Home Brewers??
 

I know Saltheart is a home brewer.. Is anyone else doing this awesome hobby? I have just geared up to to all-grain brewing. Can't wait to reap my rewards.

You should search. I posted a lot about brewing here but its spread out all over. Just try searching "Brewing"

I will! We need a forum!!! Brewers Unite!!! :)
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I have to be careful, because the next thing I know, I could start using my back up equipment for my glass studio to make an automated system.. Lol!

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Was the Lagunitas the last straw?

Looking forward to sampling this latest experiment...

You'll get some Pete. It will take a while for the first batch to be ready though. Probably september
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The last straw was realizing how good a beer you can make on your own for under 75 cents a bottle :)
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Your beer should be ready in about a month. Only very very high alc beers need to aged. Yes you can age others and sometimes they get better but for the most part , beer should be treated like bread. Fresh beer tastes good. I think optimum is about 5 days in primary fermenter m, 10 days in secondary fermenter when dry hopping and 2 to 4 weeks in the bottles.

Man guys go 1 week in primary , 2weeks in bottles , then drink it.

I used to brew competitively and sometimes if pressed for time to get an entry into a contest I would brew it , primary 5 days , dry hop in secondary 5 days then force cabonate using CO2 pressure overnight and into the contest. Won several using that method but of course its not the best , but it works! :)

this is a little off topic...

i love beer ....but it don't love me.... (i always drink just one now)

if i drink even one beer "of the wrong kind"
i wake up with a migraine headache that makes
hangovers look like a super vacation in RIO

I happen to prefer ales and only certain ales will do this...

had a seirra nevada recently and i was just fine!
wife bought new castle ale - gave me the migraine
bought a sixer of dogfish head ale and i was just fine

so, i am trying to isolate whether it's an ingredient
or an impurity. :huh:

the funny thing about HOPS in herbal lore is
it's known to be an effective sedative.

Raven, Im thinking i might try to grow my own hops.. Saltheart, in pure nebe fashion, i deceded to get everything to brew a belgium tripel.. But if your right.. then all the better. :buds:

Not what I would have suggested for your first home brew :hidin:

-spence

hehehehe

ive done two other batches so far, but out in Colorado... a simple pale ale that was to die for and an imperial double IPA that was a clone recipe of harpon's Leviathan double IPA..... so its not technically my first batch.

You give only 3 clues but based on those three beers , the problem seems to be that you cannot tolerate a lot of Dextrins. New castle will have lots of unfermented sugars called dextrins or malto Dextrins. The other two you listed will have some but much less.

Anyway , stay away from dark beers , maybe even anything amber or darker.

Nothing wrong with beer being ready "too soon". :)

i will look into dextrins thanks

I have the same issue as raven. I dont get headaches, but I will get a severe case of insomnia as my body has a little sugar party while I try to sleep. . Dark ales do it every time.
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AND THAT Nebe, is because Beer is the slowest thing to "Digest"

and alcohol gets broken down into sugar...

i suspect dehydration is a factor as well

Dehydration? Impossible!! I drank 4 beers :)
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im the same. guiness kills me, or any really dark beer. especially since its so delicious.

Wow I am actually really glad this was brought up. Up until about 2 years ago I never seemed to have problem with "feeling like crap" from beer drinking. This is also about the same time I really got into the darker beers (also mostly what I drink now) I was starting to fear it had something to do with the malt or hops and that I would one day have to give it all up. Now I think I will experiment with lighter beers to see if I notice a difference! Thanks Guys!

problem is: Beer makes you snore like a bulldozer :doh:

Nope! not gonna stay away from Dark beers because they are my favorite over light beers but i have more clues....

two Sam Adam brown ales gave me a mushy head in the morning

but DIRTY BASTARD beer doesnt... i gravitate to sweeter beer
i guess.... sad that belhaven scottish ale went low class
i won't even buy it now
McEwans is awesome ............... gets you drunk in 3 bottles, well me anyways

Nebe there was an old myth that you could graft a hops top onto a weed stalk
and they would "take" and make special hops.....

like i said a myth....
hops grow like twenty feet high.....

Jenn i think it's a reaction to sugar ....

as the alcohol breaks down it messes with your glucose levels

i make sure to drink some water before bedtime and take some childrens aspirin because (still a Nsaid drug) they are mild

alieve and ibuprophen make me bleed internally so i no longer take them ever .... off the list as we love to proclaim

My dad told me about that ganja/hops myth.. I don't believe it
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Is that stuff good? I've tried to order it a couple times with dinner and they were out botg places. Maybe that is a sign.

I never grab it because it's always in te case next to Flower Power, Dogfish, Hop Devil, and Mayflower where I get beer and that's tough competition.

It's really good.
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I'd take any of those over the Lagunitas...something about it just doesn't speak to me.
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