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02-07-2020, 11:12 AM
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| So Fucking Banned Poster Rank:249 Join Date: Aug 2018 Posts: 5,539 Mentioned: 99 Post(s) Quoted: 3828 Post(s)
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Home Brewing
There must be more home brewers here! I know there's a few at least, it's odd that no threads seem to have been made for this before, I thought it might be interesting to see other brewers set ups, collections, 'cellars' etc. I've been brewing for the better part of 25 years, started off just helping out gathering fruit in the wilds and such (weird family tradition  ) then started making the softer stuff.(almost alcohol free ginger beer and the like) before moving on to basic wines and the occasional beer kit.I didn't start home brewing in earnest until around 2010, that's when the idea of having a proper 'cellar' really became a possibility. I mainly stuck to the basics, just fruit juice and wine yeast, chucking in the obligatory chemicals at every turn as the books suggest we do. Before long though I got sick of tasting the faint hint of campden tablets in every glass of wine, I went all natural in around 2014 and haven't looked back since. It was a bit of an arse to begin with, lots of failures and very few successes, but where I really found my raison d'etre was in mead. I'd tried brewing mead many times, never got great results though, the idea came to me one evening (while idly watching an X-Men movie ) that I could go super simple and just use a couple pounds of honey, a couple bottles of water, a teaspoon of bread yeast and a tablespoon of dried fruit per gallon. Using good old fashioned heat to kill off the fermentation whenever I wanted, then bottle and wait.This turned out to be a bit of a revelation, the resulting wine was incredible, far better than anything I'd ever made before and dirt cheap to boot! Several years later I've perfected the process, have around 40 gallons of the stuff in various forms (the black cherry mead...well, technically 'melomel', is particularly good!) and have found even quicker, cheaper and more efficient ways of brewing, bottling and storing (there's something indescribably satisfying about plonking a barrel of mead on the table, popping the tap and filling your mug, horn, glass or vessel of your choosing and just chilling out in the honeyed goodness!). I've experimented with barrel ageing in hand crafted oak casks, medicinal draughts brewed with home grown herbs, 'freeze distilling' to achieve a spirit like substance of anything up to 45% ABV (can be rather dangerous, so don't try before you do your research) and a myriad of weird ingredients (including using fancy 'all natural, non pasturised, non blended, single apiary' honey that I did a deal with some weird Ukrainian beekeepers to get hold of!). Anyway, I'm rambling, a lot of you already know I can go on about this subject ad infinitum! Here's 'Bob's Brewhouse' (the sign on the door has seen better days, I'm going to 're-burn' it soon):       |
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02-07-2020, 11:25 AM
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 Für Immer Verloren Poster Rank:50 Boredom + Despair Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 30,253
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Re: Home Brewing
Our shed's made of asbestos + plasterboard - everyone come round + punch your way in to nick all the devil's drink!
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02-07-2020, 11:27 AM
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Re: Home Brewing
Attempting to steal the mead from an angry, sword wielding, mutant giant is a very poor choice indeed...ask Odin!
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02-07-2020, 02:51 PM
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 ✝Mudderator from Hell✝ Poster Rank:10 e-mail Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 95,099
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Re: Home Brewing
A leather love seat and a glass chess set too. impressive collection  |
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02-07-2020, 05:13 PM
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Hahaha! A love seat? That's some scabby armchair he bought at a vide-grenier in France, many years ago. I hate that chair! Mister, a love seat is one that has 2 seats but they're facing in opposite directions. |
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02-07-2020, 05:49 PM
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Re: Home Brewing
Oi! That's 'Alessa' and she's wonderful, she's always put my comfort first, not remotely scabby! Both my armchairs in there are leather (the one in front of the tv/entertainment centre is a more straight backed affair but still comfy), the chair in front of the bureau (my writing desk) is wood with a cushion, differing levels of comfort on all three depending on the uses thereof. |
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02-08-2020, 01:34 AM
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So you're saying you can't make love in a one seater?  Maybe it's worth some money as they made good stuff in France back in the days. |
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02-08-2020, 04:49 AM
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Haha, well, many years ago when Bob + I were courting, he had a rather small 2-seater settee that we used to make love on!
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