Raw fish Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 Oh god, anything but mrbeer... Irish moss, yeah, I use it all the time, it clears stuff up pretty well. As far as equiptment to get started, I think I bought my first set of equiptment for either 45 or 65 bucks... ingredients for one batch, somewhere around 20 bucks (5 gallons of beer, about 55 bottles for 2 bucks... not to bad). I think I dropped 100 bucks when I first bought all of my stuff, and then upgraded from there... Start to finish on a brew day, for a beginner using malt extract? 2 or 3 hours, a week or so fermenting, and 3 hours of bottling (and then 3-4 weeks of conditioning in the bottle). Not all that time consuming. The further I got into it, the more time it was taking me. Typical brew day for me is around 6 hours on a short day, 8 for something more complicated. Trying to brew on an electric stove sucks more than I can ever describe. Bottling still takes me 3 hours or so, kegs, maybe an hour and a half. Oh, the easy answer for time frame start to finish, about a month if you sorta rush it, month and a half to do it right. Fastest start to finish? Wheat beers in kegs... 2 weeks flat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudebra1 Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 sounds pretty good to me. I found a couple of how-to kind of things on the internet to get me started. thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLIK$ Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 whats wrong with mrbeer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 "let that baby sit until you dont see any more bubbles coming out of the hose" how long will this be? (the cider) good stuff here... I'd love to try brewing some beer.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAR Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 My dad brews his own beer. He won third place in a local homebrewers compatition and placed 12 in the national in his catagory. He's building some sort of top secret homebrew machine he designed himself. I suggest you find a local brew on premises place and they will walk you through the whole process and make sure things go right, it'll cost you like 60-100 and you'll leave with like a couple+ cases of beer. So go in on it with someone or get super smashed and trashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadawhat Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 dOPE... I just did some searching and found a place close by that does a free class for begining brewing on first thursdays.. I think I'll go check it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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