Any who brew at home here?

[Ralph]

I use to make my own wine, and beer, which is legal here. Making moonshine is not, but it is very common.


I just now taste my own vodka, good as any you can buy. A litre cost about 2 dollars to produce!

[Turner]

Im an expert brewer. Brewed beer for 20 years. Brewed wine too.
I have mash tun..boiler..paraflow..
Anything u need to ask....ask.
Another compulsive obsession

[Ralph]

I love stout beer, and I have since 12 years brew it until no carbon, and add it afterwards, which for this beer is better.
Recently I use nitrogen and carbon, which make the beer more nice in taste and how it is for the eyes in the glass.

[Turner]

I love stout beer, and I have since 12 years brew it until no carbon, and add it afterwards, which for this beer is better.
Recently I use nitrogen and carbon, which make the beer more nice in taste and how it is for the eyes in the glass.

7lb pale crushed malt
1lb roasted barley
1lb black malt
4 oz fuggles hops
hard water (us brewers call water liquor)

no need for finnings because its Black!!!

Mash low....64.5C...boil 1.5 hours...add 1 oz fuggles near the end.

40 pints of Stout. i got a mackerson, or a Murphys...but couldnt quite get guinness.

Tried starting a yeast culture from bottled extra guinness....which in them days, still had live yeast.

i couldnt get hold of nitrogen...used heading powder.

head wasn't white enough without nitrogen. Nitrogen bubbles are 10 times smaller.

[Ralph]

The Russian Imperial Stout I use to make, some in my family complain I use nitro, as it is violating a tradition. Nitrogen can be bought in tubes, and come out very cold, it must be preheated, so the beer not go ice.
The top foam on nitro beer we can never get with only carbondioxide.

I am not sure, but are you not  call stout ale rather than beer?

[Turner]

The Russian Imperial Stout I use to make, some in my family complain I use nitro, as it is violating a tradition. Nitrogen can be bought in tubes, and come out very cold, it must be preheated, so the beer not go ice.
The top foam on nitro beer we can never get with only carbondioxide.

I am not sure, but are you not  call stout ale rather than beer?

No..ale is an malt beer flavoured with something. Before hops
...they used a herb mixture called gruit. Beer is flavoured with hops so beer is an ale.
its a bit like ships and boats.
Originally.stout was called porter...

[Ralph]

It looks like they use different words in different places, and here they look if it is brewed using Saccharomyces cerevisiae
which they call ale and Saccharomyces pastorianus for beer(lager).

[Turner]

It looks like they use different words in different places, and here they look if it is brewed using Saccharomyces cerevisiae
which they call ale and Saccharomyces pastorianus for beer(lager).

No googling here, this is from my head....

Pastorianus is carlesbergenis yeast.
Lager uses different barley. 7 eared barley?
It has more protein, which doesn't brew out and makes beer cloudy (protein haze)
The only way to rid beer of protein is to ferment longer
The only way to ferment longer is ferment cold.
Lager is fermented cold (8C?) for 3 months to rid the beer of protein.
The carlesbergenis yeast was developed to withstand cold. 8C would kill most yeasts.
And if you brewed at 22,24C, it would ferment in 6 days and leave protein.

The word Lager means "to store"

BUT.....this isnt why its Beer....Beer is brewed malt with hops.
Ale is brewed malt with anything in it. Beer is a type of ale.
Ale is a general term for a malt based alchololic berverage.

[Turner]

I did get a job in machesters Heineken brewery 20 years ago....so ive seen it first hand.

[Steve]

Whats wrong with beer you buy? Or is it more like carefully raising and loving a child, only to finally devour it?

[Skakus]

It's fun to brew your own and much cheaper than store bought beer. Though there is something disconcerting about bottles exploding in the cellar late at night while you're trying to sleep.


I used to make wine at home, that was a lot of fun but all the mess and all the cleaning finally got the better of me so I stopped.

Fruit wines were interesting. The best I ever made was a white wine made of kiwi fruits and 3 pounds of marijuana leaves. I got the leaves from a grower who was saving them to make oil but never got around to it.

I halved the wine then fermented one half right out for bottling, the other half I killed the fermentation with expensive brandy then put it in small used oak barrels for six months. Later I dosed the wine with a percentage of very rare 100 year old Australian liqueur muscat.

That marijuana & kiwi fruit desert wine was the best I ever made by a long shot. 

[Steve]

Skakus, you are a role model for young and old.. My hero.


btw I 'spiked' 


peace..

[Skakus]

[Ralph]

I have interest in a mini brewery, which may produce to members who take part somehow in the production.
My special  is Asian beverages like rice win, produced in a very different way using fungi and yeast.
Free from all taxes as it is not for the market.

[Turner]

SKAKUS.....Not wikki anything here....straight out my head....so it may of been a dream. I think i read hops and canabis are related....so you can graft one onto the other and produce hops with canaboids. May of dreamed it