Can one really drink home-brew straight if it hasnt had vigorous straining

[The_Equalizer]

The new kits are much, much better than student days, often passing for proper real keg ale, using real beer yeast and proper sterilising chemicals and vacuum distilling the wort rather than boiling it to buggery to keep the flavours.

Love the Woodfordes kits:

Woodfordes Home Brew Kits

Hopefully will progress onto my own mashing gear soon and experiment with new flavours. 40p for a real drinkable pint. Especially when "The Parasites" go ahead with their authoritarian minimum pricing bollocks and increased alcohol duty.

C**ts that they are.

I'll second that modern home brew kits are quite good. Done right, which isn't too hard, they produce the equivalent of an reasonable pub pint. Just make sure everything is sterilized properly at the start. It also is rather a pleasing feeling when you've made your own, bit like fixing your car yourself.

[hyperD]

The new kits are much, much better than student days, often passing for proper real keg ale, using real beer yeast and proper sterilising chemicals and vacuum distilling the wort rather than boiling it to buggery to keep the flavours.

Love the Woodfordes kits:

Woodfordes Home Brew Kits

Hopefully will progress onto my own mashing gear soon and experiment with new flavours. 40p for a real drinkable pint. Especially when "The Parasites" go ahead with their authoritarian minimum pricing bollocks and increased alcohol duty.

C**ts that they are.

[vetran]

strain, that's for wimps.

brew, syphon decant to another bucket, add sugar mixture for carbonation, leave to settle for an hour, syphon into the bottle (I use 2L pop bottles or a keg). wait a week or two, pour carefully.

filtering is for wine weenies.

[BrilloPad]

but it never did me no harm.

Are you sure?

[EternalOptimist]

Used to do that too and use it for parties. Also homemade brandy, requires a melon, brown sugar, a door, a bucket and a pair of tights. Scrape the fruit out of the melon into one leg of the tights and add the sugar. Hang from the door handle with the toe of the leg of the tights with the ingredients over the bucket. Leave for a few weeks and voila...cheap blinding booze.

wow, I gonna try that.
I'll just have to whip the wifes tights off without laddering them. They were a bit tight on me anyway

[darmstadt]

I used to put double sugar in to make it really strong. trouble was, any more than three pints and it would take the enamel of yer teeth.

Used to do that too and use it for parties. Also homemade brandy, requires a melon, brown sugar, a door, a bucket and a pair of tights. Scrape the fruit out of the melon into one leg of the tights and add the sugar. Hang from the door handle with the toe of the leg of the tights with the ingredients over the bucket. Leave for a few weeks and voila...cheap blinding booze.

[EternalOptimist]

I used to put double sugar in to make it really strong. trouble was, any more than three pints and it would take the enamel of yer teeth.

So I used to take it into the pub and flog it in the bogs and use the money to buy carlsberg.
sold like hot cakes it did.

One day I had a spare 10p, so I put a song on the jukie (something I very very rarely do) and I felt something hit my shoe.
It was my 10p
Someone had robbed the jukie and the cash tray was gone. So I nipped home
got a holdall and my raincoat, then camped out by the jukie all night. All the coins went straight past my coat and into the holdall.

I was blooming loaded for a week. but if I ever hear Dolly Parton, or 'coward of the county' again, i'll bloody murder somebody

[TestMangler]

Did you not used to just pour from bottles in one go, leaving the last inch of beer (containing the sediment) in the bottom of the bottle ?

In my youth, I had a pressurized barrel which left a bit of beer under the level of the outlet tap, so the sediment (or most of it) didn't end up in yer guts !

[nomadd]

Takes me back, about 20 years too. Used to have two barrels, one drinking and one clearing and usually some fermenting in the bin. In the latter years I invested in a float tap that took the clearer beer from the top so I didn't have to wait as long.

Tom Caxton beer kit. I remember those.

TOM CAXTON - PRODUCTS

[Gibbon]

I used to make home brew right. About 20 years ago

it was always cloudy and full of sediment, but it never did me no harm. It never rotted my guts like.

Takes me back, about 20 years too. Used to have two barrels, one drinking and one clearing and usually some fermenting in the bin. In the latter years I invested in a float tap that took the clearer beer from the top so I didn't have to wait as long.

[nomadd]

...vigorous straining

Morning after the curry night before.

[Bunk]

Never used to strain. You siphon it after primary fermentation leaving the sediment behind and then don't dring the last few pints from the bottom of the barrel. Was always perfectly clear.

You're telling EO not to drain the barrel dry? Good luck

[speling bee]

I used to make home brew right. About 20 years ago

it was always cloudy and full of sediment, but it never did me no harm. It never rotted my guts like.
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger eh ?
Everyone eats a bushel of sh!te in their lifetime- confucious said that, or einstein. or it might have been oscar wilde.


anyway, must dash. I have the wildies again

Never used to strain. You siphon it after primary fermentation leaving the sediment behind and then don't dring the last few pints from the bottom of the barrel. Was always perfectly clear.

[EternalOptimist]

I used to make home brew right. About 20 years ago

it was always cloudy and full of sediment, but it never did me no harm. It never rotted my guts like.
Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger eh ?
Everyone eats a bushel of sh!te in their lifetime- confucious said that, or einstein. or it might have been oscar wilde.


anyway, must dash. I have the wildies again