Beer (and beer pics!)

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#3,253
USAF_Vol said:
Thanks for the well wishes. We are pulling the trigger on the pump. Endo says with my active lifestyle, more flexibility is available with a pump. It will take a few days to get it ordered and then the class is half a day.

Those things are amazing BTW, I'll post a link when I can. I'm off to PT.
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Hang in there bud.
 
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#3,255
JOEY'S ALL VOL !!! said:
Having some Sierra Nevada Pale Ales while grilling some rib-eyes while standing in the snow while listening to some Molly Hatchet....a quality moment it is.
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This, sir, is a really nice thought. Molly Hatchet + grill + decent beer + snow. I'm impressed.

My own keg is out and my beer stash is out and I'm drinking some really wretched beer right now. As in, it sucks. And it's from Jonesborough. Yeeech, as Mad Magazine used to say. I should have known better than to try to buy beer while I was up visiting the in-laws.

This is an awful beer. I ought to throw it out, but IMO bad beer doesn't deserve the death penalty just because the people that made it didn't know that they were doing. I'm gonna choke it on down.
 
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#3,258
I have had the BBC Jefferson Reserve it is ok. Not nearly as good as the Kentucky Ale Bourbon Barrel Ale. If you like Bourbon Ales try and find the Kentucky Ale.
 
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So i was curious, has anybody here brewed their own beer? I was curious and thinking of maybe trying it out myself. Is it worth the trouble?
 
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wounded mullet said:
So i was curious, has anybody here brewed their own beer? I was curious and thinking of maybe trying it out myself. Is it worth the trouble?
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Tried it a couple of times, and was not too happy with the results either time. My Grandpa used to make beer in the bathtub. Drove my Grandma nuts. I was too young to taste it, but everyone who did seemed to like it.
 
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#3,271
wounded mullet said:
So i was curious, has anybody here brewed their own beer? I was curious and thinking of maybe trying it out myself. Is it worth the trouble?
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Everybody who cares seriously about beer needs to make his own a few times. I learned more about beer from doing that than anything else. Once you've made it yourself -- once you've enjoyed the magnificent feeling of craftsmanship that you can only get from being just absolutely fscked up on beer that you made with your own hands -- then beer stops being just a product that you get out of a bottle, and it really becomes a living, breathing thing. It changes your whole attitude towards drinking it.

I spent about two years seriously brewing. My first few batches, like everybody's, were pretty mediocre. My friends came over, had a bottle, and told me it was good. "Do you want another one?" "Eh, I don't know. What else do you have?" So I kept at it -- I went to liquid yeasts, all-glass fermentation. I knew that I had arrived when I was getting pissed off at my friends for drinking too much of my beer. And that's when I decided that division of labor is a good thing -- I could spent an enormous amount of time and effort, and come out of it with 50 bottles of delicious beer.....or I could go down to the liquor store and buy six glorious bottles of beer for seven bucks. I will probably brew again sometime, but only after I get the space to make 20-gallon batches instead of 5-gallon. I think it would be worth my time if I scaled it up like that.

But really, I can't emphasize how much you learn about appreciating beer by doing it a few times. Once you've made it yourself, it really changes the way you approach every bottle of beer you drink.
 
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#3,273
It twas a long weekend for me. Beer consumed included Miller Lite and a cheaper version Guinness. Can't remember the name of it It was ok but will not skimp on the a couple bucks to get the real stuff any more.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Everybody who cares seriously about beer needs to make his own a few times. I learned more about beer from doing that than anything else. Once you've made it yourself -- once you've enjoyed the magnificent feeling of craftsmanship that you can only get from being just absolutely fscked up on beer that you made with your own hands -- then beer stops being just a product that you get out of a bottle, and it really becomes a living, breathing thing. It changes your whole attitude towards drinking it.

I spent about two years seriously brewing. My first few batches, like everybody's, were pretty mediocre. My friends came over, had a bottle, and told me it was good. "Do you want another one?" "Eh, I don't know. What else do you have?" So I kept at it -- I went to liquid yeasts, all-glass fermentation. I knew that I had arrived when I was getting pissed off at my friends for drinking too much of my beer. And that's when I decided that division of labor is a good thing -- I could spent an enormous amount of time and effort, and come out of it with 50 bottles of delicious beer.....or I could go down to the liquor store and buy six glorious bottles of beer for seven bucks. I will probably brew again sometime, but only after I get the space to make 20-gallon batches instead of 5-gallon. I think it would be worth my time if I scaled it up like that.

But really, I can't emphasize how much you learn about appreciating beer by doing it a few times. Once you've made it yourself, it really changes the way you approach every bottle of beer you drink.
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think I'm just gonna stick with amateur status.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
think I'm just gonna stick with amateur status.
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It's admittedly a lot of work, which is why I don't do it anymore. But I learned so much about beer doing it. It's kind of like how, when I was in high school, I bought a guitar and took lessons for a year or so -- I never got any good, and I never played in a band or anything, but I learned so much about music that it was worth it.

rbroyles said:
Recipe?
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Learning the process is more important than any particular recipe. If you're interested, this book is pretty much the bible of homebrewing. Highly recommended.

Amazon.com: The Complete Joy of Homebrewing Third Edition (Harperresource Book): Charles Papazian: Books

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