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Brewing your own beer

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FUUUCK
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im brewing my own beer for the first time right now, its been fermenting since monday.

anyone else ever try it?
Feb 16 2007 11:11PM
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guava
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i'm taking you to the loony bin and i'm going to the brewery!
Feb 16 2007 11:16PM
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Shpadoinkle
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my friend does it in his basement in boulder.
Feb 16 2007 11:24PM
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Xave
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My friend is insane with brewing his beer, and he has become quite good..
His beer has a little taste of fruit, and its like 7% so its awesome
Feb 16 2007 11:36PM
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spyder1
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Ya i do it a fairbit, but cutting back cause its starting to get to me. But ya I buy a keg of beer for 99$ plus tax canadian. so 115$ total in cans. Where i brew my beer(a small company) you can purchase kegs for parties at 90$ a keg so there are always keggers around my area cause of that awsome deal.
Feb 17 2007 12:46AM
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leckett1
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my grandpa brews his own beer and its fuckin disgusting. id rather drink rams piss
Feb 17 2007 1:02AM
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Mat.
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Man beer is sick
Feb 17 2007 1:26AM
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snowXrider540
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hahahhaa rams piss

wasnt that in beerfest???
Feb 17 2007 12:11PM
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skifree919
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my friend at school brewed his own and gave me a few, quite good actually, really carbonated though
Feb 17 2007 1:23PM
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Nihiriju
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my finred's home brewww is really really good, he has  akegging system now too, so awesome!
Feb 17 2007 4:42PM
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RudyGarmisch
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My dad started homebrewing this fall. Its great, I get like 4 or 5 liters whenever I go home to bring back to my house for 'sampling' parties. Making beer is amazingly easy, the hardest thing is just keeping it sterile.
Feb 17 2007 6:18PM
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xXfreeskierXx900
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hahah just drink iron city
Feb 17 2007 8:02PM
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SwitchMahFuckah
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We brew our own beer in our grow room. Always use brown bottles.
Feb 17 2007 8:04PM
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FUUUCK
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so true, thats my biggest fear for my first bathch, so far though the yeast seems to be alive and well.
Feb 17 2007 8:10PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Yeah, I have access to an autoclaver, so its not too much of an issue luckly. However, bleach works just fine.
Feb 17 2007 8:26PM
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jedi.Jim
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I made some kind of alcoholic beverage out of apple cider I let ferment for a month. Didn't taste half bad.
Feb 17 2007 8:51PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Hard Cider is actually kinda difficult for me for some reason. Both in taste and manufacturing. Our cider came out really yeasty and uncarbonated, kinda sour too. But seriously, hard cider sucks, Strongbow is the bitch beer of England.
Feb 17 2007 8:53PM
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jedi.Jim
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Haha, I wasn't really trying to make hard cider. I just forgot about it in the refridgerator at it did it all on it's own. It even had a little carbonation to it.
Feb 17 2007 9:04PM
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49566738265
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a family friend of ours brews beer and makes wine as well. he is really good at it too.
Feb 18 2007 2:30AM
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Mezmerize19
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I just noticed your horse has two legs
Feb 18 2007 2:34AM
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BeerGoggles
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yeah tried doing beer once. Its hard man, dont expect it to be super delicious the first time around, but if your patient keep trying at it. Its hards to get a flavour you want and really have to play with the amount of yeast and hops(or whatever youll be using for flavour) your gonna be putting in. But if you manage to not drink it all right away, let it sit a couple weeks, it actualy improves the quality.
Feb 18 2007 10:35AM
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FUUUCK
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we bottled it, we tasted some, it was flat and warm(which we expected), but it tasted waaaaaay better than we expected. it's actually drinkable.

next time we wont use malasses though.
Feb 22 2007 10:32PM
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KrazyistKarl
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im makeing moonshine this summer, just to say i did. its not that hard from the sounds of it, just makeing the still but what ever...
Feb 22 2007 11:02PM
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leckett1
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yes it was...soon to be potfest!
Feb 22 2007 11:18PM
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