Home Brew

[mcjhr]

To piggy back on kazoos thread....any home brewers here? I had a kit and loved making ginger beer. Wish I still had it. I'm sure some of you home brew. Let's share some tips, tricks and info (doesn't have to be recipes).

[Jamnanc]

Keep your junk clean. It doesn't turn out stinky that way.

[DFBrews]

There is a thread of my system floating around here some where

[Dave]

I home brew, not as much as before, but the know how is still there. I worked a couple years for store credit at Brew Hut and Dry Dock here in Aurora until it grew too big and Kevin had to actually hire people and pay wages and I was getting busier at my regular work.

[DFBrews]

I home brew, not as much as before, but the know how is still there. I worked a couple years for store credit at Brew Hut and Dry Dock here in Aurora until it grew too big and Kevin had to actually hire people and pay wages and I was getting busier at my regular work.

i have probably asked you this before but when did you work there is spent a lot of time at dry dock and the brew but actually dated their female brewer for a couple years

[Dave]

i have probably asked you this before but when did you work there is spent a lot of time at dry dock and the brew but actually dated their female brewer for a couple years

Started in Brew Hut stocking and sampling home brews in early 2006, then helped move equipment when Dry Dock was starting up in summer/fall of 2005. Started off in Dry Dock after Kevin Kellog sold his share to Kevin Delange by schlepping grains and started working the tap room in Feb 2007 until they moved to the new spot in 2008. Good people to learn from on both Brew Hut and Dry Dock. Steve was president of Foam on the Range back then too, so I got good constructive criticism on my initial brew attempts. Plus, store credit helped get me to all grain quicker.

[Colorado Osprey]

My biggest contribution would be to try different strains of yeast.
For about 15 years I only used dry yeasts. Switched to liquid yeast strains and has re-opened the brewing world for me.
I have only been home brewing for 25 years. Usually only brew 2 batches a year (as many as 8). I let most batches age for about a year to acquire the best product.... I have some as old as 10 years.
The old commercials with the born on date always crack me up.

[waxthis]

Use sanitizer and NOT dish soap in the dishwasher when washing your bombers...Unless you really dig foamy beer.

[ANADRILL]

I brew, just got a kegerator on sat... Ginger beers are typically non-alc...You can however brew a Hoegarden clone, then when it goes into the secondary fermenter
add lots of ginger root, and ginger candy...:) Let it sit for a month in the secondary... then bottle or keg..

[fj605]

I started brewing in July of last year. A friend of my wife gave me all of his equipment as a wedding gift. I brew every couple weeks now.

The best advice/tip I've gotten is that it only has to be as complicated as I want to make it.

[Zombie Steve]

I have a batch of Irish Stout bubbling away right now.

Tips? Cleanliness and nix the dry yeast have already been taken. My best advice (if you're carbonating in the bottle) is to let it sit for 3 weeks minimum. Hard to do, but worth it.

[KLR650]

I received a mr beer for christmas, It came with liquid malt extract. I added wort with a a few pounds of grain from a homebrew shop, hops too. In the last week, I've brewed 2 additional batches about 9 gallons total, Using buckets for these.

[ANADRILL]

I started brewing in July of last year. A friend of my wife gave me all of his equipment as a wedding gift. I brew every couple weeks now.

The best advice/tip I've gotten is that it only has to be as complicated as I want to make it.

Yep...:) But start all grain, and don't look back.....