Hello all,
Names Joe, and ive been brewing for about 7 years now. Recently Ive had a bit of a brew session dryspell due to having a 2 year old child (another one on the way). They eat up a lot of your free time.
Right now my current homebrew setup is:
-keggle on a turkey cooker (brews 10 gallon batches)
-homemade wort chiller using coiled copper tubing with hose fittings and vinyl tubing.
-two igloo tower beverage coolers reconditioned into a mashtun setup.
-grain crusher
-too many buckets and carboys to mention, foodscale, digital temp, and everything anyone needs.
-also have a conical fermentation chamber that I have not used yet.
-I have 6 cornelius kegs
- KC2000Twin kegerator
I started brewing with brewersfriend kits back in 2010-2011, bottling and racking. Eventually that got old and I looked into getting a kegerator and kegging homebrew. Best switch I ever made. Over the years, ive enjoyed watching my brew skills develop and the results of my experiences showed with each brew day. I remember my first botched brew and what Id like to think is higher than resale quality brews.
Nothing is more exciting than having complete strangers or family/friends who've never tasted your product and find it delightfully delicious.
Heres some beers Ive done that ive actually taken pictures of.
Magic Hat #9 clone
Imperial Chocolate milk stout
Fermentation was rough on this chocolate milk stout. Didnt even think to run a tube for this one... >9%Abv
Imp. Chocolate Milk stout off the tap
Vanilla Bean Cream ale
Vanilla bean cream ale in the keggle
Vanilla bean cream ale done and enjoyed.
Here is my setup for brew sessions. Please dont tell about the dangers of propane being ran in the garage...
Drinking Oktoberfest while making an Oktoberfest.
20 gallons of Oktoberfest fermenting in the closet
Some Krausen in the Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest was successful even with california ale yeast.
Picked up some additional old soda kegs to recondition.
and cleaned.. Should have seen the syrupy crap that was in these.
Action shot. blasting some old grain dust off the grain crusher.
Vanilla bean cream ale was so good, we made it again. Third time making this recipe (small changes here and there).
Abv for the cream ale
after fermentation was complete but not carbed yet. Vanilla bean cream ale
These are just a few photos from my brewing journey. Hopefully I can plan another one soon. Once the kegerators working again...
Should add a few beers ive done include. Cherry wheat (turned out terrible), Passion fruit wheat (tasted great but too much passionfruit - would dial it back if I made it again). Imperial IPAs, pale ales, tried dryhopping a Sierra Nevada clone, Belgian honey wheat, a Nut brown ale, blueberry wheat, pumpkin spice ale and a few from the brewersfriend kits that I cant remember.
Names Joe, and ive been brewing for about 7 years now. Recently Ive had a bit of a brew session dryspell due to having a 2 year old child (another one on the way). They eat up a lot of your free time.
Right now my current homebrew setup is:
-keggle on a turkey cooker (brews 10 gallon batches)
-homemade wort chiller using coiled copper tubing with hose fittings and vinyl tubing.
-two igloo tower beverage coolers reconditioned into a mashtun setup.
-grain crusher
-too many buckets and carboys to mention, foodscale, digital temp, and everything anyone needs.
-also have a conical fermentation chamber that I have not used yet.
-I have 6 cornelius kegs
- KC2000Twin kegerator
I started brewing with brewersfriend kits back in 2010-2011, bottling and racking. Eventually that got old and I looked into getting a kegerator and kegging homebrew. Best switch I ever made. Over the years, ive enjoyed watching my brew skills develop and the results of my experiences showed with each brew day. I remember my first botched brew and what Id like to think is higher than resale quality brews.
Nothing is more exciting than having complete strangers or family/friends who've never tasted your product and find it delightfully delicious.
Heres some beers Ive done that ive actually taken pictures of.
Magic Hat #9 clone
Imperial Chocolate milk stout
Fermentation was rough on this chocolate milk stout. Didnt even think to run a tube for this one... >9%Abv
Imp. Chocolate Milk stout off the tap
Vanilla Bean Cream ale
Vanilla bean cream ale in the keggle
Vanilla bean cream ale done and enjoyed.
Here is my setup for brew sessions. Please dont tell about the dangers of propane being ran in the garage...
Drinking Oktoberfest while making an Oktoberfest.
20 gallons of Oktoberfest fermenting in the closet
Some Krausen in the Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest was successful even with california ale yeast.
Picked up some additional old soda kegs to recondition.
and cleaned.. Should have seen the syrupy crap that was in these.
Action shot. blasting some old grain dust off the grain crusher.
Vanilla bean cream ale was so good, we made it again. Third time making this recipe (small changes here and there).
Abv for the cream ale
after fermentation was complete but not carbed yet. Vanilla bean cream ale
These are just a few photos from my brewing journey. Hopefully I can plan another one soon. Once the kegerators working again...
Should add a few beers ive done include. Cherry wheat (turned out terrible), Passion fruit wheat (tasted great but too much passionfruit - would dial it back if I made it again). Imperial IPAs, pale ales, tried dryhopping a Sierra Nevada clone, Belgian honey wheat, a Nut brown ale, blueberry wheat, pumpkin spice ale and a few from the brewersfriend kits that I cant remember.
