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A friend of mine went through the "make my own beer & wine" phase.
The beer was never very good. Gave us all a lot of gas. The wine wasn't too bad, especially the whites. In particular the pinot grigio was good. You eventually lose interest and go back to buying your own, though. Anyway, have fun. |
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I am saying cooking with a sugar wine in any way where you can taste the wine in the food or the sauce is bad advise. A $120 wine kits produce about 30 bottles of wine at $4-$5 each - equivalent to a $15-$20 bottle of wine from the wine store. I'm saying that's the kind of wine one should be cooking with - NOT the crap wine some people have talked about in this thread. I guess I define a 'good' wine as something that retails for $15-$20 in Canada at the wine store... a GREAT wine is the next step... and I agree you'll not see much difference in using one of those to a good wine in cooking... BUT using a CRAP wine will result in crap flavors... they have to go somewhere :thumbsup |
Yeah, Ferm-Tech is the Canadian company I couldn't think of. They made my thief, bottling gear, and airlocks if I remember right.
I havent had a beer since I made my last batch a few months ago. I only do it when there's enough income to justify the expense. It's not a lot of money mind you, but it's a un necessary expense compared to keeping the lights on and so forth. Good thing I'm not an alcoholic :). Truly a hobby thing for me. I'd grow hops if I had the space. homebrewtalk is a good forum to read thousands of others' past experiences. It's non adult so no need to call for my banning. |
UPS dropped off my equipment, just waiting on the wine kit now. :)
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My parents make their own wine from time to time.. I just bring my own when going over there :winkwink: |
I brew beer.
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buy them a GOOD kit just once, they won't be able go back and you'll both be happy! |
I started brewing beer 20 years ago, but just recently got really into it again over the past year. I just bought this Brew Magic system.
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I just started brewing, watch the videos in the links below. (FREE)
QUICK VIDEO TUTORIALS 1-9 http://www.homebrewersassociation.or...1-introduction FREE BOOKS http://www.homebrewersassociation.or...free-downloads http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-...ent-cid-2.html http://hopunion.com/1023_BrewingCalculators.cfm?p7=open http://wiki.homebrewersassociation.org/Equipment LEGAL http://www.homebrewersassociation.or.../united-states Lots of free information online, do your research and you'll be fine. :2 cents: |
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That Brew Magic system is serious home brewing. May as well set up a craft brew pub around it. :)
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Lots of whine makes on this board ...
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Nice, thanks for the links... |
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Yes, I am surprised the thread got this large. |
Lots of whine makes on this board ...
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Would like to keep the thread troll free if possible, so I answered to reflect that. |
You are welcome.
The best beer I had in my entire life was last week. It was a homebrew copy of Maharaja over hopped IPA. It was served to me fresh out of the keg as soon as it was carbonated enough. Nothing like it. Fucking AWESOME. |
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That's a serious setup. Just curious at what point you cease to be a home brewer.. and start becoming a micro brew? Only when you sell? |
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I don't drink, but I have friends who brew their own beer and they seem to have a lot of fun with it.
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My local brew shop is also tragically high priced compared to me ordering from austin or midwest. That shouldn't be, but it is.
I read about a guy who malts his own barley from feed store barley. Now that's a DIY brewer on the cheap. |
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On the cheap, yes. But malting is unique skill. You really need to know what you're doing if you want to keep it consistent. |
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It's a big enough setup to brew enough for a small brewpub if you really wanted. The Dogfish Head guy started with the same system. But that's not my intention. I just figured if I'm gonna get into brewing, I'm gonna do it right. |
My neighbor makes his own beer and a lot of it. His backyard is draped with hops plants all summer long.
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Received all my equipment & I currently have 23L of filtered water, grape concentrate, & yeast sitting in the primary fermenter now for over 24 hours. Its a fucking beautiful thing. :)
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it's hard to get much better than homemade wine. when i was making it i got bugged all the time by friends who wanted it.
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I once made a batch of rhubarb wine that blew a lot of people's socks off. It came out incredibly good, potent but smooth-tasting.
People still to this day rave about the crabapple wine I made back in the early 90's. The chokecherry batches were insanely good too. Damn, this thread has me becoming motivated to fire up more batches. |
I've tried brewing my own beer once, it's all about having the right equipment and timing has to be right.
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