I've started a new batch of beer and i was wondering if any of you brew your own beer. And if you do, have you got any techniques that help you?

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No, but if you send me some, I'll tell you what I think.

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I dont even know how to brew my own. Would you mind describing the process?

My friend Conan brewed some.....he was a weird weird soul that commited suicide last year. It was sad cause he wasn't at school for about 3 months then all of a sudden he came and said bye to all the people who were nice to him, which wasn't many...maybe 4 or 5...and the next day he was in the paper for commiting suicide. But his beer was good...tasted about 8%

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Shitty deal about your friend man.
I'm brewing mine at around 5%. Pilsner.



You buy a kit that contains wort and yeast. You boil 4 litres of water, and mix the wort with it. Then you add cold water up to 23 litres in a 5 gallon bucket. At a certain temp, you add the yeast. Then you let the fucker ferment for around 6 days.
When it's fermented you put it in a carboy (big glass container) until it clears (around another 6-7 days). Syphon back into bucket (to get rid of the sediment at the bottom). Then bottle. Let bottles sit for about a week to finish carbonation. Then it's ready to drink. The longer it sits in the bottles though, the better it tastes.
You get around 66 bottles for $15. Not a bad deal.

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I haven't ever made beer, but I think that complete darkness is a key to good beer while its fermenting. I would like to make beer but I'm to lazy so I just buy it instead

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Sounds like a plan. Perfect for underage kids.

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Yeah, i've heard that complete darkness and constant temp. help fermentation.
I was just wondering if anyone had little tricks (every activity has em'), that would affect taste etc.


You can make liquour with any fruit or vegetable really. I'm not sure exactly how (something to do with the fermenting), but some old dude, was explaining to me once how he made shine outta apples.

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I have before. I just did what the packet said to do.

Try to search for a forum on it.

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that's an idea that almost makes complete sense.

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Why doesn't it?

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There's a local band here (DE) that brew their own beer, you could join their forum and they'd explain the process to you.

I'd post their website and name but it'd be spamming, so unless I get an OK from a moderator I won't do it

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I grant you permission as a Supreme Metalhead

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Works from me

The site is http://thunderbrew.com Great band great beer

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i dotn brew any but one of my freinds makes his own mead (some kinda ligure the vikings made) its some fucking good shit, im not sure what he puts in it though

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I seen on TV once that there are some poeple in some wierd country that make beer from human spit

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i heard that japan has this beer made with bull sperm
kooky japs

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That was on Wild Boyz.

They crew up some sort of fruit spit it out, ferment it underground and then drink it. Apparently it taste like shit but gets you drunk quick

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God damn Trendkill, im like a few hours drive away, can I drop by for a taste test?

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Get the recipe for that. I'd love to try that.

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My friend and I are going to do this. Where do you buy the kit?

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You can get them from the supermarket here, I don't think you even have to be legal age to buy them.

Yeah, I don't think you can get them in a market here. I think I'd have to order it.

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thanks for the info
cheers, of coarse

As would I.
Then i could get drunk off that and play viking metal the right way!! hehe

It's easy. Keep it nice & warm ('bout 22 degrees should be fine) & out of sunlight while you're priming it. Leave it for 2 or 3 weeks if you're none too sure about the process. Then bottle it, DO NOT put in too much sugar or you'll have a shed full of alcoholic hand grenades, wait for what seems like way too long, & then enjoy.

The most fun is trying to decide how much sugar is too much when you're bottling it up. This will make all the difference to how it tastes, how fucking long it takes to pour because it's so bastard fizzy that it's like a bubble bath set to 'ridiculous', & also makes a little bit of difference to the alcohol content I think.

Oh yeah, & don't let your bum housemate experiment with what was a good batch of stout by having the fucker pour honey stright from the jar into the BOTTLES & ruin all of your shit in one fell swoop. That's a good tip.

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ill try and get that recipe from him, but i dont think he'll give it to me. i have asked him before and hes like "its a secret" blah blah blah

you could probably find a decent recipe for it online though

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fuck, fearfrost you live in the same town as the keiths brewery. Just break in!





Probably at a supermarket. There are about 4 beer/wine stores in my area that sell the kit. It goes for about $70-$80 for the kit, including the first batch. Then each additional batch goes for around $20.

Thanks for the tips, stuffisgreat. A friend of mine used to double the yeast dosage, which in turn doubled the alcohol content. Another friend of mine was wanting to get a kit and use honey instead of sugar. Do you know if that'd work?

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Hahaha, well my mom works right next door to the damn thing, and I can use my moms parking spot , but for one you have to be 19 (im 18, but on september the 18th ill be 19), so I have to wait a bit, but local home made stuff blows, stuff from NB I would not trust just because its from NB, stuff made in Newfoundland is just moonshine, I should know im from there (thank god I grew up in ontario though, or I would be talking like a newf... b'y), and well I want to try out what you punks from PEI can do to beer.

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lol. Mostly it's shine brewed around here. Great fucking stuff too.
There's one local brewery here(the gahan house), but the beer is fucking horseshit. It's all the fucked up shit, like honey ale, and stout and all that bullshit. I'd get in shit for sending you beer anyway, cuz you're underage. (are u allowed to send beer?)

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Ya its just a drive to halifaz, canada post wont go through it, but wait till september, the beer shippmets can begin.

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I started a bought a new bucket today, and started a new batch. So now when the bucket is ready to go into the carb. The carb is ready to bottle. If I continue this for a month or so, I'll have 66 beer ready to drink every 6 days.


in a month i'll brew 264 beer.
A year 3432!!

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thats 11 beers a day or 1 beer ever 2 and a bit hours, provided that you can maintain the brewing while the beer is kicking in every day

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Jesus Christ! Someone back there said it was only $15 to make your own. I'm not putting out $80 bucks to TRY it if I don't know if I could get away with it.

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$70 for the first batch, $20 for each aditional batch

yeah man it's 60 bucks for the equitment. (sic?)(fuck off i'm drunk)

but man think of it 70 bucks for the score. you get 66 beer.
here a 24 cost 30 bucks.

24+_24+12 = 60
24 ($30 canadian) 24 ($30 canadian) + 12 ($18 canadian) = $78 canadian
$78
56 beer

first batch ...equal
second batch

$20
66 beer

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what the hell does "(sic)" mean? i have seen several times but have no clue

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Its that badass song by Slipknot... DUH

do you even listen to metal???

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I'd rescind that statement about stout if I were you. It's hearty, good, tastes wonderful, & is good for you. And anyone else out there that doesn't like stout, I hope that cancer takes you.

Anyway, if you're putting honey in your brew, be fucking careful, because you can very easily hose an entire batch. If you're going to do it, do it early, & ask the local honey nerd how you can get all that beeswax & other foreign shit out of it before you do it. I don't know these things because I've never been curious enough.

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HAIL ODIN, WE SHALL RIDE WITH THE EINHERJER TO RAGNAROK

when you quote stuff and you know it is spelt wrong you put it as is and put [sic] afterwards to signify you know its wrong

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i think it stand for "spelling incorrect"

You know stuff, i've never actually drank stout. So i'm being ignorant in that statement. I'll get my friend to ask about the honey issue. Personally I'll just use the sugar (i don't feel like fucking my beer).

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"(sic)" is usually used after a word to serve two main purposes:

1. To absolve the writer from blame for a spelling mistake, ie when there is a spelling error in a reproduced quotation.
2. To indicate that the spelling mistake was delibrate.

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brewing beer/wine is nonsense.

I mean, you drink it faster then you can produce it

whats the fucking use of that?

fuck that, just go to the supermarket and buy discount premium pilsener, all a man needs!

Not really. Once my first batch is run, If I keep brewing consistently I'll get 66 beer every six days. I don't wanna drink that fucking much. Around here we don't have discount beer (and we can't buy it in a supermarket either ). So it's $20 for a dozen.

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meh, 66 beers, you can easily down that in 3 days on good evenings.

fuck man, beer is expensive there.

anyways I'm off to the pub

well yeah, but I don't wanna get trashed every fucking night.
Fuckin smashed last night though. Crawled into bed at 5.00 this morning and got up for work at 10. 5 hours is not enough sleep for my work.

<-------------My head today.

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Hangover + work = good times

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hangover + work= one easily pissed off GD

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If I go to work hungover I'd be fired...I have to lift shit all day. I'd probobly black out on a ladder and fall down with an 80 pound bag of cat liter on top of me

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thats a great mental pic haha

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I want a job where I can come hungover to work...that'd rule


Petsmart sucks

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Actually it doesn't I get to play with kitties all day

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cats are cool, i do construction so going to work with a hangover is a definate no no for me

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I feel so responsible I used to get fucked up everyday and now I have morals

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yeah, right. haha

I went to work half-drunk a couple of times, but about two years ago it was so bad that my chief told me to get back into bed.

he didn't really care though because I've worked at the place for ages, 'shit happens' ...

I've seen directions for sake and wine Ill try to post them if i can find them again. (The sake one looked really good)

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Ok I found both

for the sake theres a million ways just go to google and type in "how to make sake"
And tell me if you find out what kome-koji is =\ and for the alcohol along with other drugs go to neonjoint.com and click on drug recipies

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I do too. But work is easily forgotten after a bunch of beer and you think you're fine. I just stay away from staging. My boss is fine with it though. He's been young before.

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Drink Stouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut!

Black terror. Thick, glutinous, palsied doomwater. Stout will put machinegun turrets on the hairs on your chest. It's got vitamin B in almost poisonous quantities & will get you pissed as a fiddler's bitch.

Stout, I say.


[edit]: Anyone living outside of the UK may want to avoid trying Guiness. Apparently it doesn't taste like Nitrogen & urine over there, but it bloody well does everywhere else. I've drunk Guiness in four countries throughout Australia & Asia & it's shite.

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My dad drinks Lowenbrau. I snuck one about a year ago... And we drank it warm, too.

UGH! Fucking piss, warm. From what I hear, its not so bad cold.

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I use to trink beer always cold because warm beer tastes bad !

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DUH!!!

Ah, Guinness. Now we're talking! I've yet to sample it in Ireland (where it's taste is legendary), but it's still pretty good over here in England.

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meh, I prefer Killkenny or whatever its called, we've got a local scottish pub, which has a lot of scottish beer on tap (the owner is a scotsman too, he looks like 'fat bastard' from austin power's goldmember, actually, maybe its really him, haha!)

Yeah, all Scottish people look like that when they get older!

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haha, wel I know some older english blokes too, so I know whats in store for you heh!

but actually, yeah, it amazes me that they are pretty much all fat but really friendly

So they look like Brad Pitt, then?

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It tastes like piss in canada.

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yeah we have an irish pub in my town ... there you can get Killkenny, Guinness, Dry Cider ... but I don't like them much .

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If you get the chance, try Newcastle Brown Ale. Not sure if it's the British or the Australian Newcastle that they're referring to, but it's still a fairly fine ol' drop. Good, dark, pus brew of healthytude.

If he ever bothers to post on these forums, I'm sure Sane'll vouch for the goodness of Irish Guiness.

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"Newky" Brown is top class! It's got to be cold though, so make sure you're in a reputable pub before taking the plunge - there's nothing worse than warm Newky Brown. Newky Brown (or any brown ale) and Guiness is quite nice - it's called a "black and tan" over here. Also try a "Fifty" (Guinness and bitter) or a "Golden" (bitter and lager) if you feel like mixing the different tastes and textures up a bit. Mmmm...

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I won't break the news to ya

I don't really like Guiness, I've discovered some really neat german beer on holiday:

Bayerisch Hell

Hahaha!

That German beer sounds... interesting. Bayerisch Hell? It's got to be a metalhead's beer with a name like that!

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yeah, I thought so too, its pretty clear beer, just the regular 6 procent or so and it only comes in half litres

I'll get a pic of it tomorrow, I still have some bottles left.