| Sunday Chat - 08-11-2013 |
Subject: Sunday Chat - 08-11-2013 by biggrizzly on 2013/8/11 11:32:49 Good morning all. Supposed to be cloudy here today all day. I am considering going to a cruise-in in Annapolis this morning, and then driving over to my club Autocross, but the cloudy weather stinks. I watched the movie Oblivian last night staring Tom Cruise. I thought it had an interesting and relatively original concept for a Tom Cruise movie. I usually don't like his stuff but this was pretty good. I'd recommend it to Sci-Fi people. ============================================================================== This last part of my post is for Letty, and a carryover from yesterday's Chat where she asked me about brewing beer at home. Well.... Brewing beer at home can be as simple as Bill stated in his reply to yesterday's thread, or as complicated as one would like to make it. To make really good home brewed beer, and be able to reproduce your results takes some experience. However, I wholeheartedly recommend you give it a try if you are the slight bit interested. Most people usually start out with a simple 5 gallon bucket kit which can be purchased at a home brew store local to you, or online at places like these: More Beer Midwest Northern Brewer Most beginner kits use liquid malt extracts which are about the consistency of molasses and allows you to skip the whole mashing process. This is a good way to start for newbs as it lets you concentrate on the very basics of cleanliness and the basic brewing process. The most laborous part of home brewing is all the cleaning, before, during and after. Some people want to jump right in to all-grain brewing and will go that route but it can be complicated for the first time brewer as it adds more equipment and requires a fair amount of more time to the "Brew Day" When a beginner moves up from the store bought "kit", usually the upgrades will be a larger brewing vessel so that all of the beer can be brewed in one kettle. Most kits begin brewing on the kitchen stove and use "partial" amounts of water to get going. To make 5 gallons of beer it may take 8 gallons or more of water and most home stoves can't handle that. So beginner kits use extracts and lesser amounts of water in the boil, then have you dilute that wort (what beer is called before it is fermented)to bring it up to the desired amount. This method works pretty well but better beer is made by going with a full boil in at least a ten gallon boil kettle. There are more and more of these tips that I could fill the pages here, but can't as this is a Corvette forum. This link is to some guys that are highly respected in the Home Brew World that have some great videos and podcasts for Basic Brewing techniques. I met these guys for the first time in Philadelphia in June while attending the National Home Brewers Conference. Jim will never remember me as an individual but I really enjoyed talking with him. http://www.basicbrewing.com/ A good forum to get information is Homebrewtalk.com They have a whole forum just for newbs http://www.homebrewtalk.com/ Please don't hesitate to contact me here or on Facebook if you want more information. I know this stuff pretty well. Kind of like Bill knows race cars... I know about brewing beer.  |
