First Brew Ok, but getting kicked outdoors

I cooked up my first batch of home brew yesterday and everything went smoothly with no major issues with the brewing process. It's a Red Ale from Seven Bridges Organic Brewing and when I checked it after about six hours, it was bubbling away.

There is one issue though. My wife had really rough pregnancies (in laymens' terms, it's 24 hours x 9 months of morning sickness) and during her first pregnancy she owned a store in the same building as a brew pub. Needless to say, the smell brought back some not so fond memories.

So it looks like I'll be getting kicked out of the house which is fine as it took 45 minutes to get the water boiling on our lil' old stove and a propane burner will be much quicker. I was wondering if there are any extra sanitation issues to worry about with working outside.

Thanks,
Andy

If you have a lot of bugs & leaves blowing aound, get a piece of window screen to cover your kettle during the boil. I've done all of my brewing, more or less, outdoors. Anything that has boiled for five minutes or longer is sterile.

Yeah, I've got a batch of "Box Elder Bug" ale, named for the addition of certain live ingriedients during the boil.

It's better to sit outside anyway, and have a couple of homebrews while your homebrew brews.

getting kicked out doors w00t!

ok now you'll need a brew shed



and then you'll need a brew stand with grain hopper



and then you'll need....................

Dang I need a brew shed like that!

Damn, Brewhead you into it or what? Can I bed down in that house...lol

Aw heck, maybe I can just convince the wife to let me buy the house behind us and put one of these babies in it:

abarilla said:

Aw heck, maybe I can just convince the wife to let me buy the house behind us and put one of these babies in it:

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Sure for only 48k

Actually, theres talk of one of those coming to our town soon though

The only thing that I have noticed since I started brewing outside is that a good clean table would be a HUGE plus!! Having a nice clean spot to put the spoon, thermometer, hops, beer glass and wort chiller is the main concern I would have.

I do all mine right inside the garage door since it has rained almost every time I have brewed... I still do my lauter/sparge indoors since I don't have a rack outside. If you are doing AG brewing you will need a stack or something to hold the sparge tank, lauter tun in steps..
I put the sparge tank on top of the fridge, lauter tun on the counter and the brewpot on the floor.. This does stink up the house though not as bad as the boil would.

Brew-boy said:

Damn, Brewhead you into it or what? Can I bed down in that house...lol

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into beer? into brewing? what kind of insane question is that

but yes i am into it - plus where i work i have access to a fully outfitted sheet metal shop, welders, plasma tables etc so yea I'm lucky in that these resources are available and i can let my wild imagination wander

I took the smell of homebrewing into consideration when redesigning my kitchen and am putting one of these babies in:

http://www.euro-kitchen.com/proddetail.asp?prod=SV218B2-30


At 900 CFM's I think I'll be fine in regards to the smell. I can only hope it doesn't give me a new hairstyle every time I kick up to high speed!

Wow... and if need be, you can use it to fill up a zeppelin and effect a hasty retreat.