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i also indulge in the fine art of home brewing. and home wine making. have mostly wines fermenting right now, but im due for a nice 5 gallon all grain batch. i make alot of honey wheat varieties. some porters and stouts as well. for the winter i did a chocolate cayenne pepper stout. pretty kick ass. fresh milled black patent malts from the local homebrew store.
I have blueberry wheat conditioning in bottles, Octoberfest being bottled this evening, honey weizen in a fermenter, planning to brew a sort-of shandy this weekend. Plan to make an Irish Red next week to have ready to drink on St. Patrick's Day.
I was looking around on the web for an inexpensive brew kit and came across "theamericanbrewer.com. I'm pretty sure their prices are the best anywhere. They have lots of kits in different sizes and I could not find a lower price on any other site after searching for like 20 minutes. I ordered their brew kit/ingredient kit combo for $79 and received it last week. Already brewed my first beer and it was really easy! They don't really show up that often in searches but once you know about them you go back because their prices are really that good.
I bought their deluxe kit for $59 bucks and they threw in all kinds of extra crap.
July, 2013
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Originally Posted by spunkybrewster
I ordered their brew kit/ingredient kit combo for $79 and received it last week. Already brewed my first beer and it was really easy!
Hmmmmm. Two posts, about his first home brew kit, flogging the same home brewing website, many months apart, at two different prices, and they're the ONLY two posts by the same poster... how could that possibly be?
Hmmmmm. Two posts, about his first home brew kit, flogging the same home brewing website, many months apart, at two different prices, and they're the ONLY two posts by the same poster... how could that possibly be?
Maybe he forgot to take into account his employee discount on his second post ? Definitely not the best prices anywhere, Northern Brewer has better prices on the malt kits I compared and top that with their shipping =)
I'm looking to get a "cheap" home brew kit to brew for the 1st time. Is it hard for a rookie? any advice? tips? Thanks!
A lot of home brew kits seem to start at 5 gallon. I would suggest going with smaller batches like 3 gal or even one gallon. Why brew up 5 gallons when you don't yet know what you are doing? And believe me, you don't. Its really easy but at first it just does not seem so. You will always have a use for the smaller carboy's, trust me on that one. Other than that it would help to know what you are brewing. Beer vs wine equipment does differ. I make wine thus:
7 gallon primary
glass carboys( 3 gal is my favorite)
air locks
siphon
specific gravity
PH tester
yeast
acid blend
yeast nutrient
metabisulphite(cleanser and preservative)
Bottles, corker and corks
wine thief
I think that is most of it. However for 1 gallon batches you can skip the siphon and wine thief.
So bottom line is get a kit for 1 gallon batches. You will use them. Always better to use wine in those to top off larger batches.
Clean, clean, clean. Home brewing most often fails due to contaminated tools and vessels. Skunky beer is caused by mold and bacteria. Be sure to follow the cleaning instructions that will come with any kit.
Do NOT let the wort boil over. That is a stink that does not come out of the range for a while.
And don't forget to keep out the oxygen which goes really bad with not clean.
Does anyone know how temperature influences the final result after preparing the wort? Is it necessary to rapidly cool the wort after transferring into the primary fermentation bucket? I've always been weary of home brewing in the summer because I heard you have to cool it quickly.
Oh right, the cheapest brew kit. One bottle + air lock.
I'd spring for rubber stoppers though. All my others were busy.
Ingredients :
* organic juice without preservatives( I got mine from some berries in landscaping. In this case the late fall where aronias hang on the bush for quite some time mixed in with some crab apple.
* wild yeast from earlier batches of mulberry, current, and apple cider, cherry, black cherry, dandelion, gooseberry , plum and all that wild crap I like including wild riverside grape(though I went for the wine on this one and still have a few bottles from the 3 gallon batch)
* some sugar for the yeast.
Now you are a home brewer. Cave men didn't really have kits.
Drink the cider after a week and no longer than 3 weeks.
Cider = simplest home brew.
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