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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2009 23:03:17 GMT 2
Wow, Spanishlass! Good luck with it!&give us the recipe! Really, it's fantastic to do homebrewing.....
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Post by Nordis on Apr 11, 2009 1:33:17 GMT 2
20 liters of beer for about £10 Sterling... that works out at 50p a liter. If it works I am happy to bring the booze at any gathering, its dead cheap! One of the issues with home brewing is that you have to drink it's products at... home. There needs to be some yeast left in the bottles and even though it descends to the bottom when the beer is kept in cold long enough it still mixes really easily. You could fill a crate with cotton and balance it carefully while carrying the bottles in it but taking the beers with you around in a plastic bag can ruin them. I don't actually know how long it takes until the yeast settles again, I read somewhere that you should take the bottles to the place where you're going to drink them two weeks in advance but I doubt it really takes that long. I think I'll go with some wheat beer next time as well as I haven't made it before. I made dark lager two months ago from a cheap finnish extract and even though I mixed it with only half of the water that that was on the recipe it still turned out pretty tasteless. I guess the extract is made to fit the "finnish taste" I don't usually put enough sugar to the bottles at the bottling phase so my beers have very few bubbles, but this time I added almost twice as much sugar as usually. I definetly got bubbles but they are like the ones in coke: they fill half of the glass no matter how carefully you pour the drink and after that the whole top is gone. The beer stays sparkling for hours but I'd like to have a decent top on it as well... Mr. Holtiton had suggested me that I'd try using brown sugar instead of white for dark beers so I tried it this time and added also some honey to the mix. I guess they were the only things giving flavour to the whole drink. It COULD also be because the best before -date of the extract had expired almost half a year ago but I doubt it since those canned things are usully perfect for around a year after the date. The only two things I hate in home brewing are disinfecting the bottles and bottling the drink, it's a day's job and no matter how carefully I do it I always spill loads of beer and sugar around :f I actually fancy trying hobgoblin you know if it's Wych-whatever (I forgot their name haha) that make it, I had some of their cider yesterday. that was NICE. I was hunting Hobgoblin literally for years because of the stupid finnish alcohol monopoly: only specialized liquor stores owned by the government are allowed to sell drinks stronger than 4,7% and Hobgoblin is 5,something if I remember right. The liquor stores don't stock it in the whole country so the only option left was the bars and they don't really have too much variety in beers in such a small town as this. But finally after all the years the local "Irish" pub (a sports bar decorated with ever-so-funny "irish sayings" and with five tracks from The Pogues playing randomly in the middle of all the finnish easy listening) ordered some! The price was total rip-off but it was certainly worth it ;D The thing that was even better was that they had also Black Wych from the very same brewery and after two bottles I can safely say that it's one of the best stouts I've ever had. I wish I could get it from a tap one day...
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Post by Kirki on Apr 11, 2009 15:21:00 GMT 2
I had a bottle of Hobgoblin last night haha. Very very nice. I might send off for the t shirt lol (gives me an excuse to buy 5 bottles too )
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Post by spanishlass on Apr 15, 2009 0:53:02 GMT 2
I went to the Real Ale festival at my local (founded 1360!) and they had this which I thoroughly enjoyed- made in the isle of Skye, 7%, strong ale, but really smooth, not bitter at all. It is called Beast of Cuillin, and I am going to try and hunt some bottles for home use. I really like the label too. May try to find a better picture for a new avatar!
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Post by Nordis on Apr 15, 2009 11:49:50 GMT 2
I went to the Real Ale festival at my local (founded 1360!) and they had this which I thoroughly enjoyed- made in the isle of Skye, 7%, strong ale, but really smooth, not bitter at all. It is called Beast of Cuillin, and I am going to try and hunt some bottles for home use. I really like the label too. May try to find a better picture for a new avatar! Isle Of Skye brewery! <3 I love their Black and Red Cuillin ales, who do I need to kill to get that Beast one? ;D I could move to UK and live on beer for three years there. Ireland turned out to be a slight disappointment what comes to beer or then I just didn't travel around enough.
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Post by spanishlass on Apr 15, 2009 12:41:37 GMT 2
Isle Of Skye brewery! <3 I love their Black and Red Cuillin ales, who do I need to kill to get that Beast one? ;D I could move to UK and live on beer for three years there. Ireland turned out to be a slight disappointment what comes to beer or then I just didn't travel around enough. You have to take the bridge from Kyle of Lochalsh, spend a night singing your own achievements in the King Haakon pub in Portree, cross the fairy glen, climb the Devil's finger in the Cuillin hills, defeat the finians and Scatach the warrior woman in single combat, and then it should be pretty straightforward. Or you can order at www.hi-spirits.co.uk/ Swedish Systembolaget has a serial number for it so I guess they sell it. Where, that's the problem!
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Post by spanishlass on Apr 15, 2009 12:54:29 GMT 2
Wow, Spanishlass! Good luck with it!&give us the recipe! Really, it's fantastic to do homebrewing..... There is not really a recipe because I started gently. By buying a homebrewing kit at brewityourself.co.uk and a can of malt extract, so it is like making tang or kool-aid in a larger scale... with added yeast. But I am also making mead. And for that I found plently recipes online, try www.gotmead.com/ OR, for the could-not-be-simpler approach, watch this video: I did it but I cannot tell you how good it is, because it needs to sit for about 6 months before it is done. I think I'll go with some wheat beer next time as well as I haven't made it before. I made dark lager two months ago from a cheap finnish extract and even though I mixed it with only half of the water that that was on the recipe it still turned out pretty tasteless. I guess the extract is made to fit the "finnish taste" I don't usually put enough sugar to the bottles at the bottling phase so my beers have very few bubbles, but this time I added almost twice as much sugar as usually. I definetly got bubbles but they are like the ones in coke: they fill half of the glass no matter how carefully you pour the drink and after that the whole top is gone. The beer stays sparkling for hours but I'd like to have a decent top on it as well... The only two things I hate in home brewing are disinfecting the bottles and bottling the drink, it's a day's job and no matter how carefully I do it I always spill loads of beer and sugar around :f I have gone with what the recipe calls for- it is belgian so it should be strong, but it also told you to add an insane amount of sugar to create more alcohol (but I was told that does not add to the taste much) I like the idea of doubling up the extract or halving the water. Anyway, Nordis, wheat beer is quite bubbly, if poured wrongly (like a very annoying waitress does over at Edinburgh university), she must think she works at a foam party place! so I am expecting a thick head. And yes, disinfecting stuff is a pain, I am not looking forward to sterilising bottles...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2009 13:14:11 GMT 2
Well, Spanishlass, thanx for the tips, l'll check. Estoy agradecida! here l make only wine from our small vineyard &lately we haven't done tzuika (or rakja) as we have joined E.U. and the new laws don't let people use distilleries anymore...in the north ¢re of the country they have also restricted palinka production (that is pure fire when you drink it), .,there aren't any laws against beer&mead yet so.. I'll think bnut it
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Post by spanishlass on Apr 15, 2009 13:46:59 GMT 2
Well, Spanishlass, thanx for the tips, l'll check. Estoy agradecida! here l make only wine from our small vineyard &lately we haven't done tzuika (or rakja) as we have joined E.U. and the new laws don't let people use distilleries anymore...in the north ¢re of the country they have also restricted palinka production (that is pure fire when you drink it), .,there aren't any laws against beer&mead yet so.. I'll think bnut it De nada! But like we said before, as long as you don't sell, you can do anything you want at home! Specially for Beer. Culture is a difficult thing to legislate. You see, in Spain alcohol is available pretty much everywhere, EU or not. And age of sell is still tolerant. Kids in bars? Normal!! The UK is much more puritan. As for taxation... the heavier handed arm of the law... that's what makes people consider. Homebrewing is gettng more and more popular in the UK because they are rising the taxes on alcohol and restricting where and when you can buy it. So people are beginning to get into homebrewing, for reasons other than it being a hobby or being able to experiment to find a brew you like. But in Spain, where you can buy alcohol anywhere, even if it is 4 am.... why? they don't understand you homebrew. And in some Scandinavian countries where alcohol is a government monopoly... I know loads of people homebrew there, don't know whether to put two and two together and blame the system, or maybe it is because industrial brewing and homebrewing have always co-existed... which is not the case in Spain or the UK.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2009 16:25:39 GMT 2
Yeah, here the things are rather wild... Wild East if l may say so! Everyone could make in the past whatever drink they pleased...now they try to steal our identity with laws without any material support..just papers. But l know many people who ignore all and make tzuika &palinka! They're great! Another good aspect is that here also they sell drinks non stop. And youngster are ,,helped" to buy them by those who sell.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2009 18:04:28 GMT 2
I forgot to mention that the booz is cheap here. The cheapest beer is under a half of an euro,but it's a fine hell of a good one!
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Post by marduk on Apr 15, 2009 19:30:15 GMT 2
Never drank booze but here they are quite expensive. The cheapest ones are the worst, I heard. Btw, Walkyrie, what means "Trollska dans till evig tid!!!"? Is it about dance?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2009 20:03:05 GMT 2
,Trollska dans til evig tid!' tis a line that came to my mind in my first years as a Finntroll fan, and l'm not sure if tis correctly written in Svenska, but the meaning is : dance like a Troll until the end of time! A metaphor for a principle l have: live wild until the end, have fvn, be serene and happy. What sukks in life won't ask you if you agree, so dance to make it better. ;D As for booz, you'll have enough later,now l'm sure you've got better things tn do
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Post by marduk on Apr 16, 2009 8:34:30 GMT 2
Yes. My future. And school. Dang.
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Post by Mighty Croc on Apr 16, 2009 9:29:06 GMT 2
Why later? I used to drink since I got in the college, and now I'm into beer nearly every day, because I have many friends, and... for example, there are 3 birthdays this week ;D
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