What’s Brewin’

how costly is it?
any good receips?
has any body done it? please tell
i meant like personal experience, has anybody done it

Its quite simple to brew beer. Cost is about 100 buck for start up kit not including the ingredients. Any of the listed answers are a good start but try to find a local home brew shop where you can chat with them. They are there to help, like all home brewers. Start with a basic kit and take good notes. Thus, if you like it you will have better chances to duplicate the recipe again. Most important EVERYTHING must be sanitized if you want a better beer. Pending on the beer recipe ingredients (my guess you will be doing extract or a mini mash) the cost should be around 30-40 bucks. Unfortunately the price of grains and hops have sky rocked recently but well worth brewing. Go ahead brew some beer.


PS if you are bottling save your bottles (or ask friend to save theirs)from whatever you buy so you need not buy bottles. You can’t use twist offs. I recommend the "pop top beers so you don"t have to buy caps or a capper (IE Grolsch bottles)
Cheers

All Grain homebrewing on the kitchen stove with a minimum of equipment. This is not really an instructional video. I just wanted to show how I’ve been able to home brew some decent beer using very little special equipment.

Update: Since this video was shot, the beer has been bottled and It turned out to be my best beer yet!

Thanks Biermuncher for the recipe.

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Andy Dick gives his opinion on a beer that was brewed by the Mr. Beer brewery system.

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How do you do it, how long does it take, how much money does it cost to start out, and how much does it cost per bottle?

That’s a lot of questions. I’ll try to be consice and clear.

Set aside about four hours for both brewing and bottling.

Two weeks for fermenttaion two weeks conditioning in the bottle before drinking.

Stanard kit @ $135 including ingredients (remember you keep on re-using a lot of your first purchase.

About $1.50 per bottle when all is said and done.

Sam Adams.com has a video on the basics of brewing. Use it as a guide

williamsbrewing has some good kits but try to find a local brew shop

Tip: use two buckest each with one spigot, trust me it’s worth it.

How to use equipment cleaners to home brew porter beer; learn more about how beer is made in this free instructional video.

Expert: Mark Emiley
Bio: Mark Emiley has been homebrewing beer since 1998, with about 140 extract and all-grain batches under his belt, his beers have won numerous awards and his recipes have even been brewed commercially.
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A funny beer commercial for Rainier Beer from 1981.

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So I’m trying to get all my equipment to start home brewing. I was hoping to use this http://www.williamsbrewing.com/SIPHONLESS_FERMENTOR_P143C66.cfm siphonless fermentor for the primary fermentation of ale. Then transfering it to a 5 gallon glass carboy for secondary fermentation. Then i was wondering if i could transfer it back to that same siphonless fermentor to use as a priming and bottling bucket.
I am worried about all the transfers making it easier to contaminate the brew and also since the spigot is "above the layer of yeast sediment" how much beer i would be wasting using it as a bottling bucket because i think that most of the yeast cake would be left behind in the first and second transfer. Thanks for the input.

Nice tool. any bottling bucket wastes a little beer, but you just tip it up to get more out when bottling the last one.
Of course you would need to clean and sanitize before you pour the beer back in from the secondary. I would get two and forget the glass carboy. They are a pain to work with and there is nothing to see in the secondary. Using a secondary is always risky for contaminiation, but avoiding siphon hoses gives you a leg up in my opinion. They are impossible to clean. But make sure you can clean the spout on this really well.

You could probably just use this as a primary, forget the secondary, and be plenty happy. Once you get drunk and have your first cloudy beer, you stop worrying about it. Besides it clears in the bottle/keg.

I have transferred it to a secondary fermenter and it is doing nothing. How do I know if the fermentation has finished. And does anyone know of a homebrew shop in the Conwy area of North Wales, the Merry Brewer in LLandudno is gone!!!
It is Muntons Premier Gold Ale. It has not bubbled once since the secondary fermentation. If its stuck or I have racked it too soon what do I do now?

If it is a top fermenting yeast (ale) then 4 days of active fermentation is often enough. You should have had an airlock on your secondary, and it ought to still bubble a few times per minute. If it does not, then perhaps you had a ’stuck fermentation’, and racked it too soon.

How to sanitize your equipment when home brewing blonde beer; learn more about making your own beer in this free instructional video.

Expert: Mark Emiley
Bio: Mark Emiley has been homebrewing beer since 1998, with about 140 extract and all-grain batches under his belt, his beers have won numerous awards and his recipes have even been brewed commercially.
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Bob and Doug McKenzie claim to have a mouse in a beer bottle. Taken from Strange Brew

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