Homebrew

[dustinpollock]

okay chris my wife wont let me get in to brewing you lucky dog


dustin

[wild]

Congratulations on your first brew.

[chefchris]

Got my second fermenter in this morning. Still got one more on the way. So that means this evening I will be brewing up a Double Chocolate Stout with some friends. Beer and cigars will be had all around. Come join us won't you?

[chefchris]

Brewed up an Oatmeal Stout yesterday. Tasted the Double Chocolate that I brewed last weekend, gonna be a fantastic beer. I drank the whole sample and it was 1 week old warm, flat beer! Gonna be bottling my first batch this coming Friday and hopefully brewing up a Christmas Ale before I leave for the weekend (SIX FLAGS !!!).

Now, I'm making the next small move up to mini-mash. My first mini-mash beer will be a sweet stout, much like Mackeson's XXX Stout.


I just hope my Oatmeal Stout turns out as good as this Samuel Smith's Oatmeal that I'm having right now.

[wild]

Congrats on the beer! How are graduating to MMs? Are you going to mash in a bucket or cooler?

[chefchris]

Congrats on the beer! How are graduating to MMs? Are you going to mash in a bucket or cooler?

I mashed in a 20qt pot. I am about to do a cooler conversion so I can hold the heat a lot better. Trying to hold 150 degrees on a stove top is not easy.

Got my first too batches labeled yesterday. I post up some picks when I get Sarah's camera over here.

I'll be drinking my first batch in 2 weeks for the first time. This takes some patience starting out. I've done 4 batches without trying a single homebrew.

[bigwhiteash]

Have you thought of getting a stand alone propane burner?

So when was your first bottling day? I'm still waiting on funds for my equipment