Home brewing kits ....
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So, I've been meaning to make either a light summer ale, or a lager for a few weeks now, but not got round to it.
I usually use the extract brewing method, as you have so much more control over what you are making.
But, today in Tesco I saw this:
for £7.97!!!!! So I had to buy it.
It's a basic lager kit, so I thought I'd give it a try for a quick mix it up and leave it brew for a change. And at less than £8 for almost 40 pints, you just can't go wrong.
The kit includes a 5 gallon fv, and hydrometer and siphon as well as the tin of ingredients and yeast and some steriliser. I already have enough fv's and a hydrometer and siphons, but hey, can never have too much equipment.
As I already have plenty of sugar, and all the bottles I could ever need this could turn out to cost 19pence per pint
I usually use the extract brewing method, as you have so much more control over what you are making.
But, today in Tesco I saw this:
for £7.97!!!!! So I had to buy it.
It's a basic lager kit, so I thought I'd give it a try for a quick mix it up and leave it brew for a change. And at less than £8 for almost 40 pints, you just can't go wrong.
The kit includes a 5 gallon fv, and hydrometer and siphon as well as the tin of ingredients and yeast and some steriliser. I already have enough fv's and a hydrometer and siphons, but hey, can never have too much equipment.
As I already have plenty of sugar, and all the bottles I could ever need this could turn out to cost 19pence per pint
Soldato
wow, thats a bargain. what store did you get it from?
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I think it's that they are moving to selling Coopers equiptment, and are clearing out the Youngs kits.
North Harbour, Portsmouth. I let my brother, who is in London know, and his local tesco had a load too for the same price.
Could be, although it wasn't shown as discounted.
Soldato
i'll see if maldon does it, forgot to look today as was there.
Soldato
Quality control samples are a necessity and not for personal pleasure, it,is your duty as a responsible home brewer to sample at every convenient opportunity!
Have just put 140g of cascade and Columbus hops into the Fv for a 6 day dry hop, should be tasty.
Have just put 140g of cascade and Columbus hops into the Fv for a 6 day dry hop, should be tasty.
Soldato
no kimi. leave it a couple of weeks, then try. i will pull off a bit of my kegged 3 wk old ipa to see what its like tonight though. coming up to 4 wks so hopefully clearing.
I've put a gallon of elderflower champagne on and got a few more foraged fruit wines planned later in the year. I've signed up at http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk for a bit of extra advice, particularly with the elderflower because I have no idea what I'm doing. Tastes good so far though
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^^^^^^^
Very helpful place.
Very helpful place.
Im tempted to crack open a bottle tomorrow night and give it a taste
Prepare to be disappointed.
It will be flat, lifeless and tasteless. I've also found with these kits that after conditioning for months you then need to chill each beer for as long as possible to get far longer lasting carbonation and smaller bubbles
The Canadian I have chilled for a week after conditioning for two months is just perfection.
I had far better success with my fermentation this time around with the cerveza using my temp control water bath. It's fermented down to 1.004 ish this time. I will bottle it later and then get the Australian lager in the fermenter ASAP.
I've put a gallon of elderflower champagne on and got a few more foraged fruit wines planned later in the year. I've signed up at http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk for a bit of extra advice, particularly with the elderflower because I have no idea what I'm doing. Tastes good so far though
Jims beer Kit forums are the best I've found so far for help and recipes etc.
Cool, will check there too. Ayhangyo
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Yep, Jims is great. I know TheBlue is over their too, as am I. SBMongoose over there though, not Seabiscuit.
I've put a gallon of elderflower champagne on and got a few more foraged fruit wines planned later in the year. I've signed up at http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk for a bit of extra advice, particularly with the elderflower because I have no idea what I'm doing. Tastes good so far though
ive got a lot of elderflower champagne bottled up at the moment, all in old plastic drinks bottles, watch the pressure build up they go rock hard, they also take a while to open without losing the contents of the bottle
tasty and refreshing drink though, ready for the summer if it ever stops raining
got some elder and hawthorn wine on the go too foraging does make for cheap drinks
having a go at some ginger beer too, will be straining it later and then fermenting out for another week before bottling
Moogie, did you brew it all the way out to dry, or just enough to fizz it up? I can't seem to work out if you're supposed to brew it all the way like a wine or just let the yeast fizz it up and drink it sweet. Mine is currently in a demijohn and I'll have to transfer it into bottles soon if it's not supposed to be brewed out.