Quote Originally Posted by flomo
i haven't tried homebrewing, but my fishing buddy does and his beers are excellent
this is his setup

good luck brewwing
Nice!!.. Yes, i have several friends who are far more serious than myself, and they all suggest buying a turkey fryer and doing a full boil wort (where you boil your ingredients in a keg with the top cut off, then use a wort chiller (coiled up piece of copper that runs cold water to cool your wort down before you pitch your yeast), and they say it's the bitches tits and what not....

Currently I use my lobster pot (Maine love!!) and do about a 2 gallon boil, and then throw 3 gallons or so of water into my chest freezer for 6+ hours so that part is near freezing... then when mixing the two together I can get it right near what i need to pitch my yeast without killing it. So far I have strategies that make pretty solid beer with fairly minimal investment for equipment, and I'd like to keep it that way for a bit. As I think there are many variables ot control in my current set-up and I don't need to be spending a load of cash without SPECIFIC good reasons.

I did get my stout bottled tonight. So i'm a bit soused at the current time.

Note to swig... I'm well aware that any and all brews I try to put together have been done 1 million times before. Aside from injecting massive amounts of my own semen into a batch, I doubt I'll be able to achieve any unique flavors or recipes, but I'm having fun with what I'm doing. And so far, it's not terrible.