Less really is more

[northernladuk]

We brew our own these days.

Nothing worse than people that brew their own. So proud of it they can't tell the difference of good from bad for some reason. I have two friends who brew their own and they think it is the best drink ever to be made.... and it seriously isn't. Got a bottle of wine and beer from both at xmas and it was rank. Is it something about home brew that instantly makes your slop the best drink ever to you?

I can imagine them being proud if it was drinkable but it's better than anything at a real ale pub, might start selling it... give me a break...

[vetran]

Nothing worse than people that brew their own. So proud of it they can't tell the difference of good from bad for some reason. I have two friends who brew their own and they think it is the best drink ever to be made.... and it seriously isn't. Got a bottle of wine and beer from both at xmas and it was rank. Is it something about home brew that instantly makes your slop the best drink ever to you?

I can imagine them being proud if it was drinkable but it's better than anything at a real ale pub, might start selling it... give me a break...

Too much homebrew!

Mine isn't bad, after the second or fourth pint (depending on version) you stop noticing the taste.

It is an acquired taste, my can cider is best mixed with Blackcurrant, my beer needs 6 weeks to mature, the wine seems to need a year to rest.

[hyperD]

Nothing worse than people that brew their own. So proud of it they can't tell the difference of good from bad for some reason. I have two friends who brew their own and they think it is the best drink ever to be made.... and it seriously isn't. Got a bottle of wine and beer from both at xmas and it was rank. Is it something about home brew that instantly makes your slop the best drink ever to you?

I can imagine them being proud if it was drinkable but it's better than anything at a real ale pub, might start selling it... give me a break...

You can get good kits. I've made beer and wine from great kits and served the wine from proper bottles - nobody new it was homebrew until I told them.

As a result, several of them have started to do the same.

Wine at £1/bottle and beer at 50p/pint? It's pretty good!


Oh yes, and I've had a batch or two of beer and wine go bad - what I plan to do this year is distill my own alcohol from it!

Process Engineering FTW!

[BA to the Stars]

What about moonshine

[Zippy]

Oh yes, and I've had a batch or two of beer and wine go bad - what I plan to do this year is distill my own alcohol from it!

Process Engineering FTW!

<cough>I'm sure that's a joke as it's illegal. Hypothetically speaking, I wonder if these kits are any good?

[rootsnall]

<cough>I'm sure that's a joke as it's illegal. Hypothetically speaking, I wonder if these kits are any good?

Isn't home use OK ?

[suityou01]

Isn't home use OK ?

No.

[BoredBloke]

Don't know if its an urban myth, but I thought it was illegal if you concentrate it via heat, but not if you did it by chilling it and removing the water. The way they did it with those ice beers that were popular a few years back.

As for the pubs, I cant understand why they have not done something. It would be easy to change the VAT rate they have to pay. I'd actually make it so that you had to be 21 to buy from a supermarket or an offy but you can drink in pubs at 18. This would make it harder for underage drinkers to get their booze. Its easy for a 16 year old to pass for 18, but its not that easy for them to pass as 21

[Zippy]

Don't know if its an urban myth, but I thought it was illegal if you concentrate it via heat, but not if you did it by chilling it and removing the water. The way they did it with those ice beers that were popular a few years back.

As for the pubs, I cant understand why they have not done something. It would be easy to change the VAT rate they have to pay. I'd actually make it so that you had to be 21 to buy from a supermarket or an offy but you can drink in pubs at 18. This would make it harder for underage drinkers to get their booze. Its easy for a 16 year old to pass for 18, but its not that easy for them to pass as 21

I was in Asda today and they are supposed to check people buying booze if they look under 25.
Not a problem for me, obv.

[d000hg]

I was in Asda today and they are supposed to check people buying booze if they look under 25.
Not a problem for me, obv.

The wife is 34 and got ID-checked trying to buy a bottle of ginger wine. She had ID but because I was with her and didn't, they wouldn't let us buy it!