Increasing numbers going AG.
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snail59
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Im in my rookie Novice season with 6 AG brews under my belt. Did 2 kit brews first then over to the dark side.
(when I raced you had to complete 10 races in order to get rid of the Novice vest. Do I need to complete 10 brews to no longer be a novice brewer :rofl: )
(when I raced you had to complete 10 races in order to get rid of the Novice vest. Do I need to complete 10 brews to no longer be a novice brewer :rofl: )
dennisking
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Started with malt extact brew when I moved into my first home of my own in 1978, was brewing AG within a year so about 32 years. Guess that makes me an old fart of the forum.
BigYin
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Took less than a year for me to move over to the dark side. While I think it was the best brewing move you could make, the Mrs is less than impressed, but I guess you can't please them all the time :lol:
I think forums like this are far and away the main reason so many folk are moving into AG :thumb:
The sheer amount of information, help, guidance etc available on the web makes the whole thing so much easier to do. A few more tubs, a few kettles, a bit of copper tube and off you go! :lol:
I've been banging on about it at work to folk there, and suddenly two have done their first ever kits, while another, confirmed kit brewer of many years, has decided to start building his first AG brewery :mrgreen: :drink: :drink:
I think forums like this are far and away the main reason so many folk are moving into AG :thumb:
The sheer amount of information, help, guidance etc available on the web makes the whole thing so much easier to do. A few more tubs, a few kettles, a bit of copper tube and off you go! :lol:
I've been banging on about it at work to folk there, and suddenly two have done their first ever kits, while another, confirmed kit brewer of many years, has decided to start building his first AG brewery :mrgreen: :drink: :drink:
Baz Chaz
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This forum and the members of it made the move to AG easy :thumb:
........ the results are bloody good as well :drunk:
a bloody big thanks to all those who helped encouraged and dragged me kicking and screaming to 'the dark side' ......... I love it
........ the results are bloody good as well :drunk:
a bloody big thanks to all those who helped encouraged and dragged me kicking and screaming to 'the dark side' ......... I love it
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Been AG for around 18 years on and off, did kits for around 8 years prior. (Tom Caxton took my cherry)
I feel old too.
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I feel old too.
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shearclass
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I'd love to do AG, but two things are stopping me at the moment
a) time
b) money to buy everything i need to make the brewery (I'm not very DIY minded)
i reckon I'm probably younger than most people on here, and have a child a few days of the week, a girlfriend that i see a few days a week, and play five aside a few times a week. I not currently prepared to ditch either of them for the sake of AG, but one day in the future I'd love to do it.
I only started kit brewing as a money saving exercise (though because of all the equipment i've bought, the money saving is yet to happen) and am now ridiculously interested in it all. This hobby has randomly consumed me over the last couple of months, and when my life permits me, I'll start all grain.
I hope this forum is still around when i do, as it's taught me everything i know so far.
a) time
b) money to buy everything i need to make the brewery (I'm not very DIY minded)
i reckon I'm probably younger than most people on here, and have a child a few days of the week, a girlfriend that i see a few days a week, and play five aside a few times a week. I not currently prepared to ditch either of them for the sake of AG, but one day in the future I'd love to do it.
I only started kit brewing as a money saving exercise (though because of all the equipment i've bought, the money saving is yet to happen) and am now ridiculously interested in it all. This hobby has randomly consumed me over the last couple of months, and when my life permits me, I'll start all grain.
I hope this forum is still around when i do, as it's taught me everything i know so far.
BarnsleyBrewer
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You can start AG on a shoestring, you can get most of the stuff on freecycle and charity shops.
beer kits are o.k if you don't do false economy buying cheap ones!!
Have you tried TC yet?
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beer kits are o.k if you don't do false economy buying cheap ones!!
Have you tried TC yet?
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shearclass
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If that question was addressed to me, I'm going to say 'no', as I don't know what TC is.
I only started DRINKING real ale in the last 12 months... Rome wasn't built in a day!
I only started DRINKING real ale in the last 12 months... Rome wasn't built in a day!
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Sorry, TC is Turbo Cider made from apple juice.shearclass said:
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shearclass
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i have my first TC on the go now. It's the cheeky vimto recipe from this forum.
I'm a little confused as it's been bubbling for 13 days now, and is at about 9% strength.
i want the cider medium sweet (unlike my beer, which i want dry, bitter, and hoppy), and fizzy. How do i keep the cider sweetish, whilst also ensuring it is fizzy? If I bottle, will it just strip out all the sweetness and make it even stronger?
I'm a little confused as it's been bubbling for 13 days now, and is at about 9% strength.
i want the cider medium sweet (unlike my beer, which i want dry, bitter, and hoppy), and fizzy. How do i keep the cider sweetish, whilst also ensuring it is fizzy? If I bottle, will it just strip out all the sweetness and make it even stronger?
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evanvine
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Never ever ditched an AG, but have ditched a few kits!seanipops said:
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keith1664 said:
I think there's got to be a whole topic "AG on the cheap". I can see that some kit brewers must look at all the stainless finery that's posted in forum pictures, and think it's just too great a leap.
From what I've seen on the forum, there's also a goodly crowd of people who take great delight in "the cult of the junk box" (yes, I'm one) and "make do and mend".
Anyone want to offer up a "I made this from an old........"?
I was pretty lucky, the two vessels for my boiler and mash tun came from Victoria Packaging (my brewing chum and I both built at the same time so bought a pack of five, used two each then sold the other one on ebay).
Plastic bins - £32
Plumbing bits - £28
Kettles - £10
The chillers and foiled backed bubble wrap insulation were "donated" by local brewer Eddie Gadd so it was just a matter of getting some JG fittings which were about a fiver.
The good thing is that it is a 10 gallon set up so I can do a double brewlength or make some grain heavy beers without having to reduce the brewlength.
Since then I had the good fortune to pick up a 25L Burco style boiler from ebay for a fiver so I now have a separate HLT which I've converted for fly sparging at a cost of £16 and a flojet pump to aid recirc which was £21 delivered.
So my original outlay was £75 and the rest of it £42.
Plastic bins - £32
Plumbing bits - £28
Kettles - £10
The chillers and foiled backed bubble wrap insulation were "donated" by local brewer Eddie Gadd so it was just a matter of getting some JG fittings which were about a fiver.
The good thing is that it is a 10 gallon set up so I can do a double brewlength or make some grain heavy beers without having to reduce the brewlength.
Since then I had the good fortune to pick up a 25L Burco style boiler from ebay for a fiver so I now have a separate HLT which I've converted for fly sparging at a cost of £16 and a flojet pump to aid recirc which was £21 delivered.
So my original outlay was £75 and the rest of it £42.
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Apart from having a go with a couple of those crap brewzer things a few years ago I've only started brewing properly within the last year.
Two kits and then straight to AG via the biab method. I've said before the step up in cost from kit equipment to biab is minimal.
You can really make good beers this way :
Two kits and then straight to AG via the biab method. I've said before the step up in cost from kit equipment to biab is minimal.
You can really make good beers this way :
Was a kit brewer about twenty years ago, came back to brewing four and a half years ago did six kits then went AG. Used to brew once a fortnight so roughly 1000pints year then went ten gallon and now do twelve brews a year.
