Im starting a beer thread. If you like beer or brew, talk about it here!

[agalindo]

I've been meaning to get back to home brewing. I need to pull all my stuff out of storage. I used to use a 5 gal keg to put my beer after the first fermentation process. I would then use a CO2 canister to carbonate the beer forgoing the second process and doing away with the dead yeast. Just store the the beer under 10 or 20 lbs of CO2 pressure for a week or 2 it'll carbonate without the dead yeast sedements.

[jtkratzer]

i love living close to the yuenling brewery. i really enjoy going to the local small craft breweries and sampling all the different stuff.

[Niner4Tango]

Originally Posted by agalindo

I've been meaning to get back to home brewing. I need to pull all my stuff out of storage. I used to use a 5 gal keg to put my beer after the first fermentation process. I would then use a CO2 canister to carbonate the beer forgoing the second process and doing away with the dead yeast. Just store the the beer under 10 or 20 lbs of CO2 pressure for a week or 2 it'll carbonate without the dead yeast sedements.

I agree with the CO2. After a couple of batches I bought a Tap a Draft kit that uses CO2. I'd go ahead and add the corbonating sugar, but then put it under pressure. You can regulate the amount of carbonation by how much you shake the mini keg to dissolve the CO2 into the beer. And you have this cool mini keg in the fridge - you can draw off how much you want, no bottle to open! And no bottles to wash!!!

The only way to fly.

[leeindy]

Originally Posted by jtkratzer

i love living close to the yuenling brewery. i really enjoy going to the local small craft breweries and sampling all the different stuff.

i would love you forever if i could get you to send me a sixer

[Richard L Shield]

I've never liked beer. The only beer I liked is up here in Alaska at the Mooses Tooth. They make their beer here in Alaska. Hard Apple Ale. That is the best beer, in my opinion.

[cucamelsmd15]

Originally Posted by amishclark

i was thinking about your carbonation issue...do you measure out your priming sugar? how much do you use? do you keep an eye on the temperature of your fermenting beer? it is my understanding that, for homebrews anyway, carbonation comes from a final fermenting in the bottle with the priming sugar and the small amount of yeasties left in the beer. not enough sugar would create flat beer (conversly, too much would create a fizzy or overpressured beer). a drastic change in temperature, or temperature outside what the yeast can survive, could also make for flat beer. also, underfilling the bottles could create a flatter beer, just like overfilling could make one explode...just like loading ammo i guess...you should have about one inch of neckspace once you remove the bottling wand...however, i know what i know from helping an old guy brew (he can't lift anything, so i'm the muscle). but i just started reading the hombrewing bible

Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is the priming sugar, since I carb'ed in the bottle. But, I dissolved it in 2 cups of boiling water, and added it to the brew before bottling and stirred it, carefully, so I didnt introduce air (oxidation is bad!). I only bottled it about 3 weeks ago, so Im thinking a little more aging and it would be right. I had about an inch of headspace at the top, which is about right too.

[jtkratzer]

Originally Posted by leeindy

i would love you forever if i could get you to send me a sixer

i could send you whatever you want. i'm wondering how i would send bottles though, they'd have to be hand wrapped in bubble wrap or something.

let me know.

[amishclark]

Originally Posted by leeindy

yuengling (wish i could get it in AK)

best beer ever, and you even spelled it right! i ship you some, if i can...there's plenty of it here, and cheap too!


eta: ha! posted before i read jtkratzer's post...

[Trace]

Originally Posted by jtkratzer

home brewing is something i'll get into one of these days. i love beer though. only found a few that i don't care for - usually the cheapy american brews that lack flavor.

+1 I think American beer sucks period.

[Trace]

Originally Posted by Richard L Shield

I've never liked beer. The only beer I liked is up here in Alaska at the Mooses Tooth. They make their beer here in Alaska. Hard Apple Ale. That is the best beer, in my opinion.

Hard Ciders? Yeah, some of those are pretty good.