Home brewing

nhrn · A bit geeky

Home brewing

MrBanana · I'm on a boat!

I work in a brewery. What infomation do you require?

Dian Wei · A bit geeky

Google Mr Beer, the rest should be simple.

flying_toaster · I like posting me I do

MrBanana wrote:

I work in a brewery. What infomation do you require?

You have the fun job...

Dian Wei · A bit geeky

It must bloody stink though.

MrBanana · I'm on a boat!

There are some rare smells around the place but I work in the lab which is, for the most part, stink free.

MrBanana · I'm on a boat!

flying_toaster wrote:

You have the fun job...

By "the fun job" do you mean the tasting job? If so, yes, I have to taste the beer and give it a score. Its not as good as it sounds though. You would be amazed at the amount of 2% lager and bitter we produce. Its not the best tasting stuff.

hod feemo · Full blown swine vomit

If I was going to make homebrew it'd be some crazy moonshine. Beer is drunk to quickly around these parts.

ooooh, cider would be good too but I can imagine the price of apples killing it as we don't live in the southwest.

nhrn · A bit geeky

MrBanana wrote:

I work in a brewery. What infomation do you require?

I was thinking recipes, my first batch was just a basic malt barley, yeast, hops and water combo. It's turned out a bit thin for me so far.

Dian Wei · A bit geeky

Banana Beeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

MrBanana · I'm on a boat!

nhrn wrote:

I was thinking recipes, my first batch was just a basic malt barley, yeast, hops and water combo. It's turned out a bit thin for me so far.

Thats pretty much all beer is. Its simple stuff. To get more body, you need to have the present gravity at around 8 to 10 at the end of its fermentation (for ale that is, a full bodied lager need only be around 6 ish). Do you have some method for working this out? A hydrometer or saccharometer?

The amount of malt you put in will effect the body so try increasing that. Also the type of malt will make a difference too. If you can get some, try adding some chocolate malt. It doesn't taste anything like chocolate, its more like coffee. It will add colour and a roasted flavour to the beer. Put loads in and you will have something like guiness.

When it comes to flavored beer (like the banana one that was suggested) I hate to shatter the illusion but they are just a concentrated essence thats added while its in conditioning. You can get similar things in the bakery section of Asda.

hod feemo · Full blown swine vomit

So cherry beer from the beerfest is just beer & cherry chemical? That by no means then explains why it costs me two fucking gold tokens every fucking year at the beerfest for a pissy 250ml bottle. Bloody charities.

I had a hydrometer for home brew, it was one of those cool things that you bought as it sounded cool, only right now do I know what it does. Cool word two...Demijohn.

fuckoff · I like posting me I do

Hey I have an idea - lets drink some beer this Friday!

Gav · I like posting me I do

Doesnt that happen every friday biggrin

ATM_FTW · I like posting me I do

I'm in AND, I'm off on sat, I know!!!

hod feemo · Full blown swine vomit

I'm off Saturday too! WWWHHHAAAAAAHH?!!

fuckoff · I like posting me I do

My house? Possible bbq? definite beer?

hod feemo · Full blown swine vomit

We can make fuck yes?

MrBanana · I'm on a boat!

fuckoff wrote:

My house? Possible bbq? definite beer?

Can you confirm BBQ?

fuckoff · I like posting me I do

I will do one if you want one, I have the necessary implements.