#523937 - 07/29/09 09:57 PM
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Anyone here do it? I just finished my third "batch" and it is good! The first two were good also and in fact out of 70 bottles I got maybe 15 or so. Next up is a Porter
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#523939 - 07/29/09 09:59 PM
Re: Home Brew
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The Beav
Registered: 02/22/09
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Nope, but you just reminded me that its waaaaaaaay hot, and my glasses are frosty, and the pantry fridge is packed with Black Butte Porter....
Thanks for the reminder....
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#523941 - 07/29/09 10:04 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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My son , who used to live in the town of Alsea, likes BBP so I'm making some for him. I don't consider it a summer brew so I am staying with some IPAs and lagers for this summer.
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#523945 - 07/29/09 10:24 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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River Nutrients
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Lagers are pretty tough to get right unless you have a fridge to ferment in. It's especially hard to keep the temp in the low 50's during the summer. Stick with ales until you really get the process down. Then you can progress to a partial mash, and finally a whole grain setup. Porters are great beers to brew because it's hard to tell when you screw up. The flavor profile is so wide that unless there's a really serious flaw, all that delicious roasty chocolatey-ness will hide any mistakes.
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#523946 - 07/29/09 10:27 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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Fortunately I do have a fridge to do just that. This batch I bottled 2 weeks ago was a modified IPA. Less hops
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#523947 - 07/29/09 10:33 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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River Nutrients
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You are fortunate. If you can perfect lagers, you got it goin' on. They're so delicate compared to ales that they're just tough to do. A Bud clone is really tough to get right. Not that I'd ever be tempted to clone something like that, but I do give them credit for turning out such a consistent light beer.
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#523949 - 07/29/09 10:40 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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Yeah I'm not ready to try one yet so I will stick with the ales.
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#524008 - 07/30/09 01:14 AM
Re: Home Brewing
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Registered: 02/19/04
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I used to do a lot of it and was pretty good at it... now I have a buddy who runs a brewery and his brewer makes better beer than I ever did, so I just drink his beer. It's great fun, chemistry experiments you can drink. My favorites are IPAs and stouts but probably the best beer we ever made was a true pilsner, which is a far cry from American pilsner. If you've got the fridge capabilities for lagering you should give it a try sometime. I still have all the gear but have too many things going on to do any brewing for the next few years. Enjoy it!
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#524127 - 07/30/09 02:42 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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I have been brewing for a few years now. Mostly ales. My favorite to date is a Alaskan Amber clone that comes out pretty good. My wife even likes it and she is not big on beer. I do not bottle, too much hassle. I keg mine and force carbinate. Much less wait time than bottling and natural carbinating. I have a fridge in the garage that is for beer and beverages so keeping the keg cold is not an issue. Always have beer on tap with frosty glasses in the freezer on top. Bret Man that is the way to go for sure. I really like the ales I've done. Going to do a porter next then back to Hefes and IPAs.
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#524151 - 07/30/09 03:43 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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Three Time Spawner
Registered: 09/07/05
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I've brewed a few times, still have all the gear and plan on brewing again this fall. I have a porter recipe I picked up when PIke's still sold brew supplies. Pike's Old 97 porter. It's easy, flavorful and is hard to screw up. Sanitation is very important. Even though I cleaned everything thoroughly before starting, something found it's way into the wart and caused the beer to geyser 4 inchs or more when opened, especially if room tempature. I'd loose about 1/2 a bottle. If I cooled the beer before opening it, it didn't geyser as much. I was told it was probably free floating bacteria.
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#524162 - 07/30/09 04:11 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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Too much corn sugar maybe?
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#524187 - 07/30/09 05:25 PM
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MPD
Registered: 01/02/08
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anytime you need a professional field support product sampler ... call me do you get drunk on half as much beer? my buddy got into home brewing back in the nineties. some batches were great, some were pretty tasteless, but they all got us drunk. and when you are drinking the not so great batch, don't try 'one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.'
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#524354 - 07/31/09 02:53 AM
Re: Home Brewing
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Thanks for all the info Brewer. I've done three brews so far and each one has been a success. I like the way the brew mellows after a couple of months but even the stuff that has only been in the bottle a couple of weeks is good and just gets better.
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#524409 - 07/31/09 01:24 PM
Re: Home Brewing
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Three Time Spawner
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The 'geysering' batch tasted the same as the batches that didn't. I did have one taste bad so I poured it out in the compost. One quiet night, the compost bin sounded like a small toga party so the compost worms liked it.
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