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Anyone else brewing their own?

A few weeks ago my wife and I went to her bosses house to have a few beers that he brewed, before going to a Cake concert. Some were ok and some were pretty good. Either way they "worked" just fine. He and his wife (his wife was my wife's former boss, and they're friends) went with us to the concert and we got into some shenanigans with some punk kids that apperently knew this guy, and due to my heroic (drunken) actions he sort of developed a man crush on me. So, taking the relationship to the next level, he had me over later that week to brew some beer with him and show me how it's done.

Well, it was a lot easier than I imagined. I'm good at stuff, so I figured I'd be pretty good at this. My wife went out of town to a family reunion and I ran out and bought a starter kit and a couple of packaged recipe kits from The Beer Nut and got a batch going that night. Everything seems to be going well, but I did pitch the yeast too hot because the thermometer I was using was a candy thermometer and it only goes down to 100F. I realized it was way too hot when I got it in the fermenter (bucket-type) and it didn't register on the temp strip for a couple of hours. Live and learn. It's bubbling away now, and even if it doesn't taste great I expect it will still "work."


Anyway, any experts around here? Anyone looking to dump old equipment they no longer use?
 
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DutchJazzer said:
i homebrew my psp does that count?
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Thanks, dutch! It's so great to have you back. Now go talk about how stupid black people are, or whatever it was you got into last time that got you banned.

Just kidding, man. But, uh, no! It doesn't count. I'm talkin' about beer.
 
You ramble on and on and leave out the best part. What the hell are these shenanigans that you and this dude got into with the kids?
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
You ramble on and on and leave out the best part. What the hell are these shenanigans that you and this dude got into with the kids?
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Eh, it's not as exciting as I might have led you to believe. These guys (17-23 year olds, I'm guessing, 4-5 of them) made a few comments as we were leaving and we overheard them saying my buddies name. We walked to our car (his wife was the DD, just in case you wonder) and they passed us and made a few more comments. As we were getting ready to drive away a few of them ran back and threw water and their water bottles at us. My wife, ever the lady, told them as they ran away something like, "Yeah, you better run you p---- mother f'ers!" which triggered the reaction in me to run after them. As I rounded a corner I lost balance and did a little combat roll and managed to get back to my feet in stride and keep running. I didn't catch them, but this guy enjoyed the whole thing more than I would have expected. He was a little slower to react and was about a half block behind me.

Funny, though, there was a guy pulling out of the spot right behind us and I never even saw him, but he jumped out before I did and caught one of them. He said he tackled the guy but was so exhausted that he just rolled over and took a little breather on the grass. I'm not sure if his car got hit or he was just a good Samaritan.
 
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So not a lot of people make their own, huh?

Too bad.

I found a beer at the LQ in an amber one pint swing top for $3.21. Full of beer that's not a bad price for a swing top bottle.
 
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Gameface said:
So not a lot of people make their own, huh?

Too bad.

I found a beer at the LQ in an amber one pint swing top for $3.21. Full of beer that's not a bad price for a swing top bottle.
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WTF are you talking about? Who cares what the bottle is like. WHat was in it?
 
VINYLONE said:
WTF are you talking about? Who cares what the bottle is like. WHat was in it?
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Because when you brew your own beer you have to bottle it, or keg it. I don't have the stuff to keg it, so I need bottles. It costs about as much to buy empty bottles at the homebrew store as to buy the kind of bottles you need with beer in them. Swing top bottles are highly sought after for home bottling because they're so easy yo use. The most common swing top bottles are Grolsch, but they are green bottles, so they don't protect the precious beer from UV rays.

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The bottles I found are 1 pint sized, which is a plus to me, and they are amber. The brewing supply site I found was selling that type of bottle for $3.75 each, EMPTY. That's before shipping.

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When I posted that last night I had just polished off six of those bad boys...not bad beer at all. Even if it tasted like *** I'd be tempted to drink it so I could get the bottles. It's a Black Pilsner beer
 
Gameface said:
Thanks, dutch! It's so great to have you back. Now go talk about how stupid black people are, or whatever it was you got into last time that got you banned.

Just kidding, man. But, uh, no! It doesn't count. I'm talkin' about beer.
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wow

i would never have thought i would be mistaken for a racist. i got banned for saying the word **** vy circumventing the filter that was my final warning. my other 3 warnings where for standing up against trout and the gestapo mods:P so to say
 
really u use grolsch bottles its a dutch beer. just like heinken only not so well known internationally. got millions of these grlosch bottles laying around so to speak
 
DutchJazzer said:
wow

i would never have thought i would be mistaken for a racist. i got banned for saying the word **** vy circumventing the filter that was my final warning. my other 3 warnings where for standing up against trout and the gestapo mods:P so to say
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I must have you mistaken for someone else. You're not of the opinion that black people are mentally inferior? I could have sworn... Oh well, the old site is gone, water under the bridge.
 
DutchJazzer said:
really u use grolsch bottles its a dutch beer. just like heinken only not so well known internationally. got millions of these grlosch bottles laying around so to speak
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You got a good (cheap) way to get them to the U.S.? They're easily worth about $1 a piece.
 
Gameface said:
I must have you mistaken for someone else. You're not of the opinion that black people are mentally inferior? I could have sworn... Oh well, the old site is gone, water under the bridge.
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Oh, crap, that was Yell42 or something like that. Sorry man!
 
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