Anyone else into homebrewing?

[adestu]

after one xmas where i had a 100 pints ready to drink and all was gone 3 months later i had to stop. lol

 

[Dirty]

I'm going to try a shop kit (working on several projects, so no time to forage). As a complete newbie, any good packages out there?

 

[mereside]

kit wise depends on what you drink the ones i like are coopers original stout and betterbrew chech larger,atb wayne

 

[leedsbrew]

Dirty

http://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=1f82becefd1a889ca759eddcda442c8a

This forum is just what you need to get going with kits!

 

[TurboGirl]

***!
What kind of swear filter takes an innocent word meaning flashy and makes it look like a word meaning faecal like?

how amusing! That's spybots for you

 

[pedro68]

ive been making the wine for a wee while now and tried the beaverdale kits etc , i have found a recipe that is everybit as good and east to make and all the foraging can be done ina supermarket.

for 1 gallon its as follows

i ltr white grape juice
1 ltr orange juice
900 grm of caster sugar
1 tsp of tannin
1 tsp of citrus
1 tsp of yeast nutrient
1 tsp of pectolase
1 tsp of super yeast add it altogether and top up with water to the gallon .let it ferment out and degas and add fermentation stopper and finnings and leave to clear .
its really good, i got the recipe from a wine forum and ita called worzell's orange wine but usually just WOW.

cheers

 

[leedsbrew]

WOW is awesome and so easy! Have you made it with pineapple juice? It goes bananas! Spurts out the airlock!

 

[pedro68]

Hi , and no i havent tried a pineapple yet but i think i will, the WOW minds me of the lava lamps you used to get when it goes mental , your are right the are good and better than the shop bought stuff . i might try a few diffrent flavours for an experiment .

Peter

 

[mereside]

try it with the polish rasberry juice as well as white grape it is a really nice rose,atb wayne

 

[leedsbrew]

I find that lalvin 71-b makes a nice wow as it doesn't dry it out too much! Other yeasts I've used have stripped it out to the point of pulling your gums back over your teeth!

 

[leedsbrew]

Filtering it as well as isinglass really makes it shine as well!

 

[pedro68]

I've been using super yeast so far , still to try other stuff . the variations are endless what with diffrent juices and yeast etc , i suppose some will be good and some drinkable but thats the fun. i have made Muntons cider and pilsner lagers as well but there a bit costly and i dont feel the same sense of achievement from making them as i do with the wine.Have taken a few bottles of wine on the fishing trips with the mates and had no complaints except i didnt bring enough haha.