Salutations from Buffalo

[Brewer#19]

Probably not a bad idea, casue someone has to drive home. The Central Terminal is not a place you want to be at during the night.

fixed it for you

 

[project_dc1]

I wouldn't want to be in the Terminal at night, but I've been there plenty of times during the day for Brewfest and film shoots and stuff, and despite being gutted, it's an amazing experience to be in there. Makes me feel like I'm in Grand Central Station, or somewhere other than Buffalo.

But yeah, the neighborhood isn't exactly a crown jewel of Buffalo.

 

[Sigafoos]

Wow, not only are there a lot of Buffalo people here but at least two of you live right around the corner from me! I'm right off Hertel as well; used to work at the Mighty Taco on Delaware

I haven't actually started anything yet but I think we're heading to NT tonight to get me a kit for my birthday. Is something like this good? I'd like to start cheap and see how much I like it, so if it's scalable then that's awesome. Luckily I don't think my SWMBO realizes how expensive this can get

 

[SeaMonster]

Wow, not only are there a lot of Buffalo people here but at least two of you live right around the corner from me! I'm right off Hertel as well; used to work at the Mighty Taco on Delaware

I haven't actually started anything yet but I think we're heading to NT tonight to get me a kit for my birthday. Is something like this good? I'd like to start cheap and see how much I like it, so if it's scalable then that's awesome. Luckily I don't think my SWMBO realizes how expensive this can get

Hey! Welcome to the board! I live near Colvin and Kenmore, right down the street.

Yeah, that's actually a very good kit. It includes all the ingredients for your first batch of beer as well so it's a good price. I started with the same kit except I added a 5 gal carboy. I don't think you'll be dissapointed.

Happy Brewing. Let us know how it turns out.

Brian

 

[Sigafoos]

Now for a three part question:

Is there a benefit to using a carboy over what they supply?

Should I have asked this in the noob forum?

Did I just try to start the "glass vs plastic" debate again?

 

[Brewer#19]

i'm assuming he added the glass carboy for purpose of 2 stage fermentation, not as a direct replacement.

as far as starting goes, i started with a kit and it came out great using single stage in the bucket. for your first one, i wouldn't worry about it unless you feel you want to go that route immediately. i did 2 kits from nt in the bucket and now i'm on my 3rd get which is a custom recipe and i'll be tranfering for the first time into a 2nd stage carboy.

 

[Sigafoos]

Well, after doing two extract brews (one pretty good, one not so good) I'd like to step it up to partial mash. I know there was some mention of the water profile earlier in the thread: how do you get on the mailing list with the city to get that information? I emailed the Buffalo Water Authority and got this response:

The information requested is not currently available. The water quality
report on the web site contains all the data that is available for our
water.

I thought that was fairly terse... am I missing some of the information on their site?