OK, listen up.
Compared to many of the beer experts out here on the information waterslide, we’re big idiots. We’ve never even brewed our own beer!
Soon, all that will change. We are soon ordering a home-brew kit and will be making things messy and smelly in brand new ways (and we are quite adept and accomplished at making things messy and smelly in conventional ways).
But we need your help.
We want all of your tips, tricks and superstitions about home-brewing. Everything. What do you think? What’ve you got for us?
Do we need a dog? A lot of microbrews seemed to be named after dogs that were around while brewing happened. Do we need women? Chris O’Brien’s book seems to indicate that women were the brewmasters of yore. What do we need?
January 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Do you need women? Dude, we all need women, though none of us know why.
One might say there’s a bit of info on the ‘net about homebrewing. I’d start with any of a few books. “The Complete Joy of Homebrewing” by Charlie Papazian, “How to Brew” by John Palmer, or any number of books will be great to get you started. “Joy” is kinda like the Bible on which most of us were baptized. “How to Brew” is a little more techie, but excellent also.
Welcome!
–Matt
February 5th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Matt before is correct, start with one of those books. The “Complete Joy of Homebrewing” is the best in my opinion (also known as the Homebrewers Bible).
The best piece of advice I could give is - cleanliness is godliness in homebrewing. Sterilize, sterilize, sterilize. Don’t cut corners on cleaning equipment or anything. You may think youve brewed the best batch ever and a little pesky bacteria ruins christmas.
Also, why make a recipe exactly from the book? They’re your beers, make them yours.
Good work.
Mike