of it ourselves that day... I was so hammered, I almost missed my school bus home.
Think I've got some pics somewhere...
Turned out rather Hefeweizen-ish, what we really didn't shoot for haha. We were supposed to sell that stuff at visitor's day at school, but we drank almost all of it ourselves that day... I was so hammered, I almost missed my school bus home.
Think I've got some pics somewhere...
FULLMETALSPEEDO
Member
A buddy of mine got into that a couple years ago and actually got pretty good at it. He is now the brew-meister at a local micro brewery here in St. Louis. He brewed up a nice pumpkin last year and his hefeweizen is pretty tasty.
wishtheend
clip the apex
I'm a couple batches into myself. I think Hefs and Porters are may favorites to brew right now - did a couple pale ales that turned out alright. Overall I find 4 weeks is a good min for the beer to carb and taste pretty solid. I have about 2 weeks inital brew - 2 weeks bottle brew - and then 2-4 weeks of lagering (just sitting in the fridge)
While it has a bit of startup time, if you can get a few months into it where you have 2-3 batches in rotation - you will always have a huge supply of beer ready to drink. I'm going to do a stout and indian pale ale next - and hopefully have them as a black & tan.
While it has a bit of startup time, if you can get a few months into it where you have 2-3 batches in rotation - you will always have a huge supply of beer ready to drink. I'm going to do a stout and indian pale ale next - and hopefully have them as a black & tan.
Jaymz
Stymphalian Productions
Ive tried a few years ago, did some ginger wine and some other type of wine...im not a big fan on wine...but it tasted similar to shop bought wines ive tried so all was good! I still have a few demi-jons in the garage, might have to break them out and knock out a few beers sometime!
Jevil
Pro Evolution Fucker
Me and some friends we made home beer. Nice taste and sparkling but was very weak, only 3º of alcohol in the test. And it had too much sediments cause we didn't filter ir pproperly.
With a gadget we bought we bottled about 120 bottles of 25 cl.
Great experience. The problem is that webrewed on April and average temperature where I live is 15ºC, so we will try next time to do it in winter, it's better for the fermentation.
I have to confess that we didn't start from the beginning, I mean with the cereal and all that shit. We bought a Do-It-Yourself kit with the syrup already done (there are many types, for lager, dark, bock...). The kit had everything to learn how to do beer, a big bucket, termomether, stirilizing powder, alcohol measurer, bottler...
We named it Toxic Waste and we created some funny labels to stick on the bottles.
With a gadget we bought we bottled about 120 bottles of 25 cl.
Great experience. The problem is that webrewed on April and average temperature where I live is 15ºC, so we will try next time to do it in winter, it's better for the fermentation.
I have to confess that we didn't start from the beginning, I mean with the cereal and all that shit. We bought a Do-It-Yourself kit with the syrup already done (there are many types, for lager, dark, bock...). The kit had everything to learn how to do beer, a big bucket, termomether, stirilizing powder, alcohol measurer, bottler...
We named it Toxic Waste and we created some funny labels to stick on the bottles.
slayercannibalsuffohead
Get a dog up ya!
Love the homebrew mate.
I am a stout drinker, none of that VB piss for me. Had some great brews of late. Tried a nice COOPERS stout and added coffee, chocolate topping, maple syrup, vanilla pod, vanilla esscence, dark malt and some licorice. Came out great apart from the sweetness.
Anybody got any tips on keeping the flavours but taking some of the sweetness away?
I am a stout drinker, none of that VB piss for me. Had some great brews of late. Tried a nice COOPERS stout and added coffee, chocolate topping, maple syrup, vanilla pod, vanilla esscence, dark malt and some licorice. Came out great apart from the sweetness.
Anybody got any tips on keeping the flavours but taking some of the sweetness away?
Don't fill it full of fuckin' lollies! Throw in a generous helping of concentrated evil.
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slayercannibalsuffohead
Get a dog up ya!
Don't fill it full of fuckin' lollies! Throw in a generous helping of concentrated evil.
TREV ................ is that you! Im not sure, because I had a crack at VB and havent heard any repercussions!
TravisW
Member
I've done some homebrewing with a buddy of mine. Mostly, we've brewed various Ales, but did one semi-crappy pilsener. We did one beer that was right around 9.5%. It was way overhopped, but kicked like a mule.
The biggest trick to it is sanitation, sanitation, sanitation. If you can keep everything clean and bacteria-free, your brews should at least come out functional if you're following recipes well enough and using the right ingredients. It's when you wind up with odd spores or bacteria that you get really "off" flavors. Another thing is to fight the temptation to drink the stuff too quickly, because beer that's too fresh tends to have an underdeveloped flavor and can taste a bit yeast-y.
The biggest trick to it is sanitation, sanitation, sanitation. If you can keep everything clean and bacteria-free, your brews should at least come out functional if you're following recipes well enough and using the right ingredients. It's when you wind up with odd spores or bacteria that you get really "off" flavors. Another thing is to fight the temptation to drink the stuff too quickly, because beer that's too fresh tends to have an underdeveloped flavor and can taste a bit yeast-y.
