New Hobby

[husky03]

I've got a new hobby-

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Four pints later i was a jibbering fool and it looked like the mrs made the correct decision to take the kids to her mothers:thumright:

husky

[pencil shavings]

:scratch: what is that? coke?

[hovis]

so whats the new hobby?

[SoulKiss]

Emptying coke bottles into buckets, obviously.

Better not be home brewing and storing in plastic bottles.

I know people who would hunt you down and kill you slowly AND painfully for such a beer-crime.

[husky03]

Thats irish stout-lovely tasteing but i had a real sore head the next day-as for the bottles the glass ones are getting picked up on Sunday so the next batch will be looking very professional and come with crown cap lids

husky

[Ping]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. :thumbsup:

[Warthog]

Cool, gimme some :lol:

[Ed]

Oh it looks very good.

Two pints please

[pencil shavings]

Stout, is that a flat beer? Im not very good with the different types!

[Ed]

Stout, is that a flat beer?

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[cuffy]

Home brewing is brilliant fun, done cider years ago, tasted like bog standard apple juice but plaited your legs and tongue within 3 pints :drink:

Even made my ex mother in law look attractive.....evil stuff, never made that again :smt101

[Ed]

Even made my ex mother in law look attractive.....evil stuff, never made that again :smt101

Don't spose you needed to:p

[pencil shavings]

is it safe/easy to do? could be a giggle to do at uni!

[pencil shavings]

Don't spose you needed to:p

why would he ever need to make a mother in law look attractive? some strange goings on at the farm!:lol:

[missyburd]

Hehe YC had a crack at that a bit ago, went quite well if I remember rightly, fun too :D

[jambo]

Stout, is that a flat beer? Im not very good with the different types!
The fact it's black may be a clue that this man is not making Carling....

Keep meaning to try some home brew stuff, but I'd be upset throwing it away if I didn't like it! I'd be trying for a decent bitter though....

Jambo

[pencil shavings]

The fact it's black may be a clue that this man is not making Carling....
Jambo

Guinness?

nasty stuff!!

[dizzyblonde]

Ah the wonders of homebrew...me dad used to do all sorts of it when I was a nipper....funny bubbles and glass milk bottles I recall

he made everything from Lager to plum wine to moonshine....I kid you not, he worked in Saudi for many years and had to make his own( with his mates in the English private villas) They came up with a concoction they named 'Jeddah Gin' which was garanteed to blow your head off.....ingredients.something along the lines of 5lb of spuds, 5 lemons,5 limes,5 oranges 5lb sugar??, in a big bin......marvellous...lol:lol:

[Biker_Billy]

Ah the wonders of homebrew...me dad used to do all sorts of it when I was a nipper....funny bubbles and glass milk bottles I recall

he made everything from Lager to plum wine to moonshine....I kid you not, he worked in Saudi for many years and had to make his own( with his mates in the English private villas) They came up with a concoction they named 'Jeddah Gin' which was garanteed to blow your head off.....ingredients.something along the lines of 5lb of spuds, 5 lemons,5 limes,5 oranges 5lb sugar??, in a big bin......marvellous...lol:lol:

Lol...I lived in Jeddah when I was a kid, and snuffled many a glass of Jeddah Gin into my room when mum and dad weren't looking....
Just as a matter of interest, where did your dad live, and how long ago?

BB.

[yorkie_chris]

Plastic isn't too bad if you sup it all at once!
However this may kill you :-P

Mine was in a pressure barrel, and didn't really gas up as much as it should have, but it was still really nice. That was from a decent, 2 tin kit. The el-cheapo ones from the supermarket really dont cut it.

Amazing how quick 40 pints can dissappear ... hick...


Would build misen a still if it wasn't for those annoying excise lot... :-P

[dizzyblonde]

Lol...I lived in Jeddah when I was a kid, and snuffled many a glass of Jeddah Gin into my room when mum and dad weren't looking....
Just as a matter of interest, where did your dad live, and how long ago?

BB.
hahaha then you know that its rocketfuel...lol
My dad worked on Jeddah airport, Riyadh airport and Riyadh Uni, he had 3000 multinational peeps working under him at one stage, hes as mad as a box of ffrogs, and has many a tale from those days, could entertain you for hours. He left shortly before the warfare in Kuwait. It was hard in them days cause we didn't see him for six months at a time, but the tall tales soon made us forget he'd been gone a while.....especially the gin ones

[Biker_Billy]

hahaha then you know that its rocketfuel...lol
My dad worked on Jeddah airport, Riyadh airport and Riyadh Uni, he had 3000 multinational peeps working under him at one stage, hes as mad as a box of ffrogs, and has many a tale from those days, could entertain you for hours. He left shortly before the warfare in Kuwait. It was hard in them days cause we didn't see him for six months at a time, but the tall tales soon made us forget he'd been gone a while.....especially the gin ones

Must have been around the same time then...many stories too...

I remember arriving in Saudi - must have been in the house about half an hour, when there was a knock at the door - was a chap from Round Table, took us to the local supermarket (interestingly enough was a Safeway), and proceeded to put 10 cases of Barbican lager (alcohol free of course), 2 dustbins, 20 kilos of sugar and some yeast into the trolley (no food I might add)....

Got home and started brewing for us....

I knew from then it would be an interesting 5 years!

Sorry for the de-rail, but it turned out to be an ok brew from what i remember...

[dizzyblonde]

I distinctly remember my dad with a brewing bin sat on a dining chair, warming it up in front of the gas fire...he sat babysitting for hours, my mum thought he was bonkers. My gran is from Germany so you can imagine they like a bit of Schnapps, my grandad was blathered the first time he had any of that Jeddah stuff.......said it blew any schnapps out of the water....lol


Ahhh homebrew...such fun

[mister c]

Mmmmmmmmmmm Stout, love the odd Guiness meself :drink:

[kwak zzr]

yay home brew! care to share? :)

[husky03]

yay home brew! care to share? :)

Anyone who's comes up to Scotland is more than welcome to drop in and pay a visit,room in the garage aslong as you don't mind the dogs- could squeeze you in with them overnight:smt101-lagers on brew at the moment,then a heavy, and a cider -gonna be a good summer no matter what the weather gods bring:D

[monkey]

I just posted on this! Search is my friend I know.....

I've done a couple from the local homebrew shop. They came out very good! I used old plastic lemonade bottles but have now got too many bottles to count so will taste what's on offer in Sainsbury's and go and see my man to see what he can match my favourite up with.

What's wrong with plastic bottles anyway? Nothing wrong with having to finish a 2 litre bottle in one!

What was the T for in the few bottles on the left? Test?
:)

If I make a really good one I might get a car driver to ferry it to the AR for me.

[monkey]

P.S. your kitchen roll's run out. HTH
:D

[gettin2dizzy]

In IKEA they sell el cheapo glass bottles with the wire/cork tops that the olde Grolsch bottles used to have :thumbsup: hth