Home Brewing...
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Anyone tried it.Me dad used to it with loads of bags of sugar....real knock out drops stuff. I'm tempted to try it this xmas, a nice stout or bitter, trouble is if this winters as bad as last wont the cold affect the fermentation.
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I used to do it when I was a teenager. I used the kits you could get in Boots but always added loads more sugar. They worked out OK'ish.
I've always fancied doing it from scratch with the hops etc, but never got around to buying all the gear.
I used to ferment mine in the kitchen and had a little immersion heater to keep it warm, so the outside temp made no difference.0 -
Redjeep! wrote:I used to do it when I was a teenager. I used the kits you could get in Boots but always added loads more sugar. They worked out OK'ish.
I've always fancied doing it from scratch with the hops etc, but never got around to buying all the gear.
I used to ferment mine in the kitchen and had a little immersion heater to keep it warm, so the outside temp made no difference.
Yes, me too - on top of the fridge where there was always a bit of heat rising plus an immersion heater. Results were a bit variable - I never knew whether it would turn out very drinkable or barely drinkable. I think I self-medicated throughout the Thatcher era and the fact that I remember very little of it suggests that it worked well enough.0 -
I too used the boots kits plus extra sugar. The extra stong bitter was really very good if you had the patience to let it ferment fully. My brewing career ended when we moved house and the central heating boiler was located in the garage.Two wheels good,four wheels bad0
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God, this is a real sign of the times isn't it ! People thinking about going back to home brew, just like in the 80's.
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My Dad used to do home brew a long time back. We went away for Xmas holidays one year for three weeks and came home to find the batch he had bottled before we left must have had a bit much sugar or something. Too much fizz as a result. Anyway, every single bottle had exploded in the workshop where it was stored. Half-dried beer and broken glass EVERYWHERE...
Apparently made quite an impressive noise, according to the neighbours, who were woken at about 3am by it.Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS0 -
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I've been brewing beer for nearly 10 years, i started out on tins but soon quickly progressed to all grain brewing and the results are fantastic. I currently have a 50 litre set up and 6 kegs as well as many bottles for my beer. Its loads cheaper than buying beer and there's no limit with what you can make.
If anyone is interested in brewing your own beer the tins are a good place to start but whatever you do dont use white sugar and dont overdo the sugar or you'll end up with that homebrew taste thats almost unpalatable. Golden syrup, brown sugar honey or treacle are preferable.
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Ironically I was just barrelling up some ale last night.
Easy to do and 20p per pint once you have got over the initial outlay and re-brewed.0 -
Been doing it for quite a while and have 3 kegs on tap at a time(the fridge holds 4 but one is for ginger beer)
Here's a good read to start with http://www.howtobrew.com/intro.html0 -
I used to home-brew in the 80s. I started when I was a student. We had the ideal environment for it - a concrete cellar that stayed cool in the summer and my room which stayed hot pretty much all year round as I was above the kitchen.
I used Boots kits - bitter mainly. then a bit later I made a batch of cider at my parents' house - the last 2 or 3 to be opened burst out of the bottle and hit the ceiling, but what we got into the glass tasted pretty good.
My last attempt was wine, about 10 years ago and it made me & the wife really ill. So I won;t be doing that again - it wasn't from a kit; grapes, pineapple and a load of sugar.
I've been thinking about havign another go - sticking to beer though. Anyone know if Boots still do the kits?0 -
They do... Wilkos too.
Mine is the Youngs Brew Buddy kit.0 -
I'm hoping there's time for me to get one going for xmas.
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you're leaving it late if you want it to taste anything like. I didn't think boots still did the kit. There's probably a good hbs (home brew shop
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If Boots don't the stock in our local shop will be old !!!! 0
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If you're interested in brewing beer and want to avoid the pitfalls then check out
www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum pretty friendly place, they taught me a lot. I'm pretty sure I've seen LouThePoo there too0 -
you certainly have but not for a long time, i learned most of what i know on there then it got all funny between a few posters, some of them left and opened a new forum so flicked between the two. didnt have a pc for a bit either so i just faded away. might go back soon and check out what its like now. whats your username on there?Gypsum_Fantastic wrote:If you're interested in brewing beer and want to avoid the pitfalls then check out
www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum pretty friendly place, they taught me a lot. I'm pretty sure I've seen LouThePoo there tooRiding a Merida FLX Carbon Team D Ultralite Nano from Mike at Ace Ultra Cycles, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton 01902 7254440 -
Home brewing has come on leaps and bounds in recent year.
The Woodeford's kits are fantastic and so incredibly easy. My first brew was a pint of Woodeford's Wherry and no one that I gave it to guessed that it was home brew. After tasting it, my dad (an ale fan) went straight to the home brew shop and bought himself a kit!0 -
Thats a nice kit, i made that a couple of times, much better than the 1 tin kitsNuggs wrote:Home brewing has come on leaps and bounds in recent year.
The Woodeford's kits are fantastic and so incredibly easy. My first brew was a pint of Woodeford's Wherry and no one that I gave it to guessed that it was home brew. After tasting it, my dad (an ale fan) went straight to the home brew shop and bought himself a kit!Riding a Merida FLX Carbon Team D Ultralite Nano from Mike at Ace Ultra Cycles, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton 01902 7254440 -
I looked in to homebrewing earlier this year as i have really got in to my ales this year. I wondered whether a homebrew club could start, produce and bottle however many then exchange with others for their homebrew!0
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there are 2 homebrewforums that do that! then you review each others brews.awallace wrote:I looked in to homebrewing earlier this year as i have really got in to my ales this year. I wondered whether a homebrew club could start, produce and bottle however many then exchange with others for their homebrew!Riding a Merida FLX Carbon Team D Ultralite Nano from Mike at Ace Ultra Cycles, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton 01902 7254440 -
I've got a load of home brew stuff in the loft that hasn't been used for about 10 years. How much of a clean will it need to get it back in to service and is there anything special I should clean it with other than a bit of washing up liquid followed by a sterilising solution?0
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hd i have any equipment that has stood for some time i wash it out with warm soapy water, rinse, swill it out with thin bleach, rinse well, clean out with sterilising powder and warm water, rinse well. That should be plenty, if anything is growing after that its a tough little bugger!Riding a Merida FLX Carbon Team D Ultralite Nano from Mike at Ace Ultra Cycles, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton 01902 7254440
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Wheelspinner wrote:My Dad used to do home brew a long time back. We went away for Xmas holidays one year for three weeks and came home to find the batch he had bottled before we left must have had a bit much sugar or something. Too much fizz as a result. Anyway, every single bottle had exploded in the workshop where it was stored. Half-dried beer and broken glass EVERYWHERE...
Apparently made quite an impressive noise, according to the neighbours, who were woken at about 3am by it.
That does it.
I'm going to give it a try.Giant Escape M1....
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Haha...I can remember 15 years ago or so my dad used to do an absolute load of home brewing....did wine too....absolutely tons of it-all from the boots kits. Got me all nostalgic now! I've got the feeling he's got rid of all of the kit now though
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Just mentioned this thread to the missus....mentioned as a sort of joke the possibilty of doing a home brew-she got all techy saying we hadn't got the room (2 of us in a 3 bed house :roll: ) may just see if my dad has got any of the stuff left and get a brew on! :P0
