Thorsbrew
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone. Been looking to get into homebrewing for about a year now. Midwest was having a 20% off sale for 2 days and I figured it was time. Got the essentials plus a little extra and got to brewing right away.
Got myself a kolsch, fat tire clone and a pale ale kit. Brewed the Kolsch first (havn't yet had a chance to brew the others as the same day I brewed the kolsch i had some nasty homeowner issues. Hot water heater sprung a nasty leak and ran for 3 days creating quite the mess to deal with. Also have to deal with a clogged sink before i can clean my next brew day equipment) but aside from that the kolsch turned out great.
Really quite happy about the turnout of my first homebrew! It spent 2 weeks in primary and about 10 days bottling (so far, trying every few days until it's finished) and it's got some nice banana esters. Funny too as i tasted from the hydrometer reading on bottling day and it had no noticeable flavor in common with it's current form (honestly it was fairly bad on bottling day, lucky for me it underwent quite the change after just a week sitting in bottles).
Well, slowly (for me i guess hehe) trying to build out my brew equipment. Lucked out and picked up a huge approximately 25 cubic foot kenmore chest freezer off craigslist for a mere $120 delivered. Currently it's going to serve as a ferm chamber until i get kegging equipment and another freezer for fermenting.
After that it's a 20-25 gallon HERMS setup on propane. And eventually (probably have to be in my next house with the way the electricity is here) I'd like to move to electric. I'm lucky to have (a few) LHBS shops around my area so I'm going to head to a few this weekend and have a chat with them. See if i can get a lead on cheap kegging equipment (craigslist has nothing here in that regard).
Well, there's my homebrew story in a nutshell lol. Great to be here and thanks for all the information i've accumulated from you all so far!
Got myself a kolsch, fat tire clone and a pale ale kit. Brewed the Kolsch first (havn't yet had a chance to brew the others as the same day I brewed the kolsch i had some nasty homeowner issues. Hot water heater sprung a nasty leak and ran for 3 days creating quite the mess to deal with. Also have to deal with a clogged sink before i can clean my next brew day equipment) but aside from that the kolsch turned out great.
Really quite happy about the turnout of my first homebrew! It spent 2 weeks in primary and about 10 days bottling (so far, trying every few days until it's finished) and it's got some nice banana esters. Funny too as i tasted from the hydrometer reading on bottling day and it had no noticeable flavor in common with it's current form (honestly it was fairly bad on bottling day, lucky for me it underwent quite the change after just a week sitting in bottles).
Well, slowly (for me i guess hehe) trying to build out my brew equipment. Lucked out and picked up a huge approximately 25 cubic foot kenmore chest freezer off craigslist for a mere $120 delivered. Currently it's going to serve as a ferm chamber until i get kegging equipment and another freezer for fermenting.
After that it's a 20-25 gallon HERMS setup on propane. And eventually (probably have to be in my next house with the way the electricity is here) I'd like to move to electric. I'm lucky to have (a few) LHBS shops around my area so I'm going to head to a few this weekend and have a chat with them. See if i can get a lead on cheap kegging equipment (craigslist has nothing here in that regard).
Well, there's my homebrew story in a nutshell lol. Great to be here and thanks for all the information i've accumulated from you all so far!
