Anybody homebrew?

[tozovr]

We're brewing up a batch of meade this weekend and maybe another batch beer next weekend...anyone else here brew?

Down to my last jar of meade:hot:

[TreeSaw]

BikeGeek & Brungeman both have some tasty homebrews :thumb:

[Ciaran]

I don't brew but I do test homebrew for my brewing friends. :D And I do love a good mead. :thumb:

[tozovr]

We did a brew swap with a few of the guys on one of my other forums...we sent it all UPS/Fedex so as to not get arrested, but it was a fantastic idea. I sent off two quarts of meade to a few of the guys and got a sixer from each.

Unfortunately, I won't have any meade that is ready for another 2 years LOL...It's drinkable after 6 months or so...not too shabby after a year...18 months is good and 2 years DAMN GOOD....3 years is just heaven and 4 years...well no one's waited THAT long LOL.

This was the recipe I used...
Ingredients:

* 12 pounds, Wildflower Honey
* 2 pounds, blueberries
* 2 teaspoons, gypsum or water crystals
* 3 teaspoons, yeast nutrient
* 1 ounce, Hallertauer Leaf hops
* 1 tablespoon, Irish Moss
* 2 packs, Red Star Pastuer Champagne yeast

Tom, my buddy made straight up, normal meade...Honey,water, yeast three years LOL

RJ

[DamienC]

Here's the label a friend came up with for an oatmeal stout I made a few years ago before I moved (and before I got a CO2/keg setup :) )...

http://damien.chooah.com/pics/sos.jpg

[Ciaran]

We did a brew swap with a few of the guys on one of my other forums...we sent it all UPS/Fedex so as to not get arrested, but it was a fantastic idea. I sent off two quarts of meade to a few of the guys and got a sixer from each.

Unfortunately, I won't have any meade that is ready for another 2 years LOL...It's drinkable after 6 months or so...not too shabby after a year...18 months is good and 2 years DAMN GOOD....3 years is just heaven and 4 years...well no one's waited THAT long LOL.

This was the recipe I used...
Ingredients:

* 12 pounds, Wildflower Honey
* 2 pounds, blueberries
* 2 teaspoons, gypsum or water crystals
* 3 teaspoons, yeast nutrient
* 1 ounce, Hallertauer Leaf hops
* 1 tablespoon, Irish Moss
* 2 packs, Red Star Pastuer Champagne yeast

Tom, my buddy made straight up, normal meade...Honey,water, yeast three years LOL

RJ
:drool:

I am very lucky in that I actually have quite a few friends that brew. When the wife and I got married a freind brewed us a batch of stout as a wedding gift. Our guests thought it was the highlight of the wedding.

One of the activities we persue in the medieval recreation group is period brewing.

[partsbara]

And I do love a good mead. :thumb:

this is of course, the 'mead of victory' right ??? after your enemies lay slain on the battlefield... heads severed by their own swords... :)

last time the missus and i were back home we picked up some local brewed honey mead... very tasty...

[dogwonder]

Are you one of those mead makers that always has mead aging at like 6 month intervals? So maybe this one won't be ready until 2008 but do you have some coming of age soon?

I've dabbled a bit in homebrewing, but nothing big. Although I am eyeing some systems to get into the game. I have brewed at a commercial brewery a couple of times, that's a cool gig. Nothing like "testing the carbonation" at 9 am.

[tozovr]

See, that's the thing, I WANT to be like that, but with my Landscape Construction business I find I lose my mind 9 months out of the year and forget.

[Changleen]

I do a bit of homebrewing. Me and a friend do lagers and IPAs mostly - we had a couple of goes at regular ales but neither of us are huge ale drinkers. We've been putting down on a regular basis since about April. I recon we've done close to 400 litres. (Actually roughly 380 if I count right..)

Supposedly you need to leave the stuff at least 6 months for the best taste, but we can never wait that long. Some of the 4 month stuff has tasted pretty good. When you first drink there is often that green taste - you know it is too young really, but after a few mouthfuls you don't notice it so much. Also it always seems to be rather strong. :thumb:

[GumbaFish]

I'm waiting for some reading material from brungeman and bikegeek and then I am going to take the plunge.

[BikeGeek]

I wish I could do lagers, but I have no way to lager the beer. :( I'm planning a big brew weekend in a couple of months. The wife is out of town so I'm doing at least 15 gallons. One will hopefully be Brungeman's delicious nut-brown ale. Another will be my first "big" beer: an Abbey-style ale that should finish out around 9.5% abv. :drool:

[BikeGeek]

Most have seen them, but here are the labels I did for the recent Monkeyfest. :)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y106/BikeGeek/Saison-label_web.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y106/BikeGeek/Wit-label.jpg