Thursday night I went and had a recipe made up for me (just an extract porter) and without yeast (harvesting from previous batch) it cost me about $50
OUCH!
I know all-grain is cheaper but sometimes I don't have 3 hours to spend brewing I'm just feeling lazy, or don't want to go outside - but one thing for sure Hops are not cheap when you buy them by the ounce.
I'm planning on doing a bulk hop buy (probably through hopsdirect)
What hops should I buy? what do you guys suggest to keep on hand?
Here is what I mainly brew:
browns (prefer English but american is fine in my book too)
porters, stouts, general "hodge-podge" recipies that is sort of just made up of anything or everything in similar families. Session beers in general
thinking of brewing:
a barley wine, a cream ale, maybe a pilsner while the temps are down, a SMaSH (will do an All grain).
I'm not a hop bomb kinda guy pale ales are bout my limit and I like to keep them toned down - not a hop head, I like my taste buds too much to abuse them. So definatly no IIIIIIIIIIPAs will touch my mouth and even then IPAs are just not my thing too often (I know how dare I say such a thing)
what do you guys suggest, just get 2# fuggles and call it a english day or what would be good and versitle
OUCH!
I know all-grain is cheaper but sometimes I don't have 3 hours to spend brewing I'm just feeling lazy, or don't want to go outside - but one thing for sure Hops are not cheap when you buy them by the ounce.
I'm planning on doing a bulk hop buy (probably through hopsdirect)
What hops should I buy? what do you guys suggest to keep on hand?
Here is what I mainly brew:
browns (prefer English but american is fine in my book too)
porters, stouts, general "hodge-podge" recipies that is sort of just made up of anything or everything in similar families. Session beers in general
thinking of brewing:
a barley wine, a cream ale, maybe a pilsner while the temps are down, a SMaSH (will do an All grain).
I'm not a hop bomb kinda guy pale ales are bout my limit and I like to keep them toned down - not a hop head, I like my taste buds too much to abuse them. So definatly no IIIIIIIIIIPAs will touch my mouth and even then IPAs are just not my thing too often (I know how dare I say such a thing)
what do you guys suggest, just get 2# fuggles and call it a english day or what would be good and versitle