Reply to: Christmas homebrew thread

[cojak]

Doing the 1st racking of the apple wine this weekend.

[MarillionFan]

I take it this brewing malarkey a)needs a warmish room, so you need to set aside a whole room because it b)stinks a bit? Wine I imagine is much cleaner but is beer likely to stink out the house and generally be messy?

Are you talking about brewing or an Atw bedsit?

[CheeseSlice]

Just barrelled...

Black Sheep - Riggwelter x 25 litre
Adnams - Broadside x 25 litre

Both now in temperature controlled cupboard for warm conditioning/carbonation, followed by a drop in temp for cold conditioning/maturation.

[RichardCranium]

I take it this brewing malarkey a)needs a warmish room

Somewhere it will be sort of around 18-21C but you can bung it in the shed / garage on a heating plate or on a polystyrene sheet with a heating belt, wrapped in an old quit or blanket.

, so you need to set aside a whole room because it b)stinks a bit?

Making ale from scratch pongs a bit on the day, but it is not unpleasant. Then you put it in a container to ferment which has an airlock. There is then no smell.

Wine I imagine is much cleaner but is beer likely to stink out the house and generally be messy?

I don't think there's any difference. Mashing up a couple of buckets of fruit to make into country wine also pongs the house out, on the day. Just like making marmalade or jam pongs. But again, it is not unpleasant.

[Zippy]

I HAVE RUN OUT OF ALCOHOL IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!

Is this supposed to have sound?

[d000hg]

I take it this brewing malarkey a)needs a warmish room, so you need to set aside a whole room because it b)stinks a bit? Wine I imagine is much cleaner but is beer likely to stink out the house and generally be messy?

[RichardCranium]

I HAVE RUN OUT OF ALCOHOL IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!

Have you none of this:

[MarillionFan]

I HAVE RUN OUT OF ALCOHOL IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!

[RichardCranium]

At the same time I was making up 2 x 40 pints for Xmas as well. One lot is now bottled, the other is going in a barrel.

But since I'm going to be on a cruise in the sunshine over Xmas & New Year drinking cocktails, I'll have the ale to come home to.

[Zippy]

I can see I need to blag a Christmas invite somewhere

[cojak]

it's made in the same way as sloe gin.

[shaunbhoy]

Just put 2 gallons of apple wine under the stair for part 1 fermentation.

And my 1st batch of blackberry whisky is sitting underneath the sink.

Blackberry Whisky sounds interesting!!

[cojak]

Just put 2 gallons of apple wine under the stair for part 1 fermentation.

And my 1st batch of blackberry whisky is sitting underneath the sink.

[suityou01]

In a word

[suityou01]

Deuchars. Mmmmmm.

Time to sample the merchandise (from a QA point of view only you understand)

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