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Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 16 Jul 2005, 10:57

Now that we've cleared our dining room, as well as making room for things like dining I have received permission from BB to resume making beer.

Does anyone else here do this?

At the moment I am cooking up a Weiss (wheat) beer from Glen Brew (doing very well despite the tin being a year past it's date) and next up is Frambozen (Raspberry) beer from Belgium.

At the moment the beer is at the opposite end of the room from the chilli plants, but Edina Home Brew do sell a Mexican beer kit so there may be some sort of hybrid product later in the year...

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 16 Jul 2005, 14:36

Haven't made beer but have made wine which was very lethal and drinking too much of it gave me a horrendous hangover which lasted for days.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 16 Jul 2005, 15:32

Dadaist wrote:At the moment I am cooking up a Weiss (wheat) beer from Glen Brew (doing very well despite the tin being a year past it's date) and next up is Frambozen (Raspberry) beer from Belgium.

Tried the Frambozen on holiday in Belgium last year and thought it was alright.
I'm not really a fan of the fruit beers. The most sickly on offer was a banana beer which was foul.
Like Sandra, I've only ever tried making wine and that was many moons ago.

And, it was very rough stuff.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 16 Jul 2005, 16:31

Might make some wine for BB. My mum uses my beer to make shandies.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 16 Jul 2005, 17:55

ecm wrote:I'm not really a fan of the fruit beers. The most sickly on offer was a banana beer which was foul.

I get a banana beer from an off-licence near my work (think Asda sometimes do it too) called 'Banana Bread Beer' which I LOVE

. Don't know if it's the same one but it's not as sickly as it sounds - although it does seem to be one of those thing that people either love or loath.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 16 Jul 2005, 17:59

Me and my Dad used to make beer in a big plastic dustbin years ago - think i was 15/16

at the time. I remember it being v strong, but a bit of a hit and miss taste-wise.

I do seem to remember one of the bottles exploding v loudly one night and waking the whole household

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 16 Jul 2005, 18:18

I once got a present of a bottle of her Dad's home-made Banana wine from a grateful pupil - at least I think she was a grateful pupil

. I didn't have the inclination to try it, but Homer and a friend drank it in the wee, small hours one night and survived.

Generally my experience of homebrew has been pretty foul, with the exception of my Uncle Ian's home-made Birch wine, which was surprisingly good.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 16 Jul 2005, 18:22

bearcub wrote: I do seem to remember one of the bottles exploding v loudly one night and waking the whole household

Not that that sort of thing will happen in BB's lovely new dining room, will it.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 16 Jul 2005, 19:09

ecm wrote:
bearcub wrote: I do seem to remember one of the bottles exploding v loudly one night and waking the whole household
Not that that sort of thing will happen in BB's lovely new dining room, will it.

It hasn't happened yet!

Beach Babe · Post by **Beach Babe** » 16 Jul 2005, 22:15

ecm wrote:
bearcub wrote: I do seem to remember one of the bottles exploding v loudly one night and waking the whole household
Not that that sort of thing will happen in BB's lovely new dining room, will it.

the beer may have to find another home when the dining room is finally redecorated. At the moment, an exploded bottle of beer could only improve the nasty patterned wall paper

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 13 Aug 2005, 14:23

Wheat beer is lovely, even if it does spray everywhere when you open the bottle.

Raspberry beer was bottled yesterday and has started to clear.

The two wines are bubbling loudly 24/7. The cherry wine fermenting smells like cherry pie, pastry and all.....

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 13 Aug 2005, 18:05

I just removed a bottle of Stolichnaya vodka from the freezer, where it has sat for the past fortnight. I would say much more than the anticipated 60% of the bottle has frozen.

Anyone know where I can purchase a vodka still?

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 13 Aug 2005, 18:38

Party at Dadaist mansions?

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 13 Aug 2005, 19:37

Sandra wrote:Party at Dadaist mansions?

Heh, you never know. I could make it a byob, except everyone would have to bring a bottle of pulped fruit which, at the start of the party, would have a yeast starter added.

Then we could all sit round holding our bottles while they fermented - that would only take a couple of weeks, then a month for conditioning. During which time we could read, and discuss, the "book of the month".

Yeah, never will you party so hearty.

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