Homebrew

[Dum-Dum]

So, what exactly are you attempting to make?

im attempting to make myself pissed !

without poisoning myself and ending up in A&E as i seem to be a regular there

Most parents moan they have to take their kids to a&e. Your kids must moan that they have to take you

[cully]

ummmm yes!

[Dum-Dum]

Nice LOL. I may go and see If i can get enough decent apple juice to start on making cider today.

[THE_Liam]

Just ordered myself one of these: http://www.the-home-brew-shop.co.uk/acat...llons.html

Been wanting to try this again for a while. I've told a couple of my mates about this way of making epic amounts of cheap beer, and they're willing to be my lab rats (because they've never had the shits from mouldy homebrew before ), so I'll report back in about 4 weeks

[Dum-Dum]

Nice, seen them in wilko and been tempted to get my bestie one for christmas so let me know how it goes.

[Matt]

Just bought some turbo yeast! Shit just got interesting!

[ash240970]

Just bought some turbo yeast! Shit just got interesting!

Is that Tdo4 turbo yeast or t25 turbo yeast?

[THE_Liam]

HX35 turbo yeast

[Norledge]

I've made up a 'vodka' of sorts.

Take a litre of ethanol, add half a litre of grain vodka, 4 kilos of sugar, kilo of black berrys and half a kilo of unripe elderberries.

Boil and leave uncovered for 3 weeks, scoop off the mould, reboil and bottle. Leave for 2 months then filter.

Smells like dark chocolate, tastes rank. apparently it should be about 80%. Still got half a litre left.

Anyone drinking in mine and Ruans house has a shot. Thems the rules.

[samass]

might as well drink meths...

[Norledge]

Methanhol is the one that causes problems, ethanol is perfectly safe to drink - it's essentially what the ABCV is in any alcohol.

In this brew it's just watered down... with Vodka.

[samass]

true.

the 'scrape of the mould' bit makes me laugh haha

[Norledge]

It was more of a scoop. It was soft, fluffy and quite tall!

[Ruan]

It's colloquially known as "Death" in our household....

It tastes f*cking jhank, but it gets you f*cking pissed - depending on the objective for the evening, this can be a good or a bad thing.

[samass]

sounds, epic.

[lolsteve]

Cut out the middle man and drink from your petrol tank

[cully]

think its coming along good
the orange on the left has nearly stopped fermenting and is settling quite well
th lemon on the right is still fermenting
this started on the 22/7 today is the 25/7
think I'm going to double brew the orange on Saturday after a %vol reading
and drink the lemon as long as its settled nice

   

[Diggers]

just ordered 25l worth of turbo yeast, a airlock with bung and a hydrometer all in £11.38

[Matt]

I got that turbo yeast brewing now

[cpikey316_]

I've made up a 'vodka' of sorts.

Take a litre of ethanol, add half a litre of grain vodka, 4 kilos of sugar, kilo of black berrys and half a kilo of unripe elderberries.

Boil and leave uncovered for 3 weeks, scoop off the mould, reboil and bottle. Leave for 2 months then filter.

Smells like dark chocolate, tastes rank. apparently it should be about 80%. Still got half a litre left.

Anyone drinking in mine and Ruans house has a shot. Thems the rules.

That sounds awesome!

[Matt]

Bit cloudy.....

[cully]

just been and tended to my brew !
and holy shit the orange has just mesured at 8.5% volume !
i had to syphon some off into a pet bottle added a bit of sugar to get a sparkaling 300ml 8.5% WKDish

ive added another 500g of sugar to it so animal strength it will be in a week

the bottle of lemon i havn't opened yet as its still gassing this will be drunk once its cleared

   

[Dum-Dum]

How does it taste cully?

[Poodle]

Hahahah good result! Fully expect to see a thread about you having your stomach pumped by next weekend, don't let us down!

[Diggers]

cully what did you use for flavour? pure or cordial ??
and if i was to put 1 kg of sugar straight in that should be ok shouldnt it?
ive ordered the turbo yeast, says 14% in 48 hours and 20% in 5 days, thats for 25L, sooo maybe in 4.5l for 7 days.......super knock your socks off evil drink??
wanna do it now !!! got to wait for the bits thou

[Matt]

Mine went bang last night. Scared the shit out of me

[Poodle]

Did you not put a proper airlock on it? Needs to be able to release the co2 from the fermentation process doesnt it?

[Matt]

Just a lid haha, now just placed on, it's so bloody active bubbling like mad!

[cully]

How does it taste cully?

not tasted it yet so havent mixed codial yet, the first tasting will be the lemon probably on sunday once the 7 days are up and i have some vimto cordial to mix to that

then im starting a batch of apple juice


LMAO at Matt's blowing the lid off
im going to move the 300ml sparkaling to the garage as i dont want a mess in the house oh and over night the sparkaling has come real clear looks like water in a coke bottle!

[lolsteve]

The pet bottles can handle mad amounts of pressure, had a 2L with the first brew in there and kinda forgot about it for a few days came back and the bottle was as hard as concrete and seemed to take forever to vent out

We drank the first batch the other night, this being a bread yeast one . tasted foul , but after a week brewing in the big container and then a week in the pet bottle you could taste the alchohol/feel it. but it tasted so bad people where mixing in vodka to take the taste away so I don't advise bread yeast if you want something for the taste