I took up making homebrew beer a little under a year ago when for father's day last year my kids got me a Mr Beer homebrew kit. This kit makes 2.5 gallon batches of beer flavored water and was a fun start to my new hobby.
For Christmas of last year my wife stepped it up a notch by getting me a kegorator kit to convert the mini fridge we had in the garage to a 5 gallon CO2 pressurized beer tap system. With this setup we could have the homebrew on tap and not have to deal with bottles. After destroying the mini fridge we had, buying a new mini fridge, destroying that one, and then finally buying a third mini fridge we had a working kegorator.
Being as lazy as I am I didn't want to have to make 2 batches one after another in the Mr Beer kit, especially since each batch takes several weeks to ferment. We were off to Thomas Creek, a local brewery that has a small homebrew shop of homebrew supplies. There we got a 5 gallon homebrewing kit and our first ingredient kit to go with it. We were really impressed with the quality of our first real batch of beer and have continued brewing and consuming several more batches.
Today we have a Red Ale aging in a 5 gallon keg and an IPA that just finished fermenting in the carboy. Once the IPA has finished settling I'll be moving it over to our second 5 gallon keg to begin aging.
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