[n0tsane]

Yea i know - bikers and their drink - but in this time of recession - Anybody interested in homebrew - would love to hear your tales -

On brew at present

Aus IPA with Vanilla and Cinnamon ( christmas brew part 2)

Aus IPA standard

next up

Midlands Cider :-) already taken - doing this for a friend.

Hope to hear form you :-)

Brian

[Darkcloud]

Perhaps you could run some training camps

[kevinb99]

Never had much success with beer but I did used to make a lot of wine, both from fruit and kits. Fruit wine was fun, a lot of wild fruit , blackberries, damsons, elderberry etc, also elderflower, apple and ginger.Even Pea Pod wine (uggh! only the once).
A lot of work but very satisfying
I've moved house since and don't have the the facilities any more
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[ridertraining]

Made beer for years but stopped after a batch that consistently gave me cracking headaches. Have thought about trying again; where do you source your kits?

[hawkeye]

Super 10 was a master at the home brewing, when we used to work together in Dun Laoire.There was a smashing spanish red he produced, and as for the beer for Christmas, ask him about the exploding keg in the canteen in work!!!!!!!!

[Alan]

hawkeye, on 10 March 2011 - 10:01 PM, said:

Super 10 was a master at the home brewing, when we used to work together in Dun Laoire.There was a smashing spanish red he produced, and as for the beer for Christmas, ask him about the exploding keg in the canteen in work!!!!!!!!

Spanish Red?? Or Irish Red

[n0tsane]

One of the best places i have found is on line and owned by a biker :-)

http://www.thehomebrewcompany.ie/

Prices are very good and they have a shop - which is a good excuse to get on the bike and go for a ride.

[somedayisnow]

Yeah, did a good bit of winemaking when we first moved to the country - a la The Good Life.

Enjoyed it - used a combination of grape concentrates and fruit/veg/flowers - trial and error really, amazing tho' how keeping a fairly unpalatable parsnip wine for a few years rendered it drinkable eventually!!

Gave it up - lack of time mainly due to taking up biking!!

[Pacman]

used to live with a guy who made it. def wasnt a master brewer by any standards. jez gives me a sore head just think back on it.

anyone got any local poitin makers. think there is still an old guy round these parts these parts that still make it. most houses used to keep a bottle handy. good for any ailments

[n0tsane]

Pacman,

Good to see you - really liking the wind turbine by the way -

_ Yea wine takes a lot of work - beer on the other hand does not - make and forget for a week - bottle and forget for a week - then drink lol

Nothing really to it - Some overnight camp will bring some along :-)

Brian

[bosley]

somedayisnow, on 10 March 2011 - 11:37 PM, said:

Yeah, did a good bit of winemaking when we first moved to the country - a la The Good Life.

Enjoyed it - used a combination of grape concentrates and fruit/veg/flowers - trial and error really, amazing tho' how keeping a fairly unpalatable parsnip wine for a few years rendered it drinkable eventually!!

Gave it up - lack of time mainly due to taking up biking!!

I can't drink the wine stuff so Someday is now had to drink it herself while i made the beer. it got that i was making gallons of it and was getting rapidly pished everynight trying to keep it from going off

still have all the kegs, gas cylinder and chilling tap cooler thingamy - just bought it at a jumble sale and never used it once - maybe when things get really tough financially i'll dust it all down and give it a go.a friend makes it every month or so and has been doing it for decades. the problem with it was - visitors turned their nose up at it and so knew to bring their own because i dont believe in buying bud etc. because it gives me an instant headache - overpriced cr*p.

[Fazerpete05]

Done the beer many moons ago. Brewed it up in a big bucket sitting beside the Gas fired central heating so as it would ferment properly. Got the pint bottles and caps and sterilised them all.
4 cases (48pints) sat in storage for the requisite month to "prove". Dead chuffed with meself.
Having a party with me mates one night and I suggested we try it. Wasn't bad........wasn't great, but after a feed of guinness who cared!
In retrospect, leaving it beside the heating boiler was probably a mistake. The thing would only be warm for a few hours a day, and bloody freezing for the rest. Dunno what it did to the brew, but it ended up having some effect.
One of the lads lost 2 stone in a week. The rest spent a few day's not venturing far from a khazi. I nearly faded away from fluid loss.
They never forgave me. To this day, over 30 years later I still get a smack when the subject is mentioned

Leave it to the experts.

Pete

[sutty]

What kind of % are the beers/Ciders?

And is it hard to make a mixed berrys cider? lol (I likes my Kopparberg)

[jon suzuki]

The Home-brew Hangover is the worst Ive ever encountered the Missus Sister's fella makes it constantly and I had to participate in drinking the bad batch 3 days it lasted. As Pete said the Khazi was on a double shift that weekend .

I have a fine supplier for me Poitin down the most Southern point of Ireland fine stuff this lad makes. The Missus father doesn't drink at all but uses it for a disinfectant on his face hands hair and arms after dosing cattle or whatever comical stuff the smell of him sometimes would knock an elephant. He's never been stopped by garda driving after disenfecting himeself would be priceless I'd say..........Always a couple of bottles in the house for that special occasion great for the flu a hot poitin cloves and lemon&lime.It pumps the flu out of ye.

Good luck with brewing but I stay well clear

[bosley]

Fazerpete05, on 31 March 2011 - 03:25 PM, said:

In retrospect, leaving it beside the heating boiler was probably a mistake. The thing would only be warm for a few hours a day, and bloody freezing for the rest. Dunno what it did to the brew, but it ended up having some effect.




Pete

i never had a bad batch because as you say the heating process wasnt right; a heated belt around the bucket keeps it consistently fermenting. but the big advantage i found was that i didnt get a headache or hungover or a dose of the squirts:mrgreen:

[Super10]

hawkeye, on 10 March 2011 - 10:01 PM, said:

Super 10 was a master at the home brewing, when we used to work together in Dun Laoire.There was a smashing spanish red he produced, and as for the beer for Christmas, ask him about the exploding keg in the canteen in work!!!!!!!!

just seeing this now

Yea I made wine for years, easy enough when you got into the swing of it.
Half thinking of going back to it.

As for the exploding keg in the canteen

... ah sure it was only seven gallons of stout ...


and it wasnt my fault the heating was left on full blast.

[LaFiamma]

Got a wine kit 2 years ago, skipped some steps as i was drinking at the time i was making it, left it under the stairs too long... eh you get the idea

[Flash Gordon]

Ive dappled in it from time to time

Varing degrees of success .....

Sove VERY tasty, and some not so tasty, but no disasters!!

[originalhandy]

I brew a lot. My favourites to brew are a Bavarian Hefe and an Irish Red.

I do malt extract, but a friend of mine does all grain. Im in a small homebrew club called "The Pot Belly Brewers" as were all kind of fat sihtes!

I used plastic carboys for fermenting but found them harder to clean then glass so I have not had a problem with bad beer since I went to all glass carboys. Going to take my first dive into Wine in the next few months hopefully.

Kits are cheap here, get the Bavarian Hefe for about $30 shipped.

[Jall]

Hi guys,
I am from Croatian, I ride a motorcycle and I have been brewing for some time. I plan to visit Ireland in the spring, so I wonder what I as a biker and the brewer must visited in Irland?
THS and cheers with one O hara's red.