Recent content by foolioGrimz

yeah i know. my first batch turned out.. not so great to say the least. ive still got a 30 pack of it in the garage. i wish I could throw in a keg of chimay. i would be in trappist heaven.... Heck i'd settle for bud american ale or shiner black lager but budlight is bearable on tap.

picked up a kegrator from sams club for 350 . got everything set up and damn this is good beer. not bad for budlight. its like a neverending fountain of goodness just sitting there in the kitchen. :tank:

well, just opened my second bottle of brew. Its really cleared up alot. Still hasent carbonated all the way. This beer isn't as dark as I really wanted but maybe some of my lightbeer drinking friends will see the benefits of homebrewing. Definately tastes better than budwiser. I cant wait to get...

I bought bucket lids with pour spouts. I couldn't find any stoppers for the cheap bubble lock so I drilled a small hole in the pour spout and placed the bubble lock in the hole. The pour spout sticks up out of the lid a couple inches so to get an airtight seal I cut sleeves out of the skinny...

yeah, I'll give it some more time next batch. I'll probably buy an ale pail too since my bucket foamed through the airlock a bit. About the only thing I hated doing was washing the bottles. I used a bottle brush and a light bleach solution to sterelize them. I wasn't sure if just runing them...

how's it going? I recently got interested in homebrewing. I ordered a belgian ale kit from listermanns.com. U used a 5 gal plastic bucket and order an airlock from them. I ended up cutting pieces of a balloon to seal the airlock onto the pour spout of the bucket. The kit said 5-7 days...