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Hello everyone,
As the title says I just past the one year anniversary of my first brew. It was a Brewers Best American Amber, it turned out really well for fermenting in a super cold March Idaho basement. After that I knew I had the brewing bug and was running faster then I was learning. I had one other extract kit, then tried my hand at all grain, thinking I could make my own recipe by throwing a bunch of grain in the kettle, that did not turn out to say the least. Sense then I have read a few books from Palmers, Smith, and Papazian and have learned what it takes to build your own recipe.
My equipment starting out was a basic kit, 5gal kettle, hydrometer, couple buckets, a carboy and what not. I bent up my own chiller coil and was heating on my camp chef stove. I have built a 3'Tx4'Lx2'D ferment chamber with a 10k window AC unit. Over the last year I have bought a fridge and a few ball lock kegs. My buddy that owns a beer distributor company gave me a few decommissioned kegs and I propane fired one. the other keg just had a 1.5" triclamp welded in it and is being heated by a 5500w single element controlled by the Aburens EZ Boil. So I think most of my equipment needs and done I just need a few more faucets.
So far the last year has been a blast,
I'm happy to be here and hope I can contribute and learn a thing or two.
thanks
As the title says I just past the one year anniversary of my first brew. It was a Brewers Best American Amber, it turned out really well for fermenting in a super cold March Idaho basement. After that I knew I had the brewing bug and was running faster then I was learning. I had one other extract kit, then tried my hand at all grain, thinking I could make my own recipe by throwing a bunch of grain in the kettle, that did not turn out to say the least. Sense then I have read a few books from Palmers, Smith, and Papazian and have learned what it takes to build your own recipe.
My equipment starting out was a basic kit, 5gal kettle, hydrometer, couple buckets, a carboy and what not. I bent up my own chiller coil and was heating on my camp chef stove. I have built a 3'Tx4'Lx2'D ferment chamber with a 10k window AC unit. Over the last year I have bought a fridge and a few ball lock kegs. My buddy that owns a beer distributor company gave me a few decommissioned kegs and I propane fired one. the other keg just had a 1.5" triclamp welded in it and is being heated by a 5500w single element controlled by the Aburens EZ Boil. So I think most of my equipment needs and done I just need a few more faucets.
So far the last year has been a blast,
I'm happy to be here and hope I can contribute and learn a thing or two.
thanks