[Homestead] Beer bottle recycling
Rob
becida at comcast.net
Sun Mar 8 17:30:59 EDT 2009
At 3/8/2009 01:17 PM,Mogrits wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Don Bowen <don.bowen at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > My thoughts are that the best use for brown beer bottles is holding more
> > beer. I have looked into home brewing but have not invested in any of the
> > necessary equipment nor have I found any good deals on Craig's list.
> >
> > Don Bowen KI6DIU
>
>Don, all you need are a couple of 5 gallon buckets, a large pot and a
>few assorted hoses and valves. Probably the most critical component is
>the "bubbler" used during fermentation and a fellow with your wiles
>could fashion one with a loop of hose and a glass of water. A bottle
>capper is a nice luxury but not completely necessary.
Home brewing is not expensive at all, I used to do it a lot. A bottle
capper is a really good thing to have, it makes everything a lot
simpler there at the end. I did have some beer that was not good at
all in the beginning (a root beer and some made from rice) but months
of aging helped a lot.
Rob
becida at comcast.net
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