This is just great!

[TopherM]

Extract brewing is a small time hobby, no skill or creativity. Brew with ingredients, not a kit. You'll like it a lot more. After my first batch, I bucked the bottling operation and got a keg fridge. If you stick with it, you'll do the same.

If you look at his other 6 posts, they are all pretty ignorant. I live in the Tampa Bay area, and when I first saw this guy, I was going to introduce myself, then I saw the posts and decided it probably wasn't a good idea!!!

 

[Brewnoob1]

Definitely. My friends like that I make beer. My wife likes that I have a hobby besides MMA and the gym, despite the fact that she doesn't really drink beer. I even told a couple kids in my group for a grad school class and I found out two of the guys actually have kegerators. Both use commercial beer, but one intends on starting to homebrew soon. I'm glad I influenced someone in joining the hobby.

My wife thinks the same thing. She doesn't drink too much beer, but is extremely glad I have something to fill my time besides the shenanigans I COULD be getting myself into haha.

 

[ernie00]

back from work with 4 pages to my topic... Woah! Thanks for the positive feedback, both beer look good and they taste even better! The IPA is the all amarillo that is posted here, second time I brew it and it's great and the amber is the one from Palmer's book. First time I brewed it, it was ok but something was weird. Now it's just perfect. What I have learned is to be patient and to leave it a few more days in the primary. Works wonder for me.

I so want to drink one right now but I have to go train / run in an hour.

 

[Pyroholic]

haha Sorry for being ignorant... I like making brownies when I just have to add water and bake for 30 minutes too. They're delicious. But they're not truly homemade. Not hating. Just saying. Step your game up, you'll enjoy it way more.

 

[ampsman]

you can start with a basic recipe for chili and make the best ****in chili anybody has ever had...a kit is just a starting point.

 

[kh54s10]

haha Sorry for being ignorant... I like making brownies when I just have to add water and bake for 30 minutes too. They're delicious. But they're not truly homemade. Not hating. Just saying. Step your game up, you'll enjoy it way more.

Much better said than the 1st post.

 

[BradleyBrew]

yeah that statement is BS... I do all grain but sometimes I don't feel like brewing for 5+ hours and do a easy extract brew and still make great brews! Kits are good because they teach you basics...oh yeah and they can be delicious! I only bottle because I like to age most beers two months and don't have the $$ or the desire to have 10 kegs sitting around.

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Primary 1: Courage RIS
Primary 2: Bourbon Barrel Ale
Primary 3: Harp Lager
Primary 4: Bell's Best Brown

Bottled: Smoked Porter, Oaked Unearthly IIPA, Peanut Butter Porter, Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome, Belgian Dark Strong, Rogue Old Crustacean Barley Wine, Breakfast Stout, Fat Tire Clone, Belgian Saison, Copper Ale, Left Hand Milk Stout, Weizen Doppelbock, WeissBier, Pumpkin Ale, Honey Braggot

 

[unionrdr]

I still thoroughly enjoy extract brewing. But I make up my own recipes with a little research & creativity. My mind just gets to work on an idea at that point,& it pops into my conscious mind that then brews it. If that makes any sense. I get some good ales from both ends of the spectrum that my wife & I both enjoy. I was perk as a ruttin buck when she told me she prefers my beers over commercial ones.
So op,you just keep doin your own thing,you'll wind up wherever your imagination takes you.

 

[Pappers_]

haha Sorry for being ignorant... I like making brownies when I just have to add water and bake for 30 minutes too. They're delicious. But they're not truly homemade. Not hating. Just saying. Step your game up, you'll enjoy it way more.

This was a less rude way to say it, but I still disagree with the substance of your point.

For example, if I remember correctly, in another thread you said that you've been fermenting beer in the mid 70s. In my opinion, a brewer would be better served to focus on yeast and fermentation management, including temperature control, before worrying about mashing.

There are many examples of award winning beers made with extract, because the brewer has focused on all the other aspects of brewing and is doing a great job.

I brew all-grain, but for me, the mash is the least of my worries.

 

[TopherM]

Well, at least Pyro WAS from Tampa yesterday. Today he's from Jacksonville.

 

[harrydrez]

Those are some mighty tasty looking beers. How is that ipa? I just bottled what was my third ever batch. A Northern Brewer Imperial Stout kit that was aging in a secondary better bottle for about 4 months. I tried some at bottling and it was delish.

I have been busy trying to build up a pipeline. My pipeline has 4 batch carbing up including my first batch- an AHS Wezinbock- that will probably need to sit for a few more months before I open any more. I have three batches that need to be bottled, one that is almost done fermenting, and a batch of Ed's Hause Pale Ale that I just pitched yesterday.

I was thinking about getting into all grain and paying my local Ace a visit tomorrow to buy mash tun stuff. I also want to make a kegerator/keezer that can hold 3 cornies or so but I am not all that handy and I don't really know where to start. All in good time, I guess. Beer is supposed to be fun.

 

[rayg]

I did 3 or four extract brews and I thought to myself I'm making beer from syrup. For me that's not OK so I went all grain and I enjoy it much more.

You're making beer from syrup with all grain too, it's just a more
dilute syrup.

Ray

 

[acuenca]

wow...what an ignorant statement.

Not to pile one but yeah... seriously? Kits are wonderful in the sense that not only do they teach you the basics but they also give you ideas on how to experiment with your grains/extracts....That's like saying I hate cookbooks...

 

[Vuarra]

I've done all-grain, I've done the kits and I've done extract. They all have their own pluses and minuses, and they all taste like beer.

Here's my session ale:
500 g Crystal 80, steeped 20 minutes
1.33 kg pale LME
0.75 oz East Kent Goldings 60 min
0.50 oz EKG 10 min

It's about the taste and the lack of time I have around here. Also, I can drink a metric s**t-load in the evening and still go for a twelve hour shift the next day.

Thanks for posting pics, Ernie. Those look like something I should decant from my carboy.

 

[BOBrob]

Great job! I see you were sampling the one on the left, foam is still running down the side. I too am new to this beer making (3 yrs.) and have done a little each time, just to try it. I always kee p an extract ( now 15 min. cascade pale ale & panic button hefeweizen) brew going just cause its easy and taste great. Time & space are my problems, but I still enjoy it.Palmers web site and recipes from the kind members here are topnotch. Enjoy ....CHEERS