Preserves Online: Home Beer Brew

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Home Beer Brew

I'm learning to brew home made root beer and other beverages. This seemed like the best site for resources I've found so far. I've taken to drinking home made rootbeer and look forward to testing recipes and money willing, forced carbonation.I've always wanted to try and make home made root beer (yeast fermented via concentrate). Recently I bit the bullet and got a basic setup which includes 48 plastic PETN bottles and caps, a very large bucket, and some different root beer flavors. I've mucked about with the standard extract recipes and recently ventured into testing some different sugars and even adding vanilla to see if the wife would like it; my daughter loves all the tasting!I've been into beer since I was 15, my dad would share beer with me. I worked 5 years for a brewery in Michigan, doing everything from serving beer as a beer tender to washing & filling kegs, I spent 3 years six packing beer in cans. I love to drink a good, smooth beer, I'm not up for strong hopiness, but definitely not super sweet either. Give me a well balanced beer, blonde, amber, pale, pils, and I'll drink it all day long. My brew setup was a half barrel keg along with a 10 gallon cooler and 5 gallon buckets for the past year. As of today I now am using a a single tier tri-keggle brewhouse with 2 pumps, nearly all stainless hardware and plan to improve it over time.