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Kitchenwitch

Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 25
Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 2:00 pm Post subject: Beer recipes

Hello there!

Now, I'm not a beer person. I think it tastes like evil. But.... Mr. KW disagrees, despite my attempts to dissuade him, and so it is that I find myself staring down the barrel of attempting our own beer using nothing more than a vague sense of impending doom combined with a dash of derring-do. But I have a question - is this combination going to be enough to overcome our lack of a pressurised barrel-whatsit? Can we, as Downsizer Chez tells us, go where other beers fear to tread with only a large bucket for company? And, if so, any recipe tips?

jamanda
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Location: Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 4:03 pm Post subject:
Simon makes great beer. I'm sure he'll be along later

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Beer recipes

Kitchenwitch wrote:

Now, I'm not a beer person. I think it tastes like evil.

Real, southern beers isn't evil but rather nice. Here's an old thread with a starting recipe I use although there's plenty available if you search the web and some might be more akin to what Mr KW usually drinks.

https://forum.downsizer.net/about11236.html

You can easily bottle beer and brew just a gallon to start with. I have a 2 gallon barrel that just relies on the secondary fermentation to pressurise it and doesn't need any strange CO2 thingies.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 8:27 pm Post subject:

Aren't you doing ANY work this week?

We were talking about this very subject last night; and I gather that Mochyn's Old Chap does more or less the same as us, but sticks it in 5 gallon polybin barrel thingies instead of bottling it. Which sounds fab if one has a bucket big enough to mix the stuff up to start with.

See here for the recipe we use ... I originally found it via selfsufficientish. We use 12oz of spray malt per gallon instead of 1lb of the gloopy malt and it seems to work. Arvo wants to try malting our own barley at some point soon though. Eeep!

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 8:34 pm Post subject:
Your house is going to be full of 'interesting' smells soon anyway. You may as well add a bit of malting barley to the mix.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 8:36 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Your house is going to be full of 'interesting' smells soon anyway. You may as well add a bit of malting barley to the mix.

*la la la not listening la la la*

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 8:44 pm Post subject: Re: Beer recipes

Kitchenwitch wrote:

Now, I'm not a beer person. I think it tastes like evil.

You are, of course, profoundly misguided...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45521
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 8:45 pm Post subject:
the old german guide is water malt hops yeast it works

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 07 8:50 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Your house is going to be full of 'interesting' smells soon anyway. You may as well add a bit of malting barley to the mix.

Wonder if this could be a new device for selling houses...
A.

Kitchenwitch

Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Posts: 25
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 07 7:40 am Post subject:

But... but... beer is eeeevil! The taste! It so horrid! It bitter and beer-face inducing! (Can't demonstrate beer face through the medium of the smiley - there just isn't one vivid enough...)

However.

I am willing to be persuaded. (Chez? Has making your own improved your view of it? At all? Give me some hope here...)

And Treacodactyl, thank you for the reassurance on strange CO2 thingies - just what I was looking for.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 07 10:38 am Post subject:

Kitchenwitch wrote:

I am willing to be persuaded. (Chez? Has making your own improved your view of it? At all? Give me some hope here

Yes, I guess it has, a bit - I do like a light, flowery half pint on a hot day, if I've been walking. We made something that came out tasting quite like Coniston Bluebird that was palatable enough, only we couldn't remember what we'd put in it.

Generally though, I concur, I think most beer tastes like horlicks.

Andrew - How? How would that work?

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 07 11:30 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

Andrew - How? How would that work?

Heaven knows - they don't taste like Horlicks to me! They all taste wonderful and individual and lovely... some light and fruit, some hoppy, some bitter, some thick and treacley. Horlicks, on the other hand, tastes vile!

A.

PS Coniston Bluebird - a most respectable brew.

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