Home Brew Questions

[Addy]

The xmas pudding wine has turned out well.
18% abv, I backsweetened the gallon with 200g of sugar and its well lush!!!

 

[Dovydaitis]

just bottled up Mr Dovy's amaretto. Smelt quite nice although I think the stuff is vile He also now owes me 4 Ikea swing top bottles that I was saving for the black cherry port

 

[existentialist]

black cherry port

ZOMGWTFWUNT!

I has damson gin, that is all.

 

[Cid]

The xmas pudding wine has turned out well.
18% abv, I backsweetened the gallon with 200g of sugar and its well lush!!!

Is that a sample of your wee after drinking it?

Think I'll start some brewing projects once i've moved to Sheffield, restricted to sloe gin for now.

 

[Dovydaitis]

ZOMGWTFWUNT!

I has damson gin, that is all.

will grab you the recipe if you want it?

 

[existentialist]

will grab you the recipe if you want it?

I'd be interested, yes. Not sure if I'm quite set up for making it, but I won't know until I try

 

[badseed]

will grab you the recipe if you want it?

+1
Also, a shameless bump back to the front page.

 

[Dovydaitis]

never shameless to bump the 'quick' home brew thread to the front!

will grab the recipe

 

[Dovydaitis]

Ingredients:
2x tins of Young's Black Cherry Wine Kit
half a jar of honey
Vitamin B1 nutrient
Port/high alcohol yeast (I think I used SB3 or HA1001)

Method:
Put it all in a plastic bucket, top up with campden-treated water to a gallon; leave for about 10 days
Siphon off into a DJ
Leave for three months
Add a teaspoon bentonite and de-gas
Leave for another fortnight
Bottle
Drink after four more months

Tada! Cheap and really delicious, not too heavy on the tannins, no dominant acid, hints of dark cherry, and strong (~17%).

 

[Frances Lengel]

Any tips on getting the lid of an empty pressure barrel? I've screwed it on that tight, I can't budge it.

 

[Dovydaitis]

hot cloth? not sure, never used one

 

[Addy]

Roll up a tea towel and wrap it around the cap and twist the ends of the towel to tighten the grip, then use brute force.

ohhhh.... and make sure you have released all the pressure from the tap first.

I only ever tighten the cap finger tight anyways to ensure a good seal and to not buckle the o-ring, and add a little smear of vaseline to the threads so that any beer residue will not create a sugary bond in the threads.

 

[Superdupastupor]

5 gallons of appleJ/wine yeast/ stewed tea/ sugar-water. (1st attempt at a brew in a non-apprentice role )

about 4 hrs ago.

Seems to be working - or at least going at it something strong- it's giving off so much heat that the central heating has been turned off

 

[friedaweed]

That'll be 60 bottles of wit then

 

[badseed]

Racking a lager. Dry hopped with Tettnanger and Hallertau

 

[friedaweed]

Ingredients:
2x tins of Young's Black Cherry Wine Kit
half a jar of honey
Vitamin B1 nutrient
Port/high alcohol yeast (I think I used SB3 or HA1001)

Method:
Put it all in a plastic bucket, top up with campden-treated water to a gallon; leave for about 10 days
Siphon off into a DJ
Leave for three months
Add a teaspoon bentonite and de-gas
Leave for another fortnight
Bottle
Drink after four more months

Tada! Cheap and really delicious, not too heavy on the tannins, no dominant acid, hints of dark cherry, and strong (~17%).

I'm going to do this in the new year

 

[Dovydaitis]

you know it makes sense I'm making mine in the new year ready for July but will probably make a double batch ready for Christmas next year

 

[Dovydaitis]

hmm, I appear to have accidentally drunk (with friends) most of the mixed berry cider..... will just have to make it again

 

[friedaweed]

Well it's been a busy brewing period in Frieda's brewery. The New Years Eve party will have beer.
The Wheat beer is bottled and initial sample was lush, the Diablo has really come into it's own now, 40 pints of Wherry are in the keg and i've just made a bumper batch of oated stout to be drunk fresh.

Santa's Steamer (The wheat), Harry Monk (The Diablo) and 18 liters of Brewferm Triple bulk aging.

The diablo

The Stout.

200g Malted oats
200g Chocolate wheat
150g Biscuit Malt

All steeped for 50 min @ 65c

1kg Dark Spray malt
1 can of coopers stout

Coopers yeast.

OG 1048

Happy days

 

[Dovydaitis]

If you need a hand with all that lot frieda, just give me a yell

I don't have anything on the go at the moment, feels wrong....

 

[Dovydaitis]

my mixed berry cider was a write off initially as I thought I had overdone the sugar when putting it into bags. But a week or so on and it's very drinkable, if ever so slightly stronger! When it came out of 2nd ferment and into the bags it was 6.9% but now it is even stronger! dread to think what....

 

[og ogilby]

Wilkinsons have a sale on with loads of hb stuff at 20% off.

I just bought 4 Woodfords Wherry kits at £14.40 a kit plus £3.50 delivery charge.

 

[Dovydaitis]

*heads off to wilkos website*

 

[Casually Red]

Havent had time to scan through this properly but if anyones had any luck doing a wheat beer along the lines of the Paulaner variety any tips and advice would be welcome

 

[Dovydaitis]

So, what have people got planned for this year? I have the port recipe above to get cracking on and another batch of mixed berry cider but other than that nothing planned as of yet



This will change

 

[Dovydaitis]

Popped into Wilkos to grab my stuff for the port and the 20% has gone already! Although my store does have the 6 bottle wine gift set down to a tenner, might grab it tomorrow.

But, operation black cherry port begins tonight

 

[existentialist]

So, what have people got planned for this year? I have the port recipe above to get cracking on and another batch of mixed berry cider but other than that nothing planned as of yet



This will change

I want this year to be the year I start brewing in the shed, doing full mash brews...

 

[friedaweed]

Well my new year party was a huge success thanks to my home brewing this year. The wherry and the stout got hammered and we got through half a dozen of the shiraz as well.

I'm going to make the cherry port as xmas gifts for next year

My next brew is going to be a larger.

 

[Dovydaitis]

Will do a larger in a couple of months, cash is a bit tight till end of the month

 

[friedaweed]

Will do a larger in a couple of months, cash is a bit tight till end of the month

Same here but fortunately i have one in