Brewing Beer with My Extra Time

[Nomad V]

Sitting around after being laid off hasn't been filled with free time. I spend hours each day pouring over Careerbuilder, Monster, Ihire, Simply Hired, Linkedin, Jobfox and other job boards. I'm also getting regular emails from people wanting me to sell insurance. I think that I need to take a day for myself though. It is time to brew beer.

Every now and then I like to brew my own beer. So, today I'll go into the garage and get out my brewing kit. There will be much washing and scrubbing getting things ready for the brewing. I believe I will brew my Maple Marzan, since I'm originally from Somerset, PA. Somerset makes the sweetest Maple Sugar and syrup in this hemisphere. Anybody out there no what spotsy is?

Regardless, I'll use a double dose of dark malt, a pint of maple sugar, some anise and some West Virginia hops that a friend gave me. It will be a six gallon batch, with a week or so in the fermenter and then another two weeks in the bottles. I like using those bottles with the ceramic lids. The reason is that you can avoid the bottling step, and those bottles are a little larger and then you don't have to do as much washing with those bottles. Brown bottles of course so that the light doesn't skunk the beer as with green bottles.

Are there any other home brewers out there? I'd like to here of some new recipes. I very much like trying new recipes every now and then.

 

[Sephiroth]

can you actually brew beer out of time? what would you call it, Flux Capacitor? Quantumbrau?

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

For some reason I'm wanting a nice fresh brewed beer. Nomad V think you could ship a 6 pack my way? I'll give you a honest opinion as long as it doesn't look like Budweiser I'm sure it will be good.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I have on a few occasions brewed my own wine. There is something satisfying about doing this, like baking your own bread. However I haven't made my own wine in several years now. I think about it from time to time, but the lack of time is usually why I don't pursue it often.

 

[Nomad V]

For some reason I'm wanting a nice fresh brewed beer. Nomad V think you could ship a 6 pack my way? I'll give you a honest opinion as long as it doesn't look like Budweiser I'm sure it will be good.

It could happen

 

[Nomad V]

can you actually brew beer out of time? what would you call it, Flux Capacitor? Quantumbrau?

It isn't actually out of time, it is "with" time. I should come up wiht a techno, sci-fi brew, except how would a person flavor it? Burned circuit flavor would not be that popular.

 

[RoJoHen]

I have a home brew kit, but I haven't taken it out of the box yet.

 

[Pingfah]

All the homebrew I have ever tried tasted like cabbage.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm home brewing kimchi at the moment which also tastes like cabbage.

As to beer, that is a project I hope to do some day.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Are you making mul kimchi or the usual chili paste variety?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'm making the usual one. Let's see it has.. Korean chillie flakes/powder, Chinese cabbage, some daikon, spring onions, garlic, tiny bit of ginger, fish sauce, sugar and salt. Didn't use the rice flour sometimes used. Everyone here is a chillie fanatic.

 

[Gov Kodos]

That sounds nice, mul kimchi is the summer variety and looks like this http://aesookkim.com/cooking/?p=590 I generally prefer it to the ordinary kimchi.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

That looks good, I especially like those cucumbers. According to that recipe it only lasts a week? So it's more of a fresh and less fermented dish? I think I've had some variety of it.

 

[Gov Kodos]

I guess so, I have never made it. It does get eaten quickly, so I guess the taste can go off quickly. It is really lovely during the heat and humidity here in Seoul.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I'll bet! It's freezing here at the moment though so refreshing fermented dishes aren't as appealing as spicy ones

I'm making kimchi until I feel it is good enough to give to my Korean relative, which will probably involve a lot of tweaking. That said I think it's better than the store bought stuff here.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Good luck on the recipe, I have no idea what would be right. My wife finds my taste in Korean food rather Philistine.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Well this is stupid but.. last night I dreamed my kimchi was talking to me.

 

[Gov Kodos]

'Feed me, teacake!' Was it saying something like that, perhaps?

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

It was lecturing me about how some of it was less covered by the fermenting liquid than other parts. It was ticked off