mr_tyreman
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Hey, when it all works out, you must put out an invite for all the AHB boys and girls to come and bask in the glory!
Get yourself 5 or 6 of those blue/green 180litre plastic drums with the clampdown lid...
They are Airtight and by drilling a hole in the top you can run a hose into a half-filled 2 litre coke bottle for your Airlock..
Before i discovered All-grain i used to do this... Using 6-7 kit cans at a time...
At one point i had 5 full which is around 750 litres... for the exact same reasons you are thinking about it now...
At least with them you can sanitise properly, rack to each other, and you might have half a chance of temp control...
Any easy way out of this is for you to get involved with a case swap and sample some All-grain Beers...
2 days after i tried my first allgrain i tipped 3 full 180 litre fermenters out on the back lawn...
and then went to my local HBS and grabed a new 30litre fermenter, A fresh wort kit, some decent yeast and started making something i ACTUALLY ENJOYED... Not just something to drink for the sake of drinking...
its all about QUALITY now NOT QUANTITY... (but i wont mention i presently have 6 glycol chilled taps running 6 different Allgrain Beers with 12 full kegs, 4 fermenters bubbling supported by a 3 tier'd 50litre Gravity fed Nano-Brewery and alot of Temp controled fridge space.... )
Mate, but all things aside, give it a go... what have you got to loose except 1000 litres of probably very ordinary Beer...
Sqyre...
That's a good question.i was thinking to myself, is your brewing fun and exciting as a hobby, or just purely functional?
do you brew because its cheap, or do you brew because you enjoy experimenting and playing with recipes?
i'd hate to see you get sick of drinking beer, beecause you have 800ltrs of the same beer just haging around.
I reckon these suggestions about using other peoples' wort are kinda weird. We could all go and just buy beer, you know. It's not some rare product. I thought we like making it ourselves?
buying a can of hopped extract is using other peoples wort as well, its just that they've taken most of the water out of it to make it easier to transport. Fermenting a can of "rehydrated" extract or a fresh wort kit is pretty much the same process. Your fermenting wort someone else has made.
In term of temp control - brew a big Belgium and let it run wild !!!
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You can do it!
4. Get a good can opener... actually an electric one should save your wrist for more important things.
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I love the subtlety of this post
5. Too bad you didn't do it for Katie's Biggest Brewday.
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