Slainte from Ireland

[ILuvBeer!]

New member here.

Greetings from the Rep of Ireland. I used to do homebrew a long time ago, in my late teens/ early twenties where the key reason was more price & strength rather than quality. At the time I was using extract kits and table sugar and the quality of the finished product was considered a success if it was one step above barely drinkable.

I got back into the extract kits a year or so ago and was really impressed with the quality and encouraged by this, moved a few months ago from extract kits to grain. After a couple of very good grain brews (well I liked them anyway), I was lucky enough to get a Grainfather for Christmas and did the first run in this last weekend and have 40 pints of Double IPA in the fermenter and I'm anxiously awaiting the outcome.

One question- how does everyone deal with the steam from the boil step? It was running down the walls afterwards.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Do it outside lol

I'm a fine one to talk, my kitchen is the same way, even with the windows open and the extractor fan on.

Welcome by the way!

 

[phildo79]

Slainte, bruh

I put my boiler beside the back door, open it and use a small desk fan to blow the steam outside. I only started doing this because my GF was complaining about the smell. What smell, I hear you ask? Exactly! But it will solve your problem.

Slan

 

[Chippy_Tea]

A member posted this in another thread -

Be ready to turn the volume down when he stops speaking as the music is very loud.

 

[ILuvBeer!]

Thanks everyone. I appreciate the responses.

I think that I'll have to look at some form of extraction, but as I use the kitchen, the full on steam condenser probably won't go down too well. I could probably get away with a hood, some flexi pipe and an extraction fan though.

 

[The Baron]

Welcome to the forum

 

[Rodcx500z]

Hello and welcome

 

[Donegal john]

Welcome. What part of the island are you based ?
I am lucky to be able to brew in the garage and have an extractor fan above where I boil so no issue with steam.

 

[MrJay83]

Normally I brew out the back but now that it's winter I'm doing in the kitchen. I just open the door and move closer to the door after the mash. Coincidentally I've started doing 30m boils

 

[ILuvBeer!]

Welcome. What part of the island are you based ?
I am lucky to be able to brew in the garage and have an extractor fan above where I boil so no issue with steam.

I'm pretty much as far from the sea as you can be. Stick a pin in a map in the centre of the island and it'll be near my back garden.

 

[Bosch]

I'm pretty much as far from the sea as you can be. Stick a pin in a map in the centre of the island and it'll be near my back garden.

Athlone/Tullamore?

 

[ILuvBeer!]

Between Tullamore and Mullingar.
The centre of everything, but the middle of nowhere.

 

[Rwilts]

Welcome

 

[Donegal john]

Athlone/Tullamore?

I had thought mullingar. God bless you. we can’t all be from the good places.

 

[ILuvBeer!]

I had thought mullingar. God bless you. we can’t all be from the good places.

Were you not here for the Fleadh last year ? Everybody else from Donegal was .

 

[MrJay83]

I had thought mullingar. God bless you. we can’t all be from the good places.

Ahhh... It's not like he's from Cavan.

 

[Donegal john]

Were you not here for the Fleadh last year ? Everybody else from Donegal was .

Ahh you see I’m from Derry I only sleep in Donegal
And sure there’s Donegal men everywhere

 

[Bosch]

Were you not here for the Fleadh last year ? Everybody else from Donegal was .

Joe Dolan country?

 

[Donegal john]

Joe Dolan country?

Your such a good looking woman

 

[Bosch]

Your such a good looking woman

No show like a Joe show