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Post by Slagathor on May 17, 2012 3:08:18 GMT
Damn, I've had a crappy week, and it's only half over.
I NEED A PARTY!!!!!
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Post by John Darnacan on May 19, 2012 18:16:09 GMT
What are you serving?
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Post by Claire Voyant on May 20, 2012 12:00:59 GMT
Is this a champagne and hors d'oeuvres party? Or a beer and chips party?
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Post by Fitz Kreiner on May 25, 2012 22:01:07 GMT
I've got forty pint bottles of home brew just finishing off here.  (plus another twenty left over from two previous brews in the fridge!) |
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Post by Slagathor on May 31, 2012 20:05:10 GMT
Pass me one please. BTW, how do you make it?
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Post by Fitz Kreiner on Jun 1, 2012 11:02:21 GMT
Simple, add the wort to four pints boiling water, kilo of sugar and stir until dissolved, then add cold water to forty pints, add yeast and let ferment for about four days or until it stops bubbling. Then syphon either to pressure barrel or bottles, adding sugar for secondary fermentation and leave for a week for bottles or three for barrel.
I've got a home brew kit, which comprises fermentation bucket, pressure barrel, syphoning tubes, hydrometer, bottle capper, thermometer and all the stuff you need. I buy my beer kits off the internet. I've not yet gone down the route of making it from scratch with the hops and barley and everything, that's a much longer process.
It's quite cheap as well, the kit soon pays for itself, and making forty pints per kit, it can work out as little as 20p/35c per pint. Not bad when a pint of beer here is about £3!
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Post by John Darnacan on Jun 5, 2012 15:04:02 GMT
How does it taste?
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Post by Fitz Kreiner on Jun 5, 2012 19:57:44 GMT
Very good. The first brew I made was a Christmas brew with cinnamon and mulled wine spice, has a nice taste not too dissimilar to Christmas Cake. The second was a vanilla brew with a nice vanilla aftertaste, and this latest is a citrus beer.
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Post by Slagathor on Jun 7, 2012 3:01:35 GMT
Cinnamon? Vanilla? Citrus? We are talking beer? Or dessert?
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Post by Fitz Kreiner on Jun 7, 2012 14:36:59 GMT
You'd think, but they're nice aftertastes. Gives the beer that aroma and a mild flavouring. Just trying to recreate some of the flavours and varieties you get with real ales. |
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Post by John Darnacan on Jun 7, 2012 18:28:34 GMT
Cinnamon? Vanilla? Citrus? We are talking beer? Or dessert? Why can't we have both? |
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Post by Fitz Kreiner on Jun 8, 2012 20:30:50 GMT
I also have plenty of cake! I make a pretty mean cake too! I mean it; yesterday it beat me up and took my lunch money!  |
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Post by John Darnacan on Jun 9, 2012 20:14:26 GMT
I also have plenty of cake! I make a pretty mean cake too! I mean it; yesterday it beat me up and took my lunch money! Beware of these mean cakes. Next, they'll be looking for nuclear launch codes. |
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Post by Slagathor on Jun 12, 2012 11:53:49 GMT
Perhaps by "mean", he meant a statistical "average". Perhaps he might have just as easily said median or mode.
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Post by Claire Voyant on Jun 12, 2012 12:31:38 GMT
Nothing LB does is average.
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(plus another twenty left over from two previous brews in the fridge!)