Frogger the Food Giants in B'ham have it. I deliver to them. There's one in Roebuck and one out in Moody. Also Aporto Madrid. Bessemer and Hueytown. You won't find it in Piggly Wiggly or Winn Dixie. Just the Mom and Pop stores.
how about this insanity that is now bubbling madly away in my 6.5 gal carboy?
5 gal premier arrogant bastard clone:
4 cans of premier hopped light extract
1 lb 120l crystal malt
8 oz light brown sugar
1 oz chinook pellets @ 15 min
1 oz chinook pellets @ 1 min
1 packet safale s-04
bring 1 gal water to 160f, add crystal malt, let sit for 1 hr
pour through strainer into boil pot (mine is currently 4 gal)
gently rinse grains w 1 gal 180f water.
add premier extract, brown sugar, and water to a safe boiling level
boil 20 min adding hops accordingly
chill to 80-90f. i use an ice water in sink method.
transfer to carboy and fill to 5 gal w fridge temp water (i use bottled drinking water).
seal the carboy, wait a few hours for it to cool some more and pitch the yeast, install airlock.
this stuff is screaming along and the smells coming from the airlock are awesome!
Just came back from a trip and headed out to the "brewery/winery" (workshop) to check my PME extract Graff. Bubbling happily and smells awesome! I had just about given up on brewing beer in favor of apfelwein & Graff, but if this PME Graff ends up as good as it's starting out, I think I'm going to give a batch of beer a whirl. The price is certainly right--the same store that has the PME has spring water for $1.20 a gallon, in nice tall jugs that make perfectly fine one-use carboys. Do a one-gallon boil, mix it all in my 5-gallon bottling bucket, pitch the yeast, and pour it back into the the jugs to ferment. Including the extra sugar, a one-can 5 gallon batch will run about $14. If you get 50 bottles in a batch, (allowing for racking and sampling) that's about 28 cents a bottle! I realize that the object of homebrewing is to make good beer, not cheap beer, but if you can make a decent, drinkable "lawnmower" beer for just over a quarter a bottle, why not brew a batch? Or several?
A refreshing lager
Yield: 5 gallons
Ingredients
2 cans 2.2# Premier Hopped Light Malt Extract
1# Corn sugar
1 1/2 oz. finishing hops (e.g. Hallertauer, Tettenanger, Saaz)
1 pkt Lager yeast
Method
1. Mix the contents of the Premier cans, the corn sugar and 1 gallon of boiling water in the primary fermenter
2. Make the volume of the wort up to 4 gallons with cold water and add the finishing hops. Stir well.
3. Check the temperature before adding the yeast
4. Ferment and bottle as usual.
OK, I'm crying uncle...
I've got some hops and grain lying around, and picked up 2 cans of the PME light malt after work. Here's what I'm doing.
1 lb of crystal malt (steep for 20 minutes @ 160 degrees)
bring to boil
1 can malt and 1 oz cascade @ 60 minutes
1/2 oz willamette @ 30 minutes
1 can malt @ 20 minutes
1/2 oz willamette @ 15 minutes
1 oz of cascade @ flameout
No idea how it will turn out, but I've got less than 20 bucks into this, so no harm no foul. I'll keep you posted on how it turns out.
how about this insanity that is now bubbling madly away in my 6.5 gal carboy?
5 gal premier arrogant bastard clone:
4 cans of premier hopped light extract
1 lb 120l crystal malt
8 oz light brown sugar
1 oz chinook pellets @ 15 min
1 oz chinook pellets @ 1 min
1 packet safale s-04
bring 1 gal water to 160f, add crystal malt, let sit for 1 hr
pour through strainer into boil pot (mine is currently 4 gal)
gently rinse grains w 1 gal 180f water.
add premier extract, brown sugar, and water to a safe boiling level
boil 20 min adding hops accordingly
chill to 80-90f. i use an ice water in sink method.
transfer to carboy and fill to 5 gal w fridge temp water (i use bottled drinking water).
seal the carboy, wait a few hours for it to cool some more and pitch the yeast, install airlock.
this stuff is screaming along and the smells coming from the airlock are awesome!
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