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being thinking about doing some home brewing, ales and stouts would be my drink of choice.

anybody here brew there own beer.
 
No but I want to get into it, a couple of mates are doing it and reckon you get some decent beer and cider from it.
 
Eclipsedesign used to homebrew, not sure if he is on the forums anymore. Think he mentioned somthing about rehab last year.

Would like to get into it as a hobby, not so much for the getting pissed angle. but to become one of those bearded CAMRA types and see how my moonshine would stack up with others.

Would probably go for IPA's as i love really hoppy stuff
 
I used to do it using kits, and I am researching getting back into it but full grain brewing this time. A mate got into it and he is now doing it as a full time job at the Beer Factory in Bristol.
 
gannetsarewe said:
I used to do it using kits, and I am researching getting back into it but full grain brewing this time. A mate got into it and he is now doing it as a full time job at the Beer Factory in Bristol.
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Good man. I enjoy their Acer and Sunrise in a few of my locals. This year was supposed to be my first crack at cider. Weather ruined my harvest though. Almost no apples this year from my trees
 
Macerate (grind) one-half cake of yeast or half an envelope of dry yeast in
50 mL of water in a beaker, add 0.35 g of disodium hydrogen phosphate,
and transfer this slurry to a 500-mL round-bottomed flask. Add a solution of
51.5 g of sucrose in 150 mL of water, and shake to ensure complete mixing.
Fit the flask with a one-hole rubber stopper containing a bent glass tube that
dips below the surface of a saturated aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide
(limewater) in a 6-in. test tube (Fig. 1). The tube in limewater will act as a
seal to prevent air and unwanted enzymes from entering the flask, but will
allow gas to escape.1 Place the assembly in a warm spot in your desk (the
optimum temperature for the reaction is 35°C) for one week, at which time
the evolution of carbon dioxide will have ceased. What is the precipitate in
the limewater?

Upon completion of fermentation add 10 g of Celite filter aid
(diatomaceous earth, face powder) to the flask, shake vigorously, and filter.
Use a 5.5-cm Biichner funnel placed on a neoprene adapter or Filtervac
atop a 500-mL filter flask that is attached to the water aspirator through a
trap by vacuum tubing (Fig. 2). Since the apparatus is top-heavy, clamp the
flask to a ring stand. Moisten the filter paper with water and apply gentle
suction (water supply to aspirator turned on full force, clothespin on trap
partially closed), and slowly pour the reaction mixture onto the filter. Wash
out the flask with a few milliliters of water from your wash bottle and rinse
the filter cake with this water. The filter aid js used to prevent the pores of
the filter paper from becoming clogged with cellular debris from the yeast.
The filtrate, which is a dilute solution of ethanol contaminated with bits
of cellular material and other organic compounds (acetic acid if you are not
careful), is saved in a stoppered flask until it is distilled following the
procedure outlined in Chapter 5.
 
I'm still alive and kicking Liberal Media :)

Yeah I used to homebrew ale, got pretty good results as well. From a cost side of things I think it worked out about 40 pence a pint or thereabouts which is pretty damn good. Just went to the local pharmacy and bought a kit, about £10 or so IRRC, as long as you follow the instructions you can't really go wrong. The only problem I found was the impatience being hard for pence and having no alcohol then ending up drinking the semi-ready treacle...

edit: think they're more like £20 actually
 
eclipsedesign said:
I'm still alive and kicking Liberal Media :)

Yeah I used to homebrew ale, got pretty good results as well. From a cost side of things I think it worked out about 40 pence a pint or thereabouts which is pretty damn good. Just went to the local pharmacy and bought a kit, about £10 or so IRRC, as long as you follow the instructions you can't really go wrong. The only problem I found was the impatience being hard for pence and having no alcohol then ending up drinking the semi-ready treacle...
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Now theres a blast from the past
Good to see you back, hope all is good :)
 
Ceres said:
Macerate (grind) one-half cake of yeast or half an envelope of dry yeast in
50 mL of water in a beaker, add 0.35 g of disodium hydrogen phosphate,
and transfer this slurry to a 500-mL round-bottomed flask. Add a solution of
51.5 g of sucrose in 150 mL of water, and shake to ensure complete mixing.
Fit the flask with a one-hole rubber stopper containing a bent glass tube that
dips below the surface of a saturated aqueous solution of calcium hydroxide
(limewater) in a 6-in. test tube (Fig. 1). The tube in limewater will act as a
seal to prevent air and unwanted enzymes from entering the flask, but will
allow gas to escape.1 Place the assembly in a warm spot in your desk (the
optimum temperature for the reaction is 35°C) for one week, at which time
the evolution of carbon dioxide will have ceased. What is the precipitate in
the limewater?

Upon completion of fermentation add 10 g of Celite filter aid
(diatomaceous earth, face powder) to the flask, shake vigorously, and filter.
Use a 5.5-cm Biichner funnel placed on a neoprene adapter or Filtervac
atop a 500-mL filter flask that is attached to the water aspirator through a
trap by vacuum tubing (Fig. 2). Since the apparatus is top-heavy, clamp the
flask to a ring stand. Moisten the filter paper with water and apply gentle
suction (water supply to aspirator turned on full force, clothespin on trap
partially closed), and slowly pour the reaction mixture onto the filter. Wash
out the flask with a few milliliters of water from your wash bottle and rinse
the filter cake with this water. The filter aid js used to prevent the pores of
the filter paper from becoming clogged with cellular debris from the yeast.
The filtrate, which is a dilute solution of ethanol contaminated with bits
of cellular material and other organic compounds (acetic acid if you are not
careful), is saved in a stoppered flask until it is distilled following the
procedure outlined in Chapter 5.
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I think I'd have to do this wearing a gas mask and lab gear to indulge my Breaking Bad fantasies
 
Furious George said:
Good man. I enjoy their Acer and Sunrise in a few of my locals. This year was supposed to be my first crack at cider. Weather ruined my harvest though. Almost no apples this year from my trees
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I was beyant for a party last month and called in to see my friend at their brewery where I did a rapid 20 beer tasting session, had one of the great days of my year.

I am thinking of getting one of these pricy but getting great reviws on the home brew forums
http://www.speidels-braumeister.de/Braumeister:::1.html
 
Expensive, but good kit makes a big difference. My cider press cost me over £300. All I need now is a decent year of weather and my apple trees to put out a proper harvest.
 
Does the kit take up a lot of room and can you store it in a garage or has to be inside and somewhere warm?
 
I've brewed stuff before just using big 5 litre mineral water bottles, has to be somewhere room temperature and in the dark really, but it doesnt take up much room.
 
I'll have to give it a miss for now then, only place I could really do it would be in the garage. I imagine it stinks a bit?
 
Not really, its only CO2 which is given off and you use a bubble trap to keep it sealed, the smell is pretty pleasant, unless you screw it up and start growing bacteria. Sterilise everything with miltons fluid and it should be ok though.
 
be careful, my dad used to do it and it packs on the weight. and as it tastes so much better than shop bought stuff youll probably find it hard to go back. somewhat like real vs instant coffee



id suggest getting a starter pack and figure out your own method from there
 
I've had a go 3 times now, made two bitters and a lager, the bitters turning out a lot better than the lager.It's relatively cheap, bought a brewing kit for £30 with all the stuff in I need, then just buy a £15 beer kit in the different flavours, and they churn out 40 pints. Give it a crack
 
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