Home Brewing

[guuna]

Hello Everyone

I'm fairly new here so please forgive me if this topic has been covered before.

I will admit that i do enjoy a drink occasionally and have been taking note of the way in which the Illuminati controlled government and related agencies (in UK!)have taken to penalizing the pleasure of a drink in the evenings.

I would like to take up home brewing again as a measure to stymie these killjoys, I did it before but with my life style of frequent moving around have had to get rid of my equiptment.

Does anyone out there do home brewing, or have suggestions or recipes?

[nessa felagund]

My husband brews beer at home. As a matter of fact, he brewed some oatmeal stout this weekend. It is now fermenting.

He has a light ale that is just finishing the fermentation process and is about ready to go in the keg--:D

He gets most of his supplies online. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/

Hope this is helpful--:)

[homebrew1973]

As my name suggests I do a bit of brewing :D

If you`re going to start again from scratch the equipment will cost you a pretty penny but once you`ve got it then it should last years. Try libraries or even charity shops for books on recipes or buy them from homebrew shops, a list of them that you can buy online from can be found by googling or the yellow pages site.

Happy supping ;)

[madthumbs]

You should understand that the commercial beers we know have been developed over time and proven themselves in taste and consistency (well most). People who brew beer tend to do it more as a hobby than for taste. You may want to look for a group of home brewers who get together to share their brews and stories with the group and sample some of what they've got before investing.

There is a bit of controversy about beer..

Beer: Facts or Fiction? (http://www.opposingdigits.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7145)

-I like it so much that I've got a beer belly, and noticed that the mound of fat around my penis from drinking beer has shortened it by ~1". So while many men may not be put off by the thought of a beer gut, they may care about even a mere inch somewhere else. ;)

[the itinerant shrubber]

I've got a lot of my home brew stuff from Recycle networks. Theres always people getting rid of demijons and barrels and what-have-you.
As far as making wine is concerned,anything and everything goes. If it aint toxic and its got juice-bung it in. Just experiment.
For beer I just use the beer kits. A good premium beer kit will cost you about 12 quid and you'll get 40 pints out of it. Beats paying through the nose for piss weak lager at your local while being forced to listen to drunk chavs shouting at the plasma screen.

[hagbard_celine]

I made some lovely cider once from a homebrew kit. there was loads of it! I worked out that the cost was under 7p a pint!

I'm glad this subject was posted on this board. Enjoyment of alcohol is a big political issue and it is used to control us through laws and tax.

[snoopsnuffleopagus]

Hello Everyone

I'm fairly new here so please forgive me if this topic has been covered before.

I will admit that i do enjoy a drink occasionally and have been taking note of the way in which the Illuminati controlled government and related agencies (in UK!)have taken to penalizing the pleasure of a drink in the evenings.

I would like to take up home brewing again as a measure to stymie these killjoys, I did it before but with my life style of frequent moving around have had to get rid of my equiptment.

Does anyone out there do home brewing, or have suggestions or recipes?

Hi Guuna:

I don't Homebrew or intend to.

But I like quality Beer, and I think we are living in a 'Golden Age' of Beer & Ale & Ciders.

I avail myself of the many Micro-Brews, crafted with quality ingredients and Skill, and I really, really, really like Brew Pubs, where they Craft their Beers and Ales on the Premises.

Just yesterday afternoon I stopped in a Brew Pub and had 2 Pints of India Pale Ale, and I was enveloped with a sense of wellbeing.

Quality Ingredients,Quality Crafting=Nutritious, Delicious, Thirst Quenching.


Life IS Good! :)


Good Luck with your endeavours! :D


Kind Regards: Snoops

[icke_is_right]

I used to brew beer all the time when I lived in Sydney. Sydney was warm most of the year so helped the process. I used this kit: Czech Pilsner.

http://www.esbeer.com.au/category22_1.htm

It's an all malt kit, so you don't add sugar, if you can find one similar then go for it. Normal sugar isn't good for the perfect brew, use the brewing sugar instead. Sugar from sugar beet has impurities in it.

Water: Make sure your water is pure. I used an expenisve filter system for mine.

Purification: (iodophor)
http://www.esbeer.com.au/category41_1.htm

Using horrible white powder is a pain in the arse if you can get this, it's much better as rinsing with this is simple. I don't know what's available in the UK but this is a good benchmark for your standards.

I used to leave mine in the bottle for about 3 weeks before is started getting nice. The older it got the better it tasted. Anyone who tasted it was blown away. Aussies think they have great beer, I maintain that most beer in the UK and Australia is awful.

I'd use glass bottles if you can but old fizzy drinks bottles will do the job. However I don't like things stored in plastic.

Purists do there own recipes, I never got that far as I couldn't envisage anything being better than this kit. I also did the stout and the ale versions. Both great.

I don't drink anymore and would have no need to brew as I live in Germany which has cheap beautiful beer.

[homebrew1973]

Does Germany still insist breweries there make beer with malt and no sugar?

[mattacom]

did you know there is a home brew kit called alcotec Alcotec 23% Turbo Yeast - Extreme Alcohol Technology will make 23% just by brewing ,,
in other countrys they use a "water distiller " and put this through and it comes out at 85% , thats home brew ,

[seanmiller]

Does Germany still insist breweries there make beer with malt and no sugar?

You mean the Reinheitsgebot?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot

A possibly over-restrictive "law", I think... that said, you can tell the difference between beers full of additives and those brewed more purely.

Sean