My last homebrew !!!

Gentlemen

I drank my last homebrew,
of the 'Nov-May', brewing season,
July 28th.
I drank it and it was gone!
I had 517 homebrews and except for the one
that I forgot to add the priming sugar,
they were the best I have ever done.
{That one was good too, just not carbonated}
517 full, former bavarian bottles,
with Grolsch caps on em,
all at the same place and at the same time.
I must have brewed 3,000!
But the last one was good,
one of the best.

I just wanted to share that moment with y'all.


Lets git ignert and go Coon hunting!


jacksknifeshop.tripod.com

I'll send my condolences to your liver.

so what, no more drinking till you make more?

JacktheKnife said:

...I drank my last homebrew...

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The horror....the horror...the horror...

Brew more man....

When does your next brewing season start?

1000 bottles wasn't it that you were aiming for?

Jack! It has been a while!

Well, I guess it is time to get brewing again. Let us know if you need bottles.

Gentlemen,

Dude!
Dibby down in Tasmania,
and all y'all,
It now is August 9,
and store bought beer and ale ain't bad,
better than no beer or ale at all,
but I am thinking, ..........'Homebrew'...........

I called old Kelly at the 'Homebrew headquarters up in north Dallas,
and ordered 55 Lbs of pale DME for December.
{4 months away}
The '#3 bottle hoard' which takes up the corner of my bedroom,
right beside my bed.
and lends great peace of mind when I'm awake,
and great tranquility to my dreams when I'm asleep,
could be washed and dried and restacked, crates too.
Brewing is a lot of time consuming work,
and with 4 months to get caught up with other work,
I can brew in the cool season with less unrelated chores 'clouding' my mind.

The house will be cleaner and more organized.
I have never had a 'new' vacume cleaner, but do now,
brand new!
And a 'stain lifter' machine for the carpets makes the carpets not only be clean but look clean. The new poultry coops are coming along and mabey one day a chicken cam! Even a knife shop-cam!
All the fur is tanned from last year and the tractor and tiller are working.

I have been 'out' of homebrew 12 days!
And with 100 days left till cool weather,
I am starting to get nervous.
Hold on, I gotta go get me a store bought beer,
hmmmm, a Sam.

Ahhhh...

What was it last season? 1,000 bottles?
I made 517 but drink it faster than I can brew 1,000,
unless... I continue to drink this store bought beer and ale,
early in the brewing season, while I build up my stock.
The Homebrew won't be fine till it has aged in the bottle, oh, a month.
If I brew, starting about the second killing frost,
about December,
I could have 'a month' before any of my homebrew
is really ready to drink anyway.
'A month...'
and with a 'brewery capacity' of 60 gallons a month
{with three 7.5 gallon primarys and three 5 gallon secondarys,}
A week in the primary and a week in the secondary...
{a 5 gallon batch' being about 45-46 bottles,}
12 batches x 46 bottles = ie...
552 full, former bavarian bottles, with Grolsch caps 'on-em'!

I am sitting here drinking me a Sam waiting for the sun to come up,
I have, seriously, just figured out how to achieve the goal of 1,000 bottles of 'beer-ale'
{on the wall so to speak}

Start the season with 500 full bottles,
before one starts:
{'gettin-in-to-it'!}
1,000 would be not only possible,
but since I did 517 last season...
after... I started 'gettin-in-to it'...


This may be the year boys!
1,000 bottles in the 'former pantry brewery'
Full of my special precious homebrew.
'Mein Acht Pfund Hammerbier'
And I'll take better pictures this year!


Bye

Knife

I love your writing style man, wish I had that amount of patience.

Vermiscous,

Thank you.
And Vermiscous sounds 'Latin', or 'Keltic',
what does it mean?
I heard about a Keltic chief named Versingetorex {sp}
Bad ass dude, they whipped the entire Roman army way back.
Right outside of Rome!
The Romans were whipped and sent emmisarys to try and barter for the remaining Romans lives, and the Keltic chief said :
"Alright,"
"We will roll across your country taking anything we want
animals, gold, women, whatever,
including a million acres of your country.
And if you give us 1,000 pounds of gold on this scale right here,
we won't kill everybody like we usually do".
Thats the deal!

The Romans were really worried
and started digging up all the graves and stashes they could think of. The scale was almost full when the Romans called
old 'Versingetorex {sp} to the scale and said:
"This scale ain't right!
We have put a thousand pounds on it already
and it only says 823 pounds!
Versingetorex pulled his sword and threw it on the scale,
{on the Keltic side}
and said:

"Vidae Victus!" {sp}

ie. "Woe to the vanquished."

Is that cool or what?


jacksknifeshop.tripod.com

Jack- Good to see you're still going. Will that be 1,000 bottles of varying weight " Hammers"?

Suds,

Howdy, Thanks for asking.
8 Lbs of DME, if my memory serves me correctly,
{but it seldom does} is 6 3/4% alcohol.
7 1/2 Lbs is nice 8 1/2 is too.
7 Lbs is a little light weight,
whereas 9 is a little too strong.

So along in there somewheres.
7 1/2, 8 1/2, Lbs per batch.
Pale DME, varying hop arrangments, mainly cleanliness.

I still don't have a freezer for lager,
although I do have a temperature controller for when I do get a freezer. Lager would be nice.
I make slight variations of the same thing as it is the best I have come up with in my quest:
ie. alcohol which 'don't' taste bad.
Lager would provide variety.
I have used dark, amber and wheat LME, but not often.
Using a little whole grain is a hassle but I may try that again now that my taste buds are 'learning' to recognize hops.
And whole grain would be interesting if I had more room and more money.
But I am lucky to have any 'alcohol that don't' taste bad'!
I remember 5-6 years ago just home from the hospital !
An 'old Milwalkee' looked good.


but I am learning, improving, and have a lawsuit against the local police dept. which may let me try whole grain brewing! {$$$}


Luck

Knife