[Prof.]

"FISHING"

 

[Prof.]

I was a very keen Home brewer many years ago..
It was a lot of fun but also very frustrating at times..and for a long time, never really quite tasted like the real thing...but still pleasant enough..
Then I stumbled on the secret one day of how to get that real commercial beer taste..and not have any sediment stir up when you poured from the bottle..
That's when I started going through gallons of the stuff!

Just a year or so later I gave up drinking...it was getting out of hand!!..and I threw all my gear away..
It can become very addictive..:bigsmile:

 

[Prof.]

I know it is a very addicting hobby. I grew my onw hops for many years. I have been brewing for 21 years now and only had a few batches that went bad. The worst is the exploding bottles from infected beer.
If you never seen a bottle blow up you don't want to be any where near it. It could kill you. Once I had a bottle explode and when it blow apart the glass was enbedded into the walls and door of the closet I kept it in. One went then another. I couldn't open the door without fear of being killed. When they stopped I took the rest outside and put them in the snow. I popped the top to let some pressure out to save a few.
I don't drink them to fast. I like to make it last.

In the 25 odd years I was brewing, I never had one bottle explode on me...and only a few volcanic eruptions when I took the cap off! ..
I have heard of guys though that have had crates of beer explode on them..and practically wrecked their storage cupboards..They're like little bombs exploding and just as deadly :bigsmile:

About 2years after I stopped brewing, I found a crate of beer in the shed that I had forgotten about..
I was going to throw it out, but I wondered what it would taste like after all that time!!
Surprisingly, it still had gas and tasted just as good!!!

 

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Re: Brewing... I don't drink alcohol but absolutely love ginger beer...non-al of course. Do any of you guys have recipes for brewing ginger beer that don't involve investing tons of money? Just curious.

I've never made ginger beer..The taste never appealed to me..so I can't help you with any recipes..
Someone else on here might chime in with one..