home brewing?

anyone here brew their own beer? i think it's my favorite hobby lately... :8:

I've wanted to for a long time. I'll get to it some day. Do you make ale or lager?

Not yet! I do wine right now, but I want to try Beer sometime. I read a little about it and it seemed really hard to do?? It made me feel like I needed all kinds of tubes and funnels and buckets but with wine I just use grape juice and sugar! Does the trick for now, until I get bored of it!

i make all kinds, but ales are much easier becaue you can just ferment and age it at room temps. none of it is that hard at all actually... you do have to boil and siphon, which i know you dont necessarily need to do for wine making; so if you can't handle boiling water or siphoning liquid into a bucket then i guess it could be considered hard :)
my buddy and i are getting good enough now that we're thinking of starting a small local brewery or a brewpub. i'll post up some recipes or more info if people are interested... not too many things beat a good beer that you've crafted yourself.

I'm definately interested. I've wanted to do it for a long time, but I'm a skunky pilsner fan, and I saw that it's a lot more work to make lager.

yeah my uncle used to do it, ive wanted to for a long time

Hubby has been a homebrewer for about 15 years now. I have been making wine and mead for about 8 years. Dh is VERY good at it. He is set up to make 15 gal at a time now. When he started he made it on the stove, now he grinds the grain, boils the wort on a propane burner outside, kegs or bottles it. He makes ESB's, Brown ale, pale ale, and hefe's mostly. It takes up a good part of the garage, but it is worth it.

heck yeah i'm making the switch to a 15 gal conical this spring if my jaguar carpet drops eggs.