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Scott

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I'm a little bit late this year but I finally got my homebrew kit out of the loft and set about going at it. Last year I went with a Mexican Cerveza. Surprisingly it came out drinkable, but a little bit tasteless, so it looks like I'm improving year by year. I had 3 bottles one night, when drinking with friends, and it blew my socks off. I passed some of it around and, from what we can piece together, it was a good night. This year I have decided to go with a cider. The pack I bought makes 40 pints at 5abv or 32 pints at 7abv. Rather than being greedy I decided to go with around 36 pints to split the difference.

 

I've also decided to try spring water rather than tap water, just to see what the outcome is more than anything, and I've gone with brewing sugar rather than castor. It's now up the loft, hopefully it'll be bubbling away by tomorrow :D

 

Anyone else doing it this year?

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I used to be in to this too. Had a book called something like "brewing beers like those you buy", and when I followed the recipies exactly using the exact ingredients ie. exact variety of hops, particular types of malt etc it turned out pretty good. But, it was a lot of effort, mess and decided in the end it wasnt worth it. But it was fun at the time, how I enjoyed sparging my wort.

 

oh look: http://www.colchesterhomebrew.co.uk/colchesterhomebrewshop/prod_575176-Brewing-Beers-Like-Those-You-Buy-Dave-Line.html

 

Still available.

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God I remember making homebrew when i was at college - it was like rocket fuel! We'd have a pint bottle each before going to the pub and by the time we'd walked there (about half a mile) we were so bladdered from the single bottle that we used to turn round and stagger home!

 

Get some piccies of your brew up mate.

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what other booze can you make your self? vodka,brandy?

 

dont whisky take 10 years dont think i could wait that long

 

You can make anything you like. You can literally fill it full of umbongo, add some yeast and give it a week to ferment.

 

Anything with sugar in it can be made alcoholic.

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Ah Dammit I have not managed to get my brew on in time for chrimbo :( I've bought the brewing sugar this time around too.

 

Me neither. I will probably open a bottle at Christmas to see what I have but it won't be properly ready for a couple of weeks after.

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I forgot to update this....

 

I'm not really sure what happened this time but everything clicked into place and I made an amazing alcoholic beverage. Now, it says on the tin of stuff that I threw into the barrel that it is cider.... and I guess it does taste a bit like it, but to me it's just appley booze.

 

Regardless it's pretty damn good and I've been rattling through it over the last few weeks. My Wife loves it, my friends love it and most importantly I can get smashed off of it.

 

I've just ordered my next batch as I'm halfway through my current stock. If I get more of the same I'll be a happy bunny. Pear cider is the poison this time :D

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The stuff I went with for the current batch is.....

 

http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Brew_Buddy_Cider_Kit.html

 

 

The one I've went for for the next batch is......

 

http://www.the-online-homebrew-company.co.uk/shop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_625&products_id=3485&osCsid=263ab18f8960936663194ea2e23fd37b

 

 

 

The reviews on it are excellent and it makes for a slightly stronger brew :D

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New stuff arrived today. I also got a bottle tree and a bottle cleaner, to save hassle with preparing to bottle.

 

This new stuff looks the part (on the rocks), comes with fruit concentrate sepeartely for once the fermentation is done. It's a nice touch, I guess to put the flavour back into the batch.

 

Ingredients for this lot are...

 

On the Rocks Pear Cider kit

1kg Brewing Sugar

0.3kg Regular Sugar

1 pack of coopers carbonation drops (exact measure for each bottle)

22 litres of fresh bottled water

 

 

I only have 8 pints of the initial brew left so I'll need to make it last me :D

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I'm all set and going for it tomorrow (Today now really). I'm just wondering if anyone is interested in doing this and wants a little "how I do it" guide kinda thing? I have absolutely no clue how to do this all properly so it literally would be the blind leading the blind, but the fact that I got a decent brew the last time might mean that I'm maybe onto something.

 

I could do without the hassle so only ask if you genuinely are interested in giving this stuff a go :D

 

Sorry for the short notice but I don't hang about once I have all the stuff waiting.

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