The Beer Nerd - what are you drinking / brewing thread

Ya, because monkish actually used to make really good fucking beer. At most they would only ever have 1 IPA on tap. All they did was Belgians and sours, and they were damn good. Then they went down the hazebro path and now that’s all they make. They don’t make anything like they used to. It’s a damn shame.

 

I’m with you there bro. All iwant is to begin a hobby and start from there. If I can brew like a five ten gal batch.
If I told my wife I spent $3000 on a still,
It would be a good way to end up on the couch for a very long time. Until she starts drinking my beer

 

I’m lucky in that my girlfriend loves beer too and wants to brew. So we will split the cost of everything. She gets 20% off at a homebrew store so we will definitely be buying a decent setup. But not that 7k setup haha. I’m sure we’ll probablt spend close to a grand though

 

Look man they still make good beer.
Just what we are not into and I fully agree about the path they have chosen.

But that's there choice just like what happen to Noble.


Really sucks!


Been to Riip lately?
Tried dankster squad?

 

I might be a tad bit biased, but I believe North Carolina brews some damn good beer. Enjoying a sixer of this Scotch Ale on my one day off this week. Cheers!

 

They make the same exact hazy ipa and re label it and then charge $22 for a 4 pack. Fuck them.

Who ever made 4 packs also can go fuck themselves. I want 6 packs back. #bringbackthesixpack

 

Ok bro dont yell at me. Shit!
Such hate!

I put a 4 pack back yesterday because of the cost and got a 6er of something half the cost that I knew I enjoyed.
Fuck the 4 pack

 

I'm over the 4 pack. I'd rather pay the price for a 6 pack of 12oz than a full pint. Sometimes I want a beer, but not a whole pint, ya know? That's why I love Sierra Nevada haha.

 

Fuckem feed em beans
I absolutely agree . For a hundred years it’s been sis packs

 

I started brewing on a small ass Mr. Beer kit back when I was 20 and gradually moved on to Extract and All-Grain now doing 5-10 gallon batches. I think now I am ready to make a big ass step forward in brewing. I've been saving a portion of each commission check for a while plus my best friend is going in with me so its not all that bad in the long run. "If" we do get lucky and start a brewery this system will be used as a small batch/experiment system of half barrel brews.

 

The list of breweries participating in Sierra Nevada’s charity is growing quite large. Got a fe local breweries on the list. Beer really has the power to bring everyone together.

https://www.sierranevada.com/resilience-butte-county-proud-ipa

 

Ya we're definitely not doing a Mr Beer kit haha. We're not even gonna do extract, cuz fuck that. We're going straight to all grain. My friend who works for Brouwerij West in production is gonna help set it all up and what not. I just can't wait to get a kegerator so I can have beer on tap all the time!

 

That is an insane amount of breweries. I got to the "C's" and stopped it was so long.

 

I have a kegerator setup run from the basement up into a tap built into the kitchen countertop. Use a chest freezer and build a “keezer”. I have it hooked up to a temp regulator and it keeps it 39* works great. Had a fridge before that and it wasn’t keeping the beer cold enough and the fridge died out

 

Bad fridge maybe? My buddy has had a fridge tap for years and never had a problem. I’m getting the fridge for $50 so hard to pass up on that.

 

The compressor went out on the fridge and it was cheaper to just replace it with a chest freezer. Brand new the freezer was only $100. They can be had for much cheaper all over Places like CL.

Post up a pic when you get it all setup

 

I'll see what I can find for some freezers. What size do you have? And how many/size kegs do you run? I'll be doing a 2 5gal setup

 

It’s a 9 cu ft one I believe. The first keg I ran in the chest freezer was a full size barrel of yuengling. Still had room to stacks of 4 pack cans in there plus I use the basket to keep my hoses neat. Now I have a sixer in it which holds about 5gal. I could easily fit 3 in there if you were running 6th kegs or corny kegs

 

@uhplifted google keezer and you’ll see how people have it set up. It’s much easier only because it’s a simple wood collar built between the chest and the lid and you install your taps or hoses through the wood rather than messing around putting holes in a fridge (unless the holes are already done for you)
Then just sealed the seams up with some foam tape and Great stuff.

Used one of these to reg the temps.

$35 Inkbird ITC-308 Digital Temperature Controller Outlet Thermostat 2-Stage 1100W with Sensor Reptile Beer Brewing Kegs Fridge Cured Meat Breeding Growing

https://www.amazon.com/Inkbird-Itc-...controller&dpPl=1&dpID=417y0W4HFmL&ref=plSrch