is there many makin their own hooch now with da recession?

mikerodgers96

i figure there is

Duff

Doubt it.

mikerodgers96

you're too fast with the reply

you prob wrong

paulmclaughlin

I just wanna say... we're through! Nobody dumps Abe Simpson! You're nothing but a hoochie! Hoochie hoochie hoochie!

Chucken

Hooch?

Vito Corleone

Hooch is crazy.

Elephant Man from china

Yes there is, usually beer snobs(lol) who don't mind their house smelling like crap

Wacker The Attacker

love the gargle

The Backwards Man

Hooch?


Round these parts we make poitin.

Unless you're a customs man, in that case we make nothing at all, nothing at all . . . .

My name is URL

These threads would drive people to cook meth let alone brew beer.

Chucken

My name is URL wrote: »

These threads would drive people to cook meth let alone brew beer.

I'd say it costs more to make beer than it does to buy it.

irish_goat

Chucken wrote: »

I'd say it costs more to make beer than it does to buy it.

You'd be wrong.

http://nationalhomebrewclub.com/

There's an entire club of people making beer. The cheapest I've heard is lads who can make beer for around 25c a pint. Mines would average 50c a pint.

Chucken

irish_goat wrote: »

You'd be wrong.

http://nationalhomebrewclub.com/

There's an entire club of people making beer. The cheapest I've heard is lads who can make beer for around 25c a pint. Mines would average 50c a pint.

Fair enough. Is it more about good home brew than price though?

jill_valentine

I make giant batches of mead, but it's a hobby rather than a budget thing. I give a lot of it to friends and family. Saké too, which turned out awesome.

irish_goat

Chucken wrote: »

Fair enough. Is it more about good home brew than price though?

Definitely, but we're not all millionaires either so it's good to keep costs down.

NuckingFacker

jill_valentine wrote: »

I make giant batches of mead, but it's a hobby rather than a budget thing. I give a lot of it to friends and family. Saké too, which turned out awesome.

Sounds good. what's mead? olde worlde beer??

Chucken

NuckingFacker wrote: »

Sounds good. what's mead? olde worlde beer??

Honey wine-ey stuff I think.

Chucken

irish_goat wrote: »

Definitely, but we're not all millionaires either so it's good to keep costs down.

Dam it, thought I might have struck it lucky there

kneemos

I like home brew it always has a bit of flavour and a kick to it.

Chucken

Chucken wrote: »

I'd say it costs more to make beer than it does to buy it.

You could make sloe gin:) cheap as .. well cheap gin really

Duggy747

mikerodgers96 wrote: »

i figure there is

Listen, rummy, I'm gonna say it plain and simple. Where'd you pinch the hooch? Is some blind tiger jerking suds on the side?

Schism

Myself and a couple of friends made a small batch last week, first attempt. I can't wait to try it but I'm not expecting it to taste great!

Weevil

If it really does take off I foresee an unholy alliance between the supermarkets, off-licences and vintners to lobby against it.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Saw a homebrew kit on offer in Tesco the other day for 12 euro.

Bought a special offer slab of Heineken instead.Couldnt be arsed waiting around for a month to get pissed.

oldyouth

I got a full home brew kit from my son for Christmas the other year and I'm slowly learning and refining. Something nice about drinking your own booze after all the cleaning, mixing, waiting, bottling etc. Nice batch 7 days away as we speak

oldyouth

Schism wrote: »

Myself and a couple of friends made a small batch last week, first attempt. I can't wait to try it but I'm not expecting it to taste great!

Patience at every stage, including cleaning and sterilisation is the key. The exception being the drinking, lorry the fluck out of it when it's ready

irish_goat

Weevil wrote: »

If it really does take off I foresee an unholy alliance between the supermarkets, off-licences and vintners to lobby against it.

They can't really do anything to stop it.

jill_valentine

Chucken wrote: »

Honey wine-ey stuff I think.

Exactly. Honey winey stuff. All it takes is water, a load of Lidl honey and some Tesco bread yeast and bob's your uncle. Leave it for 2-3 months, and you've got some weird new booze most people haven't tried before.

You can get fancier after that by adding better yeast or some kind of malt or Juniper berries (thanks Skyrim!) but it's really easy and results are good. So long as you have room to leave a load of honey yeasty water bubbling away somewhere for a few months, you're well away.

Hide it from your flatmates though, 'cause I'm not going to lie, until it's bottled, it does looks like something you'd see in the background of a Love/Hate

kneemos

I've seen guys buying huge quantities of sugar(like 20 bags) a couple of times and was curious as to what they were up to,I'd guessed something to do with the brewing process.Any ideas?

You could try mixing skittles cough medicine and arizona iced tea for a lovely refreshing hooch

honeybadger

have we a sub forum about home brew on boards here,,reading this has me interested in giving it a go

kenmc

kneemos wrote: »

I've seen guys buying huge quantities of sugar(like 20 bags) a couple of times and was curious as to what they were up to,I'd guessed something to do with the brewing process.Any ideas?

If they're brewing with it, it's gonna taste pretty manky

kenmc

honeybadger wrote: »

have we a sub forum about home brew on boards here,,reading this has me interested in giving it a go

Yes, rec, food and drink, beer wine and spirits.. homebrew

Friend Computer

irish_goat wrote: »

They can't really do anything to stop it.

Lobby to have it outlawed? Rabble rabble, jobs being lost, etc.? Just given the recent goings-on I wouldn't put anything past the VFI.

Friend Computer

Friend Computer wrote: »

Lobby to have it outlawed? Rabble rabble, jobs being lost, etc.? Just given the recent goings-on I wouldn't put anything past the VFI.

I agree, they are a strong lobby group and could do something like this.

Homebrewers license, E??'s per year

PizzamanIRL

irish_goat

Jake1 wrote: »

I agree, they are a strong lobby group and could do something like this.

Homebrewers license, E??'s per year

They'd have absolutely no way of enforcing that though. Could easily argue that homebrewers create jobs too, a lot of the craft brewers started off brewing at home and they're now creating a lot more jobs than the likes of Diageo and Heineken.

jill_valentine

kneemos wrote: »

I've seen guys buying huge quantities of sugar(like 20 bags) a couple of times and was curious as to what they were up to,I'd guessed something to do with the brewing process.Any ideas?

You can use it to brew a kind of plain basic spirit that you then add different "flavourings" to, to simulate a kind of pretend-y Tesco own brand version -

http://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/alcoshot-liquors-turbo-yeast-alcoshot-spirit-kits-c-219_222.html

It's not great, but it is cheap and it's a fun curiosity project. You're never going to wind up with Jameson or something at the end of it, but I suppose if you start off drinking something better you could work your way back to it when you're maybe not so discerning. :pac:

irish_goat

irish_goat wrote: »

They'd have absolutely no way of enforcing that though. Could easily argue that homebrewers create jobs too, a lot of the craft brewers started off brewing at home and they're now creating a lot more jobs than the likes of Diageo and Heineken.

They are? wow, I didnt know it was that popular.

Red Nissan

irish_goat wrote: »

You'd be wrong.

http://nationalhomebrewclub.com/

There's an entire club of people making beer. The cheapest I've heard is lads who can make beer for around 25c a pint. Mines would average 50c a pint.

That's very expensive when one deducts 80% tax from Adli beer and a further 60% from source.

Home brew should be hitting a farthing to a penny a pint.

fryup

homebrew cider, you can't beat it

homemadecider

I make cider from the zillions of apples that grow in the mother-in-law's garden. I also make my own limoncello, which is ridiculously delicious. Soon to pilot a lime version of it.

SpaceCowb0y

Mysef and a friend bought a home brew kit online last year and it came with the stuff for 2 x 40 pint mixes. The pale ale came out quite well but the larger was rough! Dont think we let the larger ferment properly or maybe didnt sterelise everything enough when we making the transfer but that was the first attempt, things went much better with the pale ale!

We were hoping to make some wild berry cider using berries we picked ourselves this summer but never got around to it! Might just throw some brewers yeast, sugar and spuds into a pot for long enough and see what happens for the craic!

There are tons of great home made booze recipes online! If you are willing to pay the few quid you could get the parts for a relatively decent moonshine kit together online but you need to be careful making that! Would love to give it a try but id be to afraid id blow the roof off the house or poison myself!

Super-Rush

I'm not long after bottling 30 odd litres of homebrew cider.

Its very rewarding.

SpaceCowb0y

Super-Rush wrote: »

I'm not long after bottling 30 odd litres of homebrew cider.

Its very rewarding.

i would consider 30 litres of cider a good reward myself alright haha!

Super-Rush

SpaceCowb0y wrote: »

i would consider 30 litres of cider a good reward myself alright haha!

12% volume as well.

SpaceCowb0y

Super-Rush wrote: »

12% volume as well.

Outstanding, id say that will be rocket fuel! Im on my ear after a few cans of Druids ffs ha!

homemadecider wrote: »

I make cider from the zillions of apples that grow in the mother-in-law's garden. I also make my own limoncello, which is ridiculously delicious. Soon to pilot a lime version of it.

What type of alcohol are you using for the base of your limoncello? Ive never come across anything strong enough in any off licence over here!

NegativeCreep

I make my own flavoured water

SouthTippBass

I'l be opening my first batch of homemade Turbo Cider next weekend

irish_goat

Red Nissan wrote: »

That's very expensive when one deducts 80% tax from Adli beer and a further 60% from source.

Home brew should be hitting a farthing to a penny a pint.

I'd like to see you make it cheaper.

Karl Stein

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I make my own flavoured water

1 x H + 2 x O + squeezed fruit?