Any Home Brewers?
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UPDATED: Monday, February 22, 2010 20:49
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
How's your porter doing?
Mmmmmm.... Porter!
So last Saturday was 5 weeks from brew date (3 weeks in a fermenter, 2 weeks in bottles), time to test. And I humbly submit that is was pretty damn good. Not as strong in ABV or complex tastes as some of the really good (expensive) micro breweries out there like Brooklyn, Dogfish, but still tasty.
And now I'm hooked! There's something about the process, rather slow and tedious with FAIL a real possibility after waiting 5 weeks, that makes it unlike pretty much anything else I've done.
Cheers!
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
How's your porter doing?
Mmmmmm.... Porter!
I need to bottle mine sometime soon. Though I'm also tempted to find a cold spot in the basement and cold lager it...
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Originally posted by mal4prez:
I need to bottle mine sometime soon. Though I'm also tempted to find a cold spot in the basement and cold lager it...
How long do you typically do that for? (I can wait np, I'm just curious) I'm also wondering about life expectancy of home brew, I know it's not wine but I have read that it does hold pretty well, 6 months to a year.
Speaking of bottling... now that I have gone through one bottling day
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I don't know about the cold lagering really. I've only read about it, never done it, but I want to try. I think it needs a few weeks up to a few months, and it's generally only for certain yeasts. Not sure if the kit I'm using has those. But certainly for my Guiness clone it'd be good.
As for bottling, I find these handy:
http://www.partypig.com/
That uses up about half of the batch, so only ~24 bottles needed for the rest. Besides, the pig is so cute. :)
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