Homebrew beer

[Str8 Jacket]

That would then be Mead not Beer.

Mead has been made for thousands of years, way longer than Beer

Uh no, mead is a wine made from honey and this is a beer made with honey. Incidentally he gave me a bottle to take home tonight

FWIW - He also makes mead (which is wine made from honey) and cider

[CookMySock]

Wrap an old electric blanket around it and use a waterbed thermostat.

Steve

[Str8 Jacket]

Wrap an old electric blanket around it and use a waterbed thermostat.

Steve

Is this all part of your "Dangerous Mechanic Advice"? I seem to remember a lesson at school when I was younger... Something about electronics and water and how you never want to wet the bed when the electric blankets on or something vaguely familiar? Something like that anyway....

[vj paul]

Now is a good time to brew beer before it gets to cold, between 18 and 22 degress is perfect, the slower you can brew the better the taste. I brew heaps of it before the warmer months.
If you want recipes i got heaps.

[Chooky]

Easiest way is to use the Coopers kits, there heaps of them, you'll find one you like.
Brew tastes like the water you make it from, if your water is shit your beer will be too...Use rain water, boil it to kill any stray bugs, but make sure the temp has dropped to correct level before adding the yeast pack or you will just kill it.
I put the brewing barrel in an old fridge that had a heat lamp crontrolled by a thermostat from an old wall heater to mantain a constant temperature.
The biggest job is bottling the stuff.. 2 liter coke bottles work OK.
Its better for you than the chemical stuff you buy, and its cheaper.

[Solly]

Easiest way is to use the Coopers kits, there heaps of them, you'll find one you like.
Brew tastes like the water you make it from, if your water is shit your beer will be too...Use rain water, boil it to kill any stray bugs, but make sure the temp has dropped to correct level before adding the yeast pack or you will just kill it.
I put the brewing barrel in an old fridge that had a heat lamp crontrolled by a thermostat from an old wall heater to mantain a constant temperature.
The biggest job is bottling the stuff.. 2 liter coke bottles work OK.
Its better for you than the chemical stuff you buy, and its cheaper.

I used to used to brew the Coopers Stout....Yum Yum!!!!!....must get back into it.

[kevfromcoro]

Wrap an old electric blanket around it and use a waterbed thermostat.

Steve

yeah that works..
can get a heat band for them....
other than that......

get ya missus to sit on it for a couple of hours

[Katman]

The mistake that most people make is to drink homebrew beer a couple of weeks after it's been bottled.

It needs to sit for a good 12 months.

[Chooky]

Yer...needs to be kept for a few weeks, but dont know about 12 months.
Also, make sure it is completly worked out before you bottle it or it can EXPLODE....How do I know this....dont ask....

[SMOKEU]

There was a thing in the "Sunday" magazine that comes with the Sunday Star Times - apparently, home brew is the new "Big Thing "(Tm).

Takes a bit of practice, but evidently you get there in the end.

I think we still have the mag - if you talk nicely to me I might send it to you. Or scan it for everyone's amusement.

I got the copy of that magazine, quite an interesting read it is.

[Brian d marge]

The mistake that most people make is to drink homebrew beer a couple of weeks after it's been bottled.

It needs to sit for a good 12 months.

thats the trouble I have ,,,, 30 of gut F&'(())~er sitting ,,, doing nowt

its more than an Alcoholic can bear .....

Tried , for the life of Brian I tried ....... they were gone by the next month

Stephen

[P38]

Uh no, mead is a wine made from honey and this is a beer made with honey. Incidentally he gave me a bottle to take home tonight

FWIW - He also makes mead (which is wine made from honey) and cider

Actually we may both be almost right.

Technically mead is no more a honey wine than beer is a malt wine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead

But I still think Mead is closer to beer than wine.

[lb99]

Who else here makes their own beer? And does it taste any good?

yep me, and I have made so much that I am fk'n good at it (cept I have no mates to share with )

got 7 crates in the kitchen and usually a brew on the go too, have found (through trial and error) stubbies that can handle the jandal......

that reminds me, got a brew to make