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that's the longest post i've ever seen

eluterio i'm not the OP, but as someone who wants a cheap keg option, that was super useful for me.

i found out my "local" brew store has white labs, both trappist and abbey. guess i'm making an hour and a half drive tomorrow. off topic, but anyone know the real difference between the two ? i understand trappist beers and monestaries ... but abbey ale is the same style of ale isnt it ?

so even a concrete basement floor isn't cool enough, some kind of active cooling (i was trying to avoid swamp coolers) is required ?

temp readings are in the air with a digital thermometer. the yeast is a repitched Belgian strong yeast. it's a mutated house yeast i'm sure by now. christyle is right, i thought fermentation might start a little better or quicker if i left it up in the warm for a while, before i took it...

i have an unfinished part of my basement, it's a steady 66 degrees. i've put my beer down there for now. the question is, should i let the yeast get going in the ambient ( ~75 deg.) temp kitchen, and when it gets going move it down. or pitch yeast, and put it down there to forget about ?

best advice i can give here is, keep it DRY. use one of those things they put in brown sugar to keep it from clumping.

my scoby has always been brown and ugly. i've done it for a lot of batches and had maybe three babies in 25 batches, i finally threw it out. the scoby itself dies, even in starter fluid. as for the booch, i have three gallons sealed with zero air and in a week will be a month like that. i...

i want to do this now.

+1 we don't all have 600$ to spend on a kettle system. some of us are brewing on very limited means.

thank you ! i've lost so much beer already not doing this !

i'm secretly obsessed with building my own kegerator clone. but i can never say i saved money over all once i do this.

i'm subscribing because i'm hugely interested in this.

beautiful dog kharn

my beer bill is 112$ a month if i drink half founders and half sierra nevada. 6 lbs extract = 18$ 4 ounces hops = 4$ 1 lbs specialty grains - 3$ re harvest yeast... ... well water so free ... cheapest gas anywhere ( i heat my house for 60$/mo, si it can't add up to more than pennies) call is 5$...

well what i learned is clear. if you want cheap, drink bud light. if you want more affordable high quality ale's, brew your own. if you save money comes down to, are you a gearhead, and what kind of beer do you buy?

i took this same path ... see, that's true, you have to factor in... the type of beer you can make. quality abbey ale and trippel are not cheap.

the CO2 gas distrubtuion in the carboy is never 100%, it's not like the co2 pushes out 100% of the gas, just higher and higher percentages as it bubbles out. so oxidation with a lot of head space is a viable concern ... (maybe based on how vigorous fermentation was)

Snake Ridge, my first beer was a trappist clone for the same reason. i just can't pay 10$ for a 22 oz. bottle. but this stuff, i swear it's as good. ... and that's why i'm hooked.

These comments about ice asking for infection: ice water is purified, it's at least as good as tap by federal law in the usa... ... how does it introduce nasties? do you guys pre boil your tap water ? edit, i didnt mean to hijack, i work in water.