Hello from Northern Ontario, Canada!

[megamanisrad]

Hi everyone, my name is Danny (megamanisrad) I am from a town called...wait for it...Moose Factory, Ontario! This is my first year of homebrewing...I'm quite pumped as I have my first batch in the 2nd fermentation process...I hope it works out!
Winter is quickly approaching...looking forward to making some nice Christmas ales!
Cheers!

 

[Batinse]

You live in Moose Factory? When you said you were from Northern Ontario I expected Thunder Bay. Timmins at the most. That is some serious homebrewing! A friend of mine works occasionally as a paramedic in Attawapiskat.

Where are you getting your ingredients and equipment?

Welcome to the boards, and good luck brewing!

 

[megamanisrad]

@Batinse
Wow! Small world! It's crazy you know someone who works in Attawapiskat! Now that place is isolated. I just started brewing and right now I have my sister shipping me up stuff from North Bay. I hope to find a good online supplier soon instead of sending her to do the dirty work
Noticing you are from Vancouver...I just moved away from there! Well actually I was living in Langley. Moved back to MF in September. You do Dan's Homebrewing on E. Hastings??
Cheers!

 

[Batinse]

Dan's is a second home for me. I get some stuff online these days too, but I've been buying from Dan's for years.

Cheers! Hope your Christmas Ales serve you well!

 

[hopdawg]

Langley you say? I lived in Langley all my life up until 6 years ago when we moved to Vernon. No Homebrew Supply stores here so I started one www.hopdawgs.ca
How long were you in Langley? Where?
We were up in Brookswood.
HD

 

[megamanisrad]

@hopdawgs
I totally lived in Brookswood too! But it was only for 3 months or so. I lived in Langley City for about a year, then moved in Aldergrove for a year!
I checked out your site, looks awesome! Would love to do some business with you! Think it would be pretty expensive to ship stuff out here from Vernon??
Peace!

 

[metches]

@Batinse
Wow! Small world! It's crazy you know someone who works in Attawapiskat! Now that place is isolated. I just started brewing and right now I have my sister shipping me up stuff from North Bay. I hope to find a good online supplier soon instead of sending her to do the dirty work
Noticing you are from Vancouver...I just moved away from there! Well actually I was living in Langley. Moved back to MF in September. You do Dan's Homebrewing on E. Hastings??
Cheers!

Nice i am from North Bay. NOt much in the way of home brew stores here. Where is she getting stuff from?

 

[megamanisrad]

@metches
It's called The Homebrew Center (www.homebrewcenter.ca) just off of Airport Rd and #11. I just bought a few of their brand name kits.
Have you ever visited them before? It was the only place I could find that was relatively close to Moose Factory.

 

[metches]

Yeah. I buy the brewhouse kits from them. Nice people, but there is not a lot of equipment, and they only have kits. If you wanted do extract, or all grain, you would be out of luck. I think they pretty much specialize in wine.

 

[The Pale Horse]

Welcome, I just google mapped Moose Factory and daaaaaaaaang that is up there! I mean I've been fly-in fishing north of Wawa and my brother played hockey in the OHL, but wow. Either way, welcome and

 

[megamanisrad]

@metches
yah I bought 2 of their kits and have one brewing as we speak. how have yours turned out? i sort of freaked a bit cause during my 2nd fermentation I haven't seen much bubble action in the airlock. its day 10 and still nothing!
@ThePaleHorse
Thanks for the welcome! Yah whenever someone asks where I'm from I just say 'about 16 hours north of Toronto'
We are 9 miles south of the James Bay...we are a fisherman/hunters dream! Not so much a brew hub though :-(

 

[boo boo]

@metches
...we are a fisherman/hunters dream! Not so much a brew hub though :-(

Much in common it seems then.

Welcome, and yes I had to google it too.

Cheers

 

[metches]

@metches
yah I bought 2 of their kits and have one brewing as we speak. how have yours turned out? i sort of freaked a bit cause during my 2nd fermentation I haven't seen much bubble action in the airlock. its day 10 and still nothing!
@ThePaleHorse
Thanks for the welcome! Yah whenever someone asks where I'm from I just say 'about 16 hours north of Toronto'
We are 9 miles south of the James Bay...we are a fisherman/hunters dream! Not so much a brew hub though :-(

I have done the Pilsner and the Pale Ale. I did them before i knew about fermentation temperature and had them ferment at 75-78. That being said, they still turned out pretty decent. I have also done the Stout and Red, but have not tapped the kegs yet. I will definetly do more in brew house in the future. My next kit will be festa, just to see how much of a difference the proper yeast make.

 

[boo boo]

. My next kit will be festa, just to see how much of a difference the proper yeast make.

Well the Festa comes with S23 for lager yeast. When I did my 2 kits, I switched it out in favour of W34/70 and man it was a great couple of brews.

I just put in a Brew House to see what a difference between the Festa and BH would be.

Too bad you are so far north regarding availability of brewing ingredients. A few of our members ( Members of Barleyment ) in Ottawa recently did a bulk order of Festa kits... 2 skids worth IIRC, which made it quite a bit cheaper to get.

 

[megamanisrad]

@boo boo
yah it's sort of annoying living up here sometimes, but there is money to be made up here so for now, until I figure out a better system, my sister will ship me up BH kits!
@metches
i am fermenting at a temperature around 75C. Do you think it'll turn out ok? I am trying to figure out ways to keep the brew cool as it ferments...any ideas? I live in a single story house without a basement.

thanks for the tips everyone! i think you guys should definitely come experience the moose factory someday hahaha

 

[birvine]

I am in Cochrane - and have just started buying from http://baybrewing.ca/ where I buy liquid extracts, hops and grains (though not all-grain yet, for me.) If interested I could always ship stuff to Moosonee on the PBX - just let me know.

B in Cochrane

 

[metches]

@boo boo
yah it's sort of annoying living up here sometimes, but there is money to be made up here so for now, until I figure out a better system, my sister will ship me up BH kits!
@metches
i am fermenting at a temperature around 75C. Do you think it'll turn out ok? I am trying to figure out ways to keep the brew cool as it ferments...any ideas? I live in a single story house without a basement.

thanks for the tips everyone! i think you guys should definitely come experience the moose factory someday hahaha

Yeah it should be fine. Both of mine were feremented at about that temperature, however, i did notice the hangovers to be slight worse. I just got a freezer for lagering and i will be doing my next batches with better temperature control.

 

[ArcticBrewer]

Moose Factory, you've got me beat! I'm originally from Timmins but have been living in Kingston for the past few years now for school.

I just started homebrewing as well, have my first batch, a Festabrew Pale Ale that's been in primary since Saturday

 

[megamanisrad]

@ArcticBrewer
You're in Kingston eh? That's where they send the people from the community to when they have health related issues that cannot be resolved at our little hospital! I wish you well in your first batch...mines bottled and is conditioning as we speak! Already thinking about the second batch haha!
@metches
I'll definitely let you know how this turns out. Seeing the kits are so heavy and cost so much to ship up here, I doubt I'll be doing these again, unless I buy them myself in NB!