HOME MADE BEER

[FoxesAreBlue]

Hmmmm perhaps my sarcasm didnt come across over a written message, either that or your simply not Australian enough! How long are you over here for?

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Dangerous Tiger would be a pretty cool name for a beer.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

The key issue with home made beer is to make sure that everything is sterilised. It takes time It takes time, but is is so important. I don't bottle mine, but put it in a pressurized barrel.

I always used to change the recipes about, and keeping a note of them, and rating them out of ten.

Sadly, this notebook has gone awol, and I am having to start from scratch again!

When I come back from Scotland, I will start the eighty pints off, for Xmas.

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Hmmmm perhaps my sarcasm didnt come across over a written message, either that or your simply not Australian enough! How long are you over here for?

Understood your sarcasm, but have been in to the walkabout strange pub indeed. An Aussie themed pub would really just be faux Irish pub.

Was over there in late 2010 for a few weeks at the end of my travels, started to get a little home sick after 6 months of living out of a backpack and writting myself off each night so went home.

[SOCCERROO FOX]

The key issue with home made beer is to make sure that everything is sterilised. It takes time It takes time, but is is so important. I don't bottle mine, but put it in a pressurized barrel.

I always used to change the recipes about, and keeping a note of them, and rating them out of ten.

Sadly, this notebook has gone awol, and I am having to start from scratch again!

When I come back from Scotland, I will start the eighty pints off, for Xmas.

The thing i found strange is comparing my recipe to my mates recipes they were so vastly different. Different measurements and ingredients and we were brewing the same style of beers.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

The thing i found strange is comparing my recipe to my mates recipes they were so vastly different. Different measurements and ingredients and we were brewing the same style of beers.

Yes, I can believe that. A great deal, is probaly due to the length of time applied, and to slight changes in temperature. I honestly don't believe I have made any brew that has tasted quite like another one,

[Orkneyfox]

Try this http://www.sinclairbreweries.co.uk/skull_splitter.html

[Uncle Phil]

Bottling up a pale ale i was suppose to have done earlier in the year ready for the summer.

I think I'll get a mild on the go after this one. Does anyone have any good recipes? I've never done a mild before.

[I am Rod Hull]

It aint beer, but this is the thread for it.

 

My uncle in law told me about this so I thought i`d give it a go - Blackberry Vodka. Its been a good year for blackberries and they`re free.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZZI5aPi2Rc

 

Its been on the go for 3 weeks now and should be ready for Christmas. The mother in law gave me a bottle of Smirnoff to make more but I might try doing it with peaches.

 

We have a shit load of blackthorn trees at the back of us so i`m going to make Sloe Gin this weekend.

Edited 11 October 2013 by I am Rod Hull

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Brewing again in November for Xmas. Got green hops to add this year, and more finings and yeast than usual. A tad more sugar too. Look forward to tasting it.

[bovril]

I make my own rakia (plum brandy type stuff popular in Eastern Europe). You can make it from just about anything, plums and grapes are the best. Once made foul potato vodka with my Dad but we nearly killed my Gran.

[Jace]

Since Fosters is a fake Australian lager that doesn't exist there I was wondering do other countries have a fake English lager that we are unaware of?

[I am Rod Hull]

I didnt make the sloe gin but I did make 3 different kinds of fruit vodka - peach, raspberry and pear. 

[notnow john]

I've tried sloe vodka and mulberry gin this year.

[I am Rod Hull]

I've tried sloe vodka and mulberry gin this year.

 

Any good?

[Finnegan]

Since Fosters is a fake Australian lager that doesn't exist there I was wondering do other countries have a fake English lager that we are unaware of?

Carling is Canadian.

[Mack]

Since Fosters is a fake Australian lager that doesn't exist there I was wondering do other countries have a fake English lager that we are unaware of?

 

It exists there under another name, they did sell it as Fosters until about 10 year ago I think when another brand under the same umbrella gained popularity but it's all the same piss water under different labels.

[Zingari]

I only tried making beer  once and it was fookin awful stuff .The house stunk yeasty and musty

 

I've stuck to buying it at  bargain booze shop  ever since.

 

Kronenbourg 1664  is  wonderful stuff , I'd never be able to recreate the beauty of it. I'll leave making beer and stuff  to the experts  

[notnow john]

Any good?

[notnow john]

Any good?

Not sampled yet.Its still infusing.It seems to have been been a bumper year for sloes. Edited 18 October 2013 by notnow john

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

You get bad brews, and you get some great ones. Trial and error. Main mistake is to not sterilise EVERY part of the kit, down to the last teaspoon, Watch that hydrometer too.

[Zingari]

You get bad brews, and you get some great ones. Trial and error. Main mistake is to not sterilise EVERY part of the kit, down to the last teaspoon, Watch that hydrometer too.

Too much fookin about for my liking . 

I'd sooner go down the flying horse and have a crafty look down the barmaids top as she pours me another Kroneyberg   

[Smudge]

I only tried making beer  once and it was fookin awful stuff .The house stunk yeasty and musty

 

I've stuck to buying it at  bargain booze shop  ever since.

 

Kronenbourg 1664  is  wonderful stuff , I'd never be able to recreate the beauty of it. I'll leave making beer and stuff  to the experts  

You sure it was the beer?

[Zingari]

You sure it was the beer?

cheeky ol' booger !!

 

 

[Smudge]

cheeky ol' booger !!

 

 

You set em up mate