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Title: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: annguyen1981 on January 27, 2006, 09:43:33 PM
I know this is a m/c forum, but I am posting this in the O&E section.  Plus beer and operating ANY vehicle is a BIG NO NO!

A friend from work is really big into making his own beer.  He "converted" two other people at work, and now it's a new "club" for them.  I personally don't drink, but I realize that there are MANY responsible people out in the world that do drink.

www.mrbeer.com is where they've been getting their different supplies.  I thought most of you would enjoy this link. :cheers:
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: bubba zanetti on January 28, 2006, 01:49:56 AM
Mate, I've been brewing my own beer for about 10 years now.

Just from a quick look at that web site it's a slightly different process/setup than Mr Beers.

It costs me about $30 for 2 & 1/2 cartons of beer. A carton of beer is 24 x 375ml bottles, so around 22 litres of beer and it's all good  :thumb:
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: vtlion on January 29, 2006, 09:46:10 PM
Brew all-grain, and you will never go back to those Mickey-Mouse malt-syrup kits again (or production beers for that matter) :cheers:
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: Kee on January 30, 2006, 12:26:20 PM
I just started brewing my own beer. I don't have the room or know-how yet to do all grains.

Here is a site to get real brewing equipment http://www.morebeer.com/ or http://www.morebeer.com/


Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: annguyen1981 on January 30, 2006, 01:51:17 PM
Not to be rude or anything, but aren't those links the same? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: john on January 30, 2006, 10:57:36 PM
I'm too lazy to do that stuff.  I can barely muster the strength to get out of the car and buy a 30 pack of bud lite. :laugh:
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: aaronstj on January 31, 2006, 12:18:16 AM
I boiled up my first batch with "real" equipment just this weekend.  Me and a friend of mine are brewing Northern Brewer's (http://www.northernbrewer.com) American Amber Ale (pictures (http://flickr.com/photos/23145365@N00/sets/72057594056508891/)).  It already looks like delicious, delicious beer, and the airlock is merilly going pop-pop-pop.  I had a Mr. Beer kit, but never had any luck with it.  Three lousy batches.  The whole "50% corn sugar" thing isn't really my style, and the cheap plastic fermentor is shady at best.  Looking forward to my first batch out of the glass system.

One of these days, if I get real, real ambitious, I'll go all grain.  But it seems like kind of a pain in the butt, and I'm lazy.
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: Kee on February 01, 2006, 09:12:42 AM
Quote from: annguyen1981 on January 30, 2006, 01:51:17 PM
Not to be rude or anything, but aren't those links the same? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Yeah, I need to work on my copy and paste skills.

http://www.austinhomebrew.com/



Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: Dom on February 02, 2006, 08:38:54 PM
I'm making my own still.  For racing fuel...
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: ashman on February 03, 2006, 12:34:35 AM
I'm thinking bout making some corn meal "wine". Any tips, other then try not to puke?

-ash
Title: Re: To those who want to make your own beer.
Post by: Jake D on February 03, 2006, 02:37:37 PM
Make dandilion wine.  You'll get f'ed up like a mofo.

Hey, if anybody can make Absinth, that would be cool, too.