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bell's oberon, mmm mmm good

+3=20098.5+5.2=20103.7

well i guess i will PM you later on this summer if im able to come up. thank you for the open invitation. Id really like to meet other people who brew and it doesnt seem like there is as much of a hang out crowed in my area. BTW you could count me in for the 6th if it does happen.

besides home brew to share, would you like people to bring any food, beverage or other with them?

Itll be a few months till im going to be in kalamazoo again. late august early september

has any date been decided on? and would new comers(like me) be welcome to join the fun, being that im able to get my ass up there?

^^ +1 that is all

Im located in novi currently but will be back at WMU in the fall. Once im back at school we could easily swap brews. I do AG brewing. First batch will be done next week, which is a smoked Schwartz ale, start the second today with is a blue moon clone. after that it will be a amber ale and...

thats the problem, im doing all grain brews. So i dont use any DME to brew. would rice DME work best as it has little flavor? Im also curious about the tin foil. How do i secure it, id assume with a rubber band but then how to gasses escape as the yeast produce co2

thank you. another thing(sorry for so many questions) does it matter what kind of DME i get for yeast cultivating. idont want to have any outside flavors in the beer from the malt ofcourse.

I think i have 1 22oz but its got beer in it that carbonating right now. so itll be like 2 weeks till i can empty it lol.

Now i doubt it but, do you think bells would sell their house strain of yeast to a home brewer? Ill be at western in the fall, so it would be very easy for me to drive down to the store to buy some of it. lol

Wow thanks for the help guys. when i get some extra cash ill try to find the simple stuff for this. Mainly the mason jars and such for the yeast. This sounds a whole lot easier then i thought. I may not be able to cook very well but i can brew beer. :mug:

sounds pretty easy. maybe we will give that a try. got a 6 pack or amber ale and oberon downstairs. i guess we could try harvesting from them. anything to worry about for airlock, temperature to keep the yeast at(during culturing) ect?

I was hoping to brew some amber ale(and oberon next year). Itll be atleast a month. as i only have one fermentor currently which is being put to use tomorrow. I know whitelabs and such make good yeast but i would like exactly what bells uses.

Its my understanding that bells(Kalamazoo, MI) uses their own proprietary yeast. Id like to try to make a bells clone(ale) but im not up to harvesting and growing my own yeast yet. Has anyone harvested yeast from bells and willing to sell some?

bump on this. wondering if any of you who have harvested from bells. would be willing to sell some of it?

ill probly use them for my first few brews then and buy regular bottles slowly. Its just hard to find cases of beer that use regular caps. yes im cheap and want my beer bottles prefilled with beer. Its very annoying

i have this one http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/brewing-equipment/bottling/bottle-cappers/red-baron-emily-capper.html

I dont have a way to control temp yet. So i ferment in a mildly cool basement. ~68 what should i change in the receipt to accommodate the higher temp?