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Old 12-08-2012, 09:23 PM   #1
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Default Upgraded. Goodbye Mr Beer

Got this:

http://www.heartshomebrew.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14_70_89&pr oducts_id=408

This:

http://www.heartshomebrew.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=14_75_290&p roducts_id=790


This:

http://www.heartshomebrew.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15_112_122& products_id=575

I have a spare fridge in the garage not being used.

Plus a thermometer and an air lock.


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Hope you arent planning on fermenting in the bottling bucket!
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Old 12-08-2012, 09:44 PM   #3
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Congrats. Will be fun.
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Keep your Mr. beer keg fermenter. They work great for experimental test batches. I often rack some of my large batches in them to try new secondary infusions while I keg or bottle the rest.
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Keep your Mr. beer keg fermenter. They work great for experimental test batches. I often rack some of my large batches in them to try new secondary infusions while I keg or bottle the rest.
I plan to. She is busy fermenting right, which is why I had to go with the bucket so I could get started on a second batch.

I like the easiness of the Mr. Beer fermenter. Good design for its intended purpose.

I have a second batch in the works for her... probably by next week.
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Keep your Mr. beer keg fermenter. They work great for experimental test batches. I often rack some of my large batches in them to try new secondary infusions while I keg or bottle the rest.
Or sell it or give it to some homebrewer on here who wants it, a lot of small batch brewers are looking to pick up a few more for experimental batches. I use mine quite regularly. It's a perfect little fermenter for stove top ag batches.
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Why the distillers hydrometer? Seems to me the scale would be different?...
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Wow.. When I saw these kits offered by Mr. Beer I was completely shocked. Seriously, this is embarrassing. Let me ask everyone out there a question and maybe I'm an idiot. But how many people actually start out using these Mr. Beer kits as to say a Brewers Best kit? Personally when I started I chose the Brewers Best kit because of all the great supplies included with the great price. How does everyone else compare or should I ask, what should the first time home brewer look for in a kit?
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I started with a Mr Beer kit that I got off CL of 10usd.
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Wow.. When I saw these kits offered by Mr. Beer I was completely shocked. Seriously, this is embarrassing. Let me ask everyone out there a question and maybe I'm an idiot. But how many people actually start out using these Mr. Beer kits as to say a Brewers Best kit? Personally when I started I chose the Brewers Best kit because of all the great supplies included with the great price. How does everyone else compare or should I ask, what should the first time home brewer look for in a kit?
I started with a Brewer's Best kit too. I think the appeal of Mr. Beer is that it's fairly small, and simple, and cheap. After Christmas, they are like $20 on the shelves at Wal-greens!

Actually, the very first "beer kit" I ever bought was a Beer Machine 2000. It was small, simple, and seemed like it would be good. I never actually made a drinkable beer in it after a couple of tries, and I think it's still in my basement with the powdered mixes. It was years later that I got a Brewer's Best kit.


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