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Loobz · 19-04-2012 9:48pm #1

Here's my apple cider. Crushed three different varieties of apples. Tasted unreal - none left now Im afraid. This was my first attempt at homebrew and worked out very well indeed. Finished up at 7%. Brewed it 2 years ago.

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oblivious · 19-04-2012 10:43pm

Nice Loobz

Here are mine, a best bitter

One of my first hefe'S with WLP300, lovely lovely yeast!

Khannie · 20-04-2012 12:02pm

That looks savage Loobz. I have some pics on my phone. I'll dig them out.

Khannie · 20-04-2012 12:32pm

Here's a pic of my apple and raspberry cider.

I don't have any of the apple, but I'll get one tonight.

Here's a pic of the bottles I got from the apple and raspberry batch. I got about twice this amount from the apple only batch:

Loobz · 20-04-2012 1:19pm

I hope that Hefe tastes as good as it looks Oblivious. Mmmmmm....

Apple and raspberry cider sounds lovely Khannie.

Also might be worth mentioning if your brew is all-grain, a kit, or something from the wild (eg Elderflower champagne or strawberry wine etc) along with the photo you post.

GristlyEnd · 20-04-2012 1:41pm

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Coopers IPA kit. It's nice to drink but not nearly hoppy enough for me. Going extract brewing next as I'm a bit of a hop head.

Khannie · 20-04-2012 4:52pm

Loobz wrote: »

Apple and raspberry cider sounds lovely Khannie.

Also might be worth mentioning if your brew is all-grain, a kit, or something from the wild (eg Elderflower champagne or strawberry wine etc) along with the photo you post.

Pretty tasty alright. It's from lidl cloudy apple juice + 1KG of defrosted frozen raspberries.

lordstilton · 20-04-2012 8:38pm

All grain kolch
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Wookie · 20-04-2012 9:33pm

lordstilton wrote: »

All grain kolch
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That looks great! Still learning the ropes on this whole home brew thing, but I look forward to getting to the point where I can make some of that kind of beer

lordstilton · 20-04-2012 9:36pm

Kolch is a great style if you want a beer for lager drinkers without the hassle of temp control.

Loobz · 20-04-2012 10:30pm

Heres a photo of my Meade. Made from honey, raisans, sultanas, cranberries, rosehips, root ginger, roast oak leaves and yeast. Its been brewing since last September.

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Khannie · 21-04-2012 9:25am

Roast oak leaves? Did you just go and gather up some oak leaves roast them?

Khannie · 21-04-2012 9:29am

Haha. My daughter came over and asked about the pic, so I explained it to her and she said "how did he make it with no arms or hands?" and I was

so I said "I never said he had no arms or hands"....."but you said the sky made it" (this guy -> the sky).

Loobz · 21-04-2012 10:49am

Khannie wrote: »

Roast oak leaves? Did you just go and gather up some oak leaves roast them?

Well the original recipe (which apparently dates back to the 1600's) calls for dried oak leaves. So my mate picked them and we dried them in the oven. Then put them in muslin and steeped it in the initial boil.

Khannie your daughters story made me chuckle!

And Hooptee079, think you posted in the wrong forum mate.

BeerNut · 22-04-2012 10:35pm

Can I get anyone a beer? This is most of what I have in the homebrew stash at the moment:

I keep one bottle of every brew for some purpose that isn't clear yet. You can see some of them over at the far right.

And here are some bottles ready for use over in emptytown:

And this is what I'm drinking now: a citra/summit amber ale:

Loobz · 23-04-2012 12:09pm

Now thats one attic Id like to spend time in Beernut

Khannie · 23-04-2012 12:13pm

Loobz wrote: »

Now thats one attic Id like to spend time in Beernut

Agreed. I've never seen a delicious looking attic before.

BeerNut · 23-04-2012 12:22pm

A couple of extra fermenters, loads of empty bottles plus some free weekends and
You Too Can Have An Attic Like Mine
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viper123 · 23-04-2012 1:52pm

Where do you get all the bottles? Years of hoarding or some secret deal with a pub owner?

BeerNut · 23-04-2012 2:09pm

viper123 wrote: »

Years of hoarding

This. I pretty much didn't throw out a bottle between 2008 and 2011. Nowadays I can be fussy and have a few specific shapes I collect...

viper123 wrote: »

some secret deal with a pub owner?

... that said, the Bull & Castle has been very good to me for empty swingtops. Meanwhile, my local may have noticed it doesn't return as many pint bottles of Guinness and Bulmers for the deposit as it used to. Though the staff say clearing empties from the beer garden is much less work than before.

Martyn1989 · 23-04-2012 7:58pm

My brown porter, very hoppy red ale and wheat pale ale. The porters definately my favourite. The red was a bit brighter but no amount of explaining was going to stop my mate pouring every last drop into the glass.

lordstilton · 23-04-2012 8:33pm

Well if beernut is showing off his attic I may as well show off my garage
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DeadSkin · 23-04-2012 8:50pm

Mines a Scruffy Blond lordstilton :pac:

BeerNut, that's a great setup. Never even thought of the attic. I have beer in wardrobes, cupboards, empty bottles & spare fermenter under the stairs. A brew that's been 4 weeks tipping away in the spare room, spare bottles in the utility. Hmm must invest in a stira

I have about 120 bottles in the 3 stages - fermenting, conditioning & some in the fridge[think I hear one calling me as I type........]

Loobz · 23-04-2012 9:28pm

Coopers Inda Pale Ale 5.3%. Cheers!

Lordstilton, mines a Volvic, off the shelf.

Martyn1989 - nice photo.

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slayerking · 23-04-2012 10:43pm

First pint out of the new kegerator build...

An Irish stout...

BeerNut · 23-04-2012 11:04pm

Shiny! Very nice indeed. Does it only serve US pints though?

slayerking · 24-04-2012 8:47am

BeerNut wrote: »

Does it only serve US pints though?

Smaller pint glass = more pint pulling fun! :-)

oblivious · 24-04-2012 9:37am

Lovely set up lordstilton and slayerking

lordstilton · 24-04-2012 11:43am

That tap must of set you back a pretty penny slayerking...i like the drip tray...where did you manage to get it?

Khannie · 24-04-2012 6:00pm

Some very impressive setups there folks. I bottled a batch of cider last night. You can get an idea of the colour in the clear glass bottle over on the right hand side. Can't wait for it. Going to kick off another one soon so that they can properly age before I drink them all.

Shiny · 24-04-2012 6:58pm

One of my beers (St. Peters Ruby Red Kit) from a while ago:
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And the bottle storage space (quite small compared to others:o)
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slayerking · 24-04-2012 10:17pm

lordstilton wrote: »

That tap must of set you back a pretty penny slayerking...i like the drip tray...where did you manage to get it?

It actually wasnt too bad price wise.

Beer tower and drip tray were bought from a german site called Ich-zapfe.de.
The tower also has a beer line chiller circuit if you wanted to chill the lines (I dont have a beer line chiller!)

They have an amazon shop on amazon.de that I actually used to buy the stuff, but this was only because I had a few amazon.de vouchers so it cost me very little all told.

Great shop in general for stuff actually

Loobz · 25-04-2012 11:33am

slayerking wrote: »

Great shop in general for stuff actually

If only it was in English.

Shiny · 25-04-2012 12:01pm

Loobz wrote: »

If only it was in English.

Google chrome will translate it for you on the fly.

lordstilton · 25-04-2012 1:57pm

Wow great prices.. My taps were 360 for the three delivered... Bookmarked

slayerking · 25-04-2012 2:20pm

Fyi for the ich-zapfe tower, taps weren't included in that price. I got them separately somewhere else.

lordstilton · 26-04-2012 12:27pm

Where did you get the taps, and very nice style

slayerking · 26-04-2012 5:29pm

lordstilton wrote: »

Where did you get the taps, and very nice style

On a group buy on beoir. Came to ~€30 each.

mished · 26-04-2012 8:56pm

My first stout, really tasty

Killgore Trout · 27-04-2012 1:12am

Cooper's mexican cerveza.

My first brew, got it with the equipment kit. Bottled 5 weeks ago - mellowing out now. Was very appley initially. ~3.9%.

Really easy to waste a few. Not that i'd be making it again.

Killgore Trout · 27-04-2012 1:37am

Revised - post pour pic. More manageable size. Going down well.

PhiliousPhogg · 27-04-2012 10:31am

In order: My black IPA, the most part for my microbrewery, and my brews in some local bottles - first person to identify what country I'm in gets a free bottle* (the second from left is an interesting one!).

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*Must pick up

Mr Simpson · 27-04-2012 10:35am

Oz? But you can hold on to it, cos I aint picking it up

BeerNut · 27-04-2012 10:37am

No Tui?

You're in New Zealand.

PhiliousPhogg · 27-04-2012 10:46am

That's right. No Tui isn't on my list of favourites, someone told me it's around 5 IBU, and there are plenty more like it. The second from left is a collaboration between they Norwegian guy behind Nogne and 2 local breweries, a 9.5% brown ale/porter. Theres a youtube clip about it somewhere if you feel like searching on 'O for Awesome, Nogne, Renaissance'

Cork Boy · 27-04-2012 11:06am

slayerking wrote: »

It actually wasnt too bad price wise.

Beer tower and drip tray were bought from a german site called Ich-zapfe.de.
The tower also has a beer line chiller circuit if you wanted to chill the lines (I dont have a beer line chiller!)

They have an amazon shop on amazon.de that I actually used to buy the stuff, but this was only because I had a few amazon.de vouchers so it cost me very little all told.

Great shop in general for stuff actually

Very good site and in fairness Google Chrome does a great job of translating. Pity they don't do JG Fittings for the cornies though, could kill two birds with the one stone

Do the towers include the taps? (D'oh - never mind, just saw your later post)

Mr.Applepie · 27-04-2012 11:57am

PhiliousPhogg wrote: »

In order: My black IPA, the most part for my microbrewery, and my brews in some local bottles - first person to identify what country I'm in gets a free bottle* (the second from left is an interesting one!).

*Must pick up

Do I get extra beer for knowing you're in Wellington?

PhiliousPhogg · 27-04-2012 1:06pm

Sure, an honorary homebrewed ale to you (no P&P). I'm guessing you've either lived here or currently reside here. There's quite a scene, and growing. Do you know these beers? Frequent any of the craft beer bars around town?

lang · 28-04-2012 8:36pm

This is my first brew after three weeks bottle fermenting. It's turned out quite nice even if I do say so myself. It's a Coopers Original Real Ale w/ LME (light). Threw it into Secondary fermenter along with EKG and Cascade hops for about a week. Definite citrus, bitter twang of the brew but the off Sour Green Apple flavour has certainly disappeared. Very pleased with it! I have a Coopers Irish Stout Kit in Primary at the moment so that'll be ready in a good few weeks.

DeadSkin · 01-05-2012 9:06pm

Last of the Muntons Gold India Pale Ale going down nicely this evening. Have another batch just bottled the weekend.

The Muntons Premium Gold Midas Touch Golden Ale, just popped a bottle of that yesterday, 3 weeks locked up in the wardrobe, lovely stuff.

Have a Woodfords 3.0 Kg Admirals Reserve kicked off tonight

Very productive few days.......

DeadSkin · 02-06-2012 1:44pm

The IPA I bottled about 4 weeks has had little carbonation, improved over the past week alright. I reckon the recent hot weather has had some affect on it.

Looking forward to the Woodfords Admiral Reserve, just bottled it a week ago & stuck it under the stairs - a bit cooler in there.

Bloody hombrew west are now closed on Saturdays!!! Was nice and handy to drop in the odd Saturday for a looksee, always came out with something. Pain in the ar$e now trying to get to them during the week.

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