BEER!! The official thread - Plumbing Forum

**phishfood** · 01-24-2010, 11:41 PM

I just finished a commercial porter, which is a type I am just learning to enjoy. Earlier today, I bottled an experimental recipe Bitter, that will probably be a little on the heavy side for that style, but oh well. I am saving the last 16 of a light Red that I brewed for when my niece visits next month. And as soon as I can find the time, I want to try my hand at brewing a porter.

Who else loves beer?

**SilverBack4Jack** · 01-25-2010, 12:02 AM

mmmmmmmmmmmm.........beeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr!

**Reedwalker** · 01-25-2010, 03:31 AM

Im a homebrewer too!

Today I had a huge brew day. I brewed a hoppy American amber. Bottled my Hoppy New Year (brewed it on New Years Day) Double IPA, and put my Ugly Fish (tastes like Bells Two Hearted Ale) into secondary with a dry hop.

My wifes favorite Porter. I have a batch of Porter that should be ready to bottle in a week or so. If your interested I can email you a real easy and real good simple Porter recipe. Just PM and tell me what you brew with (kettle size and typical amount of grains you use) and I'll customize the recipe for you.

I'm kind of a microbrew/homebrew fanatic.

**phishfood** · 01-25-2010, 09:48 PM

Like, Doooooode man!!

I managed to skip out of work 15 minutes early, and what I thought I had to do tonight didn't pan out, so I am in the middle of a half batch ( 2 1/2 gals) all grain porter. It is my first venture into all grain brewing, and I don't really have all of the right equipment, so I am trying a brew in a bag method and dividing a recipe in half. Gotta go check the temp of the sparge water now.

**phishfood** · 01-27-2010, 12:22 AM

The porter is merrily fermenting away, probably 1/2" of krausen and getting thicker. It is amazing that such a small amount of black grain mixed in with all of the pale 2 row can produce a beer that black.

**Mr_David** · 01-27-2010, 02:55 AM

I like good beer.
I don't like Coors or Bud or any of the watered down beers.
I tried to brew some once. Turned out okay but to much work when there are so many flavors and types already bottled up for you.
My Favorite is Karl Strauss Amber

**Otahyoni** · 01-30-2010, 09:18 PM

I quit drinking. When i did I drank Miller High Life in a bottle cause it was cheap.

BRad704 · 02-01-2010, 02:40 PM

I've got some Shiner Bock and Woodchuck Amber in the fridge right now... Shiner for me, 'chuck for my wife... And I'd love to start brewing myself, but I agree that it is a lot of work around all my other 'projects' and I can already buy what I like anyways...

**phishfood** · 02-01-2010, 10:29 PM

Yes, it does take some time. How much is dependant upon how involved you want to get. All extract without steeping grains, you can probably have it in the fermenter in 1 1/2-2 hours, and another hour or so for bottling. The fermenting process itself doesn't require much attention at all. However, some people doing all grain brewing can easily spend the better part of a day brewing a batch.

Kilroy, I have never heard of or tried Karl Strauss. Is that a local microbrew in your area, or is it an import?

**phishfood** · 02-03-2010, 02:40 AM

A few weeks ago, we had some really cold weather come through, and so we picked most of the oranges off of our tree before they froze. We haven't been able to drink enough juice or eat enough oranges, so we were starting to get some that were rotting.

This last Sunday, I juiced enough to make a full five gallons of orange juice, and put it into a plastic bucket fermentor. I kept it covered and on ice, and today I got a recipe and some ingredients from a froo-froo wine store in town. So tonight I added some of the stuff from the wine store and some sugar, and pitched the champagne yeast starter that I had going. 5 hours later, and the airlock is going gangbusters. Maybe in midsummer I will have some nice orange wine to sample.