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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:29 am
Hello everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself.
For fathers day my wife was kind enough to buy me a 1 gallon kit from Northern Brewer. The kit came with a partial mash kit, and the first batch turned out great. I quickly was thrown into the all grain world when I ordered 3 more kits and didn't notice they were all grain until they arrived at my door. I gave it ago, made my own mash tun out of a 2 gallon cooler and they turned out pretty good as well.
Over the last few months I have been thinking about brewing larger batches for several reasons, but didn't quite want to step up to 5 gallons at a time. I don't really have the space for the larger equipment either. I had been eye balling the Brewdemon fermenter for a couple of months, but still didn't take the plunge until last week. For a Christmas gift I asked for a couple of all grain kits from Midwest (we celebrated Christmas with the in laws over Thanksgiving this year). My mother in law went to a local brew shop in St. Paul and showed them what I wanted. Instead of making 1 gallon all grain kits, they gave her 3 Brewdemon refill kits telling her they will be similar to what I wanted. When I saw that they were the refill kits I decided to buy the fermenter as well.
The UPS man finally delivered my LBC last night, and my first batch of beer is already fermenting away this morning. Those refill kits are so much easier than all grain, a lot less work, and a lot less clean up. I'm not planning up giving up on all grain all together, but might supplement these refill and extract kits when I don't have the time to do all the work for all grain. Plus I need build a better false bottom on my mash tun.
My fermenter had a card that said if I joined I can get a discount for Brewdemon, how can I receive this discount?
I look forward to gaining more knowledge from the forum
For fathers day my wife was kind enough to buy me a 1 gallon kit from Northern Brewer. The kit came with a partial mash kit, and the first batch turned out great. I quickly was thrown into the all grain world when I ordered 3 more kits and didn't notice they were all grain until they arrived at my door. I gave it ago, made my own mash tun out of a 2 gallon cooler and they turned out pretty good as well.
Over the last few months I have been thinking about brewing larger batches for several reasons, but didn't quite want to step up to 5 gallons at a time. I don't really have the space for the larger equipment either. I had been eye balling the Brewdemon fermenter for a couple of months, but still didn't take the plunge until last week. For a Christmas gift I asked for a couple of all grain kits from Midwest (we celebrated Christmas with the in laws over Thanksgiving this year). My mother in law went to a local brew shop in St. Paul and showed them what I wanted. Instead of making 1 gallon all grain kits, they gave her 3 Brewdemon refill kits telling her they will be similar to what I wanted. When I saw that they were the refill kits I decided to buy the fermenter as well.
The UPS man finally delivered my LBC last night, and my first batch of beer is already fermenting away this morning. Those refill kits are so much easier than all grain, a lot less work, and a lot less clean up. I'm not planning up giving up on all grain all together, but might supplement these refill and extract kits when I don't have the time to do all the work for all grain. Plus I need build a better false bottom on my mash tun.
My fermenter had a card that said if I joined I can get a discount for Brewdemon, how can I receive this discount?
I look forward to gaining more knowledge from the forum
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