Ok, really really wanna try my first batch of homebrew but part of me is still rather nervous about investing a whole lot of time and money into something I very well may not enjoy doing or the benefit not meeting the effort.
would I be able to do a simple 2.5 gallon extract recipe batch in a 3 gallon #3 waterbottle like this
http://www.unp.me/f8/how-to-make-beer-57407/
or would that add **** flavors to the brew and taint my first "taste" so to say of the homebrewing market...
(figured $8.50 on the 3 gallons of purified water and the bottle with the price of an airlock and thermometer thrown in isn't too much of an expenditure if I don't even up liking it)
thinking of doing a simple Hefe recipe or a Saison
(though the Hefe's are a bit quicker on the time table from what I hear)
something like
Dry Heat Wheat (halved from 5 gallons to 2.5)
3 pounds of Wheat DME
1/2 oz. German Hallertau Hops
Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Wheat
would I be able to do a simple 2.5 gallon extract recipe batch in a 3 gallon #3 waterbottle like this
http://www.unp.me/f8/how-to-make-beer-57407/
or would that add **** flavors to the brew and taint my first "taste" so to say of the homebrewing market...
(figured $8.50 on the 3 gallons of purified water and the bottle with the price of an airlock and thermometer thrown in isn't too much of an expenditure if I don't even up liking it)
thinking of doing a simple Hefe recipe or a Saison
(though the Hefe's are a bit quicker on the time table from what I hear)
something like
Dry Heat Wheat (halved from 5 gallons to 2.5)
3 pounds of Wheat DME
1/2 oz. German Hallertau Hops
Wyeast 3068 Weihenstephan Wheat