Welcome to the Gear Forum Jason! Good to see you on this turf!! My next thread will be on Tequila, so we can probably trade some good knowledge there as it is my #1 alcohol of all time!!!I know my beer choice is probably one that real beer drinkers will call crap. I am generally a light beer or pilsner drinker. Yuengling Flight for the win for me. I do like an occasional Dragon's Milk though. I typically supplement my beer drinking with either a good Tequila or Bourbon. I am more into those than the beer.
only men with 'beer goggles' would want to touch those lips
A lot of places carry Old RasputinDamn thread got me all Breakfast Stouty----alas, none in town.
I snagged some Labatt's and 4 fingers of Guinness. It'll do. We are
getting hammered with our first sizable Winter Storm and I doubt
I will be up early tomorrow anyways.
Just got to be too much of a pita and with the proliferation of microbreweries on seemingly every corner, just not worth the trouble.
One of my brothers really got into brewing his own beer. I don't know if he is still doing it. He had quite the contraption for brewing it. I doubt with the money he had to invest to get to brew it that it was cheaper in any way than buying it. I guess once the equipment is paid for it may start to even out. However, I know he drank a lot more beer because he was brewing his own so there is that. He used to even add things to the water he used to make it match some areas in other countries that had brewed some great things he liked. He even won a local competition with an oatmeal stout and they put his bee on tap there for a while.A friend of mine used to brew beer and it was surprisingly good. Is there money savings to brewing your own? Good beer is close to $2 a bottle now.
Mine was as good or better than 99.9% of the beer I've tried. I think the freshness of it can't be beat and is a HUGE part of it, another important facet is you don't pasteurize homebrew.A friend of mine used to brew beer and it was surprisingly good. Is there money savings to brewing your own? Good beer is close to $2 a bottle now.
Mine was as good or better than 99.9% of the beer I've tried. I think the freshness of it can't be beat and is a HUGE part of it, another important facet is you don't pasteurize homebrew.
There is definitely an initial investment! Had to buy a large kettle for boiling with a drain valve, a temp gauge, a 6 gallon fermenter, some tubing, sanitation spray, a soda keg(s), a keg fridge with soda keg connections - and misc. stuff I'm sure I'm forgetting. Bottling is for suckers, I wouldn't recommend it!
Then I was spending $45 to $60 for each kit I'd order from various places. Each kit would fill a soda keg - I think they were 5 gallons.
I didn't do any mashing, I used the "Extract" method so the kits would come with extract goo (bottles/bags) that you would boil in water and you'd add hops (and sometimes other stuff) at various times. You had to keep it at a specific temp and ensure you didn't get a "boil over", and anything that touched it, post boil, had to be sanitized. I was anal as all hell about it, which made it stressful - BUT - I never had an infected batch. And I'd guess I did 25 or so batches.
EXCELLENT choice. My favorite for many years as well. And on the off season, when I couldn't get the Winter Welcome, I'd go for their Nut Brown Ale.Favorite beer ever is Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome!!!!!!!