Recent content by rustybucket

I just completed my first all-grain brew (actually first brew ever). Here's the recipe I went by, it was easy, straightforward and just popped the first one last night... TASTY!! Definitely could see myself putting back several of these this summer whilst outdoors or on the water...

Ok, I think this is the final version, decided to combine front and back into 1 label for sake of time/labor for putting the labels on 20gals of beer!

I know it's only been 5 days since I bottled but for the sake of me being new at this I decided to open one 12oz'r each day and taste/test/sacrifice it. I know patience is a virtue in homebrew but this was more for me to learn what the beer was doing and how it was doing. Anyways... the first...

I tried priming with some Clover Honey on my recent batch. Very interested in seeing how it turns out. Used approx 4.5 oz / 5 gal to prime with. Don't recall the exact site I got that from but it had charts with different types of sugar/primers and their weight to carb ratio.

Here's a version with the back text. Please no one take offense to the verbiage, it's just supposed to be funny, some of the content is scraped from other sources...etc

My first stab at a beer label. I'm making a back label for it as well, that will tell a little more about the beer. This is just the upfront label. This is my first brewing attempt and in honor of my Beer Wench that helped out so much I'm naming this first Ale after her.... Her name is...

:D Those are actually my cooking kegs! The tops are cut out of them. :D

Bottled up 15gals yesterday!! I'll tell you what... for warm flat beer it didn't taste that bad at all! Got 5 gals clearing in a carboy to bottle this week one afternoon. Thanks again for posting the recipe and for the support! I'll let you guys know how it turns out.

Here's the scenario... Woke up Saturday morning... 20gals of All Grain Summer Ale in the fermenter ready to bottle.... only have 24ish bottles.... DOH! This is my first attempt at brewing beer, and honestly I never thought I would have such a tough time finding used bottles. So here I was, a...

Allirght! We have Fermentation!!! YAAYYY!!! Well my first batch went without a hitch! I started around 8am on Sunday and was all done, pitched and cleaned up by 4pm. I think this was a great recipe for my first batch, it was straightforward and to the point, Thanks to BlindLemonLars for...

cool, got the link. Nice tutorials there, that's right along the lines of what I was planning but did get a few nice pointers from looking at the tuts. Thanks! I'll let you guys know how it turns out! If all the supplies come through I'll mash on Sunday!

Link? I don't see?

Hello all! First time poster here on homebrewtalk.com! I've been making wine for some time now and am making the leap to beer this summer. I've been looking for a summer type ale recipe for a while now and I think this is it! I was looking for a brew that liked camping, boating, fishing...