beer

[landarc]

Thought I would start a tread about this. I have just discovered yet another way to eat up gobs of time. Only this one produces beer! I have made a porter and a American red ale and they are both fantastic. I still need to get some equipment, but, this looks like a great way to make beer that is at least as good as any that I have bought at the grocery store.

[Jim]

morebeer.com/

they are even located in California. Great selection.

[landarc]

Oddly, they know me, they recognize me. I need to get out there soon, I need to make a nice choco cream stout, and am thinking I need to make some pale ale

[Jim]

I want to make barley wine so bad.

[Alan]

I'm really glad to see this forum taking off. Brewing is something I know very little about but am anxious to learn. Nothing better than a sunny warm Sunday, a cook out, maybe a little NASCAR and a GOOD beer (mostly Ale for me).

Anyhow, I'll be keeping very close tabs on these forums. Would love to see recipies for beer and moonshine or whiskey as well as wine. As well as instructions of building stills or buying them. Making alcohol using basic methods. All of it. Bring it on. I am anxious to learn and need something to research this fall! (along with thermophilic composting, chickens, and hogs!)

[flowerpower]

Alan, here's the link to "Brew Your Own Magazine". Lots of good articles to read

www.byo.com/

[ohiorganic]

My husband Eugene has been brewing beer for at least 12 years. there is not a lot of equipment to buy for basic homebrew-bottles, capper, car boy, a big stainless steel pot, something to put the brew into before it is bottles so you get most of the yeasty stuff out. And of course malt, hops.

he uses the Charlie Papazian book for reference-you can buy this book at any place the sells brewing supplies

He also now grows his own hops and barley. I don't know what the hops are but they are doing great this year. I believe the barley is 2 row.

Home brew is best if it can age 6months or more.

[landarc]

I don't know about that aging thing, I have a dry hopped red ale that was oak conditioned and it is great right now. About 3 weeks from brewing. The hops aroma is jumping out of the glass. I am liking the oak conditioning thing a lot.

Barley wine...I don't have any of that either, but, I need to make my winter choco cream stout first.

[canadamike]

That thread is a great idea. Cheers

[bluelacedredhead]

Wheat Beer!! I had wheat beer in Joplin, MO and it was wonderful. Unfortunately, I didn't have the sense to buy a couple of 6 packs to bring home with me.
This particular wheat beer was unfiltered. It was a bit unnerving watching the articles settle on the bottle of the glass, but it's not as gross as chugging pea pod wine and having pods pass your lips.. ewwwww EWWWWW Ptewwwwy

[landarc]

okkaayyyy, not going drinking with FP, pea pod wine? eeesh!

Now wheat beer, that is a different story, the floaties are a part of the experience. And it is tasty. To my taste, filtered wheat beer is not the same.

[stratcat]

My friend makes tasty beer and gets her supplies at a reasonable price from www.eckraus.com/.

john

[canadamike]

The funny thing is that the famous german law passed by its king in the 1500, declaring barley only could be used for beer making was a way for the king to keep the wheat harvest, wheat being seen as a more noble cereal for some reason, probably its hability to produce bread , for his own royal needs ( apart from bread making). He drank wheat beer and wanted it for himself and the nobility Wheat beer became the exclusive privilege of royalty!!

[bluelacedredhead]

is that why there are Royals in Kansas City? Cuz they got Wheat Beer?

[landarc]

Hey FP, I wandered into my local wine shop and found...Omageddon! Woo hoo! I been looking for this stuff and it isn't all that easy to find out here. I feel that it is important, nay, a responsibility, as a home brewer, to test and evaluate as many beers as possible.

BYO is a good mag, if you really want to get into beer, I would look at John Palmer's book. I read the first edition, but the second edition is supposed to be better.