[TriLUG] OT beer making, was kernel panic with knoppix v3.3

[Marty Ferguson]

It's not difficult.  I bought the stuff to do it while up in Indy
on the Roche gig.  1st batch was excellent.  2nd batch was lousy,
but I had heard about using water from a local artesian well which,
in my opinion, added a certain skank factor to the recipe which I found
undesireable.

The simplest method is to brew a room-temperature ale using a single
5 gallon carboy with an air trap on top.  You can have (nominal) 5 gals
of fresh beer in less than 2 weeks.  I say nominal, because you have to
siphon off the beer, and leave behind the solid matter and some beer sludge.
Just put the crud in your compost pile and clean the carboy for the next
batch.

You don't really need all of the stuff they include in the "starter
kits", but you do need to start saving "real" beer bottles.  No screw-off
lids.  Sarnac, Carolina Brewery, Bass, Newcastle...  Brown glass is best for
shelf life, but green is really OK if you don't store your bottled beer on
the sunporch.



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Subject: [TriLUG] OT beer making, was kernel panic with knoppix v3.3


On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:37:26AM -0500, Marty Ferguson wrote:
> Do you use a local supplier, or do you order over the internet?
> Have you been to... ?
> http://www.americanbrewmaster.com/gen.htm

Local. Cool.  Always interested in making beer but never have
made any.

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Mike

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