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Making Beer

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Mrkguru12
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Anyone tried this? It sounds like a really good time, and in a couple weeks I will have 5 gallons of beer to reward myself with. I'm gonna start making it all tomorrow as I bought all the ingredients today. How satisfying. Crunkifying yourself off your own creation.
Jan 28 2006 3:26PM
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iridefattwins
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my dad is right now
Jan 28 2006 3:29PM
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back_woods
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ive done that quiet a bit. make sure you sanitize everything, and dont be suprised when it tastes sugary and terrible. cheap though.
Jan 28 2006 3:43PM
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j.bird
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yeah my dad used to do that, and he actually was told all the time that his beer tasted better than most anyone had ever tasted. so good luck and cheers
Jan 28 2006 3:46PM
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freestyleskiin
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if you even make the smallest mistake ya can go blind or even kill you
Jan 28 2006 4:13PM
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fappy
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haha, you make it sound like it's ridiculously easy to make beer. and good stuff at that.
Jan 28 2006 4:28PM
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$tezzyStu
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they have kits for it thats way easy, its pretty tasty at the end too, quite hoppie so great if you like that kind of beer
Jan 28 2006 4:31PM
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396222687862
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my grandpa used to make beer i think
Jan 28 2006 4:31PM
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R-Bertsch
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yeah its not worth doing if yo udont have all the right stuff, and make sure everything is sanitized like the guy a few posts above me said. If you get any bacteria in it at all while the beer has to sit it will turn out terrible. It is fun tho, good luck
Jan 28 2006 4:33PM
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ryan.c
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yeah he still does
Jan 28 2006 6:15PM
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back_woods
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actually thats only if you try and distill it into moonshine and fuck it up. there are no bacteria that can grow in beer that are fatal. The worst you can get in there is basically equivilent to bread mold. Beer yeast consume sugar and produce ethanol, which is the alchohol that gets you drunk, but doesnt do anything bad to you (unless of course you abuse it like mad). If you DISTILL the beer though (aiming to make a really really disgusting beverage sort of like..well sort of like shit. my brothers housemates whore chem majors tried it, turned out badly) you can end up with methanol in your shit if you fuck up. methanol is what blinds/kills you. With homebrew, if you make the smallest mistake all that'll happen is itll taste like shit.
Jan 28 2006 6:18PM
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CooksCorner
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^i know a guy who grows his own hopps to make his own beer. and its fucking delicious!
Jan 28 2006 8:14PM
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MitchPee
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your beer is going to suck...just a forewarning
Jan 28 2006 8:17PM
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o2bjedi
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my old biology teacher used to make beer w/his friends when they were kids.
Jan 28 2006 8:42PM
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whoisikeEh
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making beer is cool yea, but its way cooler to make weed.
Jan 29 2006 2:59PM
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Elijah.
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my dad used to make beer... he says it was fun, and u get the hang of it after a while
Jan 29 2006 4:50PM
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Tinga
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yeah but it will take a lot of your own beer to make you drunk cause there wont be that much alchohol in it.
Jan 29 2006 4:57PM
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jsof9
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it will probly take you a few batches, but after a while you should be able to come up with some good brew....dont get too discouraged after your first attempt, mine pretty much sucked but we drank it anyway.
Jan 29 2006 7:03PM
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spyder1
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there is a small brewery in my town that makes homemade beer. It isnt too bad, either. I get 6 cases of 24 for 99$ plus tax which comes out to $115. or around 70 cents per beer
Jan 29 2006 7:05PM
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Mrkguru12
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So I started to throw all the ingredients together and such. My dad makes mad brews, so he helped me out a bit. Actually a lot. Actually he did it all. But its rad. YOu have to sanitize EVERYTHING, and make sure that you put like the grain in while the malt water is hot but not boiling or it'll over flow, and you have to stir it for a certain amount of time until its at a certain temp. Its loco. But wait three-four weeks and I'll have lots o' beer.
Jan 29 2006 7:14PM
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whattheshit
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i have friends who made some. it went bad eventually, i think they are going to make it again.

they in bio chem so its fucking easy for them.
Jan 29 2006 4:56PM
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SkiCrzy
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my brothers are in college doing that right now, it taste pretty good too becuase you can add the ingredients in that you want more of. also when your bruwing it, an algae will form around the container that is exactly like marijuana but with out the tec
Jan 29 2006 6:15PM
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whattheshit
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what in the fuck are you talkinga about? marijuana without the tec? THC?

then what is the point? i don't understand.
Jan 29 2006 6:44PM
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Ghst
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What?
Jan 29 2006 6:49PM
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Andy-Fair
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haha nice
Jan 29 2006 7:14PM
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Elijah.
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yeah wtf is the point of pot without the THC?
Jan 29 2006 8:42PM
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redpointist
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Sell quarters to middle schoolers for $30 a bag
Jan 29 2006 10:32PM
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whattheshit
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damn, i sell quarters of real weed for 40 bucks.
Jan 30 2006 3:51AM
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RedbAss
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cheers! Homerewing is on my to do as soon as semesterbreak hits
Jan 30 2006 4:02AM
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k-fay
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i haven't really heard any success stories with this...then again, everyone i know who has tried has done it in their bathtub.
Jan 30 2006 4:13AM
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Leckett
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my grandpa makes wine. and lots of it
Jan 30 2006 6:52AM
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Snowcase
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my neighbors make beer o and I made root beer once
Jan 30 2006 6:54AM
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Timmy_G
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uh huh!!
Jan 30 2006 7:48AM
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nut
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I've made a few batches of beer. Just like everyone else said, sanitization is very important.

You can put together all of the equipment for less than $50. And to make 5 gallons, you need to spend another $30.

The only times my beer sucked was when I screwed up the recipe or didn't sanitize well enough. Every other batch has been delectable.
Jan 30 2006 8:35AM
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Kevo
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you couldn't be more wrong. Back when there was a lot of bootleg hard alcohol being produced during prohibition, a few people went blind because of the cheap lead pipes that were used in the stills. You can't go blind from brewing your own beer.

My friends and I made some over the summer when we went on a spree of producing fermented juices and mead.
Jan 30 2006 8:55AM
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skiierman
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My buddy made some for a school project. The only time I've seen someone carry around beer and brag about it without so much as a teacher calling him out for it.
Jan 30 2006 9:08AM
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