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11-11-2010, 08:13 AM | #1 |
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Re: Homebrewers - Whats in the fermeter?
Hit up your friends for some bottles. Its going to take a little over a month for your beer to ferment then carb up, so you should have enough bottles in no time.
If you do want to wait to brew, just put the ingredient kit in the fridge
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11-11-2010, 09:38 AM | #2 |
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Re: Homebrewers - Whats in the fermeter?
Awesome. Thanks! I'll be able to collect more than enough bottles in a month
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11-12-2010, 07:43 AM | #3 | |
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Schlafly, here in STL, will allow you to come in and pick through their bad bottle bin. I am clueless as to why they are considered bad. You can walk out with cases and cases. You'd be surprised how few bottles you can come up with by your own consumption and still hold down a job. Figure you need 50-60 per batch, 3 weeks to carb. So... if you brew 3 weekends in a row, you'd need 180 bottles before you could crack any of the stuff you have bottled open. Once you get rolling (if you decide to stick with bottling rather than kegging) you'd have about 300 bottles on hand (empty or full) at any given time. I love bottling!
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11-17-2010, 01:29 PM | #4 |
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Re: Homebrewers - Whats in the fermeter?
Just set up a time to meet a guy on Craig's List selling a bunch of label-free empties for $4/case - he said he's got 10 cases. Apparently he moved to kegging and doesn't need the bottles anymore.
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11-19-2010, 12:02 AM | #5 |
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Re: Homebrewers - Whats in the fermeter?
Well there it is... my first one. Wanted to take a sec to thank you guys for your input. I can almost guarantee you it's infected as there were multiple opportunities for that to happen, but I'm not really concerned about it. Just happy I got it under my belt and already thinking about the next one.
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11-19-2010, 08:19 AM | #6 | |
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11-19-2010, 08:53 AM | #7 | |
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You'll be fine. Especially with first time use equipment... it's hard to infect. Is that the Brown Ale you talked about? Should be good for a Christmas drink!
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11-19-2010, 09:42 AM | #8 | |
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Already on Midwest's site trying to figure out what to brew next. And SERIOUSLY considering a wort chiller... it was excrutiating waiting for it to cool. |
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11-19-2010, 10:38 AM | #9 | |
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I use mostly Austin Homebrew supply now. You cant beat their selection!
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11-19-2010, 06:53 PM | #10 | |
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When we moved to another house that didn't have a utility sink, I brought out my daughters wading pool, placed a couple of bricks in the bottom and filled with water. At the end of the boil, I would transfer the pot onto the bricks and then turn on the hose, causing circulation within the wading pool. 60 degree water circulating again brought down the temperature inside the pot. A good wort chiller is key though
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11-20-2010, 04:19 PM | #11 | |
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Glad everything worked out well. Cheers, heres to speeding head first down another slope!
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