notbob wrote:
> On 2014-11-23, Travis McGee > wrote:
>> Brewing Your Own Beer, With Help From an App
>
> I'll not go into all the errors I found in this article, but suffice
> to say, they are numerous. As for brewing, I have a 10 gal "all grain"
> system that I'll gladly sell for $2K.
>
> Yeah. Brewing beer is NOT cheaper.
>
> nb


I brewed my own beer for a while 10 or 15 years ago. About 5 pound
grain mashes, plus enough malt extract to brew an honest 5 gallons at a
time. Not sure why I got out of it; I think that's about the time I got
into guns and reloading, and I can only obsess about one hobby at a time.

I'm about to get started again; going to try a 3 gallon all-grain
Belgian Dubbel this weekend. I may stick with 3 and 4 gallon batches,
or I might scale up to 5 or 6 gallons or more, but I will have to find a
10 gallon brew kettle for that. (or make one)

I built an electric kettle ("hot liquor tank") out of a 90 mil plastic
bucket. It will bring 4 gallons of cold water to a rolling boil in
about 20 minutes. That should speed things up a bit when trying to brew
in the kitchen on the stove. The first brew will still take all day
because I have to make all the newbie mistakes again. Hopefully I can
get that down to about 3 hours with a little practice.

Bob