The home brew thread

[Akzle]

OP, get on realbeer.co.nz
all your answers there. Lots of peopl running microbreweries, probly some near you could hold your hand if needed...

And if you want a still, get it soon. Government going to start registering buyers.

[Str8 Jacket]

Fuck all this beer and spirits bullshit, make some Kilju.

Got several litres of it here. I would be happy to see it go, he wouldn't. Want some? (j/k)

[Akzle]

Fuck all this beer and spirits bullshit, make some Kilju.

do it with golden syrup bro. Its like getting smashed drinking hokeypokey.

[Akzle]

I've gotz the ingredients, and have had for a couple of months, that are just screaming to be used... yet I can't be arsed until I've done the fridge conversion. Praps I should just do it anyway then Drew can taste some real nasty shit.

you dnt need frig to brew. You can age it until you do the frig, and be all classy.

[mashman]

you dnt need frig to brew. You can age it until you do the frig, and be all classy.

I already do age it, it gets an extra 6 days.

[Icemaestro]

anyone done an alcoholic ginger beer? Been googling but wouldn't mind some experience. I've done a couple of ciders (apple and then a feijoa), have a 25L brewing bucket thing with an airlock, the hydrometer, sterilising stuff, beer and wine sweetener...

[dangerous]

can't be arsed until I've done the fridge conversion.

this is why I post, seems asuming ya talking bout a fridge to keep beer at a constent temp its not nessary, GB just has his on the floor, think the temp thing is over rated?

[Akzle]

anyone done an alcoholic ginger beer? Been googling but wouldn't mind some experience. I've done a couple of ciders (apple and then a feijoa), have a 25L brewing bucket thing with an airlock, the hydrometer, sterilising stuff, beer and wine sweetener...

not personally. But if you grain brew, add ginger.
Try boundary's 'grizly beer' for inspiration. All their shit is too hoppy for my tastes. Again. Realbeer.co.nz.

Howd the fejoa go? Did you do it as wine and bottle carb?

[Icemaestro]

Feijoa was friggin difficult getting all the little seeds out! Came out tasting beautiful, a million times better than shop stuff that you can barely taste the feijoa. Not sure what turns it into wine? I racked off about 5 times and strained through cheese cloth about 3 times though. came out moderately clear, awesomely fizzy. I ended up making it quite sweet for the wife, she thought it was an odd mosquato or whatever it is when I gave it to her!

[mashman]

this is why I post, seems asuming ya talking bout a fridge to keep beer at a constent temp its not nessary, GB just has his on the floor, think the temp thing is over rated?

I guess it depends on what you're brewing. I've got zero experience but I blame the heat for the last failure... again though, dunno if that's because I brew the fizzy cold stuff (from the supermarket, classy). First batch was ok. Second batch was quite nice (blackdog seemed to like it). Third batch was a dismal failure, which I drank anyway because it would have been rude not to. It came out about christmas time when the fridge was full of food and sat out for 3 days. I threw it in and some weeks later it came out all 'orrid with next to no fizz. Although the more you drank it the better it got, pfffft, it was still uber shite. I was waiting to do a fridge conversion before I put the next batch in, but may just throw this one in and do the bottle drudge one more time. Could be that the temp thing is overrated, but the ones that went straight into the fridge turned out much nicerer.

[Drew]

I've gotz the ingredients, and have had for a couple of months, that are just screaming to be used... yet I can't be arsed until I've done the fridge conversion. Praps I should just do it anyway then Drew can taste some real nasty shit.

Hahahaha, I don't drink that shit man. Simon gave me a bottle of his lager a while ago, first bottle of home brew I've ever finished. Still wasn't to my liking though.

But I'm fussy with beer. I dislike all the "craft" beers I've tried...and I FUCKIN HATE tui.

[Akzle]

Feijoa was friggin difficult getting all the little seeds out! Came out tasting beautiful, a million times better than shop stuff that you can barely taste the feijoa. Not sure what turns it into wine? I racked off about 5 times and strained through cheese cloth about 3 times though. came out moderately clear, awesomely fizzy. I ended up making it quite sweet for the wife, she thought it was an odd mosquato or whatever it is when I gave it to her!

added yeast or au naturale?
so bascicly just fermented fejoa, you didnt add fizz for bottling?

I mash shit inside a cotton pillowcase, keeps most of the crud out once you rack it off and squeeze it out.

[mashman]

Hahahaha, I don't drink that shit man. Simon gave me a bottle of his lager a while ago, first bottle of home brew I've ever finished. Still wasn't to my liking though.

But I'm fussy with beer. I dislike all the "craft" beers I've tried...and I FUCKIN HATE tui.

heh... WTF do ya usually drink then?

[Drew]

heh... WTF do ya usually drink then?

Heineken! It's pretty much all I really like.

Hense I'll go up norf and have a hoon finding Akzle's tin hut, and drink his attempt at something similar.

Malcolm plans on trying to make one aswel, to prove me wrong about home brew being fuckin shite.

[Akzle]

But I'm fussy with beer. I dislike all the "craft" beers I've tried...and I FUCKIN HATE tui.

hmmm. Get down to the dux nuts in chch, if it hasnt fallen off. Cant remembr what they called it, but had a fine range of homebrews.
But youre probably just a fussy cunt.
Go a guiness?