Wobblebottom
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I just picked up a copy of the book "The Complete Joy Of Homebrewing". I like Charlie's writing style, it's very friendly and non-pretentious. I didn't expect him to write in a pretentious tone, but I was preparing for a book that was slightly difficult to follow (as are some of the "learn to do xxx" books on the market). I was expecting to find that brewing beer required a huge amount of expensive equipment, but I was wrong (thankfully).
I'm kind of surprised how easy most of the equipment is to find. I managed to find some older glass carboys at an antique shop for 5$ a piece, and I have friends who work at a bar, so they have given me cases of grolsch (spelling ?) style bottles. I also was able to find an 8 gallon stainless steel pot with a dent in the side in the back of a bed bath and beyond. I went in and bought a lid the next day . I have read that some people do not like the grolsch style bottles for some reason (rubber rings being the issue I think), so since I am not any way knowledgeable about the brewing process I cannot think of a reason they should be any different.
If anyone has any ideas as to why a grolsch style bottle would be less viable than a regular pop cap style bottle please let me know before I potentially screw everything up and hate life or something.
Also, if anyone has ever drank the beer called "Cooper's Sparkling Ale" please let me know as I would like to brew a beer similar to it.
Thanks!
I'm kind of surprised how easy most of the equipment is to find. I managed to find some older glass carboys at an antique shop for 5$ a piece, and I have friends who work at a bar, so they have given me cases of grolsch (spelling ?) style bottles. I also was able to find an 8 gallon stainless steel pot with a dent in the side in the back of a bed bath and beyond. I went in and bought a lid the next day . I have read that some people do not like the grolsch style bottles for some reason (rubber rings being the issue I think), so since I am not any way knowledgeable about the brewing process I cannot think of a reason they should be any different.
If anyone has any ideas as to why a grolsch style bottle would be less viable than a regular pop cap style bottle please let me know before I potentially screw everything up and hate life or something.
Also, if anyone has ever drank the beer called "Cooper's Sparkling Ale" please let me know as I would like to brew a beer similar to it.
Thanks!