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[Challenger85]

The Anvil Foundry and the Grainfather are pretty cool setups. You’ll love kegging over bottling, . it saves a lot of time and if you need it to go to a BBQ or something you can always fill a growler.

Yeah bottling got too tedious for me, even with 22’s it takes forever. Then you have to drink a 22 every time you want a beer. I’m still going to bottle some but I’ll likely get a beer gun and just bottle off the keg after it’s carbed. I like that setup you have too though, he used it to clean the keg with the controller and everything, seemed really nice to use.

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[Free2roam]

Yeah bottling got too tedious for me, even with 22’s it takes forever. Then you have to drink a 22 every time you want a beer. I’m still going to bottle some but I’ll likely get a beer gun and just bottle off the keg after it’s carbed. I like that setup you have too though, he used it to clean the keg with the controller and everything, seemed really nice to use.

My buddy does a raspberry peach mead also is part i believe owner in a local winery Cutthroat Wines. Won first place Nevada best red if I remember correctly.

 

[Challenger85]

My buddy does a raspberry peach mead also is part i believe owner in a local winery Cutthroat Wines. Won first place Nevada best red if I remember correctly.

Nice! I have never attempted mead or wine but I enjoy them. Likely going to France this summer to visit some friends, first time, so it’ll be great to really try some classic wine examples.

 

[am1978]

Nice! I have never attempted mead or wine but I enjoy them. Likely going to France this summer to visit some friends, first time, so it’ll be great to really try some classic wine examples.

I made a mead back in 2006 and made the mistake of using flip top bottles with the gaskets….bad idea. I guess it wasn’t done fermenting because they spewed mead mist everywhere. Sticky mess. I like Redstone Mead. Went there in 2005 and that was what inspired me to try making it.

 

[Challenger85]

I made a mead back in 2006 and made the mistake of using flip top bottles with the gaskets….bad idea. I guess it wasn’t done fermenting because they spewed mead mist everywhere. Sticky mess. I like Redstone Mead. Went there in 2005 and that was what inspired me to try making it.

Whats wrong with those tops?

 

[am1978]

Whats wrong with those tops?

I think the mead wasn’t done fermenting. I used them for beer before. I think there was enough pressure built up that it was coming out at the gasket so slowly you couldn’t see it, but the box and everything around it was sticky. I keg everything now.

 

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[fun2drum]

How are old are you? Serious question. I feel like this IPA (west coast) fad hit in the late 90s and a lot of us are over it now—it’s a following trying to find relevance though whirlpooling hops, tropical hop varieties, haziness, etc.. I brew my own, mostly light 4-5% sours. There is a generational thing here. 44 here.

I'm 57, and you may have a good point about age.
I think that I've reverted back to my college days when we were drinking domestic beers every day, and the idea of microbreweries was in its infanthood. There were no sours except when one of the domestics had gone past its shelf life or maybe had impurities from the brewery and gone "skunky". Skunky beer was beer that we threw out - not one we would drink deliberately.

So anyway - yeah. I was already very comfortable drinking the domestic beers that were the thing back in the 70's and 80's when I first started enjoying beer. I'll still have a hoppy IPA once in a while with friends, but when we're out somewhere now I'll usually order a PBR, Bud, or Miller Lite rather than a microbrew. It's just enjoyable and drinkable, "cold beer" with no pretense. Somebody who's young enough to have started their beer journey in the age of microbreweries probably wouldn't have the same definition of bad beer that I do. Sours may not have developed into such a gag-worthy taste to them.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Kids........

 

[Wkyfiregladdy]

I'm 57, and you may have a good point about age.
I think that I've reverted back to my college days when we were drinking domestic beers every day, and the idea of microbreweries was in its infanthood. There were no sours except when one of the domestics had gone past its shelf life or maybe had impurities from the brewery and gone "skunky". Skunky beer was beer that we threw out - not one we would drink deliberately.

So anyway - yeah. I was already very comfortable drinking the domestic beers that were the thing back in the 70's and 80's when I first started enjoying beer. I'll still have a hoppy IPA once in a while with friends, but when we're out somewhere now I'll usually order a PBR, Bud, or Miller Lite rather than a microbrew. It's just enjoyable and drinkable, "cold beer" with no pretense. Somebody who's young enough to have started their beer journey in the age of microbreweries probably wouldn't have the same definition of bad beer that I do. Sours may not have developed into such a gag-worthy taste to them.

I’m 30, I enjoy the regular domestics mainly, I’m dabbling with home brew and enjoy some micro brews, im not a big ipa fan but my brother in law also home brews and he does a citra ipa that is fantastic, all microbrews are different, I think it depends on the person who’s drinking, my preference is the main domestics you can buy anywhere and cold like you said

 

[am1978]

I'm 57, and you may have a good point about age.
I think that I've reverted back to my college days when we were drinking domestic beers every day, and the idea of microbreweries was in its infanthood. There were no sours except when one of the domestics had gone past its shelf life or maybe had impurities from the brewery and gone "skunky". Skunky beer was beer that we threw out - not one we would drink deliberately.

So anyway - yeah. I was already very comfortable drinking the domestic beers that were the thing back in the 70's and 80's when I first started enjoying beer. I'll still have a hoppy IPA once in a while with friends, but when we're out somewhere now I'll usually order a PBR, Bud, or Miller Lite rather than a microbrew. It's just enjoyable and drinkable, "cold beer" with no pretense. Somebody who's young enough to have started their beer journey in the age of microbreweries probably wouldn't have the same definition of bad beer that I do. Sours may not have developed into such a gag-worthy taste to them.

The beer industry has changed a lot in the past 25 years, but more so in the past 10. Drinkability is my thing. I stay away from beers over 7% because I can usually smell the alcohol through the beer. The styles and subcategories of those styles have exploded. Just reading through the BJCP styles is crazy. Creativity took off in 2015 when they had to rewrite the styles to capture what people were brewing.

If your curious, the 2015 style guide (which didn’t have hazy or juicy IPAs among other things) and the current style guide are here: https://www.bjcp.org/bjcp-style-guidelines/

 

[am1978]

I’m 30, I enjoy the regular domestics mainly, I’m dabbling with home brew and enjoy some micro brews, im not a big ipa fan but my brother in law also home brews and he does a citra ipa that is fantastic, all microbrews are different, I think it depends on the person who’s drinking, my preference is the main domestics you can buy anywhere and cold like you said

We could probably start a page with a favorite beer style poll, so this page can get back to its other hilarious stuff.

 

[HouseOfWolves]

We could probably start a page with a favorite beer style poll, so this page can get back to its other hilarious stuff.

Cold and Free are my favorite styles -- in that order.

 

[aceisback]

Kids........

 

[Wkyfiregladdy]

This thread has so many different topics going on… mainly beer… bourbon/ whiskey…. And then the off the wall hilarious shit

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