The Home Brewers Thread

[Tigerbass]

Greetings fellow home brewing fuzz heads!
Couldn't find anything like this so I thought I'd start something up.
This thread is dedicated to home brewers! Please share what you are brewing, pics of you brewing in action, tips, good brewing supply finds, and perhaps some recipes. This could be kickass!
Alot of home brewing sites have such uppity snobs on them I can't stand it, but we're all Fuzz Heads here so it's GOTTA be all good!

Sooooo...I'll start out. I am brewing a bit of a clone of Southern Tiers' Pumking tomorrow after a very early recording session. I will post some pics and the recipe and such tomorrow.
Peace, Cheers and KICKASS Home brewed Beers Everyone!

[bigchiefbc]

As I mentioned in the main beer thread, I recently bottled two brews: a Flanders Red Ale, modeled after Duchesse de Bourgogne, which is one of my five favorites beers ever, and a London session pub ale somewhere between Boddington's and Tetley's. We're going to break them open at my annual Oktoberfest party that my brewing buddy Jay and I throw every year. Usually 50-60 people, no bought beer allowed, all beer drank at the party must be homebrewed. My buddy Jay brewed a Doppelbock and a Roggenbier.

I came up with a pretty kick-ass recipe for a Dusseldorf Alt that I have brewed a dozen times or so, and has received rave reviews from several other brewers, including one of the master brewers at Sam Adams. I'll post it here next time I have a few minutes to look through my recipe list.

[Tigerbass]

Brewing an Imperial Pumpkin Ale today! Kinda nervous I must say! I have 10 lbs of baking pumpkins to roast with honey that goes in my mash. Doing a 90 minute mash, so that should be interesting!
Also using Lactose for the 1st time, as well as Demerara sugar.
My bittering hop is Magnum and then I add a little Saaz with 15 mins left for balance.
I got a new false bottom for my tun that I will be using for the 1st time as well as a new boil kettle...I got a keg that I cut the top off of. No more boil overs now...I hope!!!

Well, wish me luck, I'll post how things went later tonite. Cheers!

[magiclawnchair]

good luck!

[Tigerbass]

good luck!

Thanks bro. I will bring you some hopped up Imperial Read to the CEG show if you're still going.

[magiclawnchair]

good luck!

Thanks bro. I will bring you some hopped up Imperial Read to the CEG show if you're still going.

awesome!

[grindonomicon]

I haven't homebrewed in @ 10 years, but I used to love brewing. Had a local award winning ESB recipe called the Skullsplitter Bitter. Had a troll form a D&D book on the labels. Kinda miss it, but don't have the room or time to do it anymore. Had a few other good recipes; a trio of brown ales and an Imperial Oatmeal Maple Stout. One 16 oz bottle of that goodness would buzz you up!

English style ales are where it's at. So fast, so delicious.

[Schlatte]

Well... I'm not actually brewing but I distill my own booze.... and I make my own cider... Am I still welcome?

[Tigerbass]

Well... I'm not actually brewing but I distill my own booze.... and I make my own cider... Am I still welcome?

Hellz Yeah bro...distillation is a free ride into any fucked-up club in America!!
Btw...I make my own wine and champagne too! I'm getting ready to maje some hard cider too, just trying to find some without preservatives!

[Joe Gress]

My dad and I brewed one a bit (three months) ago:


It's pretty damn tasty, and the longer it sets the better it seems to get. It was supposed to be a Double IPA, but we put gratuitous amounts of malt in it, so it has more of a malt kick than a hops bite to it.

[Schlatte]

Hellz Yeah bro...distillation is a free ride into any fucked-up club in America!!
Btw...I make my own wine and champagne too! I'm getting ready to maje some hard cider too, just trying to find some without preservatives!

Yay!
I have to visit america someday

Where I live there aren't really any good grounds to seed grapes for wine... but we do have a large apple- and pear plantation around our house. Our apple-cider is pretty hard.. but it still tastes delicious... I think next week we're going to get all the apples in and squeeze them juice My grandpas target is around 2000l cider... yeah.. and november is the month of booze. we make raspberry, apple, pear, walnut and cider booze... If you want I can make some pics of the distillation factory/cider storage

[Schlatte]

lol actual Schnaps is baller as hell. Austria does it it up right tasty food + good booze + mountains and castles. <3

^True
Have you been here?
Especially on the countryside. All the old farmer buddies and my grandpa come together once a week in the old bar here... just to discuss about when/how they're going to make their next bacon/schnaps/pork/beef... Yeah.. I live in a small village with more cows than people and the only public places are a phone booth and the bar.. we don't have a grocery store/store in general . When I look out of my window there is just our grasslands and our woods:
(view from my room)


So.. there isn't much more to do than farming/making meat/drinks and hanging out... Well except me being the dumbass I am and going to school

[Schlatte]

Would really like to revisit now that i'm a bit older. Also can still say i've had the best meal of my life there so far.

What did you eat?

The whole idea of trying to get a english teaching or job that actually has to do with my degree somewhere in europe after school is sort of made significantly more appealing than asian nations just by location and beer despite being paid less.

Yeah.. asia is weird/loud/smoggy ... and there are TOO MANY PEOPLE! A friend of mine was in Shanghai for two weeks and told me he would never want to live there
What's your degree?
And as far as austrian beer goes- purity laws ftw

[Schlatte]

Venison in a red current sauce with fried mashed potatoes and other stuff i can't remember but totally tastiest meal ever.

Guess what I had for lunch last week

It seemed you had to sort of go out of your way to find bad food there anyway like aside from someone that has moral/health objections to eating meat a well executed grillteller or sausage platter with french fries and a beer is the ultimate dining experience. Also those dessert specialty cafe's in the bigger cities are insane like getting a cake or dessert that literally looks to perfect to eat <3.

Gotta love some grillteller-s!
But the cake-cafes are pretty expensive! It might not seem so for someone who is here only on vacation- but if you live here you notice price differences from town to town or even cafe to cafe! And in the main holiday seasons the prices go up even more!

About to finish a journalism and public relations degree think i'm going to do my masters in something similar to just get it out of the way.

Good luck!

Also- if/when you visit austria again- make sure to contact me for some food/drink supplies

[Tigerbass]

I think my brew was a success. My Original Gravity was 1.086. It tasted wonderful!!!
Got my yeast pitched and she's bubbling away like MoFo!