BrewDog: yet another hip company using 'rebel' language to sell its stuff
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I was given a home brewing kit and have had four goes. Two successful to a degree though the beer ended up or at least felt like of low-ish alcohol content. The other two failed.There's a major, and still active, Urban thread on home brewing
-- it's on the suburban75 forum ....
I dip into that occasionally out of idle half-interest, but home brewing all seems like too much bloody hard work, especially when (even if you're skint), there's a Wetherspoons Beer Festival on at the moment
Personally, and despite the expense, I prefer pub-drinking to home-drinking anyway. Obviously when I say "pub", I completely exclude Brewdog-style "bars"
I had put my failures down to insufficient sterilisation (even though I spent ages sanitising every last bit of kit) or air getting into the barrel but I have no way of proving it. And now that you mention lager being particularly vulnerable to temperature changes I wonder if that was it. But what the fuck am I supposed to do in the winter months? Turn off the radiators in a room for a whole 3-4 weeks? And then if it gets below certain temperature it’ll fuck the yeast up anyway. Perhaps I should do just ale if you say it’s less sensitive to to temperature changes.
I also found the instructions contradictory. Initial fermentation for my kit at least is supposed to happen in a sealed bucket to avoid contamination, yet they tell you to take regular or even daily gravity readings, for which I have no option but to open the bucket. It’s quite maddening tbh.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
I used to love home brewing. You don't have to check the gravity that much at all. A bit like checking a sponge in the oven you will fuck it up by over monitoring. Just keep things clean, use good ingredients and play around. I used 20 litre water containers for the brewing and home made airlocks with plastic piping going into glasses of vodka to avoid contamination. Then bottled into 660ml beer bottles. Had a nice thing going with around 20 x 660ml a week being produced. Needless to say ended up with a ban from my wife as she got fed up with me being pissed at odd times of the day during the racking process and to sample the wares. Definitely a worth while activity if you have time and self control.
Wetherspoons, with their current beer festival, and three Swansea area pubs to drink in, satisfied all my hugely corporate-dependant but cheap beer needs tonight!
On limited money too -- I'm skint(ish).
And I managed to ignore Tim Martin's utterly shite politics for CHEAP (and genuinely quality fbf) BEER
No sterilising of own brew kit necessary today
On limited money too -- I'm skint(ish).
And I managed to ignore Tim Martin's utterly shite politics for CHEAP (and genuinely quality fbf) BEER
No sterilising of own brew kit necessary today
Oh yes, there's a new Brewdog "bar" imminently opening in Wine Street, Swansea 
Will avoid at all times
Will avoid at all times
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Yeah I did a few batches. It certainly is a bit of work cleaning all the kit and bottles. And most of it tasted pretty shit.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
what is this shebu bollocks?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Ah, it's hipster for shepherd's bush
discobastard
Well-Known Member
No, it's short for Shepherd's Bush.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I predict that PiMo will dispute this.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
lots of things are short for shepherd's bush. i suspect that this abomination is far more widely used among the bearded hipster denizens of west london than it is among other sections of the population.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
wrong again.
editor
hiraethified
No good deed left unfilmed, unpromoted and unshared. I'd be curious to see how the cost of shipping over the bar staff on a backslapping jolly compared to the amount of money raised.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
So much bile for a population that nobody can really define. Beards went out years ago btw.
The only other person I've heard using SheBu is a 64 year old mate of mine; he is beardless and lives in Gloucestershire.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
So you do not dispute the implication of DiBa's post, which is that it is "short for" rather than "hipster for". You are not going to claim that it is both.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i'm seeing a lot of unfashionable hipsters then
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i don't see why i shouldn't
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Well, you can choose between contradicting yourself, or proving my prediction correct. It's up to you.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
something can be both short for something and used by a specific population. but if you think about it it would make your head explode.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
WeNo gets used as an abbreviation for West Norwood. It tends to be used primarily by middle class families and estate agents. I don't think we've really got many hipsters round here.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Ok. So you dispute the implication of DiBa's post. My prediction was correct. As predicted.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i haven't disputed that shebu could be short for shepherd's bush.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Correct. So what?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the 'this' you thought i would dispute i haven't. i see you're trying to shuffle the goalposts about in your typical underhand way.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
SheBu and WeNo is the wankiest thing i've ever heard
Proper Tidy
Arsed
IsODo
Proper Tidy
Arsed
ToHam could be Tottenham or Tower Hamlets, whole system is fucked
The Pale King
Well-Known Member
Shebu? Get tae France
I do say 'High and I' to mean Highbury and Islington tho
I do say 'High and I' to mean Highbury and Islington tho
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