halfdrunk77
Member
Hi everyone. Been reading for a couple of months now, and decided to say hello. My name is Rob, and I live on the East side of Reno, NV.
A friend gave me a Beer Machine a while ago, along with the cans of assorted "beer flavors" or whatever. After much procrastination, I finally decided to put it together and try it out. After the first week, I realized that the yeast that came with the kit was dead. I visited my local HBS and secured a few packets of ale yeast, went home, and pitched it. To make a long story short, after a few weeks of waiting for, (and finally tasting), what i will describe as nothing more than "carbonated molasses", I decided that perhaps I should just do it the old-fashioned way.
Being a bit intimidated by the prospect of brewing a beer from scratch, I decided to start with cider, since I really enjoy drinking it.
I started small, with two different test batches.
Since then, it has turned into several one gallon batches, in primary fermentation, one gallon of cherry/strawberry wine, and six gallons of ed's apfelwein in a 6.5 gallon carboy. I just bottled my first twelve-pack from batch #1 tonight and I'm looking forward to bottling the apfelwein so that I can start a (hopefully) delicious beer. I guess that's about it for now. Salutations!
A friend gave me a Beer Machine a while ago, along with the cans of assorted "beer flavors" or whatever. After much procrastination, I finally decided to put it together and try it out. After the first week, I realized that the yeast that came with the kit was dead. I visited my local HBS and secured a few packets of ale yeast, went home, and pitched it. To make a long story short, after a few weeks of waiting for, (and finally tasting), what i will describe as nothing more than "carbonated molasses", I decided that perhaps I should just do it the old-fashioned way.
Being a bit intimidated by the prospect of brewing a beer from scratch, I decided to start with cider, since I really enjoy drinking it.
I started small, with two different test batches.
Since then, it has turned into several one gallon batches, in primary fermentation, one gallon of cherry/strawberry wine, and six gallons of ed's apfelwein in a 6.5 gallon carboy. I just bottled my first twelve-pack from batch #1 tonight and I'm looking forward to bottling the apfelwein so that I can start a (hopefully) delicious beer. I guess that's about it for now. Salutations!