Recent content by atomicskiracer

If you are around Charlottesville, skip Starr Hill, its widely considered the worst brewery in the area by the locals. Blue Mountain Brewery and Devils Backbone are far superior in beer taste as well as brewery experience. (Starr hill=warehouse)

Bump since I will be doing something similar pretty soon!

Ended up taking 3.5 hours from start to finish, definitely made some simple mistakes that made it take longer, will certainly be around 2.5 hours next time!

Perfect, thanks guys. The kit should be delivered by 5, and I plan on starting around 6 haha

My kit from Midwest supplies will finally be in today, I got the Autumn Amber Ale (extract). Any idea on the amount of time I should allow myself for brew day? Am I foolish to try an start tonight around 7?

Bit the bullet, and went with the Midwest kit, and added an auto siphon to my order. I do plan on adding some things to various brews (specifically for my wedding "goal" beer) but I will not be starting that for atleast the first couple brews, so I can get the process down before I make any...

Excellent reads....I think that for the recipe that I have in mind (for the wedding, I plan on sticking to the kits verbatim for my first few batches before trying to add anything) I will absolutely be using a secondary, so I suppose that would be another benefit of the NB kit...

Thanks for the responses so far! The biggest downside to the MW kit is that it doesn't come with glass carboys, which i much prefer over the plastic (after research), and realistically buying glass carboys separately makes the price difference negligible. Is it wrong to think that the NB is a...

I am looking to get into Home Brewing, but honestly am overwhelmed with the amount of kit options. The Northern Brewing deluxe starter kit (with the glass upgrade) was highly suggested to me....As I was looking to pull the trigger, I found the living social deal for the Beginners kit from...