Trenchant
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone,
I'm a broke college student from Regina, Sask that got interested in the challenge of making beer. I saw one of those liquid kits at Super Store for $12 and figured I had to try it. My mom was heavy into wine making and has all the equipment needed(close to 12 carboys).
The first batch of beer tastes pretty dang good so far. I left it in the primary fermentor for just over 10 days before going on to bottle on new years eve. I had to try a little bit as we were bottling.
I don't have expensive plastic beer bottles or a corny keg yet so I have all the beer in 32 pop bottles(4 are 2L). They are sitting in my bedroom right now which is in the basement and seems to be constantly at the perfect temperature.
I'm already getting anxious to try the beer. I found an old 5# CO2 tank for sale locally for $30 and I purchased a CO2 regulator for $60. From there I made my own counter pressure bottle filler to both force carbonate bottles and turn pop bottles into kegs. That was just me having a good time being creative but for just over $10 it actually works!
I'm going to start another beer kit right away and after that I'm thinking about actually brewing beer. I'm new to all this and don't quite understand anything at all about the different ways to boil and what to boil but I will be reading everything I can. The plan is to put the next batch of beer in a corny keg(still need to find one) and build a mini fridge into a keg fridge.
I'm a broke college student from Regina, Sask that got interested in the challenge of making beer. I saw one of those liquid kits at Super Store for $12 and figured I had to try it. My mom was heavy into wine making and has all the equipment needed(close to 12 carboys).
The first batch of beer tastes pretty dang good so far. I left it in the primary fermentor for just over 10 days before going on to bottle on new years eve. I had to try a little bit as we were bottling.
I don't have expensive plastic beer bottles or a corny keg yet so I have all the beer in 32 pop bottles(4 are 2L). They are sitting in my bedroom right now which is in the basement and seems to be constantly at the perfect temperature.
I'm already getting anxious to try the beer. I found an old 5# CO2 tank for sale locally for $30 and I purchased a CO2 regulator for $60. From there I made my own counter pressure bottle filler to both force carbonate bottles and turn pop bottles into kegs. That was just me having a good time being creative but for just over $10 it actually works!
I'm going to start another beer kit right away and after that I'm thinking about actually brewing beer. I'm new to all this and don't quite understand anything at all about the different ways to boil and what to boil but I will be reading everything I can. The plan is to put the next batch of beer in a corny keg(still need to find one) and build a mini fridge into a keg fridge.
