Home brewers

[Deereyme66]

Any out there? Got a batch of Dune Bar by Festival on the go. Supposedly like Doom Bar. Keeping my fingers crossed for a nice brew. So far so good. Another week to go before bottling. Be interested to hear about any decent kits others have used.

[ironingboard]

Always fancied giving it a go. My limiting factor being somewhere to keep it.

I suppose I could go without using the bath for a while.

[Deereyme66]

Keep the bottles? No shed? You can store 40 bottles in plastic boxes easily enough in the house. Unless you’ve no room?

[Northumbiron]

Life’s too short and you need to keep your local pubs in business.

Ditch the Home Brew and use the network of local breweries.

[TwoWrights]

Northumbiron wrote:

Life’s too short and you need to keep your local pubs in business.

Ditch the Home Brew and use the network of local breweries.

Or national ones like Molson Coors, brewers of Carling and Fosters. :-)

[Northumbiron]

I think you’ll find they’re International (USA & Canada).

If you want a true British lager TW grab a pint of Uncle Jeremy’s Hawkstone. Seems to be getting where dust can’t settle.

[TwoWrights]

Northumbiron wrote:

I think you’ll find they’re International (USA & Canada).

If you want a true British lager TW grab a pint of Uncle Jeremy’s Hawkstone. Seems to be getting where dust can’t settle.

No thanks, fizzy chemicals suit my taste (door ajar) fine.

[Deereyme66]

Northumbiron wrote:

Life’s too short and you need to keep your local pubs in business.

Ditch the Home Brew and use the network of local breweries.

Both are feasible. I’m not about to stop making curries to help sustain the network of curry houses, but I do have a few favourite establishments.

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Northumbiron

[Northumbiron]

You’re quite right Deerey.

But there’s always something about a restaurant curry that you can’t quite replicate at home and I think it’s the same with home brew.

Mrs NI used to do the wine thing back in the 80s but demijohns bubbling away in airing cupboards wasn’t great once you had kids, so she got rid.

Never been back to home brew since but that’s probably got a lot to do with good wines being much more available and affordable which wasn’t the case back in the 70s and 80s.

Same goes for beer. So many microbreweries and independent “taps” around now that you’re spoiled for choice.

Now home made jams and chutneys. That’s another matter.

[Deereyme66]

Things have moved on since the 80s and it’s far easier to brew well inexpensively. You’re right about a plethora of microbreweries and tap houses, most are good but often very expensive. Reason why there’s so many is partly due to ease of making nowadays. My beer and friends beers are usually pretty good (unlike that shite in the 80s) and it’s a nice feeling drinking your own decent brew with friends and chatting about it. It’s a social thing too.

[Deereyme66]

Chutneys not keen on, but I have got in to making sauerkraut and kimchi, which usually turns out delicious and way better than shop bought

[Iron-awe]

Quite like a bit of mango chutney with my curry and there are some excellent chutney’s out there that go well with cheese and biscuits. PS don’t forget the port with the cheese and biscuits, stilton of course.

[Deereyme66]

I’m not averse to chutneys, just not a huge fan.

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