Just made my second batch of home brew today!

Excited. The ingredients didn't come out of a can this time!

Biked home with the 23L liters of malt, my school stuff, and my mini-U on my back weighed about 80 pounds who needs a rack?

Any one else on here a brewer?

What's the heaviest load you guys have lugged?

deez nuts

Thats crazy, Did everything come out good?

My dad brews.

I have yet to try his beer, but, from what I have heard, it is really good.

Seems to have, I won't know for a few weeks really, fermentation is arguably the easy party, bottling/priming it is the difficult part, the beer won't be ready for another few months, i should have said i started my second batch of home brew.

My friend just started brewing! Still have yet to try it though

If you imagine this cat food is malted barley, I reckon I'm good for about 20 lbs on the bars and 20lbs on my back rollin' without racks/trailer.

i used to brew alot, but had one mistake and i got annoyed and kinda stopped brewing after that.

i would measure out the sugar for the secondary when i was preparing the first, and would put it in a little zip lock.
my dad came by and gave wanted to give me this new cleaner that just came out...
he showed up with a small zip lock bag of oxy-clean (this is how long ago this was) and i put it in the pantry not thinking about it.

comes time to do the secondary, and i grabbed the little bag full of white stuff..
yes it was the oxy-clean

but i love beer, alot.

I brew all grain on a brew sculpture and keg almost everything. You can say I'm hooked.

I use to use the 5 gallon pop kegs instead of bottling. You can buy them full of carbonated water from the local pepsi or coke distributor. I would stay away from the pre-mixed pop kegs due to the sugar. connectors were easy and cheap to get. Of course, you need a CO2 system to make it work that way.

I liked homebrewing, but it was more work than I wanted to spend making a batch. My ever last batch was ruined when I stuck the primary in a to cold of a spot and the fermentation stopped. It did startup up again, but was just not that great tasting.



Tom

A friend and I tried to make five gallons of hefeweizen a couple years ago. After a week or so it turned black and had stuff growing on top of it. We didn't taste it.. We plan to make some more but we're going to stick with 1 gallon batches and not have friends over spewing bacteria everywhere while we're trying to make beer.

take pictures of your setup!

RIP (maybe oxy-clean doubled as cocaine? (too soon?))

I brew and make wine.

The last thing I made was in December; a double batch (10 gallons) of malted, hopped hard cider.

Here is a pic of some test batches of different types of cider I was playing with a couple years ago. Anyone who read Highlights Magazine should appreciate the caption.



Proper sanitation is the hardest part.

What kind of beer are you making that won't be ready for months? Most home brew [assuming you don't have a lagering fridge] is ready in 5-6 weeks from raw grains to a drinkable bottle of brew.

I've been an extract w/ grains brewer for 5 years; I usually make 2x 5 gallon batches at a time and keg using corning kegs w/ c02. 2 kegs of Austin Home Brew New Castle clone on tap atm (both their new and old NC recipe is very good). I'd like to try partial mash at some point, but I don't have the money for gear.

I don't even drink that much...maybe a pint or 2 a month.