Homebrewing Beer

[Guest Mugster]

We were a bit less creative in college......but you can also try:

1 gallon jug of apple cider, empty a little head space out of the top of the bottle, throw in a handful of raisins or craisins (i prefer craisins), put a latex glove (or condom) over the top of the bottle and secure with a rubber band, place it in a warm place (in laundry room near the drier?) wait until the glove (or condom) inflates then deflates again. Its ready!! Enjoy!

Heh. Yeah, I tried fermenting cider without adding sugar, but i did use yeast. It didn't ferment enough for me, I think it only got up to about 3% but it was pretty tasty. It made a real good mulled cider.

I'm trying jungle juice, same basic recipe as i posted, scratch the fruit juice and use 2 pounds of raisons ground in the grinder. I let it ferment 3 weeks and filtered out the raison gunk. Smells pretty good. I'll let it run until it quits and fridge it, see what i got.

[Guest cjr]

If I drop you a line on my next trip through can I sample a gallon or so.

[Guest MidTNShooter]

When I lived in Memphis (many years ago), I was a member of the Bluff City Brewers Club. We brewed and drank and judged the Mid South Fair contest.

Those where good years in my life. I gathered three coca-cola syrup containers, a bottle of CO2 and some factory air gauges froma place in Collierville and started kegging. I really got tired of cleaning and capping cases of bottles.

Just brew, filter and pour in the containers. Pump some CO2 in and shake the H*LL out of it and pump more air in. Since no oxygen gets in, it stays "clean" till it's gone.

Does anyone know of a club here in Middle TN?

MTS

[Guest Jason F.]

Music City Brewers is the Nashville Club

Antioch Sud Suckers is the South Nashville Club

Mid State Brew Crew is the Murfreesboro and Rutherford County club

There is also a Club in Clarksville that is just getting going strong right now. I saw a few emails going around about them.

If you are into podcasts and such check out www.thebrewingnetwork.com

[bteague2]

I'm just starting to get into this, Poak how'd your kit turn out?

[Guest Metal]

As a beginner this is what I have been looking at.. I hale from a small town outside of Boston. I moved to tn 16 years ago. In this small town it is hard to get anything that is not BL... I recently went back home and just seeing all the good beer was emotional ...

I am all set up for kegging tho...

[Guest MidTNShooter]

Music City Brewers is the Nashville Club

Antioch Sud Suckers is the South Nashville Club

Mid State Brew Crew is the Murfreesboro and Rutherford County club

There is also a Club in Clarksville that is just getting going strong right now. I saw a few emails going around about them.

If you are into podcasts and such check out www.thebrewingnetwork.com

Many thanks !

MTS

[poak]

I'm just starting to get into this, Poak how'd your kit turn out?

Unfortunately, I haven't done it yet...

I've been a unique blend of busy and lazy...