Does anyone on here brew their own beer?

I've just done my first ever batch. I've gone for an all malt pilsner.

Ingredients:

Unhopped Light Malt Extract
Light Dried Malt Extract
Hop Pellets
Leaf Hops
Yeast
Priming Sugar

Any tips or other decent recipes you'd like to share then feel free to put them here. I like lagers and ales and stouts but I'm not too keen on that wheaty, pale ale type of taste from beers like Sierra Nevada or the Sam Adams range.

Thanks

does it taste nice and what proof is it ?

i brewed my own red wine last year but hadd to stop because i was drinking 3-4 bottles a night.

Originally Posted by 1MUFC

does it taste nice and what proof is it ?

No idea. I've only just put the wort in the fermenting bucket. Got to give it about a week, check the gravity, add the priming sugar and then bottle it (1 week in a cool place and then 3 weeks in the fridge). So I'm quite a way off tasting it yet.

wine. fermenting away, bottle it around easter or later.

Beer:

Use the Hambleton Bard kits.

Wine:

grape juice, yeast, sugar and a whole load of prayers.

Good luck - it is great fun and the thrill at doing something youself is quite special.

However, since being back in the UK - the thrill of waling into Sinclair's or Somerfield and choosing some pre-made stuff is also pretty special.

Cheers. I might give wine a go if this goes all right. Do you have to buy a load of grapes to crush or can you buy a sort of grape pulp type doofer?

The True Brew Maestro Equipment Kit is the one I started with:

http://www.crosby-baker.com/TrueBrew.htm

and I brewed the Pilsner.

Originally Posted by poppy

I've just done my first ever batch. I've gone for an all malt pilsner.

Ingredients:

Unhopped Light Malt Extract
Light Dried Malt Extract
Hop Pellets
Leaf Hops
Yeast
Priming Sugar

Any tips or other decent recipes you'd like to share then feel free to put them here. I like lagers and ales and stouts but I'm not too keen on that wheaty, pale ale type of taste from beers like Sierra Nevada or the Sam Adams range.

Thanks

Used to brew my own many years ago. From what I recall it had 2 main drawbacks.

Firstly after 5 or 6 pints your are pretty much certain to fall over.

Secondly when you went for a shit it came out almost exactly the same consistency that it went in.

Originally Posted by denis the king

Used to brew my own many years ago. From what I recall it had 2 main drawbacks.

Firstly after 5 or 6 pints your are pretty much certain to fall over.

Secondly when you went for a shit it came out almost exactly the same consistency that it went in.

I used to brew my own, it would knock you out. I once drank it too ealry before it had proper fermnted and I was that ill I lost 2 stone in weight

Originally Posted by poppy

Cheers. I might give wine a go if this goes all right. Do you have to buy a load of grapes to crush or can you buy a sort of grape pulp type doofer?

The True Brew Maestro Equipment Kit is the one I started with:

http://www.crosby-baker.com/TrueBrew.htm

and I brewed the Pilsner.

grapes, but make sure you get the right ones. there's loads of books around. you need wine yeast (there's yeast in the grapes, but it's not really enough), sugar and, depending on the grapes, a catalyst for the yeast.

great hobby.

http://utdforum.com/forum/showpost.p...07&postcount=1

Originally Posted by elephantstone

I used to brew my own, it would knock you out. I once drank it too ealry before it had proper fermnted and I was that ill I lost 2 stone in weight

How did it feel to be 25 stone for a couple of days?

I'm thinking of doing some home made stuff - lager & wine.

Do the kits come with everything you will need?

Originally Posted by Carrick

How did it feel to be 25 stone for a couple of days?

oi ya cheeky c***