AlbertaBeer
Well-Known Member
Hey guys, total newbie here for the home brewing. Been doing a bunch of reading and watching videos and all that fun stuff and there’s just so many different ways to do it that it’s hard to decide!
We farm in northern Alberta and I’d like to start brewing with the cereals we grow. Typically on any given year we crop 2 different varieties of malt barley and 1-2 varieties of wheat (I’ve had some wheat beer before and wasn’t really a fan of it, but I’ll try some anyways) so I will have some different ingredients to play with. I haven’t looked much into growing hops in our climate but if they will produce I would definitely grow some hops just to say they came from the property too!
Anyways I’m still up in the air over what kind of equipment I’m going to go with. I’m definitely one of those guys that wants to spend the money up front and do it ‘right’ so it’s not going to be Home Depot buckets, but I also don’t want to throw money away on something unnecessary.
I’ve been thinking about going with a 10.5 foundry as electric brewing is definitely the way I want to go, it sounds like a decent unit and is relatively cheap. I’m thinking about going with a unitank (probably blichmann g4), mostly because I like the idea of being able to ferment, carbonate and then bottle from one unit.
Im pretty well decided on bottling rather than keg, it’s a bit of a pain I’m sure but simpler and more sanitary imo than a dozen dirty and sweaty guys fiddling with a tap lol
Any thoughts, suggestions, input?
We farm in northern Alberta and I’d like to start brewing with the cereals we grow. Typically on any given year we crop 2 different varieties of malt barley and 1-2 varieties of wheat (I’ve had some wheat beer before and wasn’t really a fan of it, but I’ll try some anyways) so I will have some different ingredients to play with. I haven’t looked much into growing hops in our climate but if they will produce I would definitely grow some hops just to say they came from the property too!
Anyways I’m still up in the air over what kind of equipment I’m going to go with. I’m definitely one of those guys that wants to spend the money up front and do it ‘right’ so it’s not going to be Home Depot buckets, but I also don’t want to throw money away on something unnecessary.
I’ve been thinking about going with a 10.5 foundry as electric brewing is definitely the way I want to go, it sounds like a decent unit and is relatively cheap. I’m thinking about going with a unitank (probably blichmann g4), mostly because I like the idea of being able to ferment, carbonate and then bottle from one unit.
Im pretty well decided on bottling rather than keg, it’s a bit of a pain I’m sure but simpler and more sanitary imo than a dozen dirty and sweaty guys fiddling with a tap lol
Any thoughts, suggestions, input?