Does any one here make homebrew? Need some questions answered and the kb homebrew club are never home..
Sorry James. Only thing I know to do with beer is drinking
well i did, back in the early 90's... one bottle of the shit would have me nutted for a week, so I tried uping the stakes, OPPS 2am one morning and the cylinder door burst open and 12 bottles of beer exploded all over the floor... never was able to get it right again after that, so I gave up... or sobered up
James, put that thing away, you'll scare the ladies!! We used to brew 4 dozen x750mls bottles at a time, back in the day (late 70's). No kits back then. Ya boiled ya hops, added malt and sugar, threw in the yeast and left it brewing in an old washing machine bowl for 7-10 days. When the reaction stopped, you added finnings and siphoned the brew into half G's and left them in a piss fridge for 48 hrs for the sediment to settle. Then they got siphoned into the bottles with a teaspoon of sugar to gas them up over the next week. The early batches were pretty hard going, but were quite drinkable towards the end. The last brew was a stout, which was the most successful, highly drinkable. Got really crook after one party when the piss ran out and the die hards started drinking the dregs too. Lots of shagging around compared to todays home brewing kits. Hope you get some feedback on the modern kits. Some of the clan must be home brewers.
my Dad use to make homebrew I'd drink licorce tea before i let any homebrew pass my lips now days... get the hint bad memory's James ask a more direct question, cleaning, stable temp,
more direct... The guy at the homebrew shop pretty much said a monkey can hombrew with kits these days. So I put a brew down on sat night, Today i checked it. no bubbling. tested with hydrometer. reading 1005 which is good.. taste test... had worse.... but. do i dare bottle after 3 days? or wait 7 - 10? and it looks like muddy water. im guessing thats just sediment that will settle?
hehe Deisel... i thought it was a great avatar
What do the instructions say? There used to be a brew around that only took 3-4 days too that had a bug to set it going. You only got a few bottles each brew. The muddy stuff is the sediment.
instructions??? should be ok.. im just thinking ill leave it a few days in the fermenter. all 23 litres of it... yum hopefully the sediment will clear. Always good to seek advice though
Are you promoting your first brew by tasting sessions, special invitees only?
now theres an idea... you can drink it first.. and if your ok..... then ill drink it
we can drink it and orginise the next HB ride, or have the last stop at your place and have a tasting
I did home brew back in the early 90s. You can bottle after it stops bubbling thru the hydrometer. From memory that was usually about 10-12 days? (memory is fading!). If you bottle before it stops bubbling it will taste like shit, the sugar won't have done it's stuff. but it sure was easy with a kit.
sounds like a plan jase. havnt been out since that ride we did.
let it sit...depends on temp for yeast.....don't worry too much about the texture....but the longer you wait the better...just make sure everything you use on it is VERY CLEAN.....and of course practice makes perfect
